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The 42-acre Benessere Vineyards estate in St. Helena, once home to the Charles Shaw 'Two Buck Chuck' wine brand, is moving forward with an auction after multiple delays. The property, which had a market reserve of $9 mil…

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.' The event featured int…

Microsoft rolled out AI Citation Share and other features in Bing Webmaster Tools, while new data from Google and Ahrefs cast doubt on the effectiveness of llms.txt for AI search visibility. Google, Microsoft, and others…

Amazon's lead UX Sound Designer for the Astro home robot reveals how the team chose to give the robot its own character rather than treating it as Alexa on wheels, shaping its emotional range and non-verbal communication…

AWS launched Continuum, a security service that discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates risks across the software lifecycle at machine speed. The service includes features for code vulnerability management, pen…

AI has made code production cheap and fast, but the three feedback loops that turn code into validated value—review, market measurement, and customer absorption—still run at their old speed. Managing this gap is the new …

Amazon is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to other companies for use in their data centers, following Google's similar move with its TPUs. CEO Andy Jassy signaled the plan in April, noting the in-house ch…

ThoughtSapien, an AI tutor that teaches through structured lessons, was launched on Hacker News. The platform calibrates to users' levels and goals, generates personalized learning paths, and provides interactive visuals…

AI startup Subquadratic claims to have solved a mathematical bottleneck in large language models, enabling faster and cheaper computation, though experts remain skeptical. Meanwhile, brain-computer interface trials are a…

Maahir Sharma, a 24-year-old software engineer in Dublin, built an AI agent that called hotels to negotiate rates and perks. The agent handled full conversations and secured better deals, even after a hotel representativ…

Two AI systems, Mira and Amie, matched or outperformed doctors in diagnosing and treating simulated patients, with Mira achieving 87% accuracy versus doctors' 78% and Amie producing more guideline-adherent treatment plan…

Orquesta has released an Embed SDK that allows developers to integrate AI-powered workflows into web applications with a single script tag. The SDK uses OAuth 2.0 authentication, WebSockets for real-time updates, and AES…

The 549th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,498 peers, highlights the AI in Product 2026 survey from Product Circle and Product Institute, which reveals that AI coding tools are spreading f…

China's Ministry of Commerce released a plan with 17 measures to boost AI integration into consumer goods and retail, aiming to embed AI in millions of households and shops through robots, smart products, and subsidies.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed zero excitement about leading a public company, but the AI firm has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO amid a wave of tech companies going public. The move aims to raise capital for c…

A developer compared context windows across 184 LLM models in 2026, finding that matching window size to workload can reduce costs by 40-65%. Switching from a 128K model to a smarter routing strategy saved $1,800 per mon…

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-AI relationship, cri…

The 2026 Fortune 500 companies generated record revenue of $21 trillion and profits of $2.1 trillion, but total headcount fell for the second straight year to 30.5 million, down 1%. The decline was driven by the departur…

Disney is launching a beta AI tool in July that generates TV ads, including scripts, video, and music, targeting small and medium advertisers. The move comes as consumer backlash against AI-generated 'slop' grows, with b…

Subquadratic founders Justin Dangel and Alex Whedon released third-party benchmarks from Appen to support their claim that SubQ, a sparse-attention LLM, outperforms dense transformers on long-context tasks. The startup f…