Google's Gemini AI can plan a summer vacation itinerary in minutes, as demonstrated by ZDNET contributor Elyse Betters Picaro, who used Gemini to build a starter doc for a family trip to Disney World.…
Developers are increasingly turning to Buildkite for CI/CD as GitHub struggles with exponential growth in pull requests and automation driven by AI coding agents. Buildkite, used by Airbnb, PagerDuty,…
Buildkite, a 13-year-old Australian startup, is seeing a surge of interest from companies like Airbnb and Shopify as a CI/CD tool that can handle the increasing number of build jobs demanded by AI cod…
Major US companies including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are adopting Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai, attracted by lower costs and open-weight flexibility, according to the Financial Times…
A writer shares their perspective on artificial intelligence, placing themselves in the high-impact, positive sentiment quadrant of AI narratives. They express no fear of job automation, see SaaS evol…
A new survey of thousands of tech workers reveals that AI has split the workforce nearly in half, with one group thriving and another shaken, while burnout jumped 11 points in a single year. The study…
Machine learning engineer Hamel Husain argues that automated evaluations (evals) for AI systems are flawed and often misleading, based on his 20+ years of experience and work at Airbnb and GitHub. He …
Anthropic is leasing a 16-story office building in Manhattan and plans to double its New York workforce to over 1,000 employees by year-end, while Airbnb purchased a six-story building in Gramercy for…
Congress is investigating U.S. companies using lower-cost Chinese AI models, citing data security and national security risks. The House committees launched a probe into firms like Cursor and Airbnb, …
U.S. lawmakers are investigating the growing use of Chinese AI models by American companies like Cursor and Airbnb, citing concerns over censorship, security risks, and reliance on cheaper foreign alt…
Chinese AI models now account for 30-46% of enterprise API token usage on US developer platforms, driven by costs 60-90% lower than US frontier models, with DeepSeek V4 Flash alone commanding 16.3% of…
The US and China are escalating mutual accusations over AI security threats, using the tech Cold War to justify increased surveillance and regulation of open-source software. China flagged Anthropic's…
A developer found that AI-generated UI designs often suffer from poor prioritization, typography, spacing, and design system adherence. By implementing self-improvement loops, rubrics based on common …
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warned that Anthropic's Claude Code coding tool contains a security back-door vulnerability, urging users to uninstall or upgrade specific versi…
Republican-led House panels opened a joint investigation into Airbnb and Anysphere over their use of Chinese-developed AI models, citing national security, data-security, and model-distillation concer…
Approximately 80% of US startups using open-source AI have adopted cheaper Chinese models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI, according to Andreessen Horowitz. The shift, driven by costs as low a…
Silicon Valley startups are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models, which are up to 40 times cheaper than domestic options, driven by comparable performance. Companies like Airbnb and Social Capital …
A developer analyzed 866 job postings on Remoet and found that 167 (about one in five) explicitly name an AI coding tool as a requirement. Cursor leads with 113 mentions, followed by Claude Code (101)…
StayThere.ai, a platform indexing 96,485 vacation rental listings from 3,124 host websites across 92 countries, launched to help guests book directly with property managers instead of through Airbnb. …
A new essay argues that startups should avoid creating entirely new product categories because users need to quickly understand what a product is. The author claims that most successful products are b…