Perplexity Portable Computer debuts on NVIDIA DGX Spark

Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a fully local agent runtime for NVIDIA DGX Spark, and demos GLM 5.3 on DGX Station.
Garry Tan's Monaco hits general availability, with early customers seeing +16pp monthly revenue growth and 2x meetings.
Block expands Neighborhoods to 30,000 sellers, reaching $1B annualized GPV (up 220% since March).
Jason Fried ships HEY CLI/TUI for terminal-based email, calendar, and todos.
Shopify may block Claude Code until it supports AGENTS.md files, highlighting agent tooling fragmentation.
App Store revenue saw its first yearly decline, but non-game apps still grew 14.6% globally.

Perplexity introduced Portable Computer, an agent runtime on NVIDIA DGX Spark that runs the orchestrator model, sub-agent models, and the agent harness entirely locally with no cloud dependency. Aravind Srinivas received a DGX Station from Jensen Huang after an early demo, and it can run frontier models like GLM 5.3 locally. — via 1 2 3
Replit Agent has fully replaced Claude CoWork in Amjad Masad's daily workflow, citing better persistence and execution. He also highlighted a developer who built and shipped a product with just iPhone and Replit for $15, with about half the work done on the free tier. — via 1 2
Shopify CEO tobi lutke is considering blocking Claude Code until it reads AGENTS.md and .agents/skills, warning that only supporting CLAUDE.md creates "split-brain" workflows when teammates use different tools. This points to a growing need for standardized agent configuration across coding assistants. — via 1
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch traced the slow reset command to a sleep(1) added in 1979 3BSD for mechanical printers; a Zig replacement runs in ~1ms, almost 1000x faster. He also criticized ISPs for blocking domains/TLDs and breaking TLS, with Vercel adopting ECH to counter that. — via 1 2
Garry Tan shared his Claude Code configuration (127K-star repo) that auto-detects tools and provides /plan and /ship workflows, making AI-assisted development more structured. — via 1

Garry Tan announced Monaco is now generally available after a beta with hundreds of high-growth startups. Early customers saw average monthly revenue growth increase by 16 percentage points and monthly meeting volume double. — via 1
Jason Fried released HEY CLI and TUI, allowing email, calendar, and todos to be handled from the terminal or by AI agents, including voice control. He also scheduled a live Basecamp 5 demo for Tuesday. — via 1 2 3
Jack Dorsey announced Neighborhoods is rolling out to tens of thousands of sellers, a major milestone for Block. The network has grown 10x since June with 30,000 new sellers, and annualized GPV reached $1B (up 220% since March), extending to Square Terminal hardware. — via 1 2
Alexis Ohanian highlighted the Veritas chip from his firm 776, now embedded in Nike shoes, letting users tap a phone to verify authenticity and see the shoe's full history. — via 1

App Store sales saw their first annual decline in a decade, per data shared by @levelsio. Non-game apps still grew 14.6% globally while games dropped 4.5%, and RC's web revenue share rose from 20% to 26%, suggesting reports of the app economy's death are premature. — via 1 2
Bitcoin's returns are highly concentrated in a few days: the best 10 days contributed +162%, while the remaining 355 days were -14%, reinforcing a long-term HODL approach. — via 1
Paul Graham highlighted a paper showing government services are receiving a massive influx of requests due to AI, consistent with earlier findings by @avshah99. — via 1
Paul Graham shared his essay "How Universities Should Prepare Founders," arguing universities need to rethink how they train future startup founders. — via 1
Perplexity cut GPT-5.6 Sol credit pricing on Computer by 20% through Nov 21, 2026. — via 1

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