Mocking Your Competitor in a Super Bowl Ad Apparently Still Works

Anthropic’s Super Bowl Ad Boosts Users; Grab Posts First Full-Year Profit; Aspire Plans 2027 Breakeven; Baidu Adds AI for 700M Users; Airbnb Brings OpenClaw to Search and Support; and more tech news.

Allow us join you again for your weekend lunch. Don’t worry, we’ve brought fresh, hot news and updates to enjoy together:

Do you even read?

The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt is a fast-paced investigative account of how Nvidia rose from a niche graphics company to the most valuable firm in the world by betting early and aggressively on artificial intelligence. Centered on CEO Jensen Huang, the book traces a decade-long conviction that AI would reshape computing, a gamble that defied Wall Street and ultimately reinvented computer architecture through GPUs and massive AI supercomputers.

AI Alley

  • Unisson is an AI agent platform that provides always-on subject-matter experts for technical customer-facing teams such as Sales Engineering, Implementation, and Technical Customer Success. It helps companies scale deep product expertise without expanding headcount.

  • Key feature: Unisson’s AI agents can learn a company’s software product in about 20 minutes and then operate across Slack, email, and text to handle complex technical workflows like onboarding, customer health audits, and custom integrations, delivering 24/7 expert-level support.

🚀 Same Mission. Bigger Map

The Philippines was just the takeoff. Now, Founders Launchpad is officially going regional! After three cohorts of backing the Philippines’ brightest, we’re kicking off our search for Cohort 4 across Southeast Asia.

Catch us as we tour the region to find and invest in founders building category-defining startups!

Meme Break

🔦 Joint Venture Spotlight: AgadPay

AgadPay lets your employees access their earned wages anytime, giving them financial flexibility without disrupting your payroll. Happier teams, lower attrition, zero hassle.

Interested? Go to agadpay.ph so we can get in touch about implementing this no-cost HR benefit for your employees.

“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

Azim Premji, Wipro

Til the next one!

🚀 The FL Team