19-year-old twin sisters who took part in the January anti-regime uprising went missing for 4 months. By the time their mother found them in prison in May, the twins were unrecognizable from the abuse they'd endured. Now, they've been sentenced to death.theguardian.com/world/2026/s…

Non-Palestinians are more than welcome to support Palestinians and advocate for our rights. But for God’s sake, don’t lecture actual Palestinians about what is good or bad for us based on your own ideological fantasies. 59% of Palestinians support a two-state solution—a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel. Yet somehow, many self-proclaimed “pro-Palestine” activists in the West have decided that supporting a two-state solution means “supporting Zionism.” Supporting Palestinians should mean listening to Palestinians, not deciding for us what we are allowed to believe.

Owner has raised $240M, reached a $2.3B valuation, and crossed $100M ARR. Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the round, joined by Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, & Jack Altman. The world is racing to build AI to replace people’s jobs. Owner is building AI to do the opposite:

Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to build the business that helps build businesses. Apps built on Lovable now get 900M visits every month, and we’ve quadrupled ARR in the last 12 months. Since we started, Lovable has become the place where founders create million dollar businesses, business leaders spin up new product lines, and people inside companies rewire workflows and build tools that fit their exact needs, typically at a fraction of what software used to cost. There’s a lot more to do. We will create the most intuitive platform to build and run a business. That means: - Understanding what success looks like for you, then helping you achieve it. Not only ensuring your software works but also that you can attract customers, improve workflows, and grow your company. - Deeper integrations that work with your existing tech stack so you can build the interface to your entire business across sales, ops, marketing, finance, etc. - Becoming the safest platform to build and run your business on, which means secured code by default and that you get help to make safe decisions. As you build, the platform carries more of the security weight, spotting risks and helping you close them, so you can move fast without needing to become a security expert. - Staying model-independent and orchestrating the best models for every task so you don’t have to. We’ll continue to absorb the complexity of evaluating and teaching models to route to the best ones in the background, to minimize cognitive load for our users. As more people depend on Lovable, the quality standards our team is driving increase every single day. We’re growing the team with people with a founder mindset: curious, ambitious, and who think end to end. Model training, product geniuses, infrastructure tinkerers, and security are the priority. The world is full of ambitious people with deep knowledge of problems worth solving. Very few of them have historically had the power to act on them. Our ambition is to give people that power, and then help them achieve more than they thought possible. Thank you to everyone who has followed along our journey. Thank you to @MenloVentures for leading, the Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by @eqt) for co-leading, and all of the new and returning investors who recognize our global ambitions and will help make them a reality. We have made a lot of progress but we are nowhere close to done, it’s still day zero. See our blog: lovable.dev/blog/series-c

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Only 2.2% of U.S. households have a paid AI subscription We are still so early

I still think about this every time I need to make a hard call:

And Tehran is fully cognizant that US monitors size of crowds with satellite imagery. It is also a message to Washington that thought Islamic Republic is about to fall before a popular uprising

IRGC Qods Force Commander Esmail Qaani: Americans Should Know Their Place and Avoid Confronting the Muslims; Trump Is Trembling; The U.S. Should Fear Not Only Hormuz and Bab Al-Mandeb, But Many Other Locations as Well