Daily Sunday, 23 August 2026
AWS releases aws-bench to evaluate AI agents on real infrastructure tasks
New open-source tool tests agent capabilities on actual AWS misconfigurations and provisioning
AWS Releases aws-bench to Evaluate Agents on Cloud Tasks
Open-source benchmark tests AI agents on real AWS infrastructure tasks
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Simon Willison details upgrade to OpenAI Python lib 3.x and httpx2
More than just code review
Guide on instructing and verifying changes made by coding agents
Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?
DOJ probes startup board seats, raising questions for VCs and founders
Everyone Ends Up With a Sales Team. Even in the AI Era. The Team Just Scales Later Now. See, E.g., Replit, Gamma, Lovable, Anthropic, etc.
Replit CEO notes half the company is now sales, scaling revenue
EP223: Ollama vs vLLM vs SGLang
Comparison of open-weight model inference engines for local deployment
Presentation: SafeChat: Building AI-Powered Safety Systems at Scale in a Real-Time Marketplace
DoorDash builds hybrid AI moderation platform to scale safety systems
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Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
Quoting Linus Torvalds
And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, bu…
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
D2C Insider concludes AI summit Frontier to explore AI’s role in consumer businesses
D2C Insider concluded Frontier, a D2C AI Summit, in Gurugram, bringing together more than 150 D2C founders and CXOs, over 25 AI leaders and…
EV Manufacturer Omega Seiki Raises Additional ₹50 Cr To Accelerate International Expansion
Weeks after announcing fresh capital raise, EV manufacturer Omega Seiki Mobility (OSM) has secured an additional ₹50 Cr ($5.2 Mn)…
🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite Lenny’s Product Pass tools, how AI is reshaping hiring, what to prioritize when you join a new company, and more
Exclusive: Greenjoules Raises ₹62 Cr From Amazon, Singularity To Scale Green Energy Operations
Pune-based green energy startup Greenjoules has raised about ₹62 Cr ($6.5 Mn) in what appears to be an ongoing Series…
Accel, AVP Sell Over 1 Cr Amagi Shares In ₹587 Cr Block Deals
Venture capital (VC) firms Accel and AVP (formerly AXA Venture Partners) sold over 1 Cr shares of listed media SaaS…
FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
Exclusive: Fragaria In Talks To Raise ₹40 Cr From Blume Ventures, Others
Chennai-based agritech startup Fragaria Fruits is in talks to raise ₹40 Cr ($4.2 Mn) in a fresh funding round, sources…
Wakefit Surges 17% To Lead New-Age Tech Stocks This Week; Lenskart, Turtlemint Hit New Highs
A majority of India’s new-age tech stocks ended the week in the green, with Wakefit emerging as the biggest gainer…
Turtlemint Jumps Nearly 6%, Jefferies Sees 37% Upside
Update | August 21, 17:20 IST Shares of Turtlemint ended today’s trading session 3.3% higher at ₹149.40 apiece on the…
Raana Semiconductors In Talks To Raise ₹100 Cr For Silicon-Growth Equipment
Semiconductor startup Raana Semiconductors is in advanced talks to raise ₹100 Cr (around $10.4 Mn) in its Series A funding…
Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
A Simple 4 Part Test to Know If You’ve Hired the Right VP
Did you hire a good enough VP? 4 part test: – who great did they hire in the first 60 days?– did their #1 key metric improve?– did they tak…
From Loan Diversion To Forged Letters: CBI Books BluSmart Founders In ₹672 Cr IREDA Case
The CBI has registered an FIR against Gensol Engineering, Gensol EV Lease, and BluSmart founders Anmol Singh Jaggi and Puneet…
D2C Brand Be Clinical Bags ₹21 Cr To Expand Beauty & Personal Care Portfolio
D2C skincare brand Be Clinical has raised ₹21 Cr (about $2.2 Mn) in its seed extension round led by Sauce,…
ISRO Mulls Exiting Manufacturing Amid India’s Push To Promote Privatisation In The Space Industry
Adding to the central push of opening the space sector to the public, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is…
A91 invests Rs 143 Cr in Atomberg, sells Rs 445 Cr stake while retaining 21%
A91 Partners has invested around Rs 143 crore in consumer appliances startup Atomberg through primary and secondary transactions, and has a…
Manufacturing Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In August
India’s manufacturing sector is entering a new phase. Factors such as policy support, private investment and rising domestic capabilities a…
Centre Notifies ₹62,500 Cr Mobile Manufacturing Scheme To Build Indian Brands
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has notified the ₹62,500 Cr Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) to expa…
Funding and acquisitions in Indian startups this week [Aug 17 - Aug 22]
This week, 21 Indian startups raised $198.33 million across 3 growth-stage deals, 14 early-stage deals and 4 undisclosed rounds. The week a…
From Navi To BookMyShow — Indian Startups Raised Over $233 Mn This Week
India’s startup funding activity picked up pace in the third week of August, with nineteen startups raising a combined $233.2…
SC Directs Matrimony.com & Jodi365 To Explore Settlement In Trademark Dispute
In the five year old trademark infringement case between Matrimony.com and Jodi365 operator Free Elective Network Pvt Ltd., the Supreme…
Zomato Experiments Rapid Food Delivery With Vending Machines
Eternal-owned foodtech platform Zomato has reportedly entered the rapid food delivery space with the roll out of vending machines, recently…
Physics Wallah’s Full-Stack Bet: Looking Into The Revenue Engine
For a generation of Indian students preparing for competitive exams, “Hello bacchon…” became more than a classroom greeting. It became…
Zetwerk’s IPO Test: Can Revenue Growth Outrun Cash Flow Pressure?
Bengaluru-based Zetwerk is entering the public markets with a business that looks quite different from the business for which it…
India Can Build A Commercially Viable Space Sector For The World: PM Modi
Reiterating the Central government’s bullishness on India’s space segment, Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi today met with founders…
Meesho Faces FIR Over Alleged Sale Of Toxic ‘Sulfas’ Linked To Minor’s Death
Gurugram Police have registered a case against ecommerce platform Meesho and one of its sellers over the alleged sale of…
Three Sixty’s Vikash Gupta On Turning India’s Leather Legacy Into A Global Luxury Brand
A premium leather bar cabinet in an urban Indian home is more than just a piece of furniture. It reflects…
IPO-Bound Atomberg’s Loss Widens 27% YoY To ₹149 Cr In FY26, Revenue Jumps 35%
IPO-bound consumer appliances startup Atomberg Technologies saw its consolidated net loss widen 26.8% to ₹148.9 Cr in the financial year…
Deepinder Goyal’s Temple Wearable Gets Smaller Ahead Of 2026 Launch
Deepinder Goyal revealed the latest design of his wearable startup Temple’s product in a social media post, claiming it is…
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Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
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Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percent
Citing "significant increases in memory and storage component costs," Amazon has raised prices on Echos, Kindles, Fire TVs, and Eeros by up…
hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
A Friendly Introduction to Racket
A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
New MCP Roadmap
Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph
I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generativ…
W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’
W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades o…
An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it
Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU, RA…
Two great new repairable gadgets
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Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses
Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
Lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback.