OpenAI has introduced Pando, a new Git backend that now serves all development in its monorepo. The OpenAI Pando Git backend keeps the standard Git client and protocol. Engineers and Codex agents still run git push and git fetch as before. Only the server changed. OpenAI team reports median push latency fell nearly 80%. Pando…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has, in the past, jokingly admitted that he’s suffered from “cyber psychosis” and sometimes barely sleeps because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast The Builders, set to publish on Tuesday, Tan put a price tag on his passion. “I…
Ukrainian drone teams have a new way to spy on the drones that spy on them. A Kyiv equipment startup called CODE380 has been gaining attention for a pocket-sized receiver, the D·Vision SDR, that picks up live camera video from many Russian drones and shows it on a screen. Those drones send their video over…
Google has launched its experimental AI app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S., as the company looks to tap the world’s second-largest internet market to bring personalized visual stories drawn from users’ digital activity to a broader audience. On Monday, Google expanded Dreambeans, available on Android and iOS, to India with support…
Zyphra has released Zyphra Hierarchical Attention (ZHA), a sparse attention method built around a tree-structured indexer. ZHA targets a known gap in sparse attention: the indexer that picks tokens still scans the whole context. Zyphra’s technical paper shows ZHA can be distilled into frozen pretrained models with about 4B tokens. On Qwen3.6-35B-A3B it stays close…
Apple’s services business remains at record levels, but it’s facing growing pressure. The central part of that business, Apple’s App Store, has faced regulatory pressure and a slump in mobile gaming, which have hurt services growth. However, on Monday’s earnings call, Apple signaled that it may look to boost services revenue through third-party apps. What…
The Letter Company has released the beta of Letterpress-1, a coding agent, harness and IDE for growth engineering. The Letterpress-1 coding agent reads a website and its market, then decides what should exist. It builds the change in a sandbox and opens a pull request with a live preview. TL;DR Size: Letter team says it…
Hinge is testing a cheaper subscription plan as its parent company Match Group looks for new ways to get users to pay for dating apps at a time when people are increasingly tired of subscriptions and, in some cases, dating apps altogether. During its third-quarter 2026 earnings call on Monday, Match Group said the new…
Whether developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, or built on open-source alternatives, current AI models share a critical limitation: they don’t learn from their mistakes without further training. Businesses adapting these models for specialized fields, such as law and finance, typically get around this by fine-tuning general models. However, that often requires hiring internal research teams or…
While much attention has focused on the updated financials Anthropic revealed in its revised S-1A on Monday, (revenue is soaring, but so are expenses), the AI lab dropped another little bombshell in the fine print. The filing seems to warn that the company is on the cusp of creating a model capable of recursive self-improvement…
