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When an AI agent pays on someone’s behalf, responsibility should follow the mandate that person agreed in advance, says Dmytro Rukin, CEO of LaFinteca. The user answers for the limits they set, the agent provider for keeping the agent inside them, and the merchant and payment provider for the checks only they can run. The … Read more

I don’t usually write essays. Actually, I don’t think I have written many long-form things in my life, except code files. My journey with computers started with Microsoft Word. I was probably around 10 when I first saw WordArt. It was one of the coolest things I had seen. You could create these amazing (at … Read more

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B on October 23. The pitch is a small model tuned for agents: it calls tools, follows instructions, and is small enough for laptops, Jetsons and other edge hardware. The model card’s benchmarks are tested on H100s, RTX 5090s and DGX Spark. I wanted to see what happens without any … Read more

Short answer: Go to the places where your buyers already are. With no audience, your first users come mostly from direct outreach, communities, launch directories and search content. Expect the first 100 users to come from effort, not from a launch day. Why having no audience is not fatal An audience helps, but it is … Read more

The contract came first. Independent oversight was still a thought. By the time Dražen Višnjić publicly explained the technology project, Republika Srpska’s government had already signed an agreement worth BAM 57 million with the Chinese company ELINC. The proposed combination was explicit: Chinese hardware and software, Russian organizational practices, and Israeli training. Asked who would … Read more

I’ve been dictating designs to Codex with Wispr Flow, then printing the results: holders that fit my speaker, my pegboard and the little meters I want to use. I’d never done CAD modelling before. Now I can describe what I want and get something made to my specification. Roughly three months ago, I didn’t even … Read more

Most SaaS companies have a customer health score. Green, yellow, red. A number from 0 to 100, built out of logins, seats, NPS, support tickets, and weights someone picked in a workshop. Very few of those scores have ever been tested. Not “does it look reasonable.” Tested: when the score said an account was red, … Read more

A car hanging upside down makes a remarkable photograph. I still cannot think of a journey I need to make that way. That tension is what interests me about Tesla’s latest Roadster reveal. Its most memorable moment offered almost nothing I would ask for in an everyday car. Yet, it made me think much harder … Read more

When people hear “DRM,” they picture cryptography: keys, ciphers, the dark art of stopping a video from being copied. That part is real, and on a creator platform that sells video, it is also the easy half. The maths is solved. There are well-understood encryption schemes and well-understood providers to hold the keys. You can … Read more

My phone’s Downloads folder has 379 files in it. I know that only because I asked. Finding anything in there used to mean the same routine: open a file manager, sort, scroll, squint. Now I just ask. The app doing this is Gotcha, the open-source Android copilot we build at Samosa AI. It is not … Read more

Hey Hackers! One reason we love digging through our Tech Company Database is the sheer variety of companies it showcases. Industry heavyweights, ambitious startups, and just about everything in between. Different ideas, different problems to solve, and a wealth of valuable insights that don’t always get the attention they deserve. That’s exactly what our Company of … Read more

SuperPlane is an open source software factory for engineering teams. It takes coding agents from ticket to verified, merged PR, with shared standards and full visibility. Every engineer on your team now has a coding agent. But nothing happens until someone opens a session. Everyone’s setup is different. Most agent tools today are built for … Read more

The supply of new accountants in the United States fell by a third in five years, with first-time CPA exam candidates dropping from 48,004 in 2016 to 32,188 in 2021 according to The CPA Journal. Gartner expects finance headcount growth to slow from 6% in 2025 to 2% in 2026 while 88% of CFOs rank … Read more

The industry spent two years debating whether models are safe. Meanwhile, enterprises wrapped ungovernable systems around safe models. Safety is a property of the system, not the model. Here’s a question the model safety debate never wants to answer. Your model passed every safety benchmark. It’s aligned, red-teamed, tuned within an inch of its life. … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Awesome AGENTS.md That Can Be Used on Any Agent and Any Stack By @khasky [ 3 Min read ] I reverse-engineered … Read more

Soneium, the blockchain entertainment ecosystem developed by Sony Group and Startale Group, is expanding into tokenized intellectual property investments through a collaboration with Asseto, bringing eligible users access to royalty-linked exposure from a $549 million fund managed by global private markets investment firm Partners Group. The initiative introduces two products, ipUSD and IP Vault, through … Read more

Every year, Michigan healthcare facilities face significant staffing overhead costs that could be streamlined through better technology. Legacy agencies charge substantial markups. Gig platforms have raised concerns about treating nurses fairly. And regional facilities, the ones serving communities outside Detroit and Grand Rapids, have staffing needs shaped by smaller local clinician pools, commuting conditions, and … Read more

Your competitor does not need to breach your firewalls, plant malware on your workstation, or bribe an insider to steal your corporate secrets. The most lethal weapon that could wipe out your competitive moat tomorrow is the very architecture, logic, and unpublished research you freely disclose today while innocently chatting with centralized AI models! Consider … Read more

Overview MOSS_image_MAX_ULTRA_hires_lora_test is a LoHa adapter for Comfy-Org’s MOSS-Image-Base, intended to improve text-to-image generation at 4 megapixels and above. Its maintainer is comfyanonymous. Best use cases Use it with its MOSS-Image-Base model for high-resolution text-to-image generation, particularly at 4 MP or higher. The stated training mix includes anime and photographs at 3.5–10 MP. Limitations The … Read more

An agent that answers questions about a company’s numbers has to return a figure it was allowed to say, taken from a definition someone signed, and show where that figure came from. The failures are concrete when that constraint is missing. The model invents a metric name. It averages two rows because the question said … Read more

Anthropic finally put its cards on the table. The public Form S-1 hit EDGAR on October 26, 2026, and the headline numbers are the kind that make a growth investor reach for a stiff drink: $16.3 billion of revenue in the first six months of 2026, net revenue retention of roughly 900%, revenue per employee … Read more

In June 2026, I wrote a design document for what I called an Autonomous Semantic Vector Graphics Engine: a locally hosted multimodal agent where an LLM acts as an architect, decomposes a prompt into named components, draws them in a see-think-act loop, and hands you back clean, semantic SVG. It was, in the reviewer’s words, … Read more

In 2023, the trick was knowing how to word a prompt. In 2026, every serious AI model follows instructions well enough that phrasing stopped being the bottleneck. The bottleneck is now what information the model has when it answers. That is context engineering, the discipline of designing everything the model sees, not just what you … Read more

I’ll never forget the post-mortem. It was 4:45 PM on a Thursday before a long holiday weekend. A critical staging microservice died after a team refactored their database connectivity. An engineer, desperate to log off and avoid ruining their weekend, jumped straight into the management console. They attached an AdministratorAccess policy to an EC2 instance … Read more

Most AWS bills I audit are not bloated because of exotic architecture mistakes. They are bloated because of a dozen boring defaults nobody revisited: on-demand pricing for steady workloads, gp2 volumes, log groups that never expire, S3 buckets with no lifecycle rules, NAT gateways carrying traffic that should never touch them. Below are 20 fixes, … Read more

Two of Slack’s original eight employees have spent more than two years blogging Slack’s history, one post at a time, and their newest post fills in the part of the Salesforce story outsiders never saw. “About” describes Building Slack as a project by Ali Rayl and Johnny Rodgers, and “Salesforce – Part Two”, published October … Read more

Hiring one mechanical, electrical or embedded engineer takes roughly 40 hours of senior engineering time across phone screens, take-home reviews and onsite interviews, according to Colare, the San Francisco startup that raised a $2.5 million pre-seed round from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures . The company launched publicly the same day with simulation-based … Read more

More than half of all web traffic in 2024 wasn’t human. The Imperva bad bot report found that automated traffic overtook people for the first time in a decade, and a meaningful share of that automation spends its time clicking, loading, and “viewing” ads that were never meant for an actual person. That’s invalid traffic, … Read more

Pulling an open-source model, starting a server, and getting an answer to your prompt should take less than 30 minutes. In half an hour or so, you’ve got yourself a prompt-ready machine. But, send 10k+ requests a day to the same inference server, and you won’t be so pleased with its performance. The difference between … Read more