Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
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The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company’s surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.
It’s time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup Battlefield finals.
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” … Read more
Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technology.
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The AI simulation “aims to reflect 80% of the scenarios McKinsey consultants might encounter in their day-to-day work,” the … Read more
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Apple’s HomeView smart display seems tailor-made for the kitchen. (That aluminum base looks like it will hold up better than my now off-white kitchen HomePod.) I’m just going to come right out and say it. I love the approach Apple has taken with the HomeView. I think it’s the shared, always-available household interface that my … Read more
Databases have traditionally been designed either for analytical data or for operational data. But database engine CedarDB supports both, and its approach has gained relevance with the rise of agentic AI.
Jio plans to use most of its IPO proceeds to repay debt as it expands beyond telecom.
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.
OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana, allege OpenAI unlawfully put profits over safety when … Read more
Colossal announced a new AI platform to help accelerate its de-extinction efforts and Peter Diamandis has launched a new fund to back startups who use it.
Everyone is racing to give developers a copilot. Almost nobody is building the thing that has to exist before an agent is allowed to act: governance. I build enterprise AI systems at PayPal — full-stack, backend-lean, leading large technical initiatives end to end. And the uncomfortable lesson from the last two years is this: the teams … Read more
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that the surveillance company has not canceled contracts of any police department or law enforcement agency, despite reports of abuse.
The electric vehicle market in the U.S. has been growing for the last three consecutive quarters.
We’ve all gotten a scam text about a nonexistent parking ticket or a fake package delivery, but hopefully you’ll start seeing fewer of them. Microsoft says it helped dismantle a marketplace for scammers sending phishing messages like those around the world. Through an investigation with Japan’s National Police Agency, it tracked scam activity back to … Read more
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Startup Ambrosia Energy will build a massive factory to crank out batteries to augment solar panels, creating a round-the-clock clean power plant.
Why GPS-denied navigation stopped being niche Most commercial small drones either depend entirely on GPS or carry inertial sensors too poor to sustain flight through a long outage. A January 2026 survey of drone security challenges makes the point bluntly: when GPS drops, most off-the-shelf drones fall back to rigid fail-safes, hover or return-to-home, rather … Read more
Most seed-stage founders can tell you their ARR and their headcount. Ask them for net revenue retention by cohort and you usually get a pause, followed by a spreadsheet that doesn’t quite answer the question. That gap sinks more Series A rounds than founders expect. The product can be good and the team can be … Read more
Executive summary Git will not become obsolete, but the Git client model is about to be demoted from the center of the developer stack to a compatibility layer, and the economic value in source control is moving to the server. The organizations that leave Git outright over the next three to five years are a … Read more
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Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest … Read more
Former Apple engineers figured out how to get a biometric sensor to attach to your watch without any magnets or adhesives.