A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model ran on a single CPU with 8.24 GB of RAM using a 176 KB portable C99 engine, though it requires a 1.56 TB checkpoint on disk and runs at 26.5 seconds per token a…
Crawl4AI, an open-source LLM crawler with around 80,000 GitHub stars, shipped four security releases in June 2025, culminating in a breaking 0.9.0 version that locks down its Docker server by default,…
Ritwik launched Makra, a memoization-driven web scraping engine for AI agents, claiming it cuts data retrieval costs to one-tenth of prior generations while eliminating hallucinations and prompt injec…
Firecrawl, a web-to-data API company, is hiring a Product Engineer - Agent in San Francisco with a salary range of $235,000–$260,000 per year, to build agent features that let LLMs navigate and act on…
Firecrawl has released pdf-inspector, an open-source library that classifies PDFs as text-based, scanned, image-based, or mixed, and routes only the pages that need OCR to the OCR engine. The tool, av…
Firecrawl released AnyDoc on August 4, a pure Rust library that converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and text-based PDFs into GitHub-Flavored Markdown with a median processi…
A developer's measurement of the x402 economy, a protocol revived by Coinbase from an unused 1997 HTTP status code, found total 30-day gross merchandise value of just $11,748 across 14,128 registered …
A condensed eight-week AI engineering curriculum has been published, cutting an original 13-week programme down to the sessions deemed most valuable. Each week pairs roughly 60-90 minutes of reading a…
A developer measured the token overhead of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and found that loading 255 tools from 50 MCP servers consumes 71,929 tokens per session, compared to just 123 tokens for the…
Spidra launched its MCP server at mcp.spidra.io, offering twelve scraping tools through a hosted endpoint designed for plain-English use, positioning itself between Firecrawl's context API model and A…
Firecrawl open-sourced AnyDoc on August 4, a pure Rust library that converts 14 document formats to GitHub-Flavored Markdown in a median of 4.7 milliseconds, with zero external dependencies and no API…
Locus, a YC-backed startup founded by Cole Dermott, launched Locus Pro on August 20th, a billing and metering layer that gives AI platforms one prepaid balance and credential for over 600 pay-per-use …
Sourcery, an independent benchmark run by an unnamed developer, evaluated eight search APIs by having three LLMs—Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GLM 5.2—score the retrieved pages for 204 questions…
Parallel, Exa, and Firecrawl lead the Artificial Analysis Search Index for search APIs, with Parallel winning on quality, Exa on speed and cost, and Firecrawl on free-tier accessibility, according to …
Artificial Analysis released the Search Index, a benchmark ranking search API providers for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed, with Parallel, Firecrawl, and Parallel (turbo) achieving the best cos…
Cyera researchers found thousands of exposed credentials for AI agent integration platforms, including Composio, Arcade, Nango, Tavily, Exa, LlamaIndex, and Firecrawl, across hundreds of organizations…
Security audits of enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments reveal a 67% vulnerability rate to indirect prompt injections and cache poisoning, with HijackKV attacks achieving a 94% Targeted…
Firecrawl released anydoc, a Rust library that converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF files into GitHub-Flavored Markdown in single-digit milliseconds, with bindings f…
N8n has integrated Firecrawl into n8n Cloud to provide AI workflows with direct access to real-time, structured web data, reducing setup complexity for LLM applications. The integration supports use c…
Olostep's Crawling API is the top pick among seven web crawling tools and APIs in 2026, offering affordable full-site crawling with clean data output for AI applications, according to a comparison tha…