Meta to acquire Chinese AI startup Manus to bring ‘general agents’ technology
TL;DR Meta has agreed to buy Chinese-founded AI company Manus and plans to deploy its so-called 'general agent' technology across…
AI Employees Don’t Pay Taxes — How Automation Could Erode Public Revenue
TL;DR An opinion piece argues that broad replacement of human workers with AI risks hollowing out the payroll tax base…
Show HN: Ensue Memory Network stops Claude Code from forgetting
TL;DR A new open-source skill called Ensue Memory Network aims to give Claude Code persistent, cross-session memory so context and…
AI Is Forcing Engineers to Adopt Consistently High Coding Standards
TL;DR AI-powered coding agents make sloppy or under-specified codebases much harder to manage, so the author’s team has tightened engineering…
Which Humans? Study finds LLM behavior aligns with WEIRD populations, not global
TL;DR A multi-author preprint examines whether comparing large language models (LLMs) to “human” performance obscures cultural variation. The authors report…
Why the Future of Software Development Still Depends on Developers
TL;DR A long-time programmer argues that every past wave of tooling that promised to eliminate developers instead expanded software and…
Ford Reiterates Ongoing Support for Apple CarPlay in Future Vehicles
TL;DR Ford CFO Sherry House told attendees at the Barclays Global Auto and Mobility Tech Conference the automaker will continue…
Investors’ top pitch advice: how startups can stand out in crowded markets
TL;DR At TechCrunch Disrupt, three investors outlined what they want from founder pitches: avoid buzzword overload, show sizable market potential,…