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Lindy CEO announced the company replaced Anthropic with DeepSeek V4 for production workloads, citing improved performance and cost savings. The executive detailed the switch on X, framing it as both a product quality and…
A developer built an automated system using n8n to surface relevant Reddit conversations for promoting their product Mail2Follow, but their five-year-old account with 8,000 karma was banned after they engaged too frequen…
SoftBank Group's concentrated investments in OpenAI have driven a 70% share rally this year but also raised borrowing and credit concerns, with S&P Global Ratings revising the conglomerate's credit outlook to negative. S…
Nvidia has acquired Kumo AI, a four-year-old startup that builds predictive foundation models for business data, for at least $400 million according to The Information. The three Kumo co-founders moved to Nvidia last mon…
At an AI Hackathon in San Francisco, two groups of students—four high schoolers and two college students from Philadelphia—won multiple awards by creating innovative AI tools, including a phone-based concierge and a heal…
AI is rapidly reducing the cost of software development, shifting the role of developers from specialized engineers to generalists akin to home builders. As coding becomes less scarce, software companies now compete on d…
SharkFlow Legal has deployed a mobile-first AI legal advice platform designed to address Africa's severe lawyer-to-business ratio, where Kenya has fewer than 15,000 lawyers for over 5 million registered businesses. The s…
M2MCent released X402-express, an open-source middleware that enables AI agents to pay per API call using USDC on Base L2. The npm package implements the x402 payment protocol, allowing developers to add a paywall to any…
A developer has outlined a practical RAG evaluation checklist for AI SaaS products, emphasizing that retrieval-augmented generation systems can fail in subtle ways—such as sounding correct while teaching wrong workflows—…
Open and closed AI models are diverging economically, with users of coding agents increasingly willing to pay a substantial premium for the highest intelligence from labs like Anthropic and OpenAI. This trend will force …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered Y Combinator's current batch of startup founders $2 million in API tokens in exchange for equity, announcing the pilot program for the spring and summer 2026 batches. The deal, structured as…
Edera launched a container runtime that isolates Kubernetes workloads in per-container micro-VMs, eliminating the shared kernel vulnerability that enables container escapes and lateral movement. The solution maintains pe…
Andy Trattner, after six years of "funemployment" and founding the dating app Shuffle, announced he is returning to employment. The decision follows his transition away from Shuffle last July, driven by stalled growth an…
A developer named Daniel-Pan released Seaticket.ai, an AI agent designed to autonomously resolve customer support issues. The tool, shared on Hacker News, aims to handle support tickets end-to-end without human intervent…
Meta is developing an AI pendant and plans to release up to four new smart glasses models before the end of the year, according to a report from The Information. The company aims to expand its wearable lineup beyond Ray-…
ProductNow launched a rich, HTML-native document canvas designed for simultaneous human and AI collaboration. The tool supports Mermaid diagrams and flow charts out of the box, and is now generally available for public u…
Filmmaker Boots Riley accused Martin Scorsese of accepting a large payment to join AI company Black Forest Labs as an advisor, suggesting the 83-year-old director "doesn't give a fuck" about the technology's impact. Rile…
Line Man, a Grab rival in Thailand, is expanding beyond food delivery into new on-demand services and investing in artificial intelligence as it targets an initial public offering in 2027. The company is deepening its do…
Konversio launched Pilot, an open-source AI customer support agent licensed under MIT, designed for self-hosting and deployment in EU data centers. The tool reads help articles, answers chat queries, drafts replies, and …
A product and technology executive team has launched Piece, a mobile app that uses AI to settle minor couple arguments by analyzing both sides' recordings and delivering a neutral verdict. The app, available on iOS and A…