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Patrick Bosek hosted a discussion on the *Behind the Docs* podcast about the future of technical writing, arguing that AI functions best as a collaborator rather than a replacement for human writers. The conversation hig…
Together AI launched Voice Finder, a search tool that indexes over 600 voices across multiple text-to-speech models to help developers quickly select the right voice for their applications. The tool allows users to searc…
Modular CEO and Google AI infrastructure veteran Chris Lattner launched Inkwell, a real-time illustrated storybook app built on the company's Modular Cloud inference platform, demonstrating sub-second text generation and…
Large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude operate as next-token prediction machines, taking a sequence of tokens as input and outputting a probability distribution over their vocabulary for what the next tok…
Amazon Web Services previewed managed payment capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, web content, and other services through partnerships with Coinbase and Stripe. The…
Global IT spending is projected to reach $6.32 trillion in 2026, a 13.5% increase from 2025, driven by soaring demand and price hikes for CPU, GPU, and memory components amid shortages. The surge, fueled by the GenAI wav…
Sendbird CEO John Kim implemented a gamified internal platform called "Automators" where employees create and complete "quests" for automation and tooling, earning experience points redeemable for rewards. Kim tracks eve…
AI-assisted programming tools have dramatically lowered the barrier for entry in software development, enabling users to transform a seed idea into a working implementation in hours rather than weeks. This shift is enabl…
MIT and IBM have renewed their research collaboration, expanding the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to include quantum computing and renaming it the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab. The expanded lab will pursue research at the int…
A technical writer at Elastic has developed a tiered system for AI-assisted documentation workflows, using GitHub Agentic Workflows to run quality checks in CI pipelines. The system combines deterministic tools like Vale…
Companies struggling to close the gap between AI-proficient employees and the rest of the workforce need to treat the technology as an innovation portfolio, combining top-down governance with bottom-up experimentation, a…
OpenAI has introduced Codex pets, optional animated companions for the Codex app that appear in a persistent overlay to show task progress. Users can create custom pets by installing the hatch-pet skill and running the /…
A survey of 349 technical workers conducted from February to April 2026 found that respondents reported productivity gains from AI tools, measured by the value of work created rather than task speed. The researchers caut…
AI tools default to generic, average outputs when users provide vague instructions, according to a team building with Claude. The team argues that leaving blanks in prompts forces AI to make decisions based on its traini…
Orbital Inc., a Los Angeles-based startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, announced plans in mid-April to build a constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit designed to run AI inference workloads using solar pow…
A writer argues that left-wing critics of artificial intelligence overlook how large language models serve as powerful disability aids, helping people with brain fog, chronic pain, neurodivergence, and mobility or vision…
A speculative scenario projects that by 2125, AI-generated disinformation will have eroded public trust in democratic processes to the point where voters voluntarily cede governance to algorithms. The scenario cites a 90…
Google has released a new open-source tutorial demonstrating how to build a multimodal agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application using Gemini Embedding 2 and the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK). The app…
Product managers are raising concerns over non-PMs shipping directly to production, sparking debate on workflow governance in the community. Members are also analyzing Claude Code’s pricing A/B test and discussing the gr…
Anthropic is now valued at $1-1.2 trillion after reporting 80x annualized growth in Q1, making it the 11th to 15th most valuable company in the world and overtaking OpenAI in valuation. Meanwhile, Block, Coinbase, and Cl…