Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B
It’s been a wild year of growth and fundraising for vibe-coding database of choice, Supabase.
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I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop
An anime version of Jesus Christ flipping tables. OpenAI employees performing in Hamilton costumes. News anchors discussing a story on television. A man doing a thirst-trap TikTok dance. Sam Altman – stealing GPUs on CCTV, listening to a business pitch, crying. Such were the contents of my feed on Sora, OpenAI’s new social media app […]
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How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26
As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple’s local AI models.
After nine years of grinding, Replit finally found its market. Can it keep it?
While AI coding startups like Cursor raise brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything but swift.
Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure
As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company’s product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams.
Google’s Jules enters developers’ toolchains as AI coding agent competition heats up
Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.