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In this edition, we explore how AI is evolving from helpful features to a true execution layer. From smarter workflows inside Canva to the shift from traditional search toward conversational discovery, the way we create and find information is changing.

We also highlight real-world momentum — including Farseer’s €6M raise, a weekend project turned investment opportunity, and an AI agent that helped land a role at OpenAI — showing how AI is now helping build not just content, but careers and companies.

The future of AI feels Like Magic, and it’s here!

If you are following LMAI you’re going to love this story.

There’s this developer, Peter Steinberger. Not a loud Twitter AI guy. Not a VC-backed wunderkind. Just a serious builder. Years ago, he bootstrapped a developer tools company called PSPDFKit. Solid business. Real customers. Quiet success.

Then recently, he ships this open-source project called OpenClaw. And it’s not just another chatbot wrapper. It’s an AI agent that actually does stuff. Runs locally. Touches your apps. Executes tasks. Less “ask me a question,” more “tell me what to handle.”

Developers freak out — in a good way.

The repo starts moving fast. Stars stack up. People fork it. Talk about it. Build on top of it. Because it feels like a glimpse of what’s next.

Not just better prompts. Autonomous software altogether.

And then — boom — he actually gets invited to join OpenAI. Sam Altman announces this on his X profile.

That’s the crazy part.

He didn’t raise $50 million. He didn’t run a massive launch campaign. He just built something useful and shipped it in public. And the market pulled him in. Now he got offered a position + some equity in the fastest developing company in the world.

That’s what’s interesting to me. And from side of OpenAI, this was a very smart move to pull in the best talent into their own system and let them do what they do best - develop.

We keep thinking the next big opportunity is hidden in some stealth startup or behind a pitch deck. But more and more, it’s just sitting on GitHub.

You build something real. People use it. The right people notice.

OpenClaw isn’t the main story. The story is that one well-built project can completely change your life trajectory. That’s the new leverage.

Build in public. Ship fast. Let the internet compound it.

And if you happen to be early to a massive shift the upside isn’t incremental.

It’s career-defining.

In a now-viral story from Dharmesh Shah’s Marathon Coding Weekend, HubSpot’s co-founder shared how he spent Day 2 knee-deep in code and ended up signing an investment into a startup in just 7 hours. What actually happened is one of the most inspiring stories of entrepreneurship spirit, I ever heard:

So, during his work, Dharmesh runs into a small product issue with a new start-ups product he just started using.

Emails the founder.

Founder replies fast.
Fixes the bug almost immediately.
Ships an update in no time.

Normal Saturday, right?

Impressed by the responsiveness, he asks if they would need an investment? Seven hours later… Dharmesh signs the check.

The kicker? No Zooms, no decks, just action and execution on both sides.

Now imagine being that founder. You wake up thinking you’re just handling support. By dinner, a billionaire founder is wiring you money.

That’s wild.

And it’s such a good reminder: you have no idea who’s using your product.
This moment is a powerful reminder that opportunities for great startups exist everywhere. Stay curious, stay responsive, and most importantly: stay building.

Croatian FP&A scale-up Farseer has just closed a €6.07 million (~$7.2 million) Series A round, led by AYMO Ventures with follow-on participation from SQ Capital — a major vote of confidence in the team and product.

Founded in Zagreb and focused on modernizing financial planning and analysis for enterprises, Farseer’s platform aims to replace error-prone spreadsheets with real-time, collaborative forecasting tools built on a powerful in-memory engine. At the core is FarseerAI, a layer that allows finance teams to ask questions in natural language and receive real-time forecasts, reports, and variance explanations instantly. Instead of building complex spreadsheet models manually, the platform uses predictive algorithms to analyze historical and live data, automatically selecting forecasting methods and updating projections as new data flows in.

This new capital will help the company scale across Europe and North America as it continues its journey from seed (about $1.5M raised in 2023) to a growth-stage business tackling a global market.

🌍 For the Croatian tech ecosystem, it’s a signal that local startups can attract meaningful late-stage capital and compete on the global stage — a trend worth watching in 2026 and beyond.

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If Canva for you still means “pick a template, change the text, export, done,” you might be missing what it’s quietly become. Over the past year, Canva has evolved from a simple design tool into an AI-assisted creative workspace. Writing, designing, editing visuals, and even reshaping content across formats can now happen in one place.

What started with tools like Dream Lab has expanded into something much broader: a workflow where you don’t just design — you ask, generate, and refine. Instead of building everything manually, you can now start with a prompt and adjust from there.

In our full article, we explore how these AI features actually work today, what’s new since Dream Lab, and whether they genuinely change the way people create. You can read the full breakdown here: Are You Still Using Canva Like It’s 2019?

If you’re still treating Canva like presentation software, you might only be using half of what it can do.

For years, finding information meant opening a search engine, typing a question, and diving into a sea of links. Today, more and more people start by asking AI instead — not to replace search, but to make sense of it faster.

Search isn’t disappearing. It’s evolving into something more conversational — and we’re all adapting without even noticing.

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