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Figma Designer Advocate Hugo Raymond warned at Infobip Shift 2026 that AI-generated prototypes can hide unresolved decisions by filling in gaps before teams make them, making a polished prototype look like a finished spe…
SaaStr runs 21 AI agents in production that have closed over $1M in sponsorship revenue, booked 614 meetings from 442,000 chats, and sent roughly 3,200 emails a month, but the company says no AI agent can yet close a rea…
Abacus.AI released three open-weight Smaug models — Smaug Flash on DeepSeek V4 Flash, Smaug Mini on Qwen3.8 27B, and Smaug Agentic on Kimi K3 — tuned for long-running agent loops and published on Hugging Face. Smaug Flas…
SpacetimeDB launched as a reactive backend platform that bundles database, server logic, auth, deployment, and real-time sync into a single system, pitching itself to AI coding agents with the claim that LLMs "go much fu…
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its debut AI accelerator chip, on 25 August, claiming up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute, 232 gigabytes of memory, 15.4 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth, and up to 3.6x lower end-to-e…
BYD reached 1,000 orders in Japan within two weeks of launching a tiny electric kei-car on July 28, the fastest order ramp for any BYD model in that market, as the company crossed 50% overseas revenue for the first time.…
A developer building the ClinicLive appointment app documented how AI-assisted UI design defaults to generic, template-like output when prompted vaguely, and proposes requesting multiple distinct design directions instea…
Google is running a small test, called the AI contribution pilot, that pays publishers for the use of their content in AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and other AI search features, according to Search Engine Roundtable. Th…
Pinecone published a 2026 guide naming Pinecone Nexus, Databricks Genie, Snowflake Cortex, Microsoft IQ, Palantir Foundry, and Glean as the best knowledge engine platforms, with the disclosure that Pinecone publishes the…
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a music-app startup founded by former Spotify head of innovation Máuhan M Zonoozy, has raised a $5.5 million pre-seed round from Mantis VC, SV Angel, Boxgroup, Quiet Capital, ERA, Common Metal, Go…
Nigerian defence-tech startup Terra Industries has raised an additional $18 million, bringing its seed funding to $52 million, to expand manufacturing and international deployment of its autonomous security systems. The …
X Corp. and xAI filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on August 25, 2025, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleging the companies conspired to suppress Elon Musk's Grok chatbot i…
Kaito AI launched Kaito Pulse, a Chrome browser extension built on Primus Labs' zkTLS zero-knowledge proof technology, on August 18, 2026, allowing users to verify trading positions and platform activity on Binance and P…
Universal Robots A/S launched Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform, at the IMTS trade show, anchored by the PolyScope X robot operating system and a new CB7 controller that the Teradyne Inc. subsidiary said of…
Developers are adopting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to connect local filesystems directly to large language models, with one practitioner reporting accuracy rising from 60% under manual copy-paste context to 95%…
Dataminr announced Dataminr Advanced for Corporate Security, a product that uses agentic AI to help corporate security teams predict and verify security threats. The offering includes three capabilities — Agentic Corrobo…
DeepMem launched a plugin for Claude Code and Cursor that provides persistent, semantically searchable memory across coding sessions, distributed through the Claude Code plugin marketplace and the Open Plugins manifest s…
Ant Group's AQ health app reached 150 million users and handles nearly 20 million health-related inquiries daily, vice president and health business head Zhang Junjie announced at the 2026 INCLUSION · Conference on the B…
Verizon and Samsung tested an AI-powered integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology at an international soccer fan event in Dallas, using a sensing receiver supporting 40 megahertz of CBRS spectrum to generat…
A developer built a repository harness from zero that gives AI coding agents the files, conventions, and rules needed to operate without chat-fed context. The harness centers on a CLAUDE.md entry point under 100 lines, a…