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A glimpse of an exciting future where tax professionals will be able to spend more time advising customers and explaining the tax returns! At @ThriveHoldings, we built a product with @OpenAI to automa

AI infrastructure is shifting toward vertical integration, where companies build specialized, end-to-end solutions optimized for specific use cases rather than relying on generic horizontal platforms.

Latent Space reports on emerging AI infrastructure companies achieving unicorn status, specifically highlighting Fireworks and Baseten as new decacorns (companies valued at $10+ billion), with OpenRou

Co-founder and Head of Design at Replit, @HayaOdeh shapes the brand, user experience, and product design of one of the world’s most accessible vibe coding platforms. See her take the stage on day two

Eid Mubarak is a traditional Islamic greeting exchanged during Eid celebrations, the festivals marking the end of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr) and the completion of the Hajj pilgrimage (Eid al-Adha). The phr

Vercel announced experimental native binaries for the Vercel CLI, which compile the command-line tool into native machine code rather than running it through Node.js, potentially improving performance

Conductor migrated its parallel coding agents infrastructure from local laptops to the cloud using Vercel Sandbox, enabling improved scalability and distributed execution of AI-driven code generation

This Latent Space article discusses emerging AI infrastructure companies valued at $1 billion or more (decacorns), with a focus on Fireworks AI and the broader landscape of companies building foundati

A manager describes shifting their leadership approach by providing agents (team members) with decision-making criteria rather than directly answering their questions, enabling them to develop problem

latent space pod is still very underrated, especially on the applied side of things glad that they have kept it very high signal one of the few pods i listen to while working out and I always find mys

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE

Reachy Mini, a robotic system, can now operate with fully local processing capabilities, enabling on-device inference without requiring cloud connectivity. This advancement allows the robot to run AI

Perplexity published a blog article detailing methods to improve the CPU performance of Unigram tokenizers, addressing computational efficiency in natural language processing. The article explores opt

Vercel announced a redesign of its Deployments List interface to improve visibility and management of project deployments. The update likely enhances the user interface for viewing deployment history,

Replit has been named to @Redpoint's 2026 InfraRed 100. A list of the companies building what AI runs on. Grateful to be in it, alongside alumni like Stripe, Snowflake, and HashiCorp. To every builder

Delta Weight Sync (DWS) is a technique for efficiently distributing and synchronizing large language models with trillions of parameters across distributed systems using Hugging Face's TRL (Transforme

The best research labs are building what comes after static models. Congrats to @trajectorylabs on the launch! Excited to have them training on the AI Native Cloud as they push the frontier on Continu

We're hosting an event on June 16th in San Francisco. Compile is a one-day event that brings together engineers, researchers, designers, and builders of all kinds to discuss the future of software. ht

btw this will be the 3 year anniversary of the Rise of the AI Engineer blogpost. the industry keeps growing and growing, kinda scary to realize i may never top it. AIE EU, AIE MIA and AIE SG reached 8

Firecrawl, a web scraping and data extraction tool, has been integrated into the Vercel Marketplace, enabling developers to easily incorporate its capabilities into their Vercel-hosted projects. This

Fireworks is coming to Tech Week, and we're doing it across multiple cities. Boston is up first. We're co-hosting a Founder Skybar Social with @fin_ai and @TrustVanta. Follow along via #BOSTechWeek In

This post discusses the importance of data connectors for AI systems, emphasizing that integrating access to common productivity tools like Gmail and Google Calendar is often underestimated in terms o

Hackathon 🤝 Music Industry. Introducing the Musicathon by @Musixmatch Pro 💻 Built with support from partners including Replit, @ElevenLabs, @SongstatsApp, @ai_lalal, and @Cyanite_ai. 📆 June 15–21 📍 Fu

This post discusses how fundamental data structures in early Unix—specifically three key structs from John Lions' Unix source code commentary—served as the conceptual foundation for the evolution of p

- image or video editing? write scripts - finances, tax work, etc? put in PDFs, write scripts, output HTML - medical advice? put in PDFs + data, output HTML - filling out paperwork? write scripts - cr

Introducing Screendrop - a screenshot tool for everyone Opensource Host your own cloud with R2 + a tiny little hono worker Native Screenshot capture and editor Video recorder, editor and compressor Th

last 4 days to submit talks: https://ai.engineer/cfp this is our first year featuring PREPRINT poster sessions for research papers as well - as @bclavie pointed out we need a separate process for this

Vercel has extended its microfrontends routing capabilities to now support vc alias and branch domains, expanding routing functionality beyond the primary domain. This enhancement allows developers to

new in-depth blog post time: Inside the Transformer: The Life of a Token a deep dive into a modern dense transformer, i cover YaRN (why does pairwise coordinate rotation induce positional information?

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE

... plus a bonus section of transcript from the Oxide and Friends 2026 predictions episode in January where, bizarrely, we predicted that something like this would happen - listen here: https://oxide-

I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ev

A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize somethin

Vercel has announced that Sandbox persistence is now generally available (GA), a feature that allows developers to maintain state and data across sandbox environments. This capability enables more per

The pressure Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the curl team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported. The rate of incomi

Vercel's domain management service has added new filtering and sorting capabilities, allowing users to sort domains by price and filter results based on availability. These features enhance the domain

> … [W]e keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that funct

When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. https://simonwillis

California Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, in San Mateo County, CA, USWe took our new folding kayak out in the harbor and saw sea lions and harbor seals chilling on the d

Car, fashion, house: all contemporaries. Architecture was the vanguard of modernism, in part because the materials to instantiate the vision were the most advanced in that field. It always blows my mi

Simon Willison discusses whether coding agents should automatically generate tests alongside the code they produce, addressing a key quality assurance consideration in AI-assisted development. This li

Fun new feature in Datasette 1.0a30 - a 'jump to' menu, also available by the '/' keyboard shortcut, which lets you type to jump to a database, table or canned query. It offers a hook so plugins can e

Globally renowned digital artist behind the iconic Windows 10 wallpaper seen by billions, @gmunk’s psychedelic, atmospheric work spans installations, music videos, title sequences, and immersive film.

Simon Willison reflects on the disconcerting experience of unknowingly reading AI-written emails presented as human-authored, comparing it to deliberate deception. The post raises concerns about authe

Datasette, an open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, released a blog post detailing a new jump menu feature for 2026. The jump menu likely provides improved navigation and quick access to

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's