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Revolve faces a proposed class action lawsuit for allegedly paying influencers without proper FTC disclosures, misleading consumers into believing endorsements were authentic.
Examples of ads that use the announcement, before-and-after, and comparison angles.
A list of questions to consider before writing copy.
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The Nylas Notetaker API [4] sends meeting bots to join Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom calls, and provides the recordings and diarized transcripts [4] for your application.
As AI reshapes product usage and cost structures, companies must shift toward usage-based pricing models and establish clear ownership of their monetization strategy. A cross-functional monetization council is essential for driving rapid, data-informed experimentation and the continuous evolution of pricing models in a fast-moving market.
Traditional UX is too slow for today's fast-paced online world, where people seek quick, easy value rather than complex apps. Design must shift to focus on user actions and deliver fast results with simple tools.
Prioritization involves four distinct but overlapping jobs - efficiency, leverage, alignment, and support - each requiring different conversations and tools. Clarity on which job is being tackled prevents misalignment and deadlock.
Most teams avoid conflict, but high-performing ones harness it as a driver of innovation by fostering psychological safety, navigating tension thoughtfully, and extracting insights from disagreements. Reframing conflict as collaborative problem-solving transforms discomfort into a repeatable source of value.
Top SaaS and AI-native companies drive growth through smart tactics in retention, pricing, engagement, and job design - from annual upgrade nudges to community-driven growth loops. This post provides examples that offer actionable ideas for pushing the limits of modern go-to-market strategy.
Having the right words empowers confident, effective feedback. These seven phrases help you communicate clearly, build trust, and encourage growth without triggering defensiveness, making tough conversations more productive and actionable.
Developing engineering strategy is a lifelong practice, not a quick win. Individuals can build a personal growth plan through continuous learning, community-building, and structured reflection.
A VP of Sales defends the need for human sellers in an AI-driven environment by highlighting the unique human traits of leadership, rapport, and decision-making through real stories. This leads to the creation of the HUMAN framework, which emphasizes empathy, accountability, and intuition - qualities AI can't replicate in high-stakes sales.
AI tool adoption fails when it's added without removing existing tasks.
AI is rapidly changing product management, creating a gap between fast adopters and those facing hurdles.
DeepSeek's open-source distributed file system is called 3FS (Fire-Flyer File System). 3FS abstracts away the complexities of distributed storage, allowing users to interact with files as if they were on a local system. The system uses meta, management, storage, and client nodes, and has something called CRAQ that achieves strong consistency with fault tolerance by treating nodes as a chain.
Spotify releases its mobile app weekly with hundreds of changes for over 675 million users. Its Release team oversees this process, balancing speed and quality with the help of tools and a dedicated Release Manager. This manager coordinates communication, prioritizes bug fixes, and helps with smooth feature rollouts.
A common issue faced in frontend state management is the synchronization of related states like columns and filters in a data table UI. This article walks through several flawed approaches—direct setters, gate setters, and useEffect—and ultimately recommends deriving shared state through selectors to avoid duplication, glitches, and refetches. State should be shaped so that dependencies are implicit and managed reactively, not manually.
Two years after predicting that AI would augment rather than replace developers, Josh Comeau reaffirms that human devs are still necessary for coding. Tools like Cursor and Claude Sonnet have made coding easier and faster, but still require skilled oversight and guidance.
Understanding PostgreSQL as a system of files, processes, and configurations makes understanding databases easier. Devs get more control over the database by manually setting up PostgreSQL instead of relying on package managers or Docker, making debugging, provisioning, and versioning easier.
Mandatory pair programming can shield devs from harmful individual metric tracking and micromanagement. By restructuring task management systems to assign tickets to pairs or groups, individual accountability is removed, so arbitrary metrics to track "productivity" are meaningless.
Google is releasing an early version of Gemini 2.5 Flash, its new AI model, which has improved reasoning capabilities while maintaining speed and cost-efficiency. The model uses a hybrid reasoning approach, allowing devs to control the "thinking" process and set a thinking budget to balance quality, cost, and latency. Gemini 2.5 Flash can perform complex tasks more accurately by reasoning through thoughts before responding.
Font Tester is a browser extension that makes typography selection and testing on any website easier by providing live previews, a font library, custom font uploads, and comparison tools.
React Agent Hooks is a library that transforms React hooks into LLM tools, letting devs create AI agents that can interact with and modify application state through familiar React semantics.
SQLite provides transactional integrity when using virtual tables, which allow accessing external data sources as if they were regular tables. It uses rollback journals and super-journals to maintain atomicity across multiple databases or virtual tables. It also has a two-phase commit process, with an `xSync` hook for durability and hooks `xCommit` and `xRollback` for cleanup.
Many developers ask if React is accessible, but a better question is whether React makes building accessible apps easier or harder. React itself doesn't prevent accessibility, but common developer habits, like overusing div elements, misusing ARIA, and poor SPA focus management, usually lead to inaccessible experiences.
AgentAPI is an HTTP API that allows programmatic control of coding agents like Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex, enabling the creation of unified chat interfaces, agent-to-agent control systems, and automated pull request review tools.
LinkedIn built a DNS Caching Layer that improves the reliability, scalability, and visibility of DNS resolution within its web-scale infrastructure.
Configuring PostgreSQL's `shared_buffers` is good for performance, as it manages data flow, but setting it too large (beyond 64GB) relative to the data area can lead to performance issues due to slow buffer eviction processes.
Newly hired Staff+ engineers can properly onboard themselves by asking thoughtful, collaborative questions focused on understanding technology, product, operations, and people.
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No, it's not Nvidia… It's MODE MOBILE, 2023's fastest-growing software company according to Deloitte.
OpenAI has released two new models, o3 and o4-mini. These models combine simulated reasoning capabilities with access to functions like web browsing and coding. It is the first time OpenAI's reasoning-focused models can use every ChatGPT tool simultaneously. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users now have access to the models - Enterprise and Edu customers will gain access next week. OpenAI plans to release o3-pro to the Pro tier in a few weeks.
An internal analysis from Tesla executives showed that the company's Robotaxi plans would lose money. The analysis also said that the company should focus on a new affordable electric vehicle called the 'Model 2', but Elon Musk canceled plans for the vehicle and pushed only for the Cybercab, replacing plans for the next-gen affordable EV with cheaper versions of the Model Y and Model 3. The decision is likely the reason Tesla is in a slump right now.
Scientists have grown nugget-sized chunks of chicken in a device that mimics the blood vessels that make up the circulatory system. The approach uses fine hollow fibers to deliver oxygen and nutrients to cells suspended in a gel. It paves the way for whole cuts of chicken, beef, pork, and fish to be grown in the lab. The same technology has the potential to produce functional organs.
Engineers have managed to double the number of transistors they can pack into the same area every two years, but the unwanted side effect of heat is becoming more and more prominent. Temperature affects performance, power consumption, and energy efficiency. Excessive heat can slow the propagation of critical signals in a processor, lead to a permanent degradation of chip performance over time, and cause transistors to leak more current, wasting power. As the density of logic circuits continues to grow, so does power density, generating heat as a by-product. Efficient heat dissipation will be crucial to maintaining chip performance and longevity as chips become increasingly compact and powerful.
Codex is a lightweight coding agent for the terminal. It was built for developers who live in the terminal and want ChatGPT-level reasoning plus the power to run code, manipulate files, and iterate, all under version control. Codex requires zero setup, runs network-disabled and directory-sandboxed, and is multimodal. It supports any model available with the Responses API.
Even if large language models (LLMs) continue to get more powerful, there will still be core engineering techniques that will make LLM-powered software more reliable, scalable, and easier to maintain. This article discusses 12 principles for building LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers. The fastest way for builders to create high-quality AI software is to take small, modular concepts from agent building and incorporate them into existing products. These concepts can be defined and applied by most skilled software engineers even if they don't have an AI background.
While large language model providers have spearheaded a new AI revolution, the jury is still out on whether they are good businesses. Investors are still wondering whether these pioneering labs will reap profits or whether other parts of the AI ecosystem will capture the lion's share of value. This article looks at the industry and suggests strategies that labs could pursue to secure good economics for themselves. While there are certainly challenges to the AI lab business model, there are still many strategic options open to them.
The FTC had wanted $30 billion to drop its antitrust case against Meta, but Mark Zuckerberg decided to offer $450 million instead. Zuckerberg was confident that President Trump would back him up with the FTC as he had been developing closer ties to Trump. The FTC said the offer was not credible and that it wasn't ready to settle for anything less than $18 billion and a consent decree. Meta upped its offer to close to $1 billion as the trial approached, but it wasn't enough.
TikTok's Footnotes will allow users to add additional context and relevant information to videos to help others better understand certain content.
ActorCore enables developers to build stateful, AI agent, collaborative, and local-first applications and deploy to Rivet, Cloudflare, Bun, Node.js, and more.
Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, is an artificial intelligence tool for coding help - it could be OpenAI's biggest acquisition by far.
Grok Studio is a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps.
The new US chip-export limits are the clearest sign yet that whatever advances China makes in AI will have to help without the US' help.
OpenAI's o3 is fast, agentic, extremely smart, and has great vibes.
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Baseten is now offering inference on NVIDIA B200 GPUs. B200s are ideal for workloads with aggressive throughput, latency, and cost requirements. By leveraging B200 GPUs, Baseten customers are achieving:
Grok, the chatbot from xAI, now includes Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool to build documents and basic apps. It's now live for all users.
Candidate for best blog post of the year for folks interested in generative modeling. This post breaks down the history, intuition, and key innovations for learned latents.