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CORS Chat

Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on both my M5 MacBook Pro and…

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis

Don't classify. Hallucinate!

Don't classify. Hallucinate! I still have quite a bit of older content on my blog that I never got round to tagging. My blog has 1,856…

Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

Northern Gannet

, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US This is Morris. Morris is a local celebrity: the only known Northern Gannet ( Morus bassanus ) in the enti…

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

Cloudflare Introduces Cache Response Rules for Post-Origin Cache Control

Cloudflare recently introduced Cache Response Rules, a rules engine that operates after an origin server responds but before content is wri…

No Dumb Questions: What is AI context architecture? Why not just build your own?

In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe asks Stack’s Engineering Manager Doug Whitley and Product Manager Ash Zade everything she wants to know a…

🧠 Community Wisdom: Recovering from burnout, what Airtable’s sale says about the ceiling on a startup, keeping architecture docs up to date, running competitor analysis, and more

PhonePe nears 11 Bn monthly UPI transactions in July; CRED slips to 10th rank

PhonePe retained its dominance in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ecosystem in July with 10.86 billion transactions against 10.48 bill…

Ola Electric Unveils Three New Energy Storage Products

With an eye on bolstering its energy solutions business, electric vehicle (EV) maker Ola Electric yesterday announced the launch of…

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

EaseMyTrip posts Rs 135 Cr revenue and Rs 11.7 Cr loss in Q1 FY27

Online travel aggregator (OTA) platform EaseMyTrip announced its financial results for the Q1 FY27. The company’s operating revenue g…

IPO-Bound Zypp Electric Slashes FY26 Loss By 45% YoY To ₹60 Cr

EV logistics startup Zypp Electric’s parent Bycyshare Technologies managed to trim its consolidated net loss to ₹59.7 Cr in the…

Klaviyo’s CEO on Building at $1.5B With Agents: “Dark Factory,” Composer, and Why Every Single Employee Had to Hit L3 by June

Klaviyo co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Bialecki came to SaaStr AI to walk through how a 2,300-person public company builds AI products. Not t…

UK spinout investor Northern Gritstone to open San Francisco office

[Update] Shiprocket IPO Closes With 99.38X Oversubscription

Update | August 14, 19:45 IST Shiprocket’s public issue closed with an oversubscription of 99.38X, with investors bidding for 938.53…

Redcliffe Labs, Skyroot Partner To Test Diagnostic Reagents In Space

Diagnostics startup Redcliffe Labs has partnered with spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace to test the stability and performance of diagnost…

Turtlemint Jumps 23% To Lead Weekly Gains In New-Age Tech Stocks, Veefin Biggest Loser

With the Q1 FY27 earnings season drawing to a close, company-specific financial performance and business updates drove movements in new-age…

PhysicsWallah revenue rises 24% to Rs 1,054 Cr in Q1 FY27

Edtech company PhysicsWallah reported a 24.4% year-on-year increase in revenue from operations in Q1 FY27, while its losses narrowed 30.7%…

PhysicsWallah Q1 Revenue Crosses ₹1,000 Cr Mark, Loss Down 31% YoY

Edtech major PhysicsWallah’s (PW) operating revenue crossed the ₹1,000 Cr mark in the June quarter of the financial year 2026-27…

European fintech has a culture problem

Zaggle Q1 Profit Dips 33% YoY To ₹17.5 Cr Despite 28% Revenue Jump

Fintech SaaS company Zaggle’s net profit for the June quarter (Q1 FY27) dipped 33% to ₹17.5 Cr from ₹26.1 Cr…

Turtlemint Q1: Loss Declines 19% YoY To ₹38 Cr, Revenue Up 40%

Recently listed insurtech company Turtlemint managed to trim down its Q1 FY27 net loss 19% to ₹37.8 Cr from a…

Shiprocket IPO subscribed 99X; QIBs lead with 123X bids

E-commerce shipping and logistics platform Shiprocket’s Rs 1,617 crore IPO ended with strong investor demand, with the issue getting…

Why Infra.Market Is Piggybacking Shalimar Paints For Its IPO Ambitions

The Infra.Market IPO was never easy to follow. It all started with RDC Concrete. In 2021, Infra.market acquired RDC Concrete…

Dear SaaStr: What’s Your #1 Opener in Sales?

The best opener is sharing how a very similar company or a competitor uses your product — and the exact specific ROI that customer gets. Ev…

CRED-Backed NewTap Finance’s FY26 Profit More Than Doubles To ₹2.4 Cr

CRED-backed NBFC NewTap Finance reported a net profit of ₹2.4 Cr in the financial year ended March 31, 2026 (FY26),…

Zypp Electric’s revenue growth slows to 5% in FY26; losses narrow 44%

Zypp Electric fell short of its FY26 revenue target of Rs 600 crore , with the B2B delivery and shared mobility startup posting Rs 461 cror…

EaseMyTrip Slips Into Red With ₹11.7 Cr Loss In Q1; Revenue Rises 18% YoY

Online travel aggregator EaseMyTrip (EMT) slipped into the red in the June quarter of the financial year 2026-27 (Q1 FY27),…

ixigo To Sell 17.39% Fresh Bus Stake For ₹36.6 Cr

Listed traveltech company ixigo has agreed to sell a 17.39% stake in electric intercity bus startup Fresh Bus to Twelve…

Zetwerk’s Revenue Surges 40% To ₹15,913 Cr In FY26 Ahead Of IPO

In the run up to its initial public offering (IPO), contract manufacturer Zetwerk’s operating revenue for the fiscal jumped 40.4%…

PM Modi Bets On Tech To Empower Youth With AI Skilling, Online Coaching

Addressing the nation on the occasion of the country’s 80th Independence day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated the country’s ongoing…

Indian Unicorn Tracker: Funding, Investors, Revenue And More

The year 2026 began on a strong note for India’s startup ecosystem, with Juspay becoming the first unicorn of the…

KKR-backed LEAP India makes muted debut, lists at 4% premium

KKR-backed logistics solutions company LEAP India made a modest debut on the stock exchanges on Friday, with its shares listing at a little…

AI Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In August

India’s AI story has grown beyond building an Indian equivalent of ChatGPT. The current phase is about building the infrastructure,…

[Update] LEAP India Shares Shares End First Trading Session 10% Below Issue Price

Update | 16:30 IST Shares of LEAP India closed their maiden trading session at ₹143.1 on the BSE, down 10%…

Funding and acquisitions in Indian startups this week [Aug 10 - Aug 15]

This week, 14 Indian startups raised $151.5 million across two growth-stage deals, 11 early-stage deals and one undisclosed round. The week…

From Yulu To Discovered Materials — Indian Startups Raised $140 Mn This Week

Indian startup funding activity remained muted in the second week of August, even as astrology platform AstroTalk joined the unicorn…

Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition by Meta; CEO Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Zijing Wu / Financial Times : Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition b…

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google h…

Effective altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to "effective giving" (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Effective altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new mi…

Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times : Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreem…

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

A spectre is haunting Unicode

The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake

Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)

Anna Liss-Roy / Washington Post : How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news…

A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

Zeyi Yang / Wired : A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500…

Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (Alix Coutures/The Information)

Alix Coutures / The Information : Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal…

Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy (William Sandlund/Financial Times)

William Sandlund / Financial Times : Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's…

Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback

At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, "I think the o…

BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combined spending of research labs and governments for the first time (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal : BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combi…

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event

Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter .

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the…

Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works

Strings of code in Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app hint at an upcoming pair of over-ear headphones that could compete with the AirPods Max, S…

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping

If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that computer prices are out of…

Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others (Giacomo Lee/SDxCentral)

Giacomo Lee / SDxCentral : Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Inv…

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.

The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie

The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended t…

Lamborghini’s flagship Revuelto levels up with SV trim

A lot of automakers talk about wanting to minimize or eliminate driver distractions so as to make the experience of driving more rewarding…

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.

State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers

Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing.

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments

When I'm asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron's budget-minded Model:Samples and Mo…

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week…

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

"Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

Chris Carter chats with Ars about the film he originally wanted to make—and why it's more relevant than ever.

Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response

Senator Warren questions whether Taylor Farms' influence swayed Trump admin.

Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 and Starfighter get teased at D23

Season two of Star Wars: Ahsoka is still months away, but Lucasfilm still took the opportunity to tease it a bit at D23. The company droppe…

Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals

As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genes…

2025 GOTY Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is down to $33

For RPG fans who dig Persona-style turn-based action and who are pursuing games with original stories and fantastic tunes, look no further…

Disney D23 2026: Everything announced for Star Wars, Marvel, and more

The annual Disney fan event showed off the cast of Marvel’s X-Men movie, plus a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, and our first look at t…

I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove

I told myself I wouldn't buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I'd tested was nice, but felt overpriced and slightly flawed. Afte…

Marvel reveals the new X-Men cast, including Inde Navarrette and Adam Driver

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day behind us, and its reveal of Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Marvel is finally ready to officially welcome the X-Me…

Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

One of the big tradeoffs with Xteink's pocket-friendly e-readers is a lack of easy access to ebooks. On a Kindle or Kobo you can download t…

The online shopping trend where you buy nothing

On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a…

We’re reaching peak camera with the Sony A7R VI

It wasn't long ago that shooting with a super high-resolution camera meant making serious sacrifices for the sake of all those megapixels.…

CMF’s clip earbuds hit the balance between cheap and good

Clip earbuds are an exercise in compromise. It's an inherent aspect of their design - and physics. They can be more comfortable for people…

So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price

Samsung didn't have to change much this year because its hardware is just that good.

Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan

"We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained."

Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder

Czinger used topological design and additive manufacturing to make the brakes.