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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have raised new funding for their social media startup West Co. The startup launched an invite-only version of its first app, Tangle, in November. Now the Financial Times has pieced together more details from comments made by Stone and Sharp, as well as from regulatory filings […]
An old boss of mine used to say, “It’s OK to be surprised by what happens in the markets. Just don’t be surprised that you’re surprised.” Here are some things that were surprising in 2025: 1. Just two of the Mag 7 stocks outperformed the S&P 500. Only Google and Nvidia beat the market in […]
Real-time dashboards are decision assistants, not passive displays. In environments like fleet management, healthcare, and operations, the cost of a delay or misstep is high. Karan Rawal explores strategic UX patterns that shorten time-to-decision, reduce cognitive overload, and make live systems trustworthy. I once worked with a fleet operations team that monitored dozens of vehicles […]
Rumors of a successor to Intel’s Arc A770 discrete GPU have been floating around for more than a year at this point, with a new launch window finally seeming on the horizon. Following various leaks, the Arc B770, has just appeared on an undisclosed Intel GitHub repository, with code specifically mentioning “b770.” While this isn’t […]
from the year-in-review dept It’s that time again! Instead of our usual look at the top comments of the week, it’s time to celebrate the most highly voted comments of the year at Techdirt. As usual we’ll be looking at the top three winners in the Insightful and Funny categories, as well as some outliers […]
An internal agent only provides value when its workflows are initiated. Building out a library of workflow initializations, which we call triggers, is a core part of building an internal agent. This is part of the Building an internal agent series. Why triggers matter While there’s a lot of chatter about AI empowering employees to […]
TL;DR The onero H1 is SwitchBot’s first humanoid robot, featuring 22 degrees of freedom and Intel RealSense cameras to handle various domestic chores. Using a self-developed OmniSense VLA model, the robot aims to adapt to various household tasks, such as folding clothes, among others. SwitchBot also revealed the Lock Vista smart lock, the AI MindClip […]
During CES 2025, NVIDIA spent much of its keynote touting its leading position in artificial intelligence. Still, the company managed to squeeze in a few notable hardware announcements, including its RTX 5000-series GPUs and Project Digits desktop supercomputer (later redubbed Spark). For this year’s show, the company’s website says it’s “lighting up CES 2026 with […]
As web browsers evolve into all-purpose platforms, performance and productivity often suffer. Feature overload, excessive background processes, and fragmented workflows can slow down browsing sessions and introduce unnecessary friction, especially for users who rely on the browser as a primary work environment. This article explores how adopting a lightweight, task-focused browser, like Adapt Browser, can […]
TL;DR: I built a platform to validate a hypothesis: If we lower the barrier to entry for using and productizing agents, will normal users actually like them? I’m looking for builders to test it out. You can take your existing agent code, fill out a simple manifest, run a few CLI commands, and have a […]
