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Elon Musk and Sam Altman reignited their feud after Apple sued OpenAI for stealing trade secrets. Altman taunted Musk on social media, and Musk responded by calling Altman "Scam Altman." The rivalry highlights the high-s…
Chatbrat.ai launched a free, no-sign-up AI mommy chatbot that lets users create and customize a maternal character with persistent memory. The platform aims to fill a gap in AI companionship by offering full personality …
Gusto CTO Eddie Kim led a 10-week sprint with a lean team of three engineers and one designer to build Gusto Cofounder, an AI-driven product, using a 'trash-can method' that bypassed traditional planning and standups. Th…
Z.ai's open-weight model GLM-5.2 is emerging as a cost-effective alternative to proprietary AI code assistants like Opus, offering a million-token context window and advanced features. In testing, it processed a six-mill…
Product managers are integrating AI into their daily workflows, using tools like Codex and Claude Code for prototyping, data analysis, and automation. A new course, 'Become an AI-Native Builder,' launching July 13, aims …
OpenAI's updated ChatGPT, touted as the first super app, has been criticized as a mess, while Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google vie for dominance in the super app space. Google may turn Chrome into a super app to boost …
Laws of Motion is shutting down its direct-to-consumer womenswear brand to focus entirely on licensing its AI-powered sizing technology to other apparel retailers. The company, which raised $5 million in seed funding in …
A developer argues that AI is shifting the value center in startups from technical implementation to market understanding and domain expertise. As AI agents handle coding, testing, and deployment, the scarce resource bec…
Frontier AI labs are paying hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for reinforcement learning environments, but a new analysis warns entrepreneurs against building startups around them. The author argues that while…
AI² Robotics, a Shenzhen-based company, secured $735 million in funding, boosting its valuation to $2.8 billion. The company focuses on wheeled humanoid robots, prioritizing durability and affordability over legged desig…
SaaStr's Jason Lemkin argues that OpenAI giving the U.S. government a 5% stake could buy alignment, similar to startups selling small stakes to strategic partners. He also notes that seed investors effectively pay 4x the…
YC-backed startup Moss is hiring a senior SDK engineer to build the integration layer for its real-time semantic search platform, which claims sub-10 ms retrieval for conversational AI. The company has published traction…
Ditto, an AI-powered dating startup founded by former UC Berkeley students, is expanding across California college campuses by replacing swiping with AI-generated matchmaking. The platform has arranged over 12,000 dates,…
Dari AI, a new artificial intelligence app, has launched on the Kazakhstan App Store with zero user comments and minimal attention on Hacker News, raising doubts about its ability to stand out in a crowded market. The ap…
EXXETA launched EXXperts, an AI toolkit designed to simplify AI integration for businesses without specialized data science teams. The toolkit is open-source on GitHub, aiming to democratize AI adoption for smaller compa…
Nvidia's next major revenue opportunity may extend beyond GPUs, as the company positions itself to capitalize on AI infrastructure and software. The chipmaker's dominance in AI hardware could be complemented by growth in…
Elon Musk mocked OpenAI's lawsuit against Apple, prompting Sam Altman to retort that Musk is the one selling investors on space datacenters. The exchange highlights ongoing tensions between the two AI leaders over their …
Open-weight models have closed the quality gap with frontier systems, making the model itself the least defensible part of an AI business. Founders now build moats through workflows, context, and integrations, as demonst…
The AI boom has created a new type of company with enormous capital and power but no clear business model, according to an article by Anshu Sharma. These firms possess genuine technical capabilities yet lack sustainable …
An engineer audited a $250M-valued AI-agent platform and found that token economics, gated data, and bought distribution prevent autonomous AI from running a company today. The platform spends 61% of revenue per active c…