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Hail.so launches an open-source MCP server, CLI, and API that unifies email, SMS, and phone call capabilities under a single interface, packaging Twilio, AWS SES, LiveKit, ElevenLabs, Cartesia, and LLM providers. Built f…
A comparison of AI coding assistants Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf across six real engineering scenarios evaluates their performance in 2026.
Dropbox's Senior Director of Engineering Productivity, Uma Namasivayam, detailed at DX Annual how the company evolved its developer productivity strategy from improving developer experience to preparing for the agentic e…
Omen AI raised $31 million in Series A funding on June 29 to monitor water quality in AI data centers, addressing bacterial contamination in liquid cooling systems. The round was led by Nava Ventures, with participation …
A new open-source Playwright CLI tool called 'brow' achieves 82% task success at approximately $0.22 per task, outperforming browser-use, playwright-mcp, and agent-browser on 22 benchmark tasks. The tool provides a stand…
ZUSE Automat Agent v1.11 achieves 69.1x causal compression of a period-15 cellular automaton oscillator, reducing 25 cells over 12 steps to recover defect_state0 in 20/20 trials. The deterministic system discovers empiri…
RELX announced a new £100 million share buyback for July, part of its planned £2.25 billion in repurchases for 2026, as the data and analytics company returns surplus capital to shareholders. The buybacks reflect confide…
ScriptorDB, an open-source project, uses only 73 lines of code to invoke Pydantic AI, while over 90% of engineering effort goes into architecture concerns like workspace isolation, secrets management, and session persist…
Hawaiian Airlines voided a passenger's confirmed first-class ticket without notice, sold the seat, and charged an extra $575 for a replacement ticket. After the passenger escalated the issue through consumer advocacy and…
The AI IDE landscape has undergone major changes in the first half of 2026, with acquisitions, rebrands, and pricing shifts. Windsurf retired its credit system and rebranded to Devin Desktop, AWS Kiro reached general ava…
PrivacyHawk launched PrivacyHawk Enterprise, a solution that identifies and eliminates shadow IT accounts, abandoned SaaS subscriptions, and forgotten third-party services to reduce breach risk. The tool addresses the in…
Meta has restricted its engineers from using Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex AI coding tools to protect proprietary AI training data and internal codebases from exposure. The policy, effective as of June 2026,…
WorkBoard Inc. launched an AI-native Strategic Portfolio Management solution and Portfolio Analyst Agents, extending its strategy execution platform to help enterprises manage portfolios and outcomes at the speed of AI. …
Talon, an open-source agentic AI harness, launched with support for Telegram, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and terminal, offering pluggable backends including Claude Agent SDK, Kilo, OpenCode, Codex, and OpenAI Agents. The …
LucidLink launched a public beta of its MCP server, giving AI agents real-time, streamed file access to its Filespaces product. The server provides a persistent, shared state layer for multi-agent workflows, enabling con…
UGC Agent launches an AI-powered platform that discovers Instagram UGC creators based on plain-English descriptions, enriches profiles, scores them against ideal customer profiles, and exports leads with emails.
Joanna Stern, author of "I AM NOT A ROBOT: My Year of Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything," found that her year-long experiment with AI changed how she parents her two sons, ages 4 and 8. She emphasizes the importance of …
Best Buy's 4th of July sale offers HP's OmniBook X 16-inch 2K OLED Copilot+ laptop with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite processor for $1,099.99, marking a $350 discount from its usual $1,450 price. This is the first notab…
PU Prime and STARTRADER launched pre-IPO derivatives for OpenAI and Anthropic on June 29, 2026, offering retail investors early exposure to the private AI companies despite no announced IPO plans. The products, including…
HackerRank open-sourced its AI résumé screener, hiring-agent, revealing that the same résumé scores between 66 and 99 across runs due to LLM nondeterminism, not parsing errors. The volatility means a candidate can pass o…