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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

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Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

Hacker News163 pointsDev
AI & ML

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Hacker News249 pointsDev
AI & ML

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…

Simon WillisonDev
AI & ML

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Hacker News417 pointsDev
Startups & Funding

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…

EntrackrFounder
Startups & Funding

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)…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite Lenny’s Product Pass tools, how AI is reshaping hiring, what to prioritize when you join a new company, and more

Lenny's NewsletterFounder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & 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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

SaaStrFounder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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,…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

EntrackrFounder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

EntrackrFounder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

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…

Inc42Founder
Tech Stories

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

Hacker News438 points
Tech Stories

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Hacker News482 points
Tech Stories

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

Hacker News200 points
Tech Stories

Scrap (2006)

Hacker News386 points
Tech Stories

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

Hacker News395 points
Tech Stories

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…

The Verge
Tech Stories

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Hacker News159 points
Tech Stories

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

Hacker News191 points
Tech Stories

A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

Hacker News194 points
Tech Stories

New MCP Roadmap

Hacker News241 points
Tech Stories

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

Hacker News116 points
Tech Stories

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…

The Verge
Tech Stories

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…

The Verge
Tech Stories

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…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Two great new repairable gadgets

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 141, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm newi…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.

Ars Technica
Tech Stories

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.

Ars Technica