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Vidai has released the Community Edition of its AI gateway software, a free Rust binary that provides a full control plane for managing AI traffic within a user's own network. The software offers multi-provider routing, …
San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary C. Daly warned that state-level AI regulations could disproportionately burden startups and hinder innovation, slowing the technology's potential to deliver sustained producti…
ServiceNow shares surged up to 14% intraday on May 19 as Wall Street shifted its view that artificial intelligence threatens the enterprise software company, instead positioning it as a beneficiary of AI adoption. The ra…
Graham Christensen, CEO of Determinate Systems, discussed the growing adoption of Nix and reproducible infrastructure on the Open Source Ready podcast, highlighting how more senior engineers are now driving enterprise ad…
OpenAI is developing an AI-first smartphone designed for continuous, agent-style interactions rather than traditional app-based workflows, with mass production expected around 2028. The device will use a customized Media…
Tyler Cowen's Friday assorted links post on May 29, 2026, covers topics including economies of scale in homebuilding, Peter Thiel's involvement in Argentina, and a New York Times interview with Paul McCartney. The collec…
MIT EECS and CSAIL have launched a seminar series titled "Agentic Coding in Practice," focusing on how AI agents are transforming software engineering, compilers, and programming systems. The series features multiple sem…
A developer team built and tested a suite of AI-driven automations targeting small business back-office workflows in early 2025, including invoice follow-ups, payroll planning, contract review, and cash flow forecasting.…
Cognition AI closed a Series D round exceeding $1 billion, raising its valuation to $26 billion from $10.2 billion in September 2025, as the maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin more than doubled in value in eight …
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that executives pushing AI to replace workers often lack understanding of those jobs, calling it "AI psychosis." ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 202…
ThruWire has launched a multiplayer harness designed to unify human and AI agents as collaborative teammates on evolving work. The platform uses a graph-based notebook structure where changes propagate through dependenci…
AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services in New York and other cities in exchange for permission to film the work, using the footage to train robots for domestic chores. The company joins a growi…
CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker is developing Cinemalistics, a new true-crime app that uses artificial intelligence to generate cinematic and documentary vertical videos of crime stories within hours of them breaking, updati…
Truffle AI (YC W25), a Bengaluru/San Francisco-based developer platform, raised $500K in seed funding from Y Combinator in February 2025 to turn AI agents into plug-and-play APIs. The platform allows engineers to integra…
AI chip startup Groq is seeking $650 million in new funding from existing investors to expand its inference cloud business, according to Axios. The fundraising follows a $20 billion not-an-acquisition agreement with Nvid…
AI chip startup Groq is reportedly raising $650 million from existing investors to expand its inference cloud business, following a $20 billion agreement with Nvidia in December that involved employee departures and tech…
The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, a state-backed entity known as the "Big Fund," is in talks to lead Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's first external funding round at an approximate $45 billion valuation…
A developer building WebKernelAI found that traditional website malware scanners fail to detect SEO spam because attackers hide malicious content behind user-agent detection, referrer checks, and conditional JavaScript. …
Elon Musk is preparing to take SpaceX public at a valuation of at least $1.25 trillion, while OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to follow with initial public offerings valued at roughly $900 billion each. These sky-high …
Anthropic announced a $65 billion funding round Thursday that values the company at $965 billion, making it the world's most valuable AI startup and surpassing rival OpenAI's $852 billion valuation. The San Francisco-bas…