Companies are scrambling to reduce AI spending as providers shift to per-token pricing, with some using tools to make LLMs communicate like cavemen. Meanwhile, entirely fake AI-generated flowers are f…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for exotic flowers that do not exist on platforms like Etsy, eBay, and Amazon, according to reports. The fake listings often feature impossible col…
The OpenClaw AI agent framework creates a creator-business stack where early adopters can monetize the friction of setup through affiliates, skills, freelancing, community, and courses, turning tutori…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell fake flower seeds on Etsy and eBay, with one seller's listings including a hosta resembling screaming shrimp and a butterfly-shaped plant. The fraudulent…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for fake exotic plants on eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, deceiving thousands of buyers. The scam, which predates AI, has proliferated as platforms struggl…
Google's Chrome 149 introduces a 'Select from screen' tool for Gemini, allowing users to drag a box around content on a tab and feed it directly to the AI side panel without copying or describing. The…
At DX Annual, a panel of engineering leaders from Etsy, Twilio, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft debated AI's impact on software engineering, concluding that AI will not eliminate the need for engineers …
A developer built five custom automation solutions for small and medium businesses, costing between EUR 500 and EUR 5,000. The projects included price scraping for an auto parts e-commerce site, autom…
Jennifer Martinez, a 35-year-old product manager at an AI startup in New York City, earns over $1,000 a month from four side gigs including dog-sitting, ceramics, TikTok content creation, and product …
At Open Source Summit North America 2026, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) proposed an open infrastructure for agentic commerce, citing a Bain forecast that agentic shopping coul…
ShopFoundry launches an AI tool specifically for Etsy sellers, generating titles, tags, and descriptions that fit Etsy's character limits and field requirements. The tool streamlines the listing proce…
Google Ads is shifting to serve AI agents that shop on behalf of consumers, with agentic commerce driving $67 billion in global sales during Cyber Week 2025. Product feeds are becoming bidding signals…
A developer built two Etsy SEO tools in 14 days using Cloudflare Workers, KV, and Stripe, with a total monthly infrastructure cost of $0. The tools include ContentBase, an AI listing optimizer, and Sh…
L.E.N.S. (Local Edge Native Studio) is a voice-guided photography coach designed for blind and low-vision artisans, such as hand-knit sweater makers, to independently verify and improve product photos…
The article describes the author's attempt to digitally recreate Moses Harris's 18th-century color wheels from *The Natural System of Colours*, which were among the first to show primary, secondary, a…