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After three months at workflow automation company n8n, an engineer discovered the company's AI-native culture is defined not by flashy demos but by automated processes that eliminate mundane coordination tasks. On his se…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has launched a new, standalone AI lab to develop proprietary models focused on consumer-facing design and interaction, marking a strategic shift away from external AI providers. The venture, repor…
A developer with 20 years of programming experience is seeking advice on modern AI-assisted development workflows to prepare for in-person "developer boot-up" workshops. The organizer, who uses Linux Mint, VSCodium, and …
Former members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have launched a venture capital-backed startup called Special, with funding from Marc Andreessen's a16z and other former DOGE associates. The compa…
The EDIH Summit 2026 will convene the European Digital Innovation Hubs network, EU institutions, Member States, and AI infrastructure providers on 9-10 June 2026 to assess the operational effectiveness of Europe’s AI eco…
OpenAI and Anthropic are developing databases that store the full intent and reasoning behind AI-generated code, a move that could lock corporate customers into their ecosystems. Pydantic CEO Samuel Colvin said the front…
Croatian open-source grocery price tracker Cijene reduced its shopping cart optimization time from 5 seconds to 1.2 milliseconds by rewriting the backend with GitHub Copilot. The project, which won first place at a natio…
A disguised Russian banking app for VTB Bank, a heavily sanctioned state-owned institution, surged to the third most popular free iPhone app in the U.S. App Store on Friday. The app, listed as a productivity tool called …
A wave of startups is pivoting away from AI to build "together tech" — products designed to foster in-person human connection, such as Mirror founder Brynn Putnam's new social gaming company Board and viral DIY computers…
Omnistrate hosted an event at the Amazon office in San Francisco focused on the challenges generative AI poses for commercial open source companies. Speakers from Zep and Scalar discussed how Omnistrate's "Control Plane …
AI startup Quilty claims its tool can predict a film's box office success by analyzing scripts, but early tests have drawn skepticism after it rated the script for the flop *Christy* higher than the Oscar-winning blockbu…
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati made her first major public appearance in 18 months on Thursday, previewing Thinking Machines Lab's new "interaction models" designed for continuous audio, text, and video processing. Murati…
GitLab laid off approximately 350 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring to scale its platform for AI workloads. The company is exiting 22 countries and flattening management layers while investin…
Chinese startup Spirit AI has topped the RoboArena leaderboard with a score of 1,924, surpassing Nvidia's Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at 1,881 in a benchmark Nvidia co-developed with Stanford and UC Berkeley. The achievement mar…
A growing number of Indian AI researchers in Silicon Valley are seeking to return to India, driven by U.S. layoffs and tightening immigration policies under the Trump administration. Indian startups and global firms expa…
Corporate spend management platform Ramp closed a $750 million Series F funding round on June 4, 2026, valuing the company at $44 billion. The round, led by ICONIQ, GIC, and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, nearly qua…
Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei said the high cost of training AI models is pushing the company toward an initial public offering, speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco. The comments follow Anthr…
The rapid expansion of AI hardware manufacturing is creating economic distortions reminiscent of Dutch disease, where a booming sector drives up costs and draws resources away from other industries. This phenomenon is le…
Canada launched its "AI for All" national strategy on June 4, committing CAD $2 billion over five years to build sovereign compute infrastructure and train one million students in AI literacy. The plan aims to increase b…
IT Secretary S Krishnan on June 5 dismissed concerns about artificial intelligence and urged industry to deploy AI solutions across manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, and education, according to PTI. Speaking at the…