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5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026
At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.
Quoting GitHub Changeling
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default a...
OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move. Weird enough for you?
OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
lobste.rs is now running on SQLite Community site Lobsters has been planning a migration away from MariaDB since August 2018 - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they d...
Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners e...
Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out
Anthropic's latest advert is stirring up high emotions — which is undoubtedly what it was designed to do.
The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
Quoting Armin Ronacher
The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, ...
datasette 1.0a37
Release: datasette 1.0a37 A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every exi...
Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation
Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual content.
Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of hig...
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius's compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends...
Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing.
Goods Comeback Trade: Why XLY Is the Sleeper ETF of Q3 2026
The broader market has pushed higher as enthusiasm for artificial intelligence has lifted spirits. Yet the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund has quietly lagged.
Massive AI buildout poses latest inflation threat as consumers pay more for laptops and electricity
The gusher of investment in data centers — likely topping $700 billion this year — to power artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, ...
AI uncertainty is rising. So is investor conviction
There's a paradox developing on Wall Street: the fog of uncertainty surrounding artificial intelligence's ability to deliver sky-high profits is thickening, yet AI bulls and bears ...
'Christianity holds everything together!' Jonathan Pageau's STARK WARNING on faith, AI and civilisation
'Christianity holds everything together!' Jonathan Pageau's STARK WARNING on faith, AI and civilisation . Christianity is the only force capable of preventing Western civilisation ...
New York imposes the first statewide ban on large data centers
New York is blocking new large data centers that fuel artificial intelligence for up to a year to protect the environment and energy grid.