A new agent skill called Clean, available via `npx skills add andalabx/skills --skill clean`, freed 5.3 GB on its first run and up to 7.3 GB in a super scan, clearing dev junk such as node_modules, .n…
ZKSecurity's final part of its KZG series details Mercury, a multilinear commitment scheme that folds half of a polynomial's variables at once, reducing opening proof size compared to Gemini's one-var…
Mercury launched Agent Cards on August 12, enabling AI agents to retrieve dedicated virtual-card credentials through its API or CLI and make online purchases within administrator-set limits. Mercury's…
Blacksmith, an AI code-testing startup founded in 2024, raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at $550 million, nearly 10 times its previous $60 million valuation f…
Mercury, a Silicon Valley banking solution, launched AI agent cards, virtual credit cards that let businesses delegate and automate purchasing decisions, as part of an expanded spend management offeri…
Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor, shared his three-step playbook for building high-talent-density teams—scoping, mapping, and relentless pursuit—in a podcast interview, warning that the traditional…
Dwarkesh Patel, in a video recording of his post, argues that smarter AI models could drive up compute prices by 10x, as demand for advanced AI training and inference grows. He cites Mercury's AI tool…
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is calling for a one-year pause on consenting new AI data centres to establish regulations, citing concerns over energy use, water consumption, and community im…
Hedgy released Setoku, a self-hosted knowledge server for AI agents that uses a ClickHouse data lake and MCP protocol to let Claude-powered agents store and query company knowledge, with no inference …
Netflix Chief Product and Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone said systems thinking is now the most important skill she looks for and that AI fluency is becoming a universal expectation across roles, n…
Artemis Security, an AI-native threat detection platform, achieved a 69x speedup in detection queries by coalescing hundreds of rule scans into single queries using ClickHouse Cloud. The startup also …
A developer investigating why US developer tools decline international cards found that declines are almost always a risk decision, not a balance problem. The developer, who now works on payments, rec…
Claire tests GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from Z.ai, in her ChatPRD codebase, finding it production-grade and capable of replacing Opus for some coding workflows. The model benchmarks near Claude Opu…
Andrew Ambrosino, lead of OpenAI's Codex desktop app, says nearly 100% of OpenAI employees now use Codex weekly and aims to make it the best desktop app ever. In a podcast, he discusses how AI flips p…
Taktile raised $110 million in a Series C round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to automate high-stakes banking decisions using AI agents. The Berlin-and-New-York startup aims to replace manual proc…
AI accounting automation has matured to the point where small businesses paying $300-$800 a month for bookkeeping can replace it with tools costing as little as $35 a month. Ramp, QuickBooks, and Xero…
Inception launched Mercury, a family of diffusion-based large language models that generate tokens in parallel rather than sequentially, achieving faster speeds and higher GPU efficiency. The models a…
Mercury launched Mercury Command, a conversational AI interface for its financial platform, enabling users to perform tasks like checking cash positions and sending invoices via natural language. The …
MLJAR AutoML and Mercury now enable developers to build web applications for machine learning models using only Python, eliminating the need for HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. The new tool generates two ty…
OpenAI's Codex /goal command transforms AI from a turn-based assistant into an autonomous agent capable of working for hours on complex tasks without constant prompting. In a 30-minute episode, Claire…