Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and investor who founded the blog Gigaom, died Wednesday at age 59 in Palo Alto, California, after a long heart condition. His blog shaped Silicon Valle…
Elon Musk's X Money digital payment venture is expanding to more US premium users on social network X, part of his plan to create an 'everything app.' The tool, which allows peer-to-peer payments and …
An indie maker spent 90 days building an affiliate revenue channel around AI APIs, earning $3 in the first month but seeing real recurring revenue by month two. The developer, who runs three bootstrap…
Blogging is no longer worth it in 2026 due to the rise of AI and social media, according to a veteran blogger who argues that the practice has become a waste of time with little practical return. The …
A growing ideology called 'successionism' argues that humanity should be replaced by AI, gaining influence in Silicon Valley despite being rejected by most. The philosophy, named by Andrew Critch, ref…
Wonderful, a Netherlands-based enterprise AI agent platform backed by $300 million in funding, expanded its Singapore operations and appointed Alexander Kleinberg as General Manager. The move aims to …
Josh, a new partner at A16Z, announced that the AI wave is opening new opportunities for consumer startups, drawing on his experience building Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Robinhood. He believes A…
A blogger declares that no human-readable text on their blog is written by AI, citing a social contract with readers. They use LLMs for brainstorming, research, and coding but avoid AI-generated prose…
The team behind neural frames launched a free MP3 to MP4 converter that allows users to create static videos with album art or images, supporting files up to 100MB and 10 minutes. The tool processes f…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the first major sports event shaped by AI, transforming fan engagement as agentic AI becomes the interface between fans and football. Clubs like Liverpool and FIFA are …
A developer warns that reliance on large language models for cognitive offloading is leading to a frenzied state of multitasking and diminished quality, as users delegate more tasks to AI and fail to …
A developer explains why different word counters produce varying results, covering whitespace splitting versus natural language tokenization, character count quirks on major platforms, and emoji handl…
A solo developer managing a 28,000-file codebase uses four AI agents with strict boundaries to avoid conflicts. The architecture assigns each agent to a specific domain: UI sandbox, data core, API bri…
JerrySniffs launched an MCP server and API suite for web and social media search, offering credit-based access to Google, Twitter/X, Reddit, and page-to-markdown endpoints with no recurring subscripti…
Red Planet Labs reports progress in teaching LLMs to one-shot complex backends at scale, achieving consistent one-shot generation of the fanout challenge—a core Twitter-like service—using Fable and Op…
A hacker quarterly article argues that there is no empirical evidence proving AI can think, and that no logical argument has been made to demonstrate machine thought. The author contends that computer…
A writer distinguishes between two strands of AI opposition: one nostalgic for pre-AI systems and reliant on copyright, and a more radical strand that seeks to overhaul the underlying structures enabl…
A patient wakes from a nine-year coma to find the world transformed by a pandemic, political shifts, and AI-generated content. The tech industry has collapsed, making jobs scarce and the App Store ove…
The internet is being overtaken by AI-generated content, with bots and automated systems flooding public forums, driving users to private spaces. A startup called Polsia, which runs companies via AI, …
A developer built Online JSON Tools instead of another AI app, creating a browser-based platform for formatting, minifying, and validating JSON. The tool provides detailed error feedback including lin…