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A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper found that iOS app releases have surged since the advent of agentic AI, but app reviews have declined and usage has remained flat. Researchers tracking over 100,00…
NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing progress on the U.K.'s sovereign AI ambitions at London Tech Week, one year after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared the nation would become an AI make…
A marketer who built a custom operating system for a Pimoroni Presto device using AI coding tools discovered he could not fully understand or debug the software he created until he integrated analytics into the system. T…
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifts to per-token billing, signaling the end of subsidized AI and passing real costs to consumers and enterprises. Open-source AI SRE tool Nightwatch (ninoxAI) launches with read-only agentic…
XAI has formed partnerships with Anthropic and Google to provide massive datacenter capacity, with fees reaching $1.25 billion per month for 300 MW of capacity. The deals, which include cancellation clauses, are seen as …
OpenAI has shipped Codex, an autonomous coding agent that runs background workflows, scheduled tasks, and long-running jobs in sandboxed environments while developers sleep. Despite this advancement, 90% of builders cont…
Luma, a video AI startup, announced the Open Physical AI Lab last week, an open-source initiative to develop generalized robots capable of performing human-like tasks. CEO Amit Jain warned that centralizing control of ph…
OpenAI and Thrive Holdings built a tax-preparation AI agent that cut document processing time by a third while achieving up to 97% accuracy. The system then self-improved over six weeks, raising the rate of fully accurat…
AI adoption has evolved through distinct eras, from the initial LLM period starting with ChatGPT's release in November 2022 to the current agent period beginning in summer 2025, where model performance has plateaued and …
Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod, co-creator of the iPhone, and founder of Nest, discussed the heated internal debates over whether the iPhone should have a physical keyboard and warned that cognitive surrender to A…
Andrew Busse, VP of AI Operations at Airtable, discussed Hyperagent, a new startup inside Airtable that provides a platform for using multiple AI models like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. The interview highlights Hyperage…
Persist AI launched Persist.chat, an AI sales agent that automatically follows up with prospects via personalized emails and text messages until they respond or a sale is secured. The tool allows users to import their ow…
A purported leaked screenshot of DeepSeek's graphical user interface shows an agent-first workspace layout that closely mirrors OpenAI's Codex interface, though the image remains unverified. The leak, shared via an X pos…
Three forces are reshaping AI cost structures as major buyers substitute cheaper models for expensive ones. Coinbase routed prompts to cheaper models to keep costs flat while token usage grew exponentially, Lindy saved m…
A developer built Wasla, an open-source synchronization layer that unifies AI coding assistants by syncing agent instructions and MCP servers across tools like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Cursor. The system runs locally…
A developer built a Slack-to-code-fix app that identifies the relevant repository, branch, and worktree from a pasted message, then generates a fix or handoff prompt. After completing the technical build and navigating p…
A developer on r/SaaS sparked panic by asking whether the EU AI Act's Article 12 logging requirement applies to ChatGPT wrappers processing 10,000 API calls daily. The regulation requires timestamped rationales for every…
A developer built a Slack-to-code-fix app that automatically identifies the correct repository, branch, and worktree from a pasted message, then generates a fix or handoff prompt. The creator, seeking to learn business s…
Ahmad Al-Dahle, former Apple executive and Meta AI leader, now serves as CTO of Airbnb where he is deploying AI to encourage real-world human experiences. In a new interview, Al-Dahle discusses his belief that artificial…
OpenAI's former chief technology officer Mira Murati revealed in a June 5 Bloomberg interview that the company would have "imploded" without Sam Altman's reinstatement as CEO following his November 2023 ouster. Murati, w…