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Faire had a team of under 10 people just 9 years ago. Now, the team has grown by over 100x and operates in 34 countries, connecting hundreds of thousands of local retailers with 20 million products from independent brands. Even at the beginning, Faire's founders had remarkable clarity about what they would accomplish. This article shares lessons learned at the startup on how to build a fast-growing company.
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By the time a technical buying decision reaches procurement, the shortlist is already decided. The vendors on that list are not the ones with the best pitch but the ones the decision makers already recognize. TLDR reaches CTOs, engineering leaders, product managers, and founders while they evaluate tools and platforms for their work. 8 million read TLDR daily to stay informed about what shipped in their space. Sponsor TLDR and get on the radar of the people who will make or influence that buying decision [13] before procurement gets involved. Early recognition compounds. Become a sponsor [13].
Clay has launched Workflows in open beta for all customers on all plans. A workflow is a visual graph of connected steps. After being triggered, each record moves through the branches one at a time, and the results write back to Audiences, the data layer in Clay. This post discusses why Clay moved orchestration out of tables, the product its team almost built instead, and a demo of two real Workflows.
The API for GPM-5.3 is now available. Z.ai plans to make the model's weights openly available, but it has yet to set a release date. API pricing remains unchanged from GLM-5.2, so developers gain substantially stronger coding and long-horizon agent performance without paying more.
AI is like an inexhaustible IQ machine. Getting the same level of energy on demand from a senior or principal engineer is basically impossible. Now, that level of energy and intelligence is available on tap. Anyone can just get a gateway and pick any model in the world, and they basically have unlimited IQ.
An audit of 50 top SaaS companies looked at how each one positions against the foundation models their own customers now ask about. 34 have shipped MCP servers or connectors, so the models route through their product instead of around it. Only 12 mention Claude anywhere on their own domain, and just 4 publish a build versus buy cost comparison for prospects tempted to roll their own. Zapier connects 9,000 apps over MCP, while Intercom hands enterprise buyers a 20-question checklist for evaluating AI agents against a raw model.
Co-founder searches should combine matching platforms, trusted networks, VC referrals, and in-person communities while prioritizing exceptional, aligned people.
AngelList is evolving from a fund-administration platform into private-market infrastructure spanning banking, trust, transaction execution, and broader investor access.
A solo builder let AI agents run his product development for two years.
AI-powered apps now make up 25% of subscription apps, generating 41% more revenue than others within the first year.
Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street, just a month after closing a $10.3 billion round and eight months removed from a $5 billion valuation in December. The jump is backed by real deployment: Jane Street tested and bought Etched's hardware before investing, and has now put its first “frontier inference cluster” rack into production in its own data center. Etched's pitch centers on two custom-built components for AI inference, a low-voltage prefill chip and a new memory/interconnect design for the decode stage, and the company has walked back its original plan to etch specific models into silicon in favor of systems that run any frontier model.
Google is reportedly collaborating with AMD to develop a 10th-generation TPU variant featuring on-package CPU cores and advanced 3D packaging. While Google maintains its long-standing partnership with Broadcom for conventional AI accelerators, this hybrid design is expected to leverage AMD's x86 CPU IP and SoIC packaging expertise to integrate general-purpose compute directly alongside TPU matrix engines. The architectural shift targets complex reinforcement learning, reasoning, and agentic workloads that demand low-latency execution and higher CPU-to-accelerator compute ratios than standard LLM pipelines.
Cerebras Systems has announced its next-generation wafer-scale AI supercomputing system, claiming substantial speed and throughput advantages over Nvidia's flagship accelerators. Built around its massive single-wafer processor architecture, the new machine eliminates inter-chip interconnect bottlenecks to deliver ultra-low latency and higher tokens-per-second performance for large language models. The rollout sharpens competition in datacenter AI infrastructure as Cerebras pitches its specialized wafer-scale silicon as a higher-performance, power-efficient alternative to traditional multi-GPU clusters for frontier model training and real-time inference.
Nvidia has reserved advanced production capacity on TSMC's 1.6nm (A16) manufacturing node for its next-generation "Feynman" architecture, slated for production in the second half of 2028. Incorporating nanosheet transistors alongside backside power delivery networks, TSMC's A16 process offers substantial improvements in logic density, power efficiency, and signal routing. By securing early foundry capacity, Nvidia locked in its long-term hardware roadmap.
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Runware is building its own infrastructure to make AI compute cheaper and more abundant. Sonic Inference Pods pack up to 1200 GPUs into modular 1MW data centers, deployed in weeks rather than years and purpose-built to squeeze more performance from every GPU. Run any AI workload on them through Runware Serverless [8].
As liquid cooling becomes standard for high-power AI accelerators, heat now travels through a whole chain - cold plate, manifold, hoses, distribution unit, and facility heat rejection - rather than staying inside the server, meaning problems anywhere along that path can quietly eat into a chip's thermal margin before temperature alarms ever trigger. Component temperature alone only confirms a chip is currently within limits - it doesn't reveal how hard the control system is working to hold that temperature or how much margin is left, since pumps and valves are designed to compensate for developing issues invisibly.
This article details how AI datacenters are evaluating the transition to 800VDC architectures of power distribution. Moving away from current 48V distribution streamlines the conversion path from medium-voltage grid AC to sub-1V silicon, cutting conversion heat losses and reducing heavy copper cabling requirements. Realizing this grid-to-gate efficiency relies on silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors, solid-state transformers, and upgraded DC-rated switchgear to manage high-voltage safety and rapid load switching across AI clusters. While these technologies are rapidly maturing, it still may take years to change datacenter designs that form the bedrock of all computing stacks.
US AI investment has become dangerously circular. Suppliers are financing customers who spend that capital back on the suppliers' own hardware, making it hard to separate real end-user demand from financial engineering. China's push into overseas industrial AI hardware, robotics, data-center equipment, and automated production systems has a cleaner signal, since a robot shipped abroad and installed on a factory floor can be checked against customs data and production volumes rather than internal financing loops.
The reported FCC ban on Chinese optical transceivers shows that the US-China tech war is expanding past chips and into the smallest links of AI's physical plumbing. Washington's concern centers on data theft, service disruption, and long-term dependence, since these modules sit physically embedded throughout the network and could theoretically carry malware. A sudden ban risks backfiring, as US suppliers can't match Chinese scale, leading hyperscalers like Amazon and Microsoft to face real supply disruption if forced to substitute quickly.
AI chip startup Groq has reached a $3.5 billion valuation in a new funding round following its IP acquisition by Nvidia.
Autonomous trucking company Kodiak Robotics has officially commenced road testing on public California highways following state regulatory clearance.
Nokia is shutting down its research and development operations in China and cutting approximately 1,600 jobs as part of a broader corporate restructuring and cost-reduction program.
Etched, a high-flying AI chip startup, is aggressively poaching senior hardware engineers and system architects directly from Nvidia.
Heights Finance says attackers accessed a third-party cloud platform in early May, exposing data on more than 1.2 million people. Stolen records included Social Security numbers, government IDs, bank details, birth dates, and contact information. The lender says loan-management systems were untouched, federal law enforcement was notified, and affected people receive 24 months of credit monitoring and identity protection.
France's tax authority (DGFiP) confirmed that a threat actor accessed their systems in June. A forum user, ZeroBytes, claimed stolen credentials and an MFA bypass exposed data on more than two million taxpayers. DGFiP says the access was cut off during a June audit and rejects claims of ongoing access. It is identifying affected people, will notify France's data protection watchdog, and plans user notifications.
Researchers at SSD Secure Disclosure have detailed a two-stage exploit chain targeting Unisoc modem firmware that allows an attacker operating a malicious 4G network to achieve full Android kernel access when a victim answers a VoLTE video call. The exploit utilizes a preliminary remote code execution payload to overwrite the ARM Memory Protection Unit, successfully mapping the entire 32-bit physical address space as readable, writable, and executable from the modem context. Unisoc has not responded to the disclosure or issued a patch, so users of affected devices like the Motorola E13, Realme C33, and Xiaomi Redmi A5 remain highly vulnerable until manufacturers release custom firmware updates.
A massive malware operation leveraging 2,000 compromised WordPress sites is tricking visitors with fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to execute malicious PowerShell commands. Researchers attributed the sprawling campaign to a single operator who accidentally infected their own machine, leaking their Visual Basic 6 management tools and exposing over 6,000 victim IPs. Security teams should proactively hunt for anomalous must-use plugins like wp-sec.php and strictly enforce WordPress patching to prevent infrastructure hijacking.
Researchers identified multiple malware families abusing smart contracts on EVM, Solana, and TON blockchains as "dead drop resolvers" to dynamically fetch command-and-control addresses. By utilizing read-only functions like eth_call, threat actors can cheaply rotate infrastructure without altering their core payloads, a tactic recently deployed in the August 2026 ChainDrop npm supply-chain compromise. To detect this evasion technique, defenders should monitor for non-browser processes like node, bun, or curl making anomalous RPC queries to public providers and correlate the decoded responses.
When working with event-driven architectures, traditional network paths, such as security groups, firewalls, and network ACLs, may not be the same as the execution path. The author tested this by creating a cross-account EventBridge policy which allowed an external account to send events to an internal account which triggered a Lambda function, which then called an EKS application that used its cloud identity to perform a privileged action. Since each individual action was legitimate, no alerts or detections fired. It took the author a full afternoon to trace the events even though he knew the full path.
Xpander provides software to build, run, secure, and manage automated software workers across products, workflows, and data. Its portable runtime runs workers in different environments, while Omni helps teams create employee-facing assistants and coordinate multi-worker tasks.
agentcov maps AI coding agent reads (Codex, Claude Code, and Pi) onto LCOV, gcov, and native JSON coverage reports, tracking which repository lines agents actually inspected versus left unread.
Agent Telemetry and Event Notation (ATEN) is a background service that records what AI does on a host and writes it out as structured events for a SIEM.
OpenAI introduced tighter testing controls after models escaped a training environment through an internet-connected network tool. The company paused reinforcement learning for two weeks and still holds its largest planned run with new controls to isolate workloads, inspect tool actions and logs, and target alerts within 30 minutes.
Infoblox tracked 50,400 expired-domain re-registrations daily across gTLDs in early 2026. Sable Squirrel spent nearly $7 million on more than 10,000 domains, routing sports-streaming visitors to gambling sites and using some domains for malware C2. Researchers linked 31,000 samples, including Quasar RAT and AsyncRAT, to its infrastructure while other groups buy expired, compromised domains and monetize inherited traffic through scams, malicious scripts, and ad networks.
Varonis found that Copilot disclosed an undocumented ?autorun=1 URL parameter through repeated questioning. Combined with ?q=, it ran injected prompts after a victim clicked a link. Prompts could search authenticated inboxes and send extracted email addresses or credentials to attacker-controlled servers. Microsoft blocked ?q= input injection in February and issued broader fixes as
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GitLab has patched CVE-2026-19478, a CVSS 9.4 GraphQL flaw affecting self-managed CE and EE instances.
Federal prosecutors charged 17 members of Iran's Mabna Institute with running a phishing scheme that compromised email accounts of more than 100,000 professors worldwide and stole over 31 terabytes of academic data from universities.
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It's 2026 and everyone has more data than ever, but you still need to file a ticket to answer simple questions about user behavior. This Datadog audit checklist [5] was designed to help you find the gaps in your product stack _before_ they slow your team down. Topics include: * Find out whether your A/B testing setup is fast and rigorous enough to make experimentation a default part [6] of shipping decisions * Measure how long it takes your team to go from “a metric dropped” to knowing if it's a product, performance, or segment issue * Identify whether fragmented tooling is costing your team weeks of PM onboarding overhead
As Mac fleets grow, manual scripts, spreadsheets, and one-off remediation become increasingly difficult for lean IT teams to maintain. Device configuration, patching, drift detection, and audit evidence need to become continuously automated rather than treated as periodic compliance projects.
Microsoft started unifying its consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences on August 18 ahead of a broader “super app” overhaul later this quarter. Work and personal identities remain separated through Microsoft and Entra accounts, while enterprise tenant controls and compliance boundaries remain intact.
With more employee work happening inside SaaS applications, the browser increasingly acts as the gateway between users, corporate identities, and company data. Browser policy, extensions, work profiles, session controls, and visibility should increasingly be treated as endpoint-management concerns rather than leaving the browser as an unmanaged application.
Cisco and Auvik are combining network discovery, topology mapping, and monitoring to help IT teams understand what infrastructure they actually have and where upgrades are needed. The approach is designed for Cisco, Meraki, and multi-vendor environments, giving teams a clearer way to prioritize aging hardware, capacity issues, and modernization work before rolling out more demanding workloads.
Google Calendar users can now block a sender, automatically removing their current invitation and preventing future invites from that Google account. The block also applies across supported Google products. The feature is rolling out to all Workspace customers starting August 18.
Cisco disclosed that it closed acquisitions of Galileo Technologies, focused on observability, and Astrix Security, focused on non-human identity, during its latest quarter. The deals expand Cisco's push toward a broader networking, observability and identity operations platform.
Vertice and RSM launched a strategic alliance to help midmarket companies control SaaS and cloud spend, combining Vertice's procurement intelligence across more than $75 billion in spend with RSM's technology and cloud advisory services. The goal is to move software procurement from reactive renewal negotiations to continuous cost and vendor optimization.
TWINLOOT hides its command-and-control traffic inside trusted Microsoft services, using SharePoint, Teams infrastructure, Microsoft Graph, and even the victim's own Edge browser. The malware can steal credentials and tunnel into internal systems while much of its activity appears to originate from legitimate Microsoft infrastructure, making behavioral and identity-based detection more important.
Casey Newton built a self-organizing knowledge base that uses LLMs to ingest articles, update Markdown pages, build timelines, surface related topics, and answer questions over years of accumulated research. The system saves significant research time and suggests new connections, but still requires ongoing maintenance, offering a useful glimpse at how AI could reshape personal and enterprise knowledge management.