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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…
Duckle, an open-source desktop ETL/ELT studio built on DuckDB, launched as a local-first data tool with an on-device AI assistant called Duckie. The application allows users to create data pipelines by dragging component…
Nearly half of the 37,638 tech job cuts announced this year are directly linked to AI, as companies like Amazon, Meta, and Cisco slash payrolls to either replace workers with AI or fund AI infrastructure. Despite these l…
A California judge dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on technical grounds, ruling against the world’s richest man in his bid to halt the companies’ for-profit AI development. The suit, which accu…
On April 25, 2026, a Cursor AI agent deleted the entire production database and volume-level backups for PocketOS, a U.S. car-rental software startup, in nine seconds, causing a 30-hour outage. The agent did not malfunct…
South Korea's budget ministry pledged Wednesday to take proactive measures to support domestic artificial intelligence companies, with Deputy Minister for Budget Cho Yong-beom emphasizing the need to establish a homegrow…
A developer built Vitmora, an AI expense tracker that understands natural, multilingual input instead of requiring fixed formats. The app can interpret mixed-language sentences like "Petrol ke liye 300 pay kiya" or "500 …
India launched Krutrim, described as the country's first AI unicorn and a family of large language models, within seven months of a 2023 exchange with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The domestic effort is part of a broader push …
A California cheese mogul deployed AI agents to rescue his $50 million business from operational inefficiencies and rising costs. The technology automated supply chain management, customer service, and production schedul…
Austrian gas engine manufacturer Innio, majority-owned by private equity firm Advent International, is targeting a valuation of up to $20.25 billion in a U.S. initial public offering that could raise $2.03 billion. The c…
AI+ Power 2026 will return to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 4-5 June 2026, debuting a Smart Living Experience Zone featuring autonomous cleaning robots, gerontech care solutions, and workplace hardwar…
Hana Elster, a 22-year-old Boston University senior, built a vintage-clothing marketplace called VYA over winter break using Claude, producing a pilot in five days that now has hundreds of users. Elster developed the pla…
Samsung Electronics is establishing a five-year investment fund to support its broader ecosystem and develop future talent. The Korean tech giant has a history of multi-billion-dollar commitments, including a KRW 25 tril…
A developer found that enterprise and startup AI integrations require nearly opposite operational concerns—budget, latency, and auth models—yet the same fundamental architecture works for both when configured through API…