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Manufact (YC S25), a cloud infrastructure platform for MCP servers and AI agent apps, is hiring a Developer Advocate in San Francisco. The company, which has raised $6.3M in seed funding and is used by 20% of the US 500 …
Oxmiq Labs, the GPU startup founded by Raja Koduri, raised $35 million in Series A funding to expand its technology stack into custom data center-scale hardware and software, including bespoke silicon. The company added …
Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service reaches general availability in July 2026, offering hosted AI agents with per-session VM-isolated sandboxes and scale-to-zero pricing. The service supports multiple agent frameworks incl…
A developer released an open-source tool called Voice-to-SQL that uses an LLM (Llama 3.3 70B via Groq) to convert plain English business questions into SQL queries against a sample SaaS database. The tool shows the gener…
Belgian cybersecurity unicorn Aikido Security acquired Israeli startup Root for an estimated $70-100 million to integrate AI agents that patch open-source vulnerabilities without breaking applications. The deal addresses…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also rebranded its Pay Per C…
Craig Riggins launched Ox, an AI agent that reviews code changes to catch technical debt before it is committed, aiming to prevent the explosion of tech debt from AI-generated code. The tool integrates via CLI or GitHub …
AI-powered search is raising the bar for business websites, requiring companies to move beyond mere online presence to structured, fast, and useful sites that help both users and AI systems understand their value. Silico…
SnapLogic launched the MCP Builder, a template that automatically generates Model Context Protocol servers from existing integrations and APIs, enabling IT teams to expose deterministic pipelines to AI agents while maint…
Cloudflare announced it will default to blocking mixed-use crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites, citing broken crawl-for-traffic bargains with AI companies. The move affects roughly 20 percent of the we…
TikTok is expanding its search features with Local Feed, AI summaries, and shopping tools, making it a key platform for business discovery. Nearly half of U.S. consumers used TikTok as a search engine in 2026, according …
Cloudflare announced new tools, analytics, and partnerships to help site owners control AI access to their content, aiming to foster a collaborative agentic economy. The company will test new default classifications and …
Expensify announced expanded capabilities for its Concierge AI, enabling customers to automate expense management, analyze spending, and configure accounts using natural language across email, text, and the Expensify app…
An independent evaluator, known only as P, was brought in to assess two AI monitoring platforms, MonitorAI and SentryWave, during a proof-of-concept at industrial IoT firm FirmCore. Instead of asking technical questions …
A Hacker News user asks the community for advice on moving from cloud-based AI services to private models for sensitive data analysis and reasoning, considering options like adding dual RTX 5090 GPUs or leasing compute.
A developer used OpenAI Codex and Anthropic's Claude to build a 4,700-line WordPress security plugin in two days, stopping a massive spam attack that had flooded his database with over 39,000 fake user accounts. The atta…
Wagtail developer Thibaud Colas published a guide comparing open weight AI models and inference providers, emphasizing transparency and decoupled infrastructure as key advantages. The post outlines criteria for selecting…
Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, retired on July 1 after nearly 30 years at the company, citing the Voluntary Retirement Program. Canel led Bing's web crawling and indexing team and was a key a…
OpenAI announced its first hardware product, the Codex Micro, a macro pad built with Work Louder for users of its AI coding tool Codex. The device, teased on July 15, is a niche accessory for developers who code by chatt…
Cisco Systems is deploying AI agents to all 90,000 employees starting in its new fiscal year, providing personalized assistants that handle tasks and route requests to the most efficient AI model. The company is building…