Question for fellow founders: do you think your product's home page (especially the hero) conveys the value proposition within the canonical 3 seconds?

"Cheap" and "affordable" are not the same thing. Cheap is about price. Affordable is about value. And who's looking changes everything. Solo founder: $17/mo is a real expense. Engineering manager: $17/mo is irrelevant - adoption is the blocker. Enterprise buyer: $17/mo is too cheap to trust. 1/2

Another week, another layoff due to AI... Despite reporting record quarterly revenue, Cisco laid off nearly 4k employees to reallocate resources toward AI infrastructure and data center networking. 1/2

Interesting, it seems that users can now connect bank accounts directly to ChatGPT for financial management, budgeting, and spending analysis. Sounds useful if it can also offer personalised advice on saving, investing, etc. techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/o...

Google I/O today. Gemini updates, Android 17, Android XR glasses, Googlebook. The AI keynote that decides if Google can keep pace after last year's momentum. Expecting big things from the Android 17 "intelligence system" pivot

Jury took under 2 hours to throw out Musk's $134B OpenAI suit. Statute of limitations. Not whether the claims had merit, just too slow. Two years of legal theatre ending on a clock technicality.

Class of 2026 has been told their whole degree that AI will take their jobs. They do not want to hear about it at graduation. - techcrunch.com/2026/05/17/i...

Siri getting auto-deleting chats and a standalone app. Privacy as the differentiator. But Google handles the backend. Bit of a tension there. - techcrunch.com/2026/05/17/a...

Runway thinks video, not language, is the path to real AI. $5.3bn valuation, art school founders, betting on world models over LLMs. High risk, high reward. - techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/r...

Apple-OpenAI partnership falling apart. OpenAI consulting lawyers over breach of contract, Apple giving users model choice instead of just ChatGPT. Two years in, the divergence was predictable.

SprintPulse (sprintpulse.io) is solid. Building it was the easy part. Marketing is where I'm lost. If I get stuck I look at competitors' actual apps. Most are terrible. Product's not the problem.

In the past few weeks SprintPulse shipped Jira and Linear integrations - bi-directional sync for retro action items. Plus latest models powering all AI features, 2FA security, and lots of other improvements. Many more updates coming. Try it: sprintpulse.io. Feedback welcome.

Codex can use Chrome directly now. No more screenshot-and-click loop - it connects into your live browser session, works across tabs, uses your logged-in sessions. All in its own tab groups so it stays out of your way. Makes sense when most workflows already live in a browser.

Google kills free web search index. 50 domain cap, Jan 2027 deadline. Cloudflare blocking AI scrapers on the other side. Web's closing from both ends. Brave Search, self-hosted, Bing API - pick your poison.

Foxconn confirmed Nitrogen ransomware hit some North American factories. 8TB stolen, 11M docs, Apple/Nvidia/Intel data in scope. Supply chain concentration risk at its worst. - www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

500+ malicious gems pushed to RubyGems. Target wasn't developers, it was the platform itself. XSS and data exfiltration attempts. Mensfeld's gut says it could be masking something worse. Same pattern as the BufferZoneCorp sleeper gems from weeks ago.

Anthropic's "dangerously good" Mythos found five vulns in curl. The curl team confirmed one. Severity low. Meanwhile AISLE, Zeropath, and Codex Security already triggered 200-300 bugfixes there over 8-10 months. No hype, just results. daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05...

CVE-2026-21535: unauthenticated info disclosure in Microsoft Teams. Network access is all an attacker needs, no credentials at all. The app sitting open on every corporate laptop right now. Go patch it. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

AI cursor that reads what you're hovering over and acts on it. Google's Googlebook puts Gemini into the actual input surface. Like the jump from keyboard to mouse, except the mouse understands context. - deepmind.google/blog/ai-poin...

OpenAI launches the Deployment Company. $14B, 19 investment firms, Goldman Sachs backing both this and Anthropic's version. Embedded engineers building production AI inside customer orgs. Selling the model isn't enough anymore. - openai.com/index/openai...

Google's threat intel: AI hacking went from emerging to industrial-scale in 3 months. State actors using commercial models to scale attacks. Google also says it stopped a mass exploitation event. First confirmed intercept of an AI-driven mass attack. - www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Daybreak just dropped. OpenAI's Mythos competitor. GPT-5.5-Cyber plus Codex, hunting vulns before attackers do. Three access tiers from safe to authorised red team. The AI security arms race has two players now. - openai.com/daybreak/

Rails World 2026 tickets live today. Austin, 1200 spots, biggest Rails World yet. On sale 10am Central. Last year sold out fast. - x.com/rails/status...

ShinyHunters' leak deadline for 275M Canvas records hits today. 9k schools affected including Harvard, MIT, Stanford. Finals week, LMS down. Worst timing for everyone involved. - www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ca...

May Patch Tuesday: 79 CVEs, 2 public zero-days (.NET + SQL Server). Bigger worry is the 45-day countdown to Secure Boot cert expiry on June 26. Patch now or face boot-level security failures. - zecurit.com/endpoint-man...

Texas sued Netflix for collecting data on paid accounts and selling it to ad brokers. Ken Paxton calls it "spying on kids." A win here changes streaming data practices everywhere. - www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...

Pentagon AI deals: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, AWS, Oracle, Reflection. Anthropic excluded after refusing "all lawful purposes" terms including autonomous weapons. Sued, judge sided with them, still out. Claude was the only model on the Pentagon classified network.

Wow. 80x revenue growth in a single year. Anthropic's ARR just crossed $44B. Dario Amodei shared the Q1 numbers and they're absurd. Customers spending $100K+ annually grew 7x. The $1M+ club went from 12 to 500+ in two years. Catching OpenAI fast! aitoolsrecap.com/Blog/ai-news...

300K+ exposed Ollama servers with a CVSS 9.1 memory leak. Crafted GGUF file in, API keys and conversation data out. No auth on /api/create or /api/push endpoints. Update to 0.17.1 or lock down OLLAMA_HOST. Now. - thehackernews.com/2026/05/olla...

17-year FreeBSD RCE, 27-year OpenBSD bug, all found by the same Anthropic model that got accessed by unauthorised users the same week. RubyCentral just filed their first AI-assisted vuln report on Nokogiri. Using Claude Opus to scan 190k gems, humans verify before reporting.

Musk: "they deceived me about the nonprofit structure." Also Musk: pushed for a for-profit arm, wanted absolute control, tried to recruit Altman for Tesla AI, never asked for open sourcing. Zilis, mother of four of his kids, testified against him. Rough week.

Same model. Same 200K window. One scores 12.6 points higher at 512K. The difference? Lossless context management. LCM keeps everything in an append-only store, summaries are just views, originals always retrievable. Architecture > raw context size for multi-turn work. academy.dair.ai/blog/lossles...

ChatGPT ads expanding to UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Korea. "Answer independence" means ads won't change your responses. But ad targeting uses your conversation topics and past chats. Free/Go tiers get ads, paid tiers don't. Can opt out but you lose daily messages.

Perplexity Personal Computer out of Max-only, now available to Pro/Enterprise on Mac. AI agent that runs locally, works with files, apps, web, 400+ connectors. Mac mini recommended for always-on. The "agents that do stuff on your machine" space is getting crowded.

271 unknown Firefox vulns found by Claude Mythos in two months. Some 20 years old. Mozilla built a harness that lets the AI write and verify its own test cases. AI bug hunting went from dismissed noise to production pipeline in half a year. - hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...

Cloudflare: record $639.8M revenue, 34% growth, then fires 1100 people. "Just because you're fit doesn't mean you can't get fitter," says the CEO. Still not profitable though. "Agentic AI era" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

QLNX Linux RAT hooks PAM, swallows SSH passwords in real time, and ships credentials to C2. Targets developers. Has a BPF rootkit. Supply chain compromise starts at your terminal, not your package.json.

$2B into Moonshot AI at a $20B+ valuation. They've raised $3.9B in under six months, ARR doubled to $200M in two months. Kimi's becoming a proper ChatGPT alternative in China. The pace is mental.

CISA KEV update May 7: CVE-2026-6973 Ivanti EPMM added. Actively exploited input validation flaw. Federal deadline applies, everyone else should patch. - www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

Grok 4.3 is live. 1M context, $1.25/m input, $2.50/m output. Eight legacy models retired May 15. xAI's betting big on price undercutting the competition.

Model choice for AI agents matters more than you would think. Same prompt, different model, completely different output. 1/2

DeepSeek's valuation just went from $20B to $45-50B in weeks. Their first ever external round, led by China's state chip fund. Tencent and Alibaba want in too. $3-4B raise. The chip fund isn't just investing, they're treating compute as a national asset.

Meta building a consumer AI agent (Hatch) plus an AI shopping tool for Instagram. Basically OpenClaw for normal people. They tried hiring OpenClaw's creator first. The shopping thing on Instagram could actually matter if it's not terrible. - www.theinformation.com/articles/met...

Amodei: you've got 6-12 months to fix your vulns before Chinese models catch up to Mythos. Tens of thousands already found, most not disclosed because they're still unpatched. This isn't theoretical anymore. - www.pymnts.com/artificial-i...

Apple paying $250M to settle the Siri AI false advertising suit. Ran ads for features that didn't exist. 36M iPhones, $25-$95 back per device. No admission of wrongdoing, naturally. The gap between AI marketing and AI reality remains undefeated.

Microsoft Edge loads your entire password vault into plaintext process memory at launch. Every credential, every site, sitting there until you close the browser. Microsoft's response? "By design." Not a bug. Architecture. 1/2

Jack Clark at Anthropic: 60%+ chance of automated AI R&D by 2029. Not copiloting, actually running experiments. Coming from inside the lab building the frontier models. When the people closest to the tech say this, you pay attention. Skynet is closer than we think. :p

Ask Jeeves launched in 1996 with natural language search - type a question, get an answer. Shut down May 1, right as the entire world pivots to AI chatbots doing the same thing. The company that invented conversational search never got to ride the wave. Too early is sometimes worse than too late.

Every inference provider for open source models I've tried has let me down at some point. Unreliable uptime, wildly inconsistent speeds. But then even OpenAI and Anthropic have outages, and they've got billions behind them. Maybe I'm asking too much of the smaller players. Still frustrating.

The $599 Mac Mini is dead and it wasn't even Apple's call, really. AI data centres hoovered up all the DRAM. Prices jumped 90% in one quarter. The cheapest Mac desktop now starts at $799 and Cook says shortages will drag on for months. 1/2