DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said AI coding tools address only part of an engineer's workflow, estimating that writing code accounts for 25% to 50% of an engineer's time, while product reviews, design meeting…
A new guide for freelancers offers 10 high-impact ChatGPT prompts to automate client management, workflow, and business growth tasks, treating the LLM as a specialized consultant. The prompts cover sc…
A comparison of Wix, Squarespace, and WordPress for small business websites in 2026 recommends Squarespace for polished design, Wix for rapid deployment, and WordPress for scalability and ownership, n…
Monday.com is cutting about 620 jobs, 20 percent of its global workforce, as the Israeli project management company restructures around its AI Work Platform. Co-CEO Eran Zinman told staff the company …
Base44, a Wix-owned startup founded by Maor Shlomo, launched a seven-day developer competition on July 21st offering $10,000 to one winner for an application built through an external IDE or AI coding…
In June 2025, Wix paid $80 million in cash for Base44, a six-month-old company built solo by Maor Shlomo, who grew it entirely by documenting the build in public on LinkedIn and X; nine months later i…
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami said the tech industry gives AI 'too much credit' and that it is not smart enough to replace white-collar jobs, despite his company's $200 million investment in the vibe-codin…
Controlled trials show vibe coding accelerates fresh builds by 26% to 56%, and a six-month-old vibe-coding product sold for an initial $80 million plus earn-outs. Tools like Cursor and Claude Code hav…
Oded, co-founder of UniPaaS, tested three methods for integrating external payment providers into Base44 apps: MCP connections, OpenAPI integrations, and backend functions. The MCP connection provisio…
Base44, a Tel Aviv startup acquired by Wix for $80 million, launched its own proprietary AI model called Base1 for vibe coding, claiming it is the first app-creation platform to ship its own model rat…
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 …
American employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May 2026, the steepest monthly figure since January and the worst May since 2020, with artificial intelligence tied to 38,579 of the cuts, roughly 40% o…
Base44 founder Maor Shlomo launched Base 1, a proprietary AI model for the Wix-owned app-building platform, aiming to reduce dependence on external model vendors and gain more control over costs and d…
Base44, acquired by Wix for $80 million in 2025, launched its own AI model Base 1 on June 29 to reduce reliance on third-party models and improve margins. The move comes as Base44 reaches $150 million…
Base44, the Wix-owned vibe coding platform, launched its proprietary large language model Base 1, becoming the first app-creation tool to deploy a homegrown model in production. The move aims to contr…
Base44, the vibe coding platform acquired by Wix for $80 million a year ago, has launched its own AI model, Base1, to improve latency, cost, and efficiency. The move addresses concerns about defensibi…
At SMX Advanced in Boston, Wix's Crystal Carter and Tinuiti's Jen Cornwell presented contrasting approaches to AI search optimization, with Carter focusing on technical frameworks for optimizing conte…
A developer identifies six common failure modes in Base44 apps built from prompts, including regression bugs, missing auth enforcement, silent payment failures, credit waste, SEO-empty shells, and dis…
Bain & Company is using AI coding tools to recreate parts of software acquisition targets' products during private equity due diligence, challenging the defensibility of software moats. The practice, …
A controlled trial by research group METR found that experienced developers using AI coding tools were 19% slower at fixing real issues in their own codebases, despite feeling faster. Independent rese…