Replit hosted Vibecon, a two-day conference in New York City exploring the intersection of creativity and AI, where CEO Amjad Masad and filmmaker Spike Jonze debated whether AI can possess 'taste.' Th…
Filmmaker Spike Jonze warned that AI chatbots designed to mimic human behavior are 'manipulative' and dangerous, speaking at Replit's Vibecon conference. Jonze, whose 2013 film 'Her' depicted a human-…
Generative AI startups like Replit are using influencer-driven TikTok ads to sell false hope to young people, promising easy wealth through AI-powered app creation. This mirrors the predatory tactics …
A developer argues that the real danger of AI-generated code is not its quality but the unrecorded decisions it introduces, creating hidden technical debt. Drawing on Martin Fowler's debt quadrant and…
Stripe surveyed 394 Link wallet customers and analyzed spending patterns across 250 million users, finding that the top 10% of AI spenders nearly doubled their monthly spending from $183 to $359 in th…
Retool launched a new platform that lets developers build React apps using AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, Replit, or Lovable and deploy them through a governed runtime with automatic authentication…
A developer outlines production-hardening steps for Replit AI apps, including persistent instructions via a replit.md file, environment variable management, authentication and authorization checks, an…
An attacker hijacked a dormant contributor account and published malicious versions of 144 packages under the @mastra npm scope between 01:15 and 02:36 UTC, targeting the TypeScript AI agent framework…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, highlighting the booming vibe-coding market. Other startups like Lovable and Replit are raising billions as investors bet on AI-assisted codin…
A viral meme about a fictional AI model called 'Le Chaton Fat' from French startup Mistral has spread across tech circles, despite the model being fake. The joke emerged after Mistral rebranded its ch…
Pi App Studio is being explored as a distribution channel for AI-built apps, offering access to a large user base, identity verification, payments infrastructure, and developer tools. Developers build…
Visa invested in Replit to power agentic payments for developers, signaling that autonomous agents are about to move real money. A pattern is emerging for an agent payment stack, with competing author…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model, which benchmarks over 10% better than Opus 4.8 on coding tasks and features a 1M context window and deep MCP integration for multi-agen…
Hacker News user franze created a thread for AI-coded games, showcasing projects like sphere chess, Squishy and Friends, Strait Sweeper, Bello, and 3D Tik Tak Toe, built using models like Claude and C…
SaaStr published its sponsor engagement leaderboard for SaaStr AI Annual 2026, measuring leads captured from a show floor of more than 10,000 B2B and AI attendees. Replit generated the most leads at 1…
Kadhir Mani tested 13 AI prototyping tools to extract standalone HTML files, finding that only 7 tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini Canvas, Bolt, Lovable, Replit, Figma Make) could produce self-contained …
Socket has partnered with Replit to integrate its Socket Firewall into Replit's AI-powered development platform, blocking approximately 8,000 malicious open source packages per day. The partnership ai…
Product builder and newsletter author Lenny Rachitsky released the second installment of his curated book recommendations, featuring 24 titles organized by professional and personal development goals.…
Doola MCP is now live inside Vercel, enabling developers to form a US LLC in the same session where they build and deploy their projects. The integration allows founders to incorporate their business …
A developer has built DeepSpace, an SDK designed to replace the fragmented web development stack that coding agents struggle to assemble. The SDK consolidates auth, database, realtime, storage, AI, pa…