America gets a chatbot
President Donald Trump launched america.gov on Tuesday, a federal chatbot site that answers citizen questions using an LLM drawing only on official government sources, and signed an executive order es…
President Donald Trump launched america.gov on Tuesday, a federal chatbot site that answers citizen questions using an LLM drawing only on official government sources, and signed an executive order es…
President Donald Trump unveiled America.gov, an AI-powered federal services website developed under Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, now the administration's chief design officer, at a launch event in Wa…
A technical explainer outlines how data engineering underpins modern AI and data science, describing it as the software discipline responsible for collecting, storing, and processing data at scale. Th…
Evolving Edge published "Two Strangers, One Machine," a 46-page security white paper describing how its CDN distribution layer runs on residential hardware using the `.ee` container format and three e…
Twenty-eight on-record figures from thirteen companies quantifying how much of their own work AI performs are collected in a single reference page read on September 18, 2026, with each figure paired w…
Former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, including Edward Coristine (known online as "Big Balls") and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, are planning an AI-driven federal services website calle…
Airbnb migrated nearly 3,500 React component test files from Enzyme to React Testing Library in 6 weeks using a large-language-model-driven pipeline, a task the company had originally estimated would …
Airbnb built an agent harness called Insight Miner to make unstructured-data investigations reproducible and audit-ready ahead of its 2025 launch of an AI customer service assistant, according to an a…
Ron Conway, co-founder of SV Angel, has appointed Jay Carney to lead a new AI policy center, pairing the venture capitalist with the former White House Press Secretary to shape US artificial intellige…
Block CFO Amrita Ahuja said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Tech Conference that tech companies can balance user choice with AI safeguards, pushing back on Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who re…
Garry Tan, president of Y Combinator, says he now ships roughly 400x the work he did in 2013, attributing the gain to what he calls Personal AGI—a private stack of memory and skill files that compound…
A developer argues that while AI-generated software has become cheap, the cost of trusting it remains high, creating a 'verification gap' in the AI industry. The article highlights Stellar Wave's bug-…
OpenAI reported that Asana saved $5.9 million by using OpenAI Codex to replace its outdated Enzyme testing system in two weeks for about $12,000, compared with a previous plan estimated to take five y…
A new analysis of Y Combinator startups finds that AI-native firms achieve higher valuations with less headcount by eliminating workflow friction rather than adding staff, according to research from H…
Vallley, a curated job board for hyper-growth tech startups, lists over 30,000 open roles at companies including OpenAI, Stripe, Airbnb, Anthropic, SpaceX, Figma, and Discord, and offers an API for AI…
Swayable, a Y Combinator-backed AI and data science platform founded in 2018, is hiring a Senior AI/ML Engineer for its San Francisco office with a salary range of $175k–250k/yr. The role requires 5+ …
Oakley's City Council voted 4-0 on Aug. 11 to introduce a pilot program allowing up to 10 short-term rental units in the Downtown Specific Plan area along Main Street, reducing the initial proposal of…
Asana completed a massive migration off the testing framework Enzyme in two weeks using AI, a project that would otherwise have been postponed, according to The Pulse, a series covering Big Tech and s…
Airbnb Inc. (ABNB) stock is trading near a 52-week high at $183, up 35% year to date, after the company reported strong second-quarter 2026 results with revenue climbing 17% to $3.6 billion and adjust…
AI agents will increasingly face credentialing requirements to access online services, according to a commentary by an unnamed author citing Scott Belsky's concept of 'favored agents.' The piece sugge…