Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company …
A developer who previously advised founders to use AI APIs directly now recommends against it after witnessing a team waste three weeks on signup friction. The developer argues that the AI API landsca…
A mid-sized SaaS company in Austin reduced its junior engineering staff by 40 percent, with no public announcement, as AI tools like Claude Code increasingly automate entry-level coding tasks.…
Oxlo.ai offers request-based pricing for LLM-driven named entity recognition, making it economically viable for long documents. The platform supports structured output via JSON mode and function calli…
Hacker News users reported an advertisement for Gauntlet AI appearing on the site's front page, with the post offering to fly users to Austin, train them in AI, and provide a $200,000+ job. Users expr…
Austin founder Ryan Merket launched Clare, an AI desktop assistant designed to help users overwhelmed by the internet, after observing older family members struggle with phishing scams and complex onl…
The Fay apartment tower in downtown San Jose opened two years ago with fewer than one parking spot for every three units, and the building now sits 60% vacant — a sign that California's 2022 law elimi…
On March 17, 2025, Elon Musk warned during a podcast with US Senator Ted Cruz that America's reliance on Taiwan for advanced AI chip manufacturing poses a critical national security risk if China inva…