Daily Friday, 28 August 2026
Friday, 28 August 2026
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI
We find out why Meta destroyed its standout engineering culture: it feared AI-native startups doing more with less. Also: thoughts on Ramp’…
Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project…
How we shipped a production API out of one Slack thread
The WorkOS IT Contact API went live on August 18 out of a single Slack thread. Humans made the decisions and gated the merge; agents did ev…
Craft’s Ilya Levtov Never Learned To Code. He Built A Software Company Anyway.
In the fourth of a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding, we talk to Craft CEO Ilya Levtov, a Julliard-trained…
Amid Personal Assistant Investor Frenzy, Town Nears $1 Billion Valuation in Round Led by Instinct-Backer Index Ventures
Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raising at $1 billion, sources tell us
This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.
Anthropic strikes $45bn deal with Nscale to rent compute capacity
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection att…
Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil
OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across…
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CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
Small Models Have Arrived
Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens
3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in…
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
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Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world un…
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI
The turbulent AI era is here
Cloudflare Wallets Arrives Late to x402, and the Spending Controls Stop at the Payment
Cloudflare announced Wallets, giving agents a stablecoin balance and spending controls, though only handle claiming is live and squatting c…
Differential Privacy for Hugging Face Trainers – Without Rewriting Your Training Loop
It is a well-known problem by now that training LLMs on sensitive data raises serious privacy concerns. In a recent blog post, we talked ab…
What shipping an OAuth app on Slack, Microsoft, and Atlassian actually takes
Five installs before Slack reads your submission, a partner account before Microsoft trusts your consent screen, and identity verification…
What invalid_grant actually means, provider by provider
One string, five spec conditions, and a different meaning at every provider. Here is what Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Xero, QuickBooks,…
Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
Background Work: From Cron Jobs to Distributed Systems
In this article, we will look at various such strategies to perform background work in detail.
Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI
Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities…
Debug live production code without redeploying with Datadog Live Debugger
Learn how Live Debugger helps you investigate production code and debug faster using Bits AI.
How to recognize your team with GitLab Achievements
Every team runs on people who go above and beyond. The engineer who fixes the flaky test nobody else will touch. The reviewer who turns you…
GitLab compliance frameworks: Adhere to SOC 2 in minutes
Compliance is the part of software delivery that everyone agrees is important, yet nobody enjoys. It often lives in spreadsheets, screensho…
Find deployments faster with redesigned filters
The best workflow engine is a programming language
Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases for Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Modulith, Batch
After a 10-week hiatus since the last batch of Spring ecosystem releases, there was a flurry of activity during the week of August 17th, 20…
Putting an agent in a shared thread makes it a colleague
Internal AI moved from dashboards into Slack threads. That changes addressing, mandate, presence, and audience — questions that used to app…
You can't design the agent platform first
Internal AI teams walk three stages: one hand-built agent, then several, then a governance problem. Stage three needs a substrate — you can…
Curating queues beats approving actions
The permission prompt breaks down once an agent works continuously. What replaces it is curation: a surplus of candidates, a queue, and a h…
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full-stack observability
Modern engineering teams instrument everything, with metrics, logs, traces, and profiles flowing from hundreds of services at once. But ful…
20VC x SaaStr: Nvidia Pays $6B for Poolside’s Model Factory, OpenAI Has to Go Public in 2027, and Why $9B No Longer Clears the Bar for Seed
Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and I went through Nvidia’s ecosystem spending spree, OpenAI’s move from number one to number two, and wha…
Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal for Hugging Face, reports say
Alpha Wave Ventures Exits Aye Finance Via ₹323 Cr Bulk Deals
Global investment firm Alpha Wave has offloaded nearly 1.92 Cr shares or 7.78% stake in MSME-focused NBFC Aye Finance via…
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Ads In India
In a fresh monetisation push, AI giant OpenAI has started rolling out ads on ChatGPT in India, with the initial…
After Eight Years Of Building Quietly, Can Raphe mPhibr Conquer The Skies With Its Long-Endurance UAVs?
For nearly eight years, Raphe mPhibr stayed out of the spotlight. While Indian startups chased rapid growth, unicorn status and…
PRISM’s FY26 profit jumps 4X to Rs 994 Cr, revenue jumps 50%
OYO’s parent company PRISM reported a sharp improvement in profitability in FY26, with profit after tax (PAT) jumping over four-fold…
Building Pharma Labs In Space, Zerodha’s Bland FY26 & More
The Race To Make Drugs In Space For decades, microgravity research was largely about discovering how matter behaved beyond Earth.…
Space-tech startup InspeCity raises Rs 100 Cr in pre-Series A round
IIT-Bombay-incubated space-tech startup InspeCity has raised Rs 100 crore ($10.5 million) in a pre-Series A funding round co-led by Special…
Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup
Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that man…
Socure Secures $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Acquires AI Fraud Investigation Startup Fravity
Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment v…
Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick
Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.
Raise Financial’s Pluto Insurance appoints Abhishek Singh as CEO
Insurance broker Pluto Insurance has appointed Abhishek Singh as CEO, with around 23 years of experience in the insurance industry. Singh j…
IPO-Bound ESDS Software Bags ₹216 Cr From Anchor Investors
Cloud and data centre company ESDS Software Solution has raised ₹216 Cr from anchor investors ahead of the opening of…
Ashish Kacholia-Backed Sanlayan Turns Profitable In FY26, Revenue Surges 5.7X To ₹125 Cr
Defence tech startup Sanlayan Technologies turned profitable in the financial year 2025-26 (FY26), as acquisitions helped it scale its port…
Only 7 Public B2B Companies Are Growing Over 30%. In the AI-Native Cohort, That Would Be Last Place
Seven public B2B software companies are growing faster than 30%. Here they are, most recently reported quarter, straight from the earnings…
Caught In The GPU Pricing Paradox, Can ESDS Deliver A Bumper IPO?
Two decades on, enterprise cloud and AI ecosystem provider ESDS Software Solution is setting sail for its next big quest…
OYO Parent PRISM’s FY26 Profit Skyrockets 4X YoY To ₹994 Cr
IPO-bound PRISM’s net profit for the fiscal year FY26 skyrocketed close to the ₹1,000 Cr mark, growing by 306% YoY…
[Update] Rapido Back Online After An Hour Long App Outage
Update | August 27, 20:02 IST Rapido’s app outage was short lived, lasting about an hour. Consumers were able to…
Logistics startup OORJAA raises Series A funding led by Equentis Angel Fund
OORJAA, a technology-led logistics platform, has raised Rs 9.7 crore ($1 million) in a Series A funding round led by Equentis Angel Fund, w…
Even Healthcare Lays Off 350 Employees Amid Hospital-Led Pivot: Report
Healthtech startup Even Healthcare has reportedly laid off around 350 employees as it phases down its insurance business and redirects…
NITI Aayog Proposes Skilling Overhaul With Outcome-Linked Financing Model
In a bid to address persistent gaps in India’s labour market, NITI Aayog has proposed linking government funding for skilling…
India’s Innovation Gap: Where R&D, Capital And Industry Fall Short
There has been a lot of talk around innovation or perceived lack of it, in Indian enterprises in general and…
Temple acquires London-based longevity medicine practice Longevous
Deepinder Goyal-led healthtech startup Temple has acquired London-based Longevous, an evidence-based longevity medicine practice, as it loo…
Deepinder Goyal’s Temple Acquires London-Based Longevous
Deepinder Goyal’s wearable startup Temple has acquired London-based longevity medicine practice Longevous for an undisclosed sum, strengthe…
Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Signs That Your B2B Marketing Programs Won’t Scale Well?
The #1 flag your marketing efforts aren’t working is that you are spending too much — but importantly, in the aggregate. Don’t overindex on…
boAt’s FY26 Profit Rises 38% To ₹85 Cr, Wearables Segment Turns Profitable
Consumer electronics startup boAt’s profit after tax (PAT) increased 38% to ₹84.5 Cr in the financial year ended March 2026…
What’s driving Scottish deeptech?: ‘There’s a huge change happening’
Exclusive: Even Healthcare lays off 350 employees
Healthtech startup Even Healthcare has raised back-to-back funding rounds this year, but the fresh capital has not stopped the company from…
VAHDAM India reports Rs 350 Cr revenue in FY26; profit jumps 6X
After turning profitable in FY25, direct-to-consumer (D2C) wellness brand VAHDAM India further strengthened its bottom line in FY26, with n…
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Trade (and Tariffs)
507 Mechanical Movements
Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
It seems like the PayPal app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS. I don't know if it's only because I have enabled the PayPal card for contacl…
Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform
Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow
The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube
Rockstar has officially published its "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised. The in-depth previ…
The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie
I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free…
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LE…
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.
Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for
Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of…
Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books
Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" featu…
Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else
Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday…
Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters
On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimat…
US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"
Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
Nitter.net and Xcancel.com have been both taken down by the X Corp "cease and desist" letter
CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem
Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Yayoi Kusama has died
Software engineering is about managing complexity
Harness Engineering
Peter Cullen has died
Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts
AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look
"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."
Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future
"Most" Xbox One and Series X games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.
RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn
Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.
Speedo’s new smart goggles module can track all four swim strokes
Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer's performance across all four swim strok…
Sony finally has a cheaper OLED to compete with midrange Samsung and LG TVs
After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia…
Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.
Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?
Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.
Volvo’s cars will warn one another about hazards in the road
Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahe…
Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
"It just felt like the right thing to do."
Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
"We're living in this world of scarcity with the Moon."
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.