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The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash price increase offers a warning about the economics of AI inference and the limits of ever-cheaper intelligence.
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Couchers is officially out of beta
We are out of Beta and in v1: we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better!
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Figma files for proposed IPO
An update on Figma's path to becoming a publicly traded company: our S-1 is now public.
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PlanetScale for Postgres
PlanetScale now supports Postgres
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Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
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Why email startups fail
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.
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Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.
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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide
A new Oceana analysis reveals the global scale of China’s visible fishing fleet
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JavaScript Trademark Update
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.
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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
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FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing
Up until today, all capable generative image editing models were only available as proprietary tools.
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Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?
The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"
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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
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The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together
Automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding
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The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination
Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in…
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XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne
Learn how XBOW achieved #1 performance in autonomous penetration testing by validating real exploits and outperforming human pentesters in speed and accuracy.
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.
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Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration
We, people and civil society organisations from Europe and around the world, call on the European Commission to act now to break up the powerful Big Tech
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From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?
Confused by LLMs, RAG, & AI Agents? We break down the spectrum of AI system design with a familiar resume-screening example to show the leap in capabilities (and complexity) at each level.
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TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.
Leading U.S. companies Apple, Ford, Medtronic, NVIDIA and SpaceX strengthen partnerships with TI to unleash the next era of American innovation
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Timescale Is Now TigerData
Cofounders of Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman discuss the company’s new name, showing how it reflects the company’s.
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Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
In the EU, digital sovereignty is trending. Businesses and authorities are starting to adopt sovereign solutions from Europe.
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What “working” means in the era of AI apps
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
Open source LLMs now outperform closed alternatives at 90% lower cost for workhorse tasks. We compare benchmarks, pricing, and real-world performance.