Products — Page 11
Launches, updates, hands-on coverage.
- North v3 automates cloud commitments and adds AI bills to FinOps
The Brooklyn startup added Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic and Snowflake less than two months after raising a $5M Series A.
- Stwipe parodies Stripe's OpenRouter deal with one fictional Dutch man
Credited to Duckbill and shitposting.ai, the parody uses two live API endpoints and admittedly invented benchmarks to reduce Stripe's OpenRouter deal to one Dutch man who says no.
- Simple AI releases 2,000 hours of robot training data collected without robot arms
Founder Xiaofei Li is applying an autonomous-driving data playbook to manipulation, with limited parity claims built on more than 10 times as many human demonstrations.
- Serval launches Catalyst to build enterprise workflows from ticket histories
Jake Stauch and Alex McLeod are betting code-generating agents can loosen ServiceNow's grip on corporate IT.
- Slack launches Code with Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition and Vercel agents
Marc Benioff says Slack Code puts engineers and coding agents together in shared channels, turning team conversations into the agents' work queue.
- Y Combinator opens its SAFE-sending software to every founder for free
The accelerator is turning a tool used inside its batches into public fundraising infrastructure, entering a market already served by Carta and AngelList.
- Dave Rupert's MicroLighter uses a 2.05 KB core to leave the DOM alone
MicroLighter lazy-loads TextMate grammars and puts line numbers and copy controls in an optional web component.
- SandboxAQ launches AQPotency to screen drugs without solved protein structures
Jack Hidary is putting SandboxAQ's numerical models behind Claude, with claimed pricing of $1 per 1,000 molecule-target comparisons.
- Twitch discounts subscriptions as sponsors pick up the gift-sub tab
SUBtember runs August 28th through October 1st, with State Farm promising nearly 100,000 gift subscriptions and Minecraft funding a finale bonus.
- DesktopFly gives macOS a fruit fly driven by 668 mapped neurons
Denis Shiryaev's open-source toy uses FlyWire wiring data, then models the physiology that turns cursor movement into escape.
- RadixArk released Miles v0.1 to align AI training and inference
RadixArk's release builds on Miles, first introduced in November 2025, while its $100M seed funds an open-source AI infrastructure strategy.
- Block adds an experimental self-hosted Git forge to Buzz
The beta links repos, reviews and project conversations to portable Nostr identities for people and AI agents on a team's own relay.
- Telegram applies for .gram to turn user handles into websites
Pavel Durov says approval would let users claim second-level domains and generate Telegram-hosted interactive sites from a prompt.
- Rocket One offers drone-show software as a counter-drone threat simulator
Rocket One's August 18th pitch follows a June announcement and opens briefings and demos, while naming no military contract or deployment.
- X will give Grok Bot discounted API reads and free credits
The beta agent will start with read-only access, while X holds back broader permissions over security and scraping concerns.
- ATTOM launches three AI agents to interrogate 160 million property records
The Irvine data provider is moving from APIs and files into analysis and report generation, with MCP connecting its records to Claude and ChatGPT.
- Elie Steinbock launches Bot Directory for one-prompt Grok Bots
The open-source catalog turns shared workflows into copyable prompts and lets an X mention bot submit new entries through GitHub.
- SecretSpec releases dotenv-ng, says dotenvy changed a bcrypt credential
Domen Kozar's fork gives SecretSpec control over fixes and releases for the parser used in its credential-migration path.
- Reddit tests audio and video versions of viral text posts
The mobile experiment adds a "play" option while preserving the original post, comments and community discussion.
- Browser Use launches macOS Harness for direct control of Mac apps
The open-source Python layer gives coding agents access to native apps, logged-in browsers, files and shell commands through six primitives.
- Cursor launches Origin, extending its AI coding stack into code hosting
The early beta hosts repositories, mirrors GitHub projects and puts Cursor agents inside pull-request workflows for paid users.
- DuckDB previews v2.0 plan to stabilize Quack server mode
Co-creators Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Muehleisen plan to stabilize Quack and add CONNECT in a fall 2026 release aimed at shared production workloads.
- 1667 preserves every AI draft in a navigable story tree
Version 0.9.8 stores prose locally, brings no model of its own, and preserves rejected generations as branches writers can revisit.
- Alibaba launches HappyShrimp to turn text prompts into finished songs
Alibaba's beta extends co-founder Eddie Wu's AI push into creative software, where music rights and output ownership remain open questions.