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SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in stock to help its xAI division catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic in AI-assisted coding. The deal gives Cursor access to SpaceX's…
Disney's Imagineering Research & Development unit is using Adobe's Firefly Foundry AI models to design and visualize elements of upcoming parks and attractions, turning sketches into 2D concept art and 3D prototypes. The…
Derbyshire Police launched a criminal investigation into one of its officers for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases, potentially amounting to perverting the course of justice. The o…
Ben Shumaker, CEO of AI website builder Repaint, reports that AI web design quality has dramatically improved in recent months, with newer models like Anthropic's Opus 4.8 producing aesthetically unique and direction-fol…
A developer built a skill for AI agents that generates slide decks with unique visual designs per topic, avoiding fixed templates. The skill produces a single self-contained HTML file using reveal.js, and the developer l…
Mediawan is rebooting its hit documentary franchise 'Apocalypse' with 'Apocalypse Civilizations: Rome,' using artificial intelligence to recreate archival-style footage of the Battle of Actium, which decided the destiny …
A Gen X developer offers a humorous, irreverent take on artificial intelligence, comparing it to past technologies like dial-up and Clippy. The piece frames AI as just another tool in a long line of inventions, neither s…
Sciene launched an AI Companion platform on Databricks to automate customer success workflows for Quartile, the world's largest retail media optimization platform. The platform ingests data, runs AI inference, and serves…
SpaceX announced a $60 billion all-stock deal to acquire Anysphere, the company behind AI coding tool Cursor, on June 16, 2026. The acquisition aims to combine Anysphere's distribution capabilities with SpaceX's supercom…
SpaceX surpassed Amazon in market capitalization on June 16, 2026, three days after its Nasdaq IPO, with shares rising 8% to a valuation of $2.74 trillion. The same day, SpaceX announced a $60 billion stock acquisition o…
Developer Leon Becker released vibeSH, an open-source Python REPL that uses a large language model to hallucinate an entire Linux terminal—filesystem, processes, and network—without touching the real machine. The project…
An engineer with a decade of experience reports that Anthropic's Claude AI assistant has significantly improved their engineering productivity and code quality. The developer describes how Claude's advanced reasoning and…
AI coding agents are accelerating data engineering but creating fragmentation as operational context becomes scattered across prompts and generated code. Spec-driven development (SDD) emerges as a solution by converting …
AI is blurring the line between paid and organic search visibility as Google's Gemini system powers ad campaigns, search experiences, and brand visibility across its ecosystem. Brands must now influence the same AI syste…
Swedish startup Lightbringer raised $10m in Series A funding to expand its AI-native patent firm into the US, aiming to replace traditional patent attorneys with a fixed-price subscription model that bundles IP strategy,…
A Hacker News user asks how companies are getting cited by ChatGPT and AI tools, seeking strategies for small businesses in large markets to become AI references.
Nvidia is backing Hydra Host, a startup that raised $100 million in Series A funding to build a marketplace for renting GPU capacity, effectively commoditizing Nvidia's own chips. The company, founded in 2021 for crypto …
A developer released Portaltext, a free and open-source Chrome extension that generates recursive tooltips for links, images, PDFs, and citations by using Wikipedia and an LLM to provide contextual information. Inspired …
A developer released an open-source FastAPI webhook service that uses Claude AI and pydantic-AI to automatically triage customer emails into prioritized Linear issues, extracting priority, customer info, and issue type f…
A developer building Dev Suit, a free collection of developer tools, documented day two of the project. The focus was on setting up Google Search Console, planning an SEO strategy, and using AI assistance to build new ut…