Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 · TechCrunch
2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:45:08 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:38:31 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:30:14 GMT · VentureBeat
A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (Joseph Cotterill/Financial Times) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application backend for developers, raised a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110.5M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:20:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:03:01 +0000 · TechCrunch
We’re giving away a back-to-school bag filled with over $800 of free tech 2026-08-04T10:00:00-04:00 · The Verge
Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (Joe Wilkins/Futurism) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:55:01 -0400 · Techmeme
OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal" Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:38:29 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
India moves to give its instant payments network a business model Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:31:17 +0000 · TechCrunch
Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 (Akash Sriram/Reuters) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Kalshi CEO says New York rejected $10B tax proposal amid crackdown Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:13:58 +0000 · ReadWrite
HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:05:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000 · TechCrunch
Apple briefly yanked Telegram from the App Store over CSAM violations 2026-08-04T08:57:43-04:00 · The Verge
Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B+ valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025 (Todd Gillespie/Bloomberg) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:40:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta Infra, which says the deal is for six years (Bloomberg) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:25:29 -0400 · Techmeme
The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:14:00 +0000 · MIT Technology Review
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:01:02 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 · TechCrunch
The Best Gaming Mouse You Can Buy After Testing Dozens of Models Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 · Wired
Platform Engineering Maturity Emerges as a Key Differentiator for Enterprise AI Success Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT · InfoQ
Presentation: Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:45:00 GMT · InfoQ
AI cloud startup Volta Infra raised $300M led by a16z and Altimeter at a $2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:35:03 -0400 · Techmeme
Purple Carrot Meal Kit Review: Tastier Than Meal Kits With Meat Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:34:00 +0000 · Wired
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:30:17 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Sources: CXMT is set to manufacture small quantities of LPDDR6 smartphone memory around 2026's end, as it seeks to compete with Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung (Bloomberg) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:20:00 -0400 · Techmeme
Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:17:57 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Sources: the FCC is drafting a restriction on US imports of new models of Chinese data center optical transceivers, set to take effect upon publication in 2026 (Alexandra Alper/Reuters) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:10:03 -0400 · Techmeme
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:01:37 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Uber is defending 4,000+ rider sexual-violence lawsuits by aggressively examining plaintiffs' drinking, clothing, and more, after promising to protect survivors (Emily Steel/New York Times) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:00:36 -0400 · Techmeme
DraftKings faces second class action over Predictions sports event contracts platform claims Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:56:39 +0000 · ReadWrite
In a rare interview, Huawei's top chip scientist, Liao Heng, warns of the looming physical limits Western chipmakers face and lauds Huawei's Tau Scaling Law (Bloomberg) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:50:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Sources: the US is focused on promoting US AI models to be more competitive, after officials considered taking a more interventionist approach to open-source AI (New York Times) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:35:02 -0400 · Techmeme
Kalshi presses Iowa court to block state sports contract enforcement efforts Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:33:29 +0000 · ReadWrite
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026's end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:30:00 -0400 · Techmeme