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In an essay, Linear's team describes how the company has built its product by prioritizing founder and team intuition developed through customer conversations and experience, rather than relying mainly on data-driven processes. The piece argues that two teams with the same technology and customers can produce very different products because of differing perspectives and values.
Apple's foldable iPhone Duo, priced above $2,000, sold out within hours of pre-orders opening today. New orders placed now are quoted shipping estimates of late January 2027, a delay of more than three months.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that the first wave of business AI adoption focused mainly on productivity tasks like drafting emails, summarizing meetings and generating marketing content. The piece contends a second, more consequential wave is emerging where AI gets embedded directly into specialized operational workflows, such as turning product ideas into executable instructions for development and manufacturing.
OpenAI filed a court document alleging a former employee copied more than 100 files about its product plans to a personal account, then presented them to Apple executives, including the VP of Apple's Asia operations. The files reportedly included images of an unreleased device, supplier and engineering data, and reports on hardware coating and sealing processes. The filing is part of an ongoing legal dispute in which Apple separately accuses OpenAI of stealing its confidential documents and spying on hardware prototypes.
A hands-on test of Meta's Muse, a personal AI assistant, shows it can research products and complete purchases on a user's behalf. In doing so, it bypasses the review websites and retailers whose content and listings informed its recommendations, meaning those sites receive no traffic or referral credit from the sale.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that startups most often waste money not through bad hires or launches but by building products without real validation of customer demand. The piece lays out five principles for product teams, starting with treating internal processes like a product to be prototyped and tested with a small cross-functional group before scaling up.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host a Builders Stage session titled 'The Zero-to-1K Playbook,' featuring Gamma CEO Grant Lee, Engine CEO Elia Wallen, and GV general partner Crystal Huang. The panel will discuss tactics founders use to acquire their first 1,000 customers without a marketing budget, including community building, product-led growth, and founder-led sales. Gamma, the AI presentation and content platform Lee co-founded, was reported in March 2026 to be nearing 100 million users after surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025.
An Entrepreneur contributor opinion piece argues that AI tools now let creators prototype, build and market ideas themselves rather than waiting for separate technologists to realize them. The author draws on their own background in filmmaking to describe this convergence of storytelling, product development and marketing as a shift from imagining the future to constructing it directly.
An entrepreneur building a savings and investment app for young families describes how pursuing partnerships with large financial institutions early on slowed the company down, as months of meetings and compliance reviews diverted attention from existing customers. The piece outlines a three-question filter for evaluating opportunities—whether they pay off within 90 days, fit the company's current stage, and justify the trade-off—and extends this discipline to investor advice, funding terms and high-profile partners.
Google's Product Security team disclosed in a blog post that its internal AI agent, PageBreak, has found more than 500 cross-site scripting vulnerabilities across the company's web applications. The tool, piloted last November and made a full product in January, combines AI analysis with validation to flag exploitable bugs, including a cache poisoning issue on apis.google.com, an XSS flaw on admin.google.com, and insecure handshakes in browser extensions, all of which have reportedly been fixed.
Patchstack researchers found hackers exploiting stored XSS vulnerabilities in two unrelated WordPress plugins—Ninja Forms (CVE-2026-94504) and WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce (CVE-2026-93836)—to plant backdoors and create rogue admin accounts. The campaign, first spotted October 4 against WPC Product Bundles users and a day later against Ninja Forms, injects a malicious script from 'imgcdn1[.]com' into order data or form submissions that executes when an administrator views it, installing a fake plugin disguised as 'WP Smart Thumbnails.'
Great Question, a YC W21-backed customer research platform, is hiring full-stack Product Engineers based in Canada to work remotely. The company says the hires will help rebuild core parts of its product around an agent-first approach, with engineers owning problems end-to-end from customer conversations through production. Great Question previously raised a $13M Series A led by Inovia and counts ServiceNow, Brex and Canva among its customers.