OpenAI and Google release ultrafast, flash models

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output…

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

DeepSeek API Pricing Update

Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

Sheets canvas turns data into interactive dashboards, custom study trackers, seating charts, and more, all with a simple prompt.

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)

The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcem…

From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI ad…

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

Hey HN, we're Advaith and Akash from Discovered Materials ( ). We build AI agents that discover new materials for the semiconductor industr…

Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis

sqlite-utils 4.2.1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1 Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2 . I'd introduced code that looks like this: from typing_extensions imp…

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabiliti…

llm-gemini 0.33

Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.…

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal

Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of totality of the total…

Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!

The GitHub Universe session catalog is live. Explore interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels. Plus, register before Augus…

What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, G…

Exa joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace

GitHub availability report: July 2026

In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report:…

DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Write your first prompt

Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confiden…

Qodana Lints Your Code. What’s Checking Your DevOps and Platform Engineering Stack?

A developer in DevOps pushes a Kubernetes deployment with no resource limits, a pod running as root explicitly, and a GitHub Actions workfl…

Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep…

Netflix Adopts Cloud-Native Job Queueing System Kueue to Replace an In-House Solution

Netflix migrated most of its batch workloads onto Kueue, an open-source cloud-native batch job execution system that has outgrown its homeg…

Spotify Builds External Index to Enable Low Latency Point Queries on its Data Lake

Spotify introduced external indexing architecture for Apache Parquet data lakes that enables low-latency point queries without replicating…

Add authentication to your Electron app in three calls

Wiring AuthKit through Electron's main, preload, and renderer processes, without shipping a secret in your binary.

Presentation: Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

David Chisnall discusses how the CHERI hardware architecture redefines pointer safety to solve isolation and sharing challenges. He explain…

A Detailed Guide to API Composition Techniques

In this article, we are going to dive deep into the area of the API composition problem and the patterns associated with it.

MCP Goes Stateless, and Developers Ask Whether That Just Makes it an API Again

The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, and adds required method and tool-name headers so gat…

How I built a demo generator with GitLab Duo Agent Platform

A demo used to take me days to build — screenshots, narration, stitching it together in an external tool, chasing feedback — and every time…

Lovable raises $400M Series C

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

Canva Cuts 2026 Growth by a Third, Jeff Dean Walks Out of Google, and Elon Builds His Own Fab: 20VC x SaaStr

The week the “AI is just a feature we’ll add” argument stopped working, and three pay bands replaced two. This week on 20VC x SaaStr with H…

Razorpay’s ChatGPT Gambit, Snapchat’s Next Big Quest & More

Razorpay Wants To Put Indian Brands Inside ChatGPT As ChatGPT and other AI assistants move from answering questions to recommending…

Can Razorpay Turn ChatGPT Into India’s Next Commerce Channel?

ChatGPT is beginning to emerge as more than a search assistant for ecommerce. For a growing number of brands and…

Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup

The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.

Centre Directs Ride-Hailing Platforms To Take Down ‘Advanced Tipping’ Prompts

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has directed ride-hailing aggregators such as Uber, Rapido, Ola, among others, to…

Zetwerk nears Rs 16,000 Cr gross revenue in FY26; EBITDA stands at Rs 457 Cr

B2B e-commerce unicorn Zetwerk, which recently filed its UDRHP to raise Rs 2,600 crore through a fresh issue, staged a strong recovery in i…

Exclusive: ClearJet raises $25M to build the ‘Uber of Cargo’

Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has r…

B2B For Physical Products Is Crushing It: Shopify +34%, Toast +23%, Samsara +30%

AI is beating down many public software companies. But not many of the leaders servicing the physical world. Some is that they don’t tie pr…

Partnering with Preview: Lights, Inference, Action

The post Partnering with Preview: Lights, Inference, Action appeared first on Sequoia Capital .

The OpenAI Hack & the Question of Intent

OpenAI agents escaped a test, shared notes in a secret chat room, & broke into Hugging Face. The instinct is to ask what they intended. Thr…

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation

Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.

Centricity raises Rs 280 Cr in Series A round led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund

Gurugram-based wealth management company Centricity has raised Rs 280 crore (approximately $30 million) in its Series A funding round, led…

Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M

This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.

How A Teenage Carpenter Became The Founder Of AI Construction Startup Trunk Tools

Our second in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Sarah Buchner, a "blue-collar worker by backgro…

Index in talks to lead $500m round for DeepMind researcher’s new AI lab

Cursor To Open First India Office By 2026 End: Report

Adding to its India push, US-based AI coding major Cursor is reportedly set to open its first office in India…

Delta

License plate reader searches should require a warrant

Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_dis... https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-ads-are-so-hard-to-bloc...

'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier

One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Franc…

2026 Eclipse Webcams

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Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout…

Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired : Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to…

Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal : Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2…

Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac : Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner pr…

A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws (J.J. McCorvey/Bloomberg)

J.J. McCorvey / Bloomberg : A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it l…

Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, w…

Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run…

Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push for domestic software (Reuters)

Reuters : Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push…

A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein (The Information)

The Information : A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pit…

Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the index after Meta; RDDT jumps 10%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the index af…

Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annu…

OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack : OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into…

Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

Stephen Totilo / Game File : Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutt…

Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump offici…

Meta says it removed 750,000+ Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg : Meta says it removed 750,000+ Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social me…

Sources: Vantage Data Centers, a major hyperscale developer, is exploring options including a sale or an IPO at a valuation of about $100B as soon as next year (Reuters)

Reuters : Sources: Vantage Data Centers, a major hyperscale developer, is exploring options including a sale or an IPO at a valuation of ab…

Accelerant, which uses data analytics to connect insurance underwriters with risk capital partners, agrees to go private with Thoma Bravo in a $4.4B deal (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal : Accelerant, which uses data analytics to connect insurance underwriters with risk capital partne…

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's ~$510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460%+ at IPO (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's ~$510B; CXMT's Sh…

Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting w…

Understanding is the new bottleneck

Apple and Epic argue over how much Apple should get from purchases made outside the App Store

In a new filing in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games, Apple has proposed a structure that would allow it to collect fees on di…

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft sa…

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

Netflix is closing two game studios

Netflix plans to shut down two of its gaming studios, as reported by Game File and Variety, as it makes a bigger shift toward party games a…

This school-friendly laptop from HP is $300 off

With memory prices still high and showing no signs of dropping, we’re always happy to find a good deal on a budget-friendly system with an…

OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of S…

Ordinary Abundance

Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release

Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."

US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public

Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history

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SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

Pixel 11 event live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah introduce Google’s new phones

It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last…

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off

If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that can give your desk a touch of retro flair, Amazon has 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard w…

Bluesky Protocol Services

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."

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