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Lately I've piled up a lot of thoughts on indie development and wanted to pull them together, so this is the story of taking Mole from an open source CLI to a paid Mac app. What I was thinking at the time, and which parts actually turned out to matter. Mole lives at mole.fit, and the CLI is open sou

For years, payroll technology was expected to do one thing particularly well: calculate salaries correctly and make sure employees were paid on time. That expectation has changed considerably. Large organizations now operate across multiple countries, employ increasingly distributed workforces, and

The code is being produced faster than I can confidently review, validate, and ship it. Old workflow vs. new workflow The biggest change in my workflow is not simply that AI writes code faster. It is that my role is gradually moving away from manually implementing every detail and toward designing,

One thing I’ve been thinking about something that sounds simple but is actually a little tricky: what do we do after AI fixes a failed test and it passes again? There are already some interesting approaches to this. mabl looks at adaptive healing, Testim focuses on smarter locators and maintenance,

Are anime laptop skins removable? Yes. Laptop skins can generally be removed carefully when you want to change the design or restore the original appearance of your laptop. Will a laptop skin damage my laptop? A properly applied and carefully removed compatible skin should not normally damage the la

When people compare a real estate video maker, they often start with templates, effects, or generation speed. Those are easy to demonstrate. They are not always the parts that decide whether a listing workflow is usable. I would start with five less glamorous questions. Disclosure: this article was

AI teams increasingly describe their systems as auditable, traceable, or even verified. Usually, this means they have logs. They may record prompts, model names, outputs, tool calls, timestamps, policy evaluations, and user identifiers. More mature teams add distributed tracing, human approvals, and

TrustGraph 2.8 is available now, with a major upgrade to the platform foundation for enterprise knowledge and AI systems. This release focuses on a practical problem: AI applications must remain reliable when they grow beyond a single demo, a single document library, or a small number of workspaces.

Google announced a statewide partnership with Missouri on September 8, 2026, that will give nearly 100,000 educators and more than 1.1 million students across K-12 and higher education no-cost access to the company's AI tools, training curriculum, and industry credentials. The agreement covers

Argentina's Patagonia is drawing attention as a possible site for large AI data centers. The article Patagonia has what AI data centers want, including no resistance so far appeared first on The Decoder.

ASML has won over Samsung, TSMC, and Intel to switch to larger photomasks, which should boost the throughput of its newest EUV machines by 40 percent. Meanwhile, Huawei is orchestrating China's counter-strategy, aiming to break its dependence on the Dutch lithography technology through equipment mak

Meta will no longer judge its engineers by how much they use AI tools. The article Meta drops AI usage from engineer performance reviews after "tokenmaxxing" backfires appeared first on The Decoder.

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe and PSG Equity.

By now, I've attended enough AI steering committee meetings to spot a trend. There is always one person in the room (usually the one who is most familiar with the tools) who ultimately decides how quickly the rest in the room can move. This decision is made discreetly and without malice. They r

Google DeepMind introduced AlphaGenome Atlas on September 8, 2026, a platform containing predicted molecular effects for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA variants in the human genome, accompanied by a new variant-ranking score and a companion technical paper. The resource is built by precomp

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new treatments for diseases. The platform, called AlphaGenome Atlas, c

Qualcomm said on September 8, 2026 that it has entered a multi-generational product collaboration with Amazon to supply customized silicon at scale for large-scale AI data centers, with the two companies working together on AI inference. The announcement from Qualcomm covers multiple generations of

I returned to coding after a long break, and Lovable was where I picked it up again. The apps looked great, worked at first glance, and came together in a few hours. At first, that felt remarkable. But it stopped being enough the moment I wanted to know what the code was doing – and why. That was wh

OpenAI's research organization now runs 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every workday of human labor, the company said in a September 8, 2026 essay that lays out how it intends to convert frontier model capability into revenue. The figure, measured against a standard eight-hour workday as of m

Marc Fernandez, Chief Strategy Officer at Neurologyca, is a technology strategist and business development executive with more than two decades of experience spanning artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, consumer electronics, and human-computer interaction. At Neurologyca, he focuses on s

A New Jersey bill would require self-driving vehicles to carry LiDAR and radar alongside cameras, but mandating specific hardware tells regulators nothing about whether the AI actually driving the car is any good. Across the US, state regulation of autonomous vehicles is aimed at the wrong target. S

Adobe is overhauling how editors interact with AI in its Premiere professional video editing software. Its new Generative Media tool makes it easier to generate video, sound effects, music, and soundscapes without ever leaving the project timeline. The generators themselves aren't entirely new; the

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2026 What will the next generation of science and technology look like? Our latest Innovators Under 35

Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup building chips that recycle energy usually t

Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up&

The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures inside blast furnaces, where the material reacts wit

Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China, the story goes, was killed crossing a road because

Three years after launch, Mistral AI has closed a 3 billion euro Series D round, pushing its valuation past 21 billion euros. The article Mistral AI raises 3 billion euros in Europe's largest-ever tech funding round despite lagging behind rivals appeared first on The Decoder.

We look at r-1, the document parsing model Reducto released on September 1, 2026. We walk through how it folds OCR, layout detection, tables, formatting and grounding into one full page pass, replacing the multi stage agentic pipeline it ships alongside. We break down the two numbers that matter for

OpenAI is expanding support for journalism with tools, training, and partnerships for students, educators, journalists, and news organizations.

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, a dense causal language model with 2,516,756,480 parameters and a native 131,072 token context. It averages 53.9 across the 34 benchmarks in its model card, ahead of Qwen3.5-4B at 51.1, with its clearest leads in tool use, coding agents and long-context retrieval. P

Robot datasets have grown far slower than the models trained on them, mostly because collection stays locked to lab hardware. AXIS moves demonstration collection into a web browser and pushes everything expensive to backend GPUs. The result is 207 tasks and 50,129 verified Franka trajectories, and c

Anthropic signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months but still trails OpenAI's $750 billion plan through 2030. In early 2026, CEO Dario Amodei warned against investing too fast. Now Anthropic is racing to catch up, while Sam Altman warns about "unsustainable silliness" in the

GPT-6 Astra beat the puzzle game Portal entirely on its own in about 24 hours, with zero human help after the initial goal was set. Developer cozyblaze published the code and docs on GitHub. His takeaway: Astra is "the worst model we'll ever get." The article GPT-6 Astra beat Portal start to finish

ChatGPT has pushed its share of AI chatbot website traffic back up to 55.5 percent, according to Similarweb. Year-over-year, though, its lead shrank sharply from 73.3 percent as Gemini doubled its share and Claude grew nearly fivefold. Mobile apps and desktop clients aren't included. The article Cha

A study in Nature Biotechnology suggests that rentosertib, a drug designed with AI by Insilico Medicine, may reverse markers of biological aging. Six independent aging clocks predicted that treated patients were biologically up to six years younger than the placebo group. The trial covered just 42 p

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of hydrogen gas, which could provide a va

Forget email surveys or long calls spent on hold. Voicebox lets people send customer feedback by recording a voice note on their phone.

Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released something wider last week. IFM is the frontier lab launched by MBZUAI in May 2025. K2 Horizon is a fleet of six models: 375B-A23B, 36B-A4B, 32B, 7B, 3.7B and 0.9B. Shipping alongs

OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.

The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user qu

We look at NeoMME, a family of 260M and 800M bidirectional encoders from H Company. Unlike ColPali-style retrievers, it processes multilingual text tokens and raw 32×32 image patches in a single Transformer, with no pretrained vision tower and no causal decoder. We cover the masked discrete-diffusio

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.

AI research agents can propose far more experiments than they can afford to run. Meta FAIR, Oxford and UCL introduce AI Research Preference Models — frozen LLM judges that rank 15 unexecuted candidates and execute only one. On AIRS-Bench, the average normalized score rises from 0.684 to 0.729, and t

The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."

I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple’s revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, I’ve forgotten Siri AI even exists.

Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies—the only problem is a lack of evidence.