Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation

OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it…

Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.

How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work

NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.

Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of…

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features…

Degraded performance for multiple models

Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?

Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo

Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collab…

Presentation: From Fab To Token - The State Of The Market

Jordan Nanos discusses how semiconductor constraints, data center expansion, and networking bottlenecks impact AI software architecture. Dr…

AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends

Based on the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026, the tenth edition of our large-scale, globally representative study run by the Strategic Rese…

How to store and refresh session tokens correctly with the WorkOS iOS SDK

A practical guide to Keychain storage, refresh token rotation, and terminal vs. transient failures on iOS

Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter

Rethinking Database Programming

Fragments: August 18

Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence a…

Agent Night demo recap: Evil Martians on making your docs discoverable to agents

Irina Nazarova's Agent Night lightning demo: why GitHub, not your docs site, is the path into model training sets, and how Evil Martians me…

Agent Night demo recap: exe.dev — your agent can rewrite the software you use

David Crawshaw of exe.dev showed how two prompts let an agent customize any open source tool you use, then keep those changes rebased on up…

Trace AWS Lambda durable functions with Datadog

Trace AWS Lambda durable executions across invocations to investigate operations, retries, failures, waits, and function status in Datadog.

Centralize human and agentic work with Datadog Work Management

Learn how Datadog Work Management helps you coordinate human and AI agent–driven work while preserving context, ownership, and activity acr…

Two ways to measure the cumulative impact of experiments

Summing individual wins overstates true impact. See two accurate methods, holdouts and Datadog’s Cumulative Impact, and how to choose betwe…

From OpenTofu to Argo CD: GitLab as your AWS control plane

Configuring cloud-based environments is complex, as it requires considering networking, subscriptions, services, and all the components tha…

Qodana Expands Security Analysis with OpenGrep Rules, and More

Modern software development teams face a difficult balancing act. Applications are growing more complex, release cycles are accelerating, a…

BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234

RFC 9234 lets routers reject route leaks on their own, using BGP Roles and the Only to Customer attribute. We measured who has deployed it,…

Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AI

As demand for AI continues to grow, so does the infrastructure needed to support it.

Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys

GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gateway

Cline is now available in the AI SDK harness layer

Toolbox App 3.7: JVM Memory Optimizations and Update Improvements

Toolbox App 3.7 enables JVM memory optimization by default, improves the reliability of updates and session expiration recovery, and ensure…

Building an agentic SDLC with a QA engineering mindset

Ryan welcomes Suneet Malhotra, Senior Manager of Test Engineering at Motorola Solutions, to chat about building end-to-end agentic SDLC pip…

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York

The scanning and bloodwork health startup founded by Spotify's founder will officially launch in New York in about a month.

Swiggy shareholders approve 49.5% foreign ownership cap

Swiggy shareholders have approved a proposal to cap the company’s aggregate foreign ownership at 49.5% at its 13th Annual General Mee…

Meta Begins Action Against Centre’s Concerns Over CSAM, Deepfakes: Report

Social media giant Meta has reportedly begun taking steps to address concerns raised by the Central government over child sexual…

Swiggy Shareholders Vote To Cap Foreign Ownership At 49.5%

At Swiggy’s 13th Annual General Meeting (AGM), the foodtech giant’s shareholders voted to cap its aggregate foreign ownership at 49.5%…

Rippling Ran 2,100 Scored Agent Runs Per Model on Real Payroll Data. The Cheapest Model Tied the Most Expensive One.

Rippling Tested 15 AI Models on Real Payroll Data. The Cheapest One Tied the Most Expensive One. Rippling’s President and CPO Matt MacInnis…

Swiggy names new CGPO and CTO for Instamart; appoints COO for Food Marketplace

Foodtech and quick commerce platform Swiggy has expanded the roles of three senior executives across its Instamart and Food Marketplace bus…

Birds Don't Fly Like Planes. Neither Does AI.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B generates 2.2x faster than Qwen3.8-27B, yet finishes slower because it thinks 3.1x longer. Across 25 tasks, quality is tied…

Now, ixigo Partners With Uber To Enable Train Ticket Booking Via Its App

Online travel aggregator (OTA) ixigo has entered into a partnership with ride-hailing major Uber to enable train-ticketing via the latter’s…

Uber partners with ixigo to offer train ticket booking on Uber app

Multinational transportation company Uber has launched train ticket booking on its app in partnership with AI-native travel platform ixigo.…

Peak XV Partners, Together Fund Join Voice AI Unicorn Wispr Flow’s Cap Table

Prominent Indian startup investors — VC firm Peak XV Partners, Girish Mathrubootham-led Together Fund and Aakrit Vaish’s Activate — have…

Shiprocket IPO: 500 Global Hits 77.6X Return, Two Investors Exit At Loss

Ecommerce enabler Shiprocket’s IPO has produced sharply divergent outcomes for its investors, with returns on the shares sold through the…

Wispr Flow raises $280 Mn at $2 Bn valuation

San Francisco-based voice AI startup Wispr Flow has raised $280 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures, with participati…

VCs Pour Billions Into Physical AI As The Next Wave Of AI Investing Takes Shape

In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. Tha…

Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’

Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265 million Fund V.

Announcing Lenny’s Jobs: The best place in the world to find, vet, and land your dream job

Where product managers, engineers, designers, and growth/marketing professionals discover high-quality open roles at tech companies

Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the start…

Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.

Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries

Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those for solid-state bat…

Resilient Asset Management Offloads Paytm Shares Worth ₹2,949 Cr

Vijay Shekhar Sharma-owned Resilient Asset Management, acting on behalf of Alibaba Group affiliate Antfin, has offloaded 1.92 Cr shares in…

Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans

The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the U…

Klarna loses two more senior executives

IPO-Bound NoPaperForms’ FY26 Profit Surges To ₹11.9 Cr, Revenue Up 25%

IPO-bound education-focused SaaS company NoPaperForms, which got SEBI’s nod for its IPO in March this year, saw its profit after…

MobiKwik Infuses ₹61 Cr In Lending Arm, Appoints Ex-Bajaj Markets’ Manish Pathania As Its CBO

Months after receiving a regulatory nod for its NBFC licence, MobiKwik has now completed the transfer of its digital lending…

NeoGeo Bags $20 Mn To Scale Its Full-Stack Geospatial Business

Geospatial technology startup NeoGeo has raised around $20 Mn (₹191 Cr) in a Series A funding round co-led by Neev…

DeHaat’s Honest Farms Raises ₹35 Cr To Expand Retail Footprint, Product Portfolio

DeHaat Honest Farms, the consumer food brand launched by agritech startup DeHaat, has raised ₹35 Cr in a pre-Series A…

On Your Next Big Deal? Double Your Pricing.

"Want to go upmarket? Then double your pricing on your next deal. Not on your existing customers. They bet on you. But if your biggest cust…

DSP Finance acquires Volt Money to strengthen digital lending platform

DSP Finance, the NBFC arm of DSP Group, has acquired Salter Technologies, which operates digital lending platform Volt Money. The platform…

Dunzo Cofounder Dalvir Singh Suri Joins Superhealth As Operations Head

Healthcare startup Superhealth has appointed former Dunzo cofounder Dalvir Singh Suri as its head of operations as it looks to…

NeoGeo raises $20 Mn Series A led by Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital

Geospatial technology startup NeoGeo has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital, the inv…

Can Europe finance its sustainability ambitions?

upGrad’s Gross Revenue Crosses ₹2,000 Cr In FY26, Loss Narrows 52% YoY To ₹130 Cr

Edtech major upGrad said its net loss narrowed 52% to ₹130 Cr in the financial year ended March 2026 (FY26)…

[Update] Exclusive: LISSUN Raises ₹48 Cr To Expand Child Development Centre Network

Update| August 18, 12:50 IST Child development-focused healthtech startup LISSUN has raised ₹48 Cr (about $5 Mn) in a Series…

The Amazon tax

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

Beware Management Consultants

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

PlayStation’s wireless gaming speakers launch in November

Sony's Pulse Elevate wireless gaming speakers are launching on November 12th and will cost $219.99, the company announced on Tuesday. Annou…

Tesla is finally launching the Cybercab — let’s hope it’s ready

The Tesla Cybercab, that golden two-seater central to Elon Musk's robo-supremacist ambitions, is finally nearing it's public launch. Whethe…

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

The Benchmarkpocalypse

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugg…

Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea

"A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle."

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro are almost half off today

If you’re looking for a feature-packed pair of earbuds that won’t break your wallet, Best Buy has the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro on sale for…

Apple squashes EU beef with new App Store rules

Apple is once again overhauling App Store rules in the European Union, which the company says will resolve its "disagreements with the Comm…

SteelSeries’ comfy wireless gaming headset is nearly half off

While many gaming headsets come with extra features, the tradeoff is that they’re often uncomfortable and heavy. A lightweight, affordable…

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures

Coyote vs. Acme is even funnier because Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill it

There's an argument to be made that people wouldn't be all that interested in Coyote vs. Acme if it weren't for the way David Zaslav tried…

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

Mojo is now open source

Finger: Social network that never died

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

I don't enjoy the Internet any more

California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research

US healthcare is broken. Under RFK Jr., the research agency working to fix it is, too.

Ukrainian drones overwhelm Russian tanks’ new active protection system—for now

Tanks with defensive tech for shooting down drones are still proving vulnerable.

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness,…

Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor

FCC demands "total capitulation" in Trump censorship campaign, Disney suit says.

Peacock raises prices by 18 percent after becoming profitable

Peacock's quarterly profitability isn't guaranteed.

The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program

One big question: Will China assert territorial rights where its rover explores?

Fairphone's latest repairable phone is finally available in the US for $650

Fairphone sells components like the USB port and screen, all swappable with a single torx driver.

Ford hopes this Hypercar will be its next Le Mans winner

The American automaker returns to the top category of endurance racing next year.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes pains to deliver a slasher fan’s dream

Matte paintings—not CGI—warp a world designed to hit a nerve for slasher fans.

X-rays add new twist to narwhal's spiral tusk

New study finds that the tusks have not one but two spirals, twisting in opposite directions.

Peacock is raising prices by up to $3

Peacock is raising prices across its streaming plans once again, with the company's cheapest ad-supported Select tier going from $7.99 to $…

Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.