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Figma is a web-based platform for interface design, prototyping and whiteboarding, with an API and plugin ecosystem; it trades as NYSE:FIG.
Bird said its headcount fell from more than 1,000 to 120 over roughly three years as it automated more of its operations. CEO Robert Vis draws a hiring lesson from it, but the evidence is one company's account and a qualitative screen.
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Base44 launched Base Code, an AI tool that builds sandboxes from a team's GitHub repo so designers can edit real code in a Figma-style workspace. Each change still lands in an engineer's review queue, so teams that already merge quickly stand to gain the most.
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CSS text-box-trim crops a headline's box to the font's cap height and baseline, replacing negative margins like -0.18em tuned by eye in devtools. The browser takes the numbers from the font file, so swapping the typeface or raising line-height no longer means retuning a margin.
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OpenAI's new Sign in with ChatGPT lets people carry their identity and existing AI allowance into third-party apps, starting with 16 launch partners. For product teams, new users arrive signed in with AI budget to spend, and OpenAI holds both.
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OpenAI says ChatGPT will suggest third-party apps mid-conversation to its 1.2 billion weekly users, who can connect and use them without leaving the chat. Teams that rely on app stores for discovery now face a second storefront where the assistant makes the pick.
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OpenAI's plugin docs define one root manifest and a single directory shared by ChatGPT and Codex, while the built-in scaffold still writes the older .codex-plugin layout and an MCP file that needs converting.
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Mapbox's September 17 release turns live traffic and a 250-million-place index into function calls an agent invokes for itself. Who is allowed to invoke them is still the integrator's problem.
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A single month of trading undid eight months of AI-disruption pricing in B2B software. That is a multiple moving, not a business changing. The winners were sorted by whose meter the agent workloads run through.
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Revenue rose 48% to $370.1 million and Figma raised its full-year outlook. Gross profit grew 40%. That eight-point gap is where selling AI by the credit shows up in the accounts of a company that still sells seats.
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Google's DORA report puts daily AI use among developers at 90% and says the tools amplify whatever workflow they find, which makes problem selection rather than build capacity the input a leader manages this quarter.
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Ben Mann's Labs group shipped Claude Code at a hit rate he puts at 20 to 30 percent, and the cheap part of that machine to copy is the two-week kill review rather than the research signal feeding it.
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Adobe's Slack app opens the same tool set it shipped to OpenAI's platform, and it runs for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers without requiring an Adobe account. Slack's invoice is the one that unlocks it.
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The Adobe for Slack MCP app lets Slackbot read a channel and then call Photoshop or Firefly. That makes the rollout a Slack contract question before it is ever an Adobe licensing question, and it lets people start with no Adobe account at all.
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A skill installs with one command and runs with your own privileges, and while it is installed its description sits in every session's context so the model can decide to pick it up unasked. The opt-out is one line nobody set.
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A retrospective on two and a half years of Lit Web Components, a custom element registry collision and a Figma-to-code pipeline shows how much careful engineering an unowned adoption problem can absorb.
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Colette Kress told the call that sovereign, NeoCloud and enterprise buyers will be roughly half of Nvidia's data center business. The quarter she was reporting puts them at 44.9%, which makes the claim a forecast.
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Growth above 30% has become roughly a top-decile event in public B2B software, which means an 18% grower at $200M of ARR is being measured against a peer set that stopped existing about five years ago.
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Forge counts seven of twenty VC-backed debuts trading above their IPO price. Figma, up 250% on day one, is 84.3% below its first-day close.
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A 17 percent billings quarter against 9 percent revenue is the live public test of AI repackaging on seat pricing. The margin cost was about $640,000; the retention ceiling looks like 106 percent.
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One developer's account of shipping the same publish feature into three desktop editors suggests the cost of plugin work sits in sandbox rules, not in the feature.
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