Thursday, 27 August 2026

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

Quoting Paul Dix

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that…

How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex

Discover how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to make software development accessible across the business, helping teams turn ideas into prod…

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

The turbulent AI era is here

Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts

ChatGPT for Teachers is expanding to 55 U.S. school systems, bringing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 more educators…

Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

GlucoFM: Foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring

Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available

Presentation: Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI a…

Scaling Conditional Learned Retrieval for Pinterest Home Feed

Devin Kreuzer | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer; Yichi Wang | Machine Learning Engineer I; Sujan Reddy Ale | Machine Learning Engineer I; Zel…

5 Atlas agents essential to how we operate at WorkOS

Meet the agents our teams rely on day to day: what each one does, what it's connected to, and where it knows to stop.

Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratori

Casey Muratori explains why software performance matters, how developers can write faster code, and why he challenges conventional engineer…

How to Make LLMs 3X Faster

In this article, we will look at how speculative decoding works.

OpenTelemetry Comes to IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, PyCharm, and WebStorm

The OpenTelemetry plugin has broken out of the confines of JetBrains Rider. No sandbox exploit was involved – this escape was planned by ou…

Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence

We are very happy to announce the Rust Project's first round of Maintainers in Residence: Gen Li ( @rami3l ), Chris Denton ( @ChrisDenton )…

Beyond the $1 AI era: How federal agencies can build the evidence for FY27 renewals

Learn how federal agencies can use Datadog Cloud Cost Management to build the cost, usage, and value evidence needed for FY27 AI renewals a…

How Datadog saves over $1 million each month by optimizing AI usage

Learn how Datadog uses agent evaluations, spending guardrails, and context optimization to save over $1 million each month while balancing…

GitLab Patch Release: 19.3.1, 19.2.5, 19.1.7

Git was built for humans — agents need an upgrade

The industry is now racing to rebuild source code management for agents. We showed our answer at GitLab Transcend , but let’s reiterate why…

Making room for what's next in the GitLab UI

Throughout this year, the product interface has been in a season of reduction. On the heels of dark mode , the tide has been moving out wit…

DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics

In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and ho…

Node.js 26.8.1 (Current)

GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway

Muse Image now available on AI Gateway

Python projects now support routing rules

How Much Code Do Developers Really Let Agents Write?

“100% of my code is written by [insert whichever AI coding agent is popular right now]!”You’ve probably heard this claim many times this ye…

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

Zerodha reports Rs 4,283 Cr profit in FY26; revenue remains flat

Zerodha posted a net profit of Rs 4,283 crore in FY26, up around 1.2% from Rs 4,231 crore in the previous fiscal, even as its revenue remai…

NVIDIA's $108b Quarter

NVIDIA's Q2 FY27 revenue reached $96b with a $108b Q3 guide, but hyperscale revenue grew only 13% sequentially against 25% for everyone els…

Zerodha’s Bland FY26: Net Profit Up A Mere 1% At ₹4,238 Cr, Top Line At FY25 Level

Stock broking major Zerodha’s business growth continued to remain strained in the fiscal year FY26 after taking a hit in…

Should tech events ban Meta’s smart glasses?

Agentic AI startup Runable raises $21 Mn in Series A led by Susquehanna and Nexus

Agentic AI startup Runable has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partn…

Lightspeed Exits PhysicsWallah Post ₹550 Cr Stake Sale

VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners has exited edtech major PhysicsWallah (PW), minting ₹549.7 Cr from the sale of 4.67 Cr…

Lightspeed exits PhysicsWallah with Rs 550 Cr block deal

Silicon Valley-based Lightspeed Venture Partners has exited edtech company PhysicsWallah’s shareholding through a Rs 550 crore block…

Nitro Launches AI Platform To Let Shopify Merchants Build Apps With Prompts

Shopify merchants often rely on multiple applications to manage workflows ranging from loyalty programmes to GST reconciliation. However, f…

India’s Spacetech Ecosystem Looks To Microgravity For Drug Discovery And Manufacturing

Nearly seven decades after NASA began studying how matter behaves beyond Earth, microgravity research is entering a new phase: from…

5 Interesting Learnings from Box at $1.29 Billion in Revenue: 17% Billings Growth, 106% NRR, and 20 Basis Points of AI Margin Cost

Box reported Q2 FY27 and saw real if modest acceleration: Revenue of $321.1 million, up 9% and up 11% in constant currency. Non-GAAP operat…

Flipkart Minutes overtakes Swiggy Instamart in dark stores across top 10 cities: CLSA

Flipkart Minutes has overtaken Swiggy Instamart in the number of dark stores across India’s top 10 cities, as the horizontal e-commer…

The Ecommerce Squeeze, Supertails Chases Profits & More

Amazon, Flipkart Tighten Seller Rules With the festive season just around the corner, India’s ecommerce giants appear to be shifting…

Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’

The firm backs companies building in the “female economy,” or the markets where women drive demand — women’s health, digital commerce, and…

Exclusive: Even Healthcare set to raise Rs 208 Cr in Series B led by Khosla Ventures

Bengaluru-based healthcare startup Even Healthcare is set to corner a second round of funding this year. The company is set to raise Rs 208…

Voice AI startup Ringg raises $10 Mn led by Peak XV

Bengaluru-based AI startup Ringg AI has raised $10 million in an extended Series A funding round led by Peak XV Partners, with participatio…

Sector Snapshot: Legal Tech Funding Down Slightly From All-Time High

In the past two years, venture investors have poured more than $7 billion into legal and legal tech startups, most with an AI focus. Fundin…

Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund

The Pan-African venture firm has raised $84 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.

Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into…

InspeCity Raises ₹100 Cr To Fund Four Space Missions

Spacetech startup InspeCity has raised ₹100 Cr (around $10.4 Mn) in its pre-Series A funding round co-led by veteran investor…

Micromax Floats Family Office, Earmarks ₹250 Cr To Back Deeptech Startups

Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Micromax Informatics has announced the launch of a family office, with a corpus of ₹250 Cr…

Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.

Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them

Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

Ribbit Capital Sells Groww Shares Worth ₹2,217 Cr

Groww’s early backer Ribbit Capital has offloaded a cumulative 11.31 Cr shares via two bulk deals today, as per NSE…

UK fund managers battling to run £1bn Scale-up Fund, reports say

A Quiet Salute to the CEOs Still Rebuilding for the Age of AI. Most Are Maybe 40% Of The Way There.

The CEOs I have the most respect for today? The ones truly rebuilding their companies for the Age of AI. Not just sort of, kind of, doing s…

Hala Mobility’s FY26 Revenue Jumps 4.4X To ₹97 Cr, Posts ₹3.6 Cr Profit

Electric mobility startup Hala Mobility’s operating revenue jumped 4.4X to ₹97 Cr in FY26 from ₹22 Cr in FY25, while…

D2C Kitchenware Startup Curaa Raises ₹40 Cr To Expand Portfolio

Bengaluru-based Curaa has raised ₹40 Cr ($4.2 Mn) in a Series A funding round led by 3one4 Capital, with existing…

LEAD FY26’s Loss Dips 20% YoY To ₹34.5 Cr, Operating Revenue Up 10%

Edtech unicorn LEAD School managed to narrow its FY26 net loss by over 20% to ₹34.5 Cr from ₹43.3 Cr…

AI Agent Platform Runable Raises $21 Mn To Help Small Businesses Grow

AI agent platform Runable has raised $21 Mn (around ₹200 Cr) in a Series A funding round co-led by Susquehanna…

Kitchen and lifestyle brand Cüraa raises Rs 40 Cr in Series A led by 3one4 Capital

New Delhi-based kitchen and lifestyle brand Cüraa has raised Rs 40 crore in a Series A round led by 3one4 Capital, with participation…

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

GLM-5.3-Flash

Tim Curry has died

Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents…

GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.

FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Nebula Sans

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp

"On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel i…

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100…

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Unde…

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards

If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an ext…

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.

Apple Maps has ads now

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're…

Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’

Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages…

Apple announces September iPhone launch event

Apple's next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a "Surprise and shine" tagline, were…

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

Study reveals UnitedHealth's profit margins four times what it claimed [pdf]

The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada

IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey

PageRank explained

Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

A dashing pirate, a butler, a shapeshifting killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range.

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead

Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.

Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing wi…

The Switch 2’s $50 price increase is happening next week

This is a friendly reminder that the Nintendo Switch 2 will jump in price by $50 starting on September 1st. That’s next Tuesday! The compan…

The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class

The "everyday" GT3 delivers, despite looming regulations and an ever-inflating price tag.