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Google DeepMind collaborated with filmmakers to produce "ANCESTRA," a hybrid film blending live-action with Veo-generated video. New Veo features enabled personalized, motion-matched generative content for seamless visual integration.
Featherless AI is now available as an inference provider on Hugging Face. It offers serverless access to a wide variety of models from Meta, Qwen, DeepSeek, and others.
SWE-Factory provides automated training and evaluation pipelines for GitHub issue resolution tasks. It is powered by LLM-based multi-agent systems.
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The feature converts existing AI Overviews text summaries into audio format using NotebookLM's podcast-style functionality.
Harvard Library and Google Books released 242 billion tokens from almost 1 million public domain books as a high-quality training dataset.
Claude, when talking to copies of itself, will eventually turn the conversation into a discussion on spiritual bliss, Buddhism, and the nature of consciousness.
A recent paper from Google describes key risks involved in deploying AI agents and the company's framework for securing them.
Walmart and Amazon are reportedly exploring issuing their own dollar-backed stablecoins to cut transaction costs and speed up e-commerce and cross-border payments by diverting billions in banking fees onto onchain rails. These brand-specific tokens would capitalize on growing regulatory clarity under the GENIUS Act, which aims to standardize stablecoin collateralization and AML compliance. Their moves follow Shopify's planned USDC integration and discussions among banks like JPMorgan and Bank of America about joint stablecoin launches, signaling a broader institutional embrace of regulated digital dollars.
The SEC has declared effective Trump Media's registration for its Bitcoin treasury strategy, unlocking $2.3B in capital that can now be used to purchase BTC at the company's discretion. While the exact allocation and timeline remain undisclosed, the filing also includes a $12B universal shelf for future stock, debt, or warrant issuance.
CEXes like Coinbase, Binance, and Bybit are going on-chain with hybrid products that blend DEX access and institutional safeguards. Coinbase offers Base-native swaps and KYC-gated Verified Pools, Binance Alpha curates early-stage tokens across chains, and Bybit's Byreal uses Solana for RFQ-style pricing and yield layers. These moves position CEXes as trusted gateways into permissionless markets while retaining Web2 UX.
Yupp is a new platform for evaluating and using LLMs. Users can query top models for multiple answers, then earn crypto credits or fiat via Stripe, PayPal, and Coinbase by providing feedback that helps train and benchmark models. That feedback feeds Yupp's “VIBE Score” leaderboard, giving AI builders provable, audit-ready evaluation data and giving users transparent rewards. Yupp utilizes blockchains as a “trust machine” for transparent, user-owned AI model evaluation.
Trump-era policies like the FIT21 Act, SEC leadership shifts, and stablecoin legalization are accelerating institutional adoption of crypto. With growing macro liquidity constraints and looming rate cuts, crypto is benefiting from structural policy clarity and rising ETF-driven inflows. While proposals like a U.S. sovereign BTC reserve remain theoretical, the cycle is clearly being driven by regulation-backed mainstream integration, not retail speculation.
Ethereum's PeerDAS upgrade vertically shards onchain data availability checks, meaning validators now only verify a subset of each blob, yet the blobpool still forces every node to download full blobs, threatening to overwhelm lower-resourced operators as blob counts rise. To realign with the sharded DA checks, this proposal introduces a vertically-sharded blobpool where originators gossip only assigned blob columns, governed by a free, first-price auction with refunds for slot-based “blobpool tickets” to prevent DoS attacks under high demand. This market-driven approach preserves rollup inclusion guarantees and avoids the degraded service of simple horizontal sharding, while private blob flows and CL downloads remain intact. Remaining challenges include fine-tuning auction parameters, exploring reputation-based spam defenses, and coordinating rollups, builders, and stakers ahead of implementation.
The Ethereum Foundation has donated $500,000 to fund Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm's legal defense and will match up to $750,000 more in community contributions. His trial will start on July 14 in New York. Storm faces conspiracy charges for money laundering and sanctions violations tied to the 2022 OFAC sanction on Tornado Cash, though unlicensed money-transmitter counts were dropped under the previous administration. The Foundation's support is justified by its belief that privacy is normal and writing code is not a crime.
Together, Bridge and Privy create a “Regulatory Arbitrage as a Service” platform that avoids traditional banking custody and licensing hurdles. This integrated Fintech 3.0 OS empowers developers to spin up programmable wallets, stablecoin payouts, and global USD rails via API with Stripe-grade UX and compliance. Looking ahead, Stripe is poised to expand into onchain lending, digital asset licensing, FX rails, and even a potential consumer app to round out its programmable finance ecosystem.
Franklin Templeton, Galaxy Digital, Grayscale, VanEck, and Fidelity have all submitted updated S-1 filings for spot Solana ETFs following recent SEC outreach signaling growing momentum toward approval.
Ethereum spot ETFs have recorded their longest streak of net inflows as of June 13, signaling rising institutional accumulation even as ETH price remains below prior highs.
U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs ended a record 19-day inflow streak with $2.2M in outflows Friday, as heightened Israel-Iran tensions triggered a broader crypto selloff and $1.1B in liquidations.
Foundry MCP server now integrates with Heimdall, a bytecode-focused smart contract analysis toolkit.
Disney, Universal, and other major studios filed the first Hollywood lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney for repeatedly producing their copyrighted characters without permission. The suit focuses on character copyright violations, with evidence showing Midjourney generating recognizable characters like Spider-Man even from generic prompts like "superhero fight scene." Disney is likely aiming to secure a licensing deal rather than shut down the profitable AI company, which operates uniquely without venture capital funding.
Adobe beat Q2 earnings expectations with $5.06 per share on $5.87 billion revenue and raised full-year guidance, but investors remained unimpressed as the stock declined. The company faces mounting pressure from AI competition despite launching its own generative AI tools like Firefly, with analysts concerned that traditional creative software could become less relevant. Adobe's stock has fallen 7% year-to-date as investors question whether the company can successfully monetize AI tools amid increasing competition from rivals like Canva and OpenAI.
Apple's new Liquid Glass UI drew praise for being “delightful,” “elegant,” and “modern,” but also sparked debate over its similarity to older designs like Windows Vista's Aero Glass. Microsoft playfully accused Apple of copying Vista in a viral TikTok video, though many argue Apple's implementation is more advanced, reigniting the age-old debate over who did translucent UI best—and who did it first.
Visual composition serves as a basic language that communicates meaning even before we get to the actual content. We tend to "read" a composition intuitively, much like we process grammar in writing, which is why a well-designed layout feels satisfying even before we engage with the text. That's why it's a good idea to spend extra time on wireframing during the design process. If a layout works well with placeholder elements, it will end up supporting whatever final content you add later.
Naming in design and development significantly impacts team communication and thinking. Poor choices create confusion between designers, developers, and product managers using different "dialects." Effective naming requires balancing specificity with flexibility. Teams should actively address naming inconsistencies to reduce frustration and improve collaboration.
The Paradox of Choice suggests that offering too many options can overwhelm consumers, reducing both satisfaction and the likelihood of a purchase. While the theory has been debated, its core insight holds: people prefer fewer, well-curated, clearly framed choices that simplify decision-making and reduce regret.
SmoothUI is a collection of beautifully designed components with smooth animations built with React, Tailwind CSS, and Motion.
This free CSS generator, based on the glassmorphism design specifications, can quickly design and customize style properties.
A collection of more than 2,800 free AI-generated 3D icons.
AI tools are revolutionizing prototype-to-code conversion by analyzing design files and generating clean, maintainable code that maintains consistency between design and development. These tools enable developers to work 55% faster while reducing development costs by 20-30%. They also enable designers to gain creative freedom and businesses to achieve faster time-to-market.
AI systems like ChatGPT are designed to be overly accommodating, which may diminish users' critical thinking abilities, prompting the need for "productive resistance" that challenges rather than validates user input. Well-designed AI pushback can stimulate deeper learning and better decision-making, particularly in educational contexts and misinformation correction, where challenging misconceptions prove more effective than passive compliance. Designers face the crucial task of balancing trust-building with critical engagement, creating AI interfaces that encourage intentional thinking rather than addictive validation-seeking behaviors.
First impressions of a job are often accurate, and when something feels off early on, it usually doesn't improve with time. This is especially true for managers, whose roles demand deep alignment with company values, making it crucial to recognize misalignment early and learn from the experience to avoid similar pitfalls in the future.
Apple's "liquid glass" design language creates significant environmental concerns by requiring GPU-intensive blur effects and animations that increase energy consumption across millions of devices with no functional benefit.
Biophilic design integrates natural elements like plants, daylight, and organic forms into workplaces, creating measurable improvements in well-being, productivity, creativity, and staff retention while supporting neurodiversity through softer, more inclusive environments.
Apple is expected to redesign the MacBook Pro in 2026 with a thinner chassis, cutting-edge M6 chips using 2nm tech, and a major display upgrade to Tandem OLED, offering better brightness, contrast, and possibly a notch-free screen.
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Google killed the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button because it cost the company $100M/year in lost ads. The company's entire model depends on showing links so it can show ads above them. Now AI threatens to give direct answers instead of links.
Glean, an enterprise AI startup, raised $150 million in Series F funding, boosting its valuation to $7.2 billion. The capital will accelerate product innovation, partner ecosystem expansion, and international growth.
Linear raised $82M in a Series C round, valuing the company at $1.25B. The company will enhance its product while resisting traditional "best practices" and focusing on delivering quality experiences. The funds will further integrate AI into Linear's tools, making workflows more efficient by accommodating AI agents. Linear is committed to maintaining profitability and innovation for its 15,000+ clients, including major names like OpenAI and CashApp.
SMB churn is killing your NRR. The difference between 99% and 105% retention can make or break your next fundraise. Before throwing bodies at the problem, figure out if your expansions come from inbound requests or require outbound hunting - this determines whether you need better self-serve paths or actual sales plays.
Slack just made it nearly impossible to export your own data with new API limits of one request per minute and by blocking third-party tools from indexing conversations. This matters because incumbents like Slack and Salesforce are terrified that AI agents will handle all the actual work while they're reduced to storage systems, so they're locking down access and forcing users to use their agents instead.
Hiring a senior leader can transform a startup by offloading responsibilities and providing strategic partnership. Founders should prioritize candidates who offer relevant domain expertise and a collaborative mindset, ensuring they complement rather than overshadow the existing team. Clear expectations and thoughtful integration boost the chances of success with senior hires.
Strawberry is an AI-powered browser that accelerates research, writing, and task automation across the web.
spring.new is an AI agent that instantly builds custom apps, workflows, and tools tailored to your needs.
Buildform is an AI-powered form builder built to boost engagement and conversions that offers unlimited responses, partial saves, and smart logic.
Minted looked like a wedding invitation site. Gusto was boring payroll software. Both became billion-dollar companies. Elad Gil's playbook: find markets everyone avoids for dumb reasons. Payments were "too risky" until Stripe built better fraud tools. Gusto's founders watched their parents struggle with ADP monthly and fixed it.
The classic Model/View/Controller pattern that has guided software for decades is being flipped by AI. Instead of rigid relationships between data, interface, and logic, we're moving to intelligent agents that dynamically orchestrate distributed systems. LLMs become Models (grown not built), Apps become Views (just interfaces, not data stores), and Agents become Controllers (making real-time decisions across systems).
Asana traded higher than Monday.com in 2021 despite worse metrics because Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz owns 56% and pumped $1B into the stock. The market bought his "future of work" narrative over Monday's actual numbers. Today, the truth is brutal: Monday trades at 3x Asana's multiple with 30% margins vs 1%, grows 3x faster, and has 112% NRR, while Asana's collapsed to 95%. Build a business that wins on fundamentals, not founder mystique.