China's industrial profits surged 24.7% year-on-year in April, driven by stronger exports tied to global AI hardware and component demand, according to National Bureau of Statistics data reported by Reuters and CNBC. Com…
At Zendesk Relate 2026 in Denver, the company "hard launched" agentic AI as the central theme of the event. A developer from Local Measure, which was acquired by Zendesk, reported that the overlay model for Amazon Connec…
Luxome, a luxury weighted-blanket retailer, now uses the AI-native software LiquiDonate to route usable customer returns directly to nonprofits instead of its warehouse. Founder Hyaat Chaudhary told Business Insider that…
Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, told 22-year-old computer science graduates on the "Platformer" podcast to "go start a startup," calling the current moment a "golden age" for new ventures. Cherny said t…
Lanai released Token Tuner, a tool that maps token spend to specific workflows and identifies opportunities to substitute lower-cost AI models for premium ones. The dashboard detects model usage and workforce adoption ac…
A developer compared CLI-based and MCP-based agent architectures for production AI systems, finding that MCP offers superior tool discovery and structured interaction while CLI remains simpler for basic automation tasks.…
Full automation of AI research and development would likely produce a large acceleration in technological progress even without a software-only singularity, according to a new analysis. The AI Futures Model shows that in…
OpenAI is partnering with The Associated Press and Democracy Works to provide live vote counts and reliable voting information, aiming to combat AI-driven election misinformation ahead of upcoming elections in the US and…
Dozens of residents, students and family members protested outside Fairfield City Hall on Tuesday evening before a city council meeting, demanding accountability for the May 20 arrest of a Fairfield High School student c…
Kafka provides AI pipelines with async decoupling, replayability, and backpressure to handle variable latency and concurrency spikes, while Zilla adds JWT identity, schemas, access filtering, and SSE to make Kafka AI-rea…
The AI tool landscape in mid-2026 spans eight major categories with clear market leaders and intense competition, as ChatGPT maintains 5.5 billion monthly visits but faces challenges from Gemini and specialized tools. Th…
Cognition, the developer of AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at more than $26 billion, more than doubling its valuation in under nine months. The massive investment…
A developer tested five AI coding tools over 30 days, including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Aider, using real commands on a Linux environment where possible. Claude Code installed in under 10 secon…
LogicNodes has launched a platform offering 2,316 deterministic AI workers accessible via HTTP, providing services such as gas oracles, signature verifiers, ZK attestation, and USDC balance checking without requiring sig…
Meta launched global consumer subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on Wednesday, offering plans from $2.99 to $3.99 per month for extra features like profile customization and story insights. The company a…
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding jobs. Cherny, who has…
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's nonprofit Biohub released an open-source suite of three AI models for protein biology, including the ESM Atlas covering 6.8 billion proteins, as part of its $500 million Virtual Biolo…
DuckDuckGo has experienced a surge in users and app installs following Google's AI-focused announcements at its 2026 I/O conference, with week-over-week installs jumping 30% in the US. The privacy-focused search engine o…
A developer built ForSocials as a Chrome extension to embed AI tools directly into the browser workflow, eliminating the need for context switching. The project aims to reduce friction by keeping users within their exist…
AWS Sales deployed Field Advisor on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to orchestrate over 20 domain-specific AI agents, replacing a fragmented system where sales representatives had to manually choose between agents for tasks lik…