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In between the B2B agentic announcements Adobe makes at this week's Summit, here's what I hope the company really says.
https://theaieconomy.substack.com/p/adobe-creative-edge-ai-software-shift
Unexpected milestone today: "The AI Economy" is now ranked #17 among rising Substacks in technology! How wild! Thank you for reading, sharing, and shaping this work. More to come.
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Canva AI 2.0 is here—and it's not just a design tool anymore. Agentic editing. Memory that learns your style. Connectors to Slack, Gmail, Notion, and more. Scheduling. The whole creation process, in one place.
Here's how you can get early access 🤫
https://theaieconomy.substack.com/p/canva-ai-2-creation-broken-fix
AllBirds is now an AI company? I could have sworn this was an April Fools joke, but apparently it's not. It sold its shoe brand/assets to American Exchange Group, received $50M from investor, and is now called NewBird AI, building AI infrastructure.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html
OpenAI has acquired the team at Hiro Finance. The startup will shut down on 4/20, and data will be wiped from the servers on 5/13. Hiro users can export their data until then.
#SF is great for #startup founders. Just not every founder. AI2 Incubator's Yifan Zhang has a framework for knowing the difference—and it starts with a simple question: is your startup butter or sand in the gears?
My latest for GeekWire: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/butter-or-sand-in-the-gears-the-question-every-founder-must-ask-before-choosing-sf-or-seattle/
