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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, ...
Hamilton is on the verge of a data centre moratorium vote. Others are taking notice.
Hamilton would join a wave of cities in the United States who have passed similar pauses for possible artificial intelligence data centres.
SoftBank Group's CEO says $5 trillion a year needed globally to meet AI demand
Worries about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments are absurd, SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday, deriding such doubts as backward and akin to questioning ...
datasette 1.0a37
Release: datasette 1.0a37 A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every exi...
OGBC Group Announces Global Hardware Accelerator in San Francisco
The New Hub Bridges Frontier Artificial Intelligence with Scalable Global Supply Chains to Empower Next-Gen Founders
New York won’t build big data centres for a year
No large data centres can be built in New York for up to a year as the state creates rules to protect the environment and its energy grid from the power-hungry facilities fueling a...
powered compliance infrastructure for financial services
Artificial intelligence is creating a new problem for Wall Street. AI can generate emails, marketing campaigns, research, and trading activity in seconds. Compliance teams still ha...
Shape-shifting T1 personal robot transforms from humanoid to robot dog to climb stairs
The T1 home robot is the first transformable personal helper, as it can walk upright or carry things on all fours, depending on the terrain and the task at hand. The first transfor...
TripWip closes seed round to multiply its car rental operation between individuals in Mexico and Argentina
TripWip, the Uruguayan P2P carsharing startup founded in 2023 by Juan Manuel Pancic and Juan Andrés Vico, closes a seed round of US$ 4.2 million The post TripWip closes seed round...
New York Leads Nation in Moratorium on New Big Data Centers
New York will be the first state to issue a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers as localities across the country grapple with how to regulate the proliferation of energy-hung...
Mitch McConnell's Photo Meant To Quiet Health Rumors. It Sparked A New Wave Of Online Scrutiny.
A photograph released by Sen. Mitch McConnell's office to address weeks of speculation about his health has instead become the center of a new debate over misinformation, digital t...
Gemini can make sense of the world around you, but don’t let it observe your children just yet
Researchers tested Gemini 2.5 Pro on parent-child interaction videos and found AI is reliable at observation but falls short when making expert-level judgments about child communic...
Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoffs hit workers on parental and medical leave
File – The logo of social media company Meta is seen at the Mobile World Congress 2026 (MWC) at the Fira de Barcelona.
Philippine BPOs slash growth goals on AI shift
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) firms are bracing for slower revenue growth until 2028, in part due to the rise of ...