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OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT for US adults, allowing users to connect Apple Health and supported medical records for more contextual health conversations. The company said connected health data and related chats would not be used to train foundation models or target ads.
Fugu-Ultra v1.1 is more capable across coding, agentic tasks, and advanced reasoning. It is now available at the same price as Fugu-Ultra v1.0. Fugu offers frontier-level performance without single-vendor dependency. It dynamically orchestrates the best models to tackle complex multi-step tasks.
Runway Media Router is a developer tool that automatically selected image, video, or audio models based on quality, speed, or cost. The release positions Runway Dev as an infrastructure layer offering unified API access to both Runway and third-party models.
Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode to support Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, while adding integrations with apps such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Google Calendar. The beta remains available to all users, with free accounts limited to Haiku and one connected app.
Poolside co-CEO Eiso Kant explains how a compact research team built the training infrastructure behind Laguna S, an 118B mixture-of-experts model reported to outperform much larger open-weight systems.
Kimi K3 uses an extreme amount of thinking tokens. It uses over 12 times more reasoning than Claude Opus 4.8 and over double that of Kimi K2.6. The model's performance is primarily due to its unique chain-of-thought approach in which it iterates upon designs like a full AI agent would, but inside its chain of thought. This article looks at Kimi K3's thinking traces to explain the model's performance.
Compute pricing coverage runs on headline rates, but many workloads don't consume them that way. Training, fine-tuning, and high-throughput inference need multiple identical GPUs in the same machine or cluster. A company that buys H100 futures to hedge a future four- or eight-GPU requirement carries real basis risk. The futures will hedge a rise in the broad H100 price and do nothing about the lack of co-located capacity.
Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3, a multimodal model that can generate images and audio-video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt. Its architecture could be used in the future in robotic perception and action.
Microsoft introduced MAI-Image-2.5-Pro for high-fidelity image generation and editing, alongside MAI-Voice-2-Flash for faster, lower-cost voice applications. Both models entered public preview and joined Microsoft's broader production model lineup.
Runs a local desktop AI coworker that completes tasks across files and apps.
Intel reported better-than-expected results for its second quarter. The company's shares are up over 170% so far in 2026. It is starting to craft long-term agreements with customers for its server CPUs, a move that's becoming common in the industry. The company's CFO says Intel is supply constrained, with data center customers demanding more than it can produce.
Google Research discusses the AI economy's rapid growth, focusing on innovations and impacts across industries. The piece highlights AI's transformative effects on sectors like healthcare and finance. It emphasizes the need for strategic investment and regulation to harness AI's potential responsibly.
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OpenAI's naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model is now integrated with the ChatGPT desktop application.
A Huawei-led consortium has released a technical report that documents full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's V4 family on Huawei Ascend chips, measuring the run at 34.22% model FLOPs utilization.
Cognition has added The Interaction Company of California, the makers of Poke, a personal agent that can text natively on Apple Messages, to its team.
The deal gives Sierra immediate access to a platform that can power autonomous, multistep applications across enterprises.
Etched's new architecture enables AI chips to run math blocks at half the usual voltage, boosting FLOPs density and tackling thermal issues.
AMD and Cerebras have unveiled an AI inference solution that combines AMD Helios with Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine, enhancing low-latency AI workloads.
Google Photos introduced a toggle letting users switch instantly between Gemini-powered Ask Photos and classic keyword search, without navigating through settings. The addition responds to user complaints about irrelevant AI results and the previous absence of a quick way back to classic search, following a mid-2025 rollout pause. Users can now choose their preferred search mode per query, though Google still applies its own judgment about which system fits, and non-adopters must complete onboarding before accessing the AI option.
Webflow's MCP 2.0 upgrade lets AI agents build components from screenshots, edit over 50 CSS-variable design tokens per conversation, and query analytics conversationally, without needing the previous bridge app for most tasks. New "Instructions" features—rules and skills—let teams embed always-on guardrails and on-demand workflows directly into Webflow for agent use. Additional capabilities include managing forms, assets, page branches, custom code, and Enterprise-level site history tracking.
Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone, likely called the iPhone Ultra, in September after waiting for foldable display technology to mature and for Samsung to eliminate the screen crease. Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra demonstrates a nearly crease-free display that is believed to closely match the panel Apple will use, marking a significant improvement over previous generations.
Nir Eyal's Hook Model—trigger, action, reward, investment—maps onto AI products almost perfectly, with variable rewards and frictionless chat boxes arriving nearly pre-built. Eyal's own "Manipulation Matrix" and regret test offer a check: products that improve users' lives and that builders would use themselves qualify as facilitators, while those failing both tests risk becoming exploitative "dealers." The loop measures consumption, not benefit, so real success requires tracking outcomes like time saved rather than engagement metrics like messages sent.
Designers can turn competitors' negative reviews into persuasive evidence, since scattered complaint patterns reveal gaps stakeholders can't dismiss as opinion. Mining sources like Reddit, G2, and Trustpilot for recurring 1-2 star complaints—time-boxed and counted, not curated—surfaces real user language and frustration clusters. Charting these clusters' frequency converts qualitative gripes into data-backed arguments that move stakeholder conversations from opinion to evidence.
AI has made polished portfolios, case studies, and take-home assignments easy to generate, shifting the real proof of a designer's ability from artifacts to live conversations where they must explain, defend, and reflect on their decisions under pressure. Future interviews will increasingly focus on these "room tests," which reveal judgment, trade-off thinking, and experience through unscripted follow-up questions rather than polished presentations. The solution isn't to perfect portfolios but to regularly practice articulating decisions, discussing failures, and defending work in real time, because those skills are becoming the strongest signal of genuine expertise.
Loova brings together top AI models like Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro, Sora 2, VEO 3.1, and Kling O1 in one powerful platform.
Ditto is an open-source deterministic website cloner. Point it at any site and receive a copy with clean, componentized Next.js or Vite code within 5 minutes.
Toon Tone is a free cartoon color guessing game where your memory for animated characters gets tested using hue, saturation, and lightness controls.
Scintillab, an educational kit co-designed by Fondazione OpenDot with Fondazione Agnelli, Ferrari, and CNR, brings hands-on STEM experimentation into Italian primary school classrooms. In its first year, 2025/2026, it has reached 59 schools and about 4,700 students across six provinces, with plans to expand nationally to 15,000 students. Built on inquiry-based learning, it uses simple tools like shadow theatres and ramps, encouraging children to experiment and learn from mistakes rather than lectures.
Studio Chapeaux argues that typography has become the most important element of packaging design, with bold, distinctive typefaces outperforming logos and illustrations by remaining legible, expressive, and impactful on crowded shelves. To demonstrate this approach, the studio created SC Ostrea, a custom typeface designed specifically for its oyster and beer brand, showing how typography can become an integral part of a product's identity rather than a supporting element. The project also marks the beginning of a type foundry focused on packaging, addressing what the studio sees as a lack of typefaces optimized for high-impact commercial products.
Lenovo's design VP says AI is shifting computing from manual input toward users directing outcomes through personalised, intent-based interaction.
Substack surpassed 50 million active subscriptions and 5 million paid ones, drawing designers, illustrators, and other creative professionals away from algorithm-driven platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn.
Rams System Icons reimagines skeuomorphic design with Braun-inspired aesthetics, combining tactile hardware details, clean typography, and a strict grid system to create a modern, highly functional icon set.
What made someone admirable in one era can look quite different the next. Founders must continually reevaluate what earns legitimacy in order to survive these cycles. One could opt to not play in this game, but this would go against the industry's broad desire to change the world. It would be bad for tech to be more culturally and socially isolationist at the exact moment it gained the most power over culture and society.
With every AI startup seemingly hitting $100 million ARR in record time, this article asks how much of that revenue is actually theirs. A company can book $100 million and send $90 million straight to Anthropic, OpenAI, or another model provider. Cheaper models do not necessarily fix it. Customers will expect the savings or bring the inference they already pay for. For your own startup, ask what they would still pay for if the model were free. That is the part of the product you own.
Kimi K3 is the latest in a series of open-weight models. Open-weight models are estimated to be used in 80% of startups. They represent 25% to 50% of the volume across major platforms like OpenRouter and Vercel. The gap between frontier and open-weight performance has compressed to 4 to 6 months and appears to be shrinking.
VROOM started with a convincing idea. Event planners carry a list of venues, vendors, and prices in their heads, so why not turn it into software for a $90 billion market? Four months later, the team learned that prices went stale, coordination was not that hard, and customers were really paying for trust. They spoke to planners, but translated trust into "information asymmetry." For your own startup, ask whether the expert's advantage still works after that person leaves. If it lives in relationships, you may be building a service.
Everyone watches funding announcements for sales signals. By the time you email the company, 30 other vendors are already mentioning its Series A. A hiring post may be better. A founder advertising for an SDR has just published the pipeline problem, approved budget, and roughly three-month timeline in public. Search LinkedIn posts from the past week for "we're hiring" and the role your product could replace or support. Focus on founder-written posts from companies with fewer than 200 employees, then show how you can produce part of the desired result before the new hire even finishes ramping. You are not trying to talk them out of hiring. You are arriving when the problem is urgent and the budget already exists.
Notion as code allows users to define and deploy an entire workspace in TypeScript. Users can build workspaces with coding agents, version-control the setup in git, and reproduce the same setup anywhere required. They can review every change and keep a clear history of how the work evolves in git. The same script can be used across dev, staging, and production.
Rogo Intelligence transforms firms' expertise into reusable institutional memory. It sits between a firm's knowledge and the AI systems that use it, forming fragmented information into structured and governable institutional memory. Rogo Intelligence transforms a firm's intelligence into durable infrastructure that is governed, permissioned, reusable, and continuously improving. This will allow firms to create an enduring advantage as frontier models continue to improve.
A new Zerodha employee knew the company does not push customers to trade, but could not explain why. For a 16-year-old business whose reputation rests on that decision, onboarding had preserved the rule but lost the reason. The same culture shows up in smaller choices. No 3 AM emails, no weekend work, and no random founder ideas derailing engineering. It can take almost two years for an employee to contribute properly, so burning people out at year two is expensive. Try asking a recent hire what your company refuses to do and why. If they only know the slogan, onboarding fails.
Everyone is hiring forward-deployed engineers now, but the title is starting to mean almost anything. An actual deployment means flying into a customer's operation, meeting everyone who touches the problem, and shipping a first version in about a week. Deployment one is ugly. By deployment ten, templates and integrations should turn most of the work into configuration. If customer ten still needs the same people and hours as customer one, you built a consultancy with a software demo.
Steve Ross started by renting his father-in-law's unused funeral limousines at night. He added parking lots, cleaning companies, plumbing, and other fairly boring businesses. That collection eventually bought Warner Bros. These companies were attractive because ambitious people rarely bothered to look at them. Constellation Software found a similar opportunity in tiny software businesses serving marinas, funeral homes and libraries. There may now be more than 38,000 of these vertical software companies. Perhaps for your own startup, look one or two layers beneath the industry everyone is chasing. The better business may be selling to the supplier nobody at the conference thought was worth meeting.
People open your product because they want something to happen.
Investors are now asking whether companies can become extreme outliers rather than whether they are strong companies.
This post looks at how to use agents to run Gumroad support from a phone.
Adoption and investment in AI is growing, but sustained impact on performance is elusive.