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A developer launched a free alternative to Crunchbase, using custom AI agent pipelines to cross-reference public sources and manually review profiles, seeking feedback on whether to release more profiles.
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A developer launched a free alternative to Crunchbase, using custom AI agent pipelines to cross-reference public sources and manually review profiles, seeking feedback on whether to release more profiles.
LLM benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval are irrelevant for most businesses building AI products, as they measure generic performance rather than specific system tasks. Teams should instead build custom evaluations (evals)…
Zkit, a set of Go libraries for building AI agents, has been released as open-source software. The libraries provide modular components including a streaming runner, tool dispatch, guardrails, compaction, and provider ad…
A developer built an AI crypto trading bot and rigorously tested it for an edge, finding that the directional LLM-based strategy had no edge after accounting for costs, while a delta-neutral funding carry strategy on alt…
Oscar built Bacon, a terminal-native ad network that shows ads during Claude Code sessions and gives developers a 50% revenue share. The system features five ad surfaces, a server-set pricing model, and a 4-layer bot det…
A human writer attempts to improve their French by writing daily, using Google Translate for 50% of the text and acknowledging many irregularities and errors as part of the learning process.
Microsoft, in collaboration with Cisco, Databricks, GitHub, GoDaddy, Google, Hugging Face, Nvidia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake, introduced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification, an open standard fo…
At Vercel Ship 2026 in London, Vercel unveiled new agentic infrastructure including the Agent Stack, Vercel Connect, and the open-source agent framework eve, positioning itself as the platform for building and deploying …
Snowflake announced support for the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open protocol developed with Microsoft and GoDaddy that standardizes how AI agents and tools are cataloged and discovered across ente…
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, surpassed Amazon in market capitalization to become the world's fifth most valuable company after its stock rose 13% on its Nasdaq debut. The surge followed news of SpaceX's $60 billion acqu…
Miami-based fintech Karta raised $140 million in Series A funding co-led by Galaxy Ventures, combining $15 million in equity and a $125 million credit facility from Community Investment Management. The company issues pre…
PONGBOT launched the Aura S, an AI-powered pickleball training robot with a large language model for voice control and a Spotter camera for real-time motion analysis, designed specifically for the sport's unique movement…
A developer created an interactive predictor to demonstrate how large language models generate text by repeatedly predicting the next word. The tool illustrates that the core mechanism is a loop of prediction, selection,…
A developer built a production-ready document summarizer using Oxlo.ai's API, which ingests long-form text and outputs structured JSON with a TL;DR, key points, and action items. The pipeline leverages models like DeepSe…
The git-flow-next 1.0 open-source tool was built almost entirely with AI over 13 months, producing approximately 29,000 lines of Go code. The project's key lesson was that AI development requires building a system of gui…
Apple announced iOS 27 will make iPhones faster in over 40 ways, including up to 70% faster photo loading and 30% faster app launches, based on testing with iPhone 11 models. The update, available in developer beta now w…
Enrollment closes in less than 24 hours for Cohort 2 of the Build with Claude Code course, a 2-day intensive taught by John Kim starting June 18, 2026. The course covers agentic loops, context engineering, MCPs, and para…
Greptile launched TREX, an AI code reviewer that runs code to catch runtime bugs missed by static analysis. The tool uses a multi-agent architecture where a main orchestrator agent delegates execution tasks to subagents,…
WitnessAI launched Agentic Control on June 17, 2026, a single control plane to discover, monitor, govern, and restrict AI agent behaviors and their interactions with tools and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The pr…
ICIMS reported a 9% year-over-year increase in U.S. job openings in May, but hiring rose only 1% and application volume fell 11%, signaling a growing skills mismatch. Demand for AI-related roles such as computer programm…