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Joi AI, an AI companion startup, is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" for a four-week position requiring participants to test the company's NSFW audio feature and write about their experiences. The company received ov…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman criticized the AI industry's messaging around data-center projects, stating the sector has "done a terrible job" of selling them to communities. In a podcast interview and email to Business In…
OpenAI is testing conversation-targeted advertisements inside ChatGPT, with hundreds of companies including HubSpot, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Nordstrom purchasing early placements. Similarweb executive Heral Amir said …
Intel saw every major technological shift from mobile to AI years in advance but systematically failed to execute due to internal bureaucracy and an obsession with x86 profit margins, according to a deep dive covering 20…
Grafana Labs competes directly with Datadog by charging across five usage meters—metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 load tests—while marketing against Datadog's opaque overage bills. The company offers a generous fr…
Twenty CRM offers its Pro plan at $9 per user per month, starkly contrasting with Salesforce ($25–$165/seat) and HubSpot ($90/seat Pro). The open-source CRM, which has garnered roughly 30,000 GitHub stars, exposes that m…
Wolf has launched a new tool that transforms Slack threads into collaborative workspaces where human team members and AI agents can interact within the same chat. The platform allows agents to create pages, emails, and L…
Datamatics announced on May 27, 2026, that SBI Life Insurance has deployed its TruAI Underwriting platform, an Agentic AI system designed to automate complex medical underwriting workflows. The platform ingests medical d…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's leading DRAM manufacturer, has received approval from the Shanghai Stock Exchange for its IPO on the STAR Market, targeting approximately $4.2 billion in proceeds. The listing…
A newsletter called "Discover European Tech Alternatives" is now curating weekly European tech picks and positive news, highlighting tools like DeepL, Ecosia, and ElevenLabs as alternatives to major US services. The init…
A software engineer has launched Sotto, a Mac desktop app designed to provide hints and solutions during technical interviews for engineers who have studied data structures and algorithms. The tool aims to help skilled e…
NVIDIA hired former startup founder Aaron Erickson to build a GPU allocation system for internal AI researchers after his own AI-powered reorg startup failed. Erickson's previous company, Orgspace, attempted to use ChatG…
RateMyFace, an AI-powered photo roasting site, reduced its average response time from 50 seconds to 27 seconds and measurably improved roast quality by building an automated prompt evaluation loop. The team wrote a tool …
OpenAI's new advertising model, which places ads within ChatGPT conversations rather than targeting keywords, is generating early data that suggests it could challenge Google's search advertising dominance. Similarweb ex…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said the AI industry has failed to effectively communicate the benefits of data centers to local communities, urging companies to become better neighbors by funding local projects and covering…
Mailflare, a self-hosted email platform, now allows users to manage custom domains through Cloudflare's API for inbound routing and sending. The open-source tool provides an AI-powered inbox with features like message su…
A developer built Sunny Coffee, a real-time map that uses ray-casting and 3D building data to show which of 220 popular Parisian café terraces are currently in sunlight. The tool combines Paris Open Data terrace permits,…
ClickHouse creator and CTO Alexey Milovidov completed a 12-day, five-country tour across Asia-Pacific in April, meeting customers and speaking at events in India, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan. The tour in…
The LoopLearnX team built a custom WhatsApp AI bot using the `@whiskeysockets/baileys` library and Next.js, hosted on an Oracle Cloud VPS, to enable frictionless homework submissions for CBSE students. The system uses a …
A developer built ASIL (Engineering Intelligence Infrastructure), a persistent knowledge graph that connects code, dependencies, runtime behavior, and incident history into a queryable system accessible by any AI agent t…