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Mechanical engineer Rapha won $30,000 in Apify's $1 Million Challenge by building hundreds of Actors on the platform, with revenue growing every month but one since last August. He started with an Instagram AI transcript…
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode has launched a 20-week executive programme in Product Innovation with AI and Agentic AI targeting working professionals. The course arrives as a McKinsey State of AI Report 20…
Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, provided a free private chef meal to a reporter in San Francisco in exchange for recording the chef's hand movements as training data for robots. The company previously offer…
Agenmatic, a new tool built by a solo developer, launches to help service providers catch high-intent buyers in real-time by monitoring 40+ communities including Reddit, IndieHackers, and HackerNews. The AI-powered platf…
Foundational Industries raised a $25 million seed round led by BoxGroup and Zigg Ventures to build factories where AI runs the entire operation, starting with data-center hardware. CEO Jonathan Winer argues the U.S. shou…
Revolut has partnered with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscription plans, offering customers from three months to a year of the service at no extra cost. The fintech, serving over 75 million people, provides th…
LemonLime, a YC S26 startup building no-code AI automations for small businesses, offered guaranteed job interviews to anyone willing to get a permanent tattoo of its logo at a YC Startup School afterparty, with seven pe…
Meta's rising AI capital expenditure spooked the market as Wall Street expected clearer revenue returns from the spending, according to a practitioner analysis. The piece argues that effective AI workflows often require …
Kaon AI CEO Jay Dang said in a July 30 interview that the company's Emochi app generates individualized story worlds in real time rather than recommending from a fixed catalog, following Kaon's July 8 Series B announceme…
Ditto, an AI matchmaking service for college students founded by University of California, Berkeley dropouts Eric Liu and Allen Wang, operates entirely within iMessage to arrange dates without swiping or small talk. The …
ByteDance restructured its AI business by merging the Feishu product team with the Doubao product team to form a new Doubao product organization, while Feishu's GTM team will integrate with Volcano Engine's team to creat…
A critical analysis argues that many so-called one-person million-dollar companies rely on hidden contractors and AI tools, making them small decentralized teams rather than true solo operations. The piece notes that mos…
Microsoft reported strong quarterly growth with revenue up 18% to $90bn and profits rising 31% to $35.8bn, driven by AI demand and Azure revenue growth of 43%, while Meta posted record revenue of $60.8bn but profits fell…
OpenAI is developing a 'family of devices' for its chatbots, president Greg Brockman said in an interview, aiming to create hardware that is useful in people's daily lives. Brockman stated the devices are 'coming soon' b…
Elders has partnered with Octopusbot, an AI-powered crop forecasting platform co-founded by Carolina Ferreira, to provide farmers with near-perfect grain predictions up to seven months before harvest. Octopusbot's techno…
A digest of 30 AI stories on July 30 covers topics including model collapse from training on AI-generated code, Google's CapEx surge spooking investors, chip stocks crashing $1 trillion in valuation, and Moonshot AI's $3…
More than 120,000 technology roles have been cut so far in 2026, with AI cited as the most common reason, according to Layoffs.fyi and Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Oracle cut about 30,000 roles, Meta shed around 8,000, …
Microsoft's Q4 2026 earnings reveal a 13% drop in Xbox hardware sales and a 10% decline in content and services revenue, as the company reallocates capital from consumer gaming to AI infrastructure. The shift reflects th…
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, now leading Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said at a Y Combinator event that AI agents have leveled the playing field for startups, enabling them to compete head-on with incumbents in what…
Anyscale, the company behind the open-source Ray framework, has signed a definitive agreement to join Nscale, a vertically integrated neocloud provider. The deal will expand investment in Ray and the open-source communit…