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As homes fill with connected devices, internet service providers face growing pressure to deliver experiences that are not only reliable but also secure. Daniel Herscovici of Plume discusses how real-time network data, specialized AI and automated troubleshooting can help provide

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This coming holiday season, brands will have a new type of shopper to court: AI agents. Cheq, a cybersecurity company that verifies AI shopping agents, says it recorded a 100x surge in agentic traffic over a 45-day period following the release of consumer AI agents like Instinct

Reed’s view Fear is rising that the AI bubble is about to burst under the weight of mounting debt, as my colleague Liz Hoffman detailed yesterday, including this great quote from an unnamed data-center financier: “We’re not an ATM for your dystopian future.” Perhaps lenders have

Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities Management Data centers require skilled professionals. Collaboration between IT and facilities, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages. Editor's Note: This article was originally p

Your project has a lot going on. Your activity feed doesn't need to tell you all of it at once. This week, we're helping you find relevant activity, smoothly move from Config as Code to infrastructure as code, and inspect and trigger cron jobs from your terminal. Let's get into i

AI agents are changing how software gets built. Developers have gone from writing every line of code by hand to directing agents that write most of the code. As a result, the current workflow is split across a laptop, a cloud model API, and a cloud VM. NVIDIA RTX Spark is built f

Programming note: I’ll be attending the TomorrowX Summit in Austin in November, followed by Fintech Nerdcon in San Diego. If you’re at either, please say hi. In my former career as a research analyst, I would approach earnings season with a mix of trepidation and excitement. The

The Scoop Investors are pouring cash into a hot new sector of the AI economy: model routing — a practice allowing developers and companies to easily switch between different AI models. Startup TrustedRouter, which launched publicly six weeks ago, is among a growing crop of model-

The growing AI landscape is giving enterprises more choice in how they build, customize, and deploy increasingly capable models. Open-weight models are an important part of that landscape. They give enterprises access to model weights and greater flexibility to inspect, evaluate,

It was an economy bursting at the seams: robust growth powered by a tech boom, low unemployment, elevated inflation and Fed rate hikes to try to cool things down. The big picture: That was the situation in the year 2000, and it reminds us a great deal of the conditions in 2026. T

Hemingway Knows Nothing by Artur Dron, translated by Hanna Leliv. One of several recent Ukrainian-language books that have been translated into English, Dron’s “is a visceral, gripping account of life at point zero, being wounded, and losing friends,” a Ukrainian author wrote for

COMPUTE Just How Rosy Is That Datacenter Buildout Forecast? No matter how much money anyone throws at it, the GenAI boom can only continue to grow as fast as datacenters are built and powered up to accept machinery. No amount of political, social, or economic pressure can speed u

Leostream announced Leostream Cloud, a cloud-based remote access service, available now, that connects authorized users directly to physical and cloud-hosted workstations and other protected resources. The service combines identity-based authentication with policy-driven resource

SlugFest: The npm Trusted Publishing flaw that trusted names, not IDs npm keyed publishing trust on a renameable owner/repo name instead of GitHub's immutable repository ID, exposing 1,500+ packages. The bug, the fix, and the same mistake in your own authorization code. SlugFest

XCENA showed two AI inference demonstrations built on its MX1 CXL computational memory at the OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose: a KV cache shared across inference servers through a CXL memory pool, and vector search for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) run inside the memory

This sound is being used for habits or look that have temporarily become someone’s whole personality. Creators put the current obsession in the hook or show it, then let the sound with the lyric “I’m going through a phase” play. Here you can connect the audio to the temporary o

Fitness and lifestyle platform Cult.fit has received observations from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for its proposed initial public offering (IPO). The company, formerly known as Curefit Healthcare, plans to raise Rs 950 crore through a fresh issue of equity

Agents Denied Agentic commerce is a thing. Muse and others advanced the timeline to “agentic commerce is here right now—it was nice knowing you, old-school ecomm” but then more recently, some big etailers (like Amazon) responded, “not so fast—agent shoppers are officially instabl

Cover Image by Runway Hi friends 👋, Happy Friday and welcome back to our 215th Weekly Dose of Optimism! Welcome to the flying flipping car era. As bad as things have been for my Philadelphia Eagles, that’s how good they’ve been for humanity. Let’s get to it. This week’s Weekly D

Quick home services startup Snabbit recorded a net transaction value (NTV) of Rs 72 crore in Q2 FY27, marginally ahead of Urban Company’s InstaHelp at Rs 71 crore. However, Snabbit reported a lower burn of Rs 142 crore against InstaHelp’s adjusted EBITDA loss of Rs 174 crore in t

← Latest Founders Who Only Date Sequoia YC founders want Sequoia or nothing. Sequoia wrote a $1 billion check to someone else. Hi, AI Enthusiasts! Welcome back to our Friday Deep Dive. Some founders in Y Combinator have a type. "I've met YC founders who told me they'll give up if

At Modal, we like to think that we know a thing or two about squeezing nanoseconds out of systems. We love to obsess over making our systems performant and capable from the ground up, and we have to! We build for the thousands of GPUs waiting for that latest RL rollout, for the m

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Home services marketplace Urban Company reported a 41% year-on-year growth in operating revenue in Q2 FY27. However, its losses widened threefold as the company continued to invest in its quick home services platform InstaHelp, which alone reported an adjusted EBITDA loss of Rs 1

Urban Company has approved a proposal to raise up to Rs 2,500 crore through equity shares and convertible securities, including a qualified institutional placement (QIP), as the home services platform looks to strengthen its business and scale its operations. In a stock exchange

Four accounts are turning rally-style driving alerts into a Gen Z content playbook.

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Richard Bian is the head of product operations for Ant Ling, the foundational LLM at Ant. If you don’t know Ant, they most famously make Alipay, which makes your money and your world run when you’re in China and sometimes beyond. Richard is a former software engineer at Microsoft

Friday 16 October 2026 Top stories today: - Meta’s Muse Spark Open debuts, tops U.S. open-weight AI rankings - Anthropic IPO valuation expectations falls to ~$1.5T from ~$2T - Ramp raises $1.85B at $60B valuation, hits $2B annualized revenue - Amazon unveils Bee Frontier wristban

Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn and Beatrice Nolan sat down with Jensen Huang in London this week, where Huang sounded off on headline-grabbing cybersecurity incidents and AI doomers. Read More

A slew of new open-weight artificial intelligence models from American and European companies aim to convert users of Chinese open models who are concerned about security, but fall short of the dominant Chinese systems on performance despite having greater resources, experts said

Could the Societal Value of Workloads Shape Data Center Policy? As opposition to data center expansion grows, policymakers may eventually look beyond power and water consumption to ask whether the digital services those facilities support justify their environmental and infrastru

Quint is an open-source, executable specification language and toolchain based on TLA+ that enables engineers to model, simulate, and verify system behaviors using an intuitive, programmer-friendly syntax. Connect with Gabriela on LinkedIn and X. Congrats to Populist badge winner

Listen now: YouTube | Apple | Spotify Today’s episode is brought to you by: Notion Learn more about Notion’s Developer Platform today at https://ntn.so/refactoring Today's guest is Francisco Trindade, VP of Engineering, founder of two companies, and author of “Leading Effective S

A version of Muse Spark Open was released today, fulfilling their original promise but with a model weaker than their Spark 1.3. It’s also worth watching the Tesla Roadster demo - not strictly AI but nothing cooler than real life flying cars. Our title story today is a rare one o

A version of Muse Spark Open was released today, fulfilling their original promise but with a model weaker than their Spark 1.3. It’s also worth watching the Tesla Roadster demo - not strictly AI but nothing cooler than real life flying cars. Our title story today is a rare one o

16th October 2026 This research task is really an experiment in running Claude Code for web in "Ultracode" mode, as described in Orchestrate subagents at scale with dynamic workflows in the Claude Code documentation. With Ultracode turned on, Claude Code makes aggressive use of d

Vadim Makeev has a great blog post detailing an SVG styling situation as old as time. Basically: - Inline SVG is pretty good because it’s fast and has full styling control, but it can bloat the DOM and doesn’t take advantage of caching. - SVG <use> is hampered because of the Shad

Three weeks ago we brought prompt_jev() to MotherDuck, a week after TypeSafe announced Jev. You ask a closed question in plain English, pick the shape of the answer (yes/no, one choice from a list, a score), and get a typed result with a confidence score, straight from SQL. We sh

Announcing passkeys: Sign in without a password on the web, Android, and iOS_ Appwrite Auth now supports passkeys. Users sign up and sign in with Face ID, Touch ID, a fingerprint, or the device PIN, and one passkey works on your website and in your Android and iOS apps. Passwords

Your agent built the app. Now help it launch. (Sponsor) Working code is just the start. The GoDaddy Developer Platform lets your AI agent deploy your app, register an available domain with your approval, connect it to your app, and set up professional email.Bring hosting, domains

Reflection's Beam is freely available on Ollama for a limited time October 16, 2026 Reflection’s first open-weight model Beam is generally available as of this morning, and we’re day-zero partners rolling it out on Ollama for free (for a limited time only!). In collaboration with

Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale Beam by Reflection is out on Hugging Face! It is the first model from the new US lab, Reflection, and it’s open! It's a mixture-of-experts (MoEs) model with 501B parameters (23B active per token), supports text as

6 things I've learned in 6 years at PostHog Contents After 6 years at PostHog, I am delighted to share that I have learned exactly 6 things. 80% of being a good manager is good hiring The other 20% is giving context and getting out of the way. If you hold an extremely high bar wh

An agent is roughly a model inside a harness, operating in an environment. The model supplies the intelligence. It reasons, makes decisions, writes code, and decides what actions to take next. The environment is the actual computer, repository, browser, or container where this wo

After MCP, A2A, & AG-UI, there’s another agent protocol: And this one is built for Agent harnesses: UHP (Unified Harness Protocol) is a standardized interface for running agent tasks across any agent harness, regardless of which one you use. HarnessRouter is its open-source serve

US inflation rises more than expected - here's what is happening with prices - Published US inflation rose by more than expected in the year to September, according to official figures, in the final data release before the midterm elections next month. The pace of price rises inc

Reliability Standards for AI Data Centers, Crypto Miners Move Closer to Adoption The proposed rules must still be approved by NERC’s board and federal regulators. As written, they would apply to computational loads of 50 MW or more connected at voltage levels of at least 100 kV.