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Alexa+
Powered by generative AI, Alexa+ is your personal AI assistant that gets things done—she’s smarter, more conversational, more capable, and free with Prime.
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EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
EdgeDB is now Gel. New identity, renewed focus on delivering the best PostgreSQL data platform in the world.
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History of CAD
The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering and Manufacturing. A "Brief" History of CAD by David E. Weisberg
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.
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Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you?
AI tried to take launch results into their own... hands? And it caused some heartbreak.
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The Profitable Startup
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong – something to worry about when you hit scale. Why focus on profits when money and valuations were easy to come by?
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Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse
A free tier allows people to try a SaaS without paying first, but it opens up the service to bad actors. Here's how we balance preventing bad actors while still supporting legitimate users.
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Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29
We’re here with a couple save the dates to reserve some space on your calendars.
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Mistral Saba
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
The Trump administration appears to be moving in a “reciprocal” policy direction despite the significant negative economic consequences for American consumers of across-the-board tariffs on goods coming into the US. However, the EU’s VAT system should not be used as a justification for retaliatory tariffs.
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Perplexity Deep Research
Deep Research accelerates question answering by completing in 2-4 minutes what would take a human expert many hours.
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The Anthropic Economic Index
Announcement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and description of the new data on AI use in occupations
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The Age of Agent Experience
AI agents are here—from ChatGPT Operator to coding tools like Devin and Lovable, there’s a rapid growth of products that can interact with websites on our behalf. It’s time to start building for a new persona: the autonomous agent. Instead of just designing experiences for human users, we need to think carefully about…
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Announcing the data.gov archive
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent.
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Sand trafficking in Latin America
Criminal mafias are making massive profits from the illegal extraction and sale of sand for construction purposes.
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F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant
We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically design...
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple independent implementations—Oracle is trying to stall the process and sidestep accountability.
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Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth
Explore Julia and JuliaHub's remarkable growth: 494% rise in Discourse views, +412% GitHub stars, and new products like Dyad.
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Mistral Small 3
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice. Then a few years of stagnation, at a time when it seemed that desktop office suites were destined to die, and fashion was driving users to the cloud…
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DeepSeek R1 Is Now Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
DeepSeek R1, available through the model catalog on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, enables businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI.
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