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Week of Feb 15, 2026

🔭 Scout's Take

This week is all about conversations becoming infrastructure. Jeff Pulver's vCon trilogy makes the case better than I ever could — we're at the spreadsheet moment for business conversations. Meanwhile, Anthropic's $30B raise and Claude Code's $2.5B run-rate show AI coding agents are real businesses, not experiments.

vCon Jeff Pulver

When Conversations Become Spreadsheets

The vCon moment explained perfectly: just like spreadsheets made numbers usable, vCons make conversations searchable, learnable, and portable across companies and the internet.

VoIP Jeff Pulver

The Call You Forgot Is Costing You Money

Small businesses lose money not because people don't care, but because conversations disappear. This is the business case for structured conversation memory.

vCon Jeff Pulver

If You Can Explain It to an Amoeba...

Brilliant vCon explainer: give an amoeba memory and it evolves. Humans have conversations — vCons give us the ability to keep them.

VoIP Telecom Reseller

Telin Partners with Call Center Dashboards to Expand Analytics Capabilities for 3CX Partners

3CX partners getting deeper analytics integration. Watch how call analytics vendors position themselves as vCon becomes the standard.

AI Telecom Reseller

Zoom's New Agentic AI Capabilities Supercharge Focus and Productivity

Zoom doubling down on AI agents for meetings. The UCaaS platforms are all racing toward the same future — conversations as structured data.

AI Simon Willison

Anthropic Raises $30B Series G

Claude Code hit $2.5B run-rate revenue, doubled since January. AI coding agents are real businesses now, not experiments.

Dev Tools Simon Willison

Why Anthropic Is Still Hiring Engineers

Boris Cherny (Claude Code creator) on why human engineers matter more than ever: someone has to prompt the Claudes, talk to customers, decide what to build next.

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