Products — Page 5
Launches, updates, hands-on coverage.
- RJ Scaringe's R2 test starts at the high end, not the $44,990 Rivian headline price
Rivian's first R2 customer vehicles are $57,990 Performance Launch Package SUVs, with the base rear-wheel-drive Standard trim expected in summer 2027.
- Jarred Sumner's Bun is testing shared-memory threads inside JavaScriptCore
The open oven-sh/WebKit pull request would let `new Thread(fn)` share normal JavaScript objects across cores, but it is not a shipped Bun feature.
- Exa Turns Its AI Search Engine Into a Research Agent API
Will Bryk and Jeff Wang are pushing Exa beyond search calls into structured research workflows for finance, GTM and data teams.
- OpenAI's LifeSciBench turns life-science AI into a harder test than biology trivia
The 750-task benchmark aims to judge research-grade reasoning and expose where scientific agents still break.
- Midjourney's first hardware reveal brings David Holz back to interfaces
The San Francisco event at 6 p.m. PT is light on product details, and it fits David Holz's Leap Motion roots.
- Unicorn Engine's decade-long CPU emulation bet still has teeth
Nguyen Anh Quynh and Dang Hoang Vu built Unicorn as a focused alternative to QEMU, and security tooling still leans on that choice.
- GrapheneOS ports to Android 17 on release day
The privacy-focused Android fork says an initial Android 17 build is planned for June 17 across supported devices.
- Tensordyne puts log math at the center of its Nvidia challenge
The former Recogni is previewing Napier, an inference rack built around logarithmic arithmetic, with shipments targeted later in 2026.
- Cohere's North Mini Code Turns Its Enterprise AI Pitch Toward Developers
The Apache 2.0 coding model is built for agentic workflows, long context and private deployment on a single H100.
- Ataraxy Labs' Weave targets the merge conflicts AI agents create
Ataraxy Labs is betting that Git's line-based merge model is the wrong unit of work for parallel coding agents.
- Moonshot's Kimi K2.7 Code lands on Cloudflare Workers AI
The post gives Moonshot distribution through Cloudflare, but offers no pricing, benchmarks, context length, or model-size details.
- We turned Claude Code's spinner into a live newsfeed and an open ad market
Credit to Kickbacks for proving the wait-state is inventory. RuntimeWire's bet is that it should be useful before it is monetized.
- Homebrew 6.0.0 Puts Trust Checks In Front Of Third-Party Taps
The package manager now requires explicit trust before evaluating third-party taps, while adding Linux sandboxing and initial support for macOS 27.
- A UT Austin team built a jacket that pulls water from air
The university team says the textile system produced 400 to 900 ml per day, but it still requires removable units and heat to release water.
- Nathan Sobo's Zed takes aim at pull requests with DeltaDB
DeltaDB records code edits and agent conversations before commits, with a beta waitlist open and Git left as the ecosystem bridge.
- Modulus is pitched as a multiplayer IDE for engineers and AI agents, with key details still undisclosed
A third-party launch post says Modulus puts human engineers and AI agents in the same real-time workspace. The available source does not disclose founders, pricing, availability, deployment, integrations or security controls.
- Decagon puts its CX agents on a self-improvement loop
Duet Autopilot turns live support conversations into proposed agent updates, but Decagon is keeping humans in the approval seat.
- Performative-UI turns the AI startup landing page into a React library
The MIT-licensed project packages 26 familiar patterns, from prompt heroes to logo marquees, as reusable components.
- Firefox 153 will add Vulkan Video decoding as Mozilla widens Linux GPU support
The initial code path, credited to NVIDIA and Red Hat engineers, targets a long-running hardware video gap in Firefox on Linux.
- Teenage Engineering's APC-2 turns the company's hardware obsession toward record cutting
The Stockholm design company lists a 140 kg professional disc recorder, with no public price and only a limited set built.
- Dave W. Plummer's RetroPad squeezes XP Notepad into 2,749 bytes
The Windows veteran's assembly project is less a Notepad rival than a reminder of what modern software abstraction hides.
- Podman 6's machine work targets the VM friction behind Docker Desktop alternatives
The October 2025 change makes the CLI see machines across WSL, QEMU, libkrun and AppleHV instead of trapping users in provider state.
- Lectric's founders are buying into e-bikes while VC-backed rivals retreat
Levi Conlow says Lectric sold nearly 30,000 bikes in its biggest month and has put about $10 million into three new brands.
- Google Is Turning Search Profiles Into A Creator Analytics Dashboard, Jane Manchun Wong says
Screenshots shared by Jane Manchun Wong show Google building an Insights beta for its new Search profiles, with metrics for search queries, clicked posts, impressions and countries.