I am organizing @Apify
's BIGGEST AI hackathon in San Francisco We are inviting SF's best 180 hackers (80+ spots already gone) to join us for a day of building agents. Register here: https://
luma.com/6eqa8nbh What's in there for you: – Great food, great vibes, and great
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Codex Adoption Grows Across India Dev Community
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Just got back home after a pretty rewarding but tiring week in India! ❤️
— Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav (@reach_vb) 25 avril 2026
Incredibly proud to see the Codex adoption across developers, startups and enterprises in India
Our Codex ambassadors organised hackathons in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi (with Kochi this weekend) – so… pic.twitter.com/wZV97Lul8QJust got back home after a pretty rewarding but tiring week in India! Incredibly proud to see the Codex adoption across developers, startups and enterprises in India Our Codex ambassadors organised hackathons in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi (with Kochi this weekend) – so
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UK Needs $1B to Build Top-10 LLM Company Infrastructure
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We have the talent, but not a UK LLM company … yet One needs $1B just to get the necessary GPUs for training a top-10 LLM, assuming one has the data centres, and capital to crawl, buy books, OCR, filter, dedupe, parse, quality score, carry out data mixture ablations, etc, and
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Why Best Apps Launch First on Apple Platform
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The pattern is the best apps always start on Apple for a lot of reasons. First of all, the rich people almost wholly are on iPhone. Second, it's easier to develop beautiful things for iPhone. The other part of the pattern is after getting funded they hire an Android team and
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DeepSeek Delivers Open-Source Model Rivaling OpenAI at Lower Cost
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Maybe… but that’s a different discussion. The real point is that DeepSeek seems to be delivering a fully open-source model for free, on par with OpenAI’s most expensive models, … and doing it with far fewer resources! 🙂
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Extradote Email Client Named Best App of Year
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Best new app of the year.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 25 avril 2026
The best email client on iPhone I've ever used: @extradotemail
Just was announced this week to a LOT of praise here on X.
Founder @ngavini has a conversation with me about the future of software design.
One of my favorites in years. It improves… pic.twitter.com/wiMKYfNtQwBest new app of the year. The best email client on iPhone I've ever used: @extradotemail Just was announced this week to a LOT of praise here on X. Founder @ngavini has a conversation with me about the future of software design. One of my favorites in years. It improves
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Customer Lock-in: The Real Startup Failure Driver
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I studied many failures in my journey in Silicon Valley (I had a very famous blog starting in 2000 covering innovation and was the first person to get 1,000 followers here because of it). Usually it is the inability to shake off customers that drives the failures, not worries
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Aligned News platform triples funding for AI-powered news community
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UK’s LLM Gap Threatens AI Competitiveness Against France Canada
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It is ghastly how the UK has failed at having its own LLM companies. By doing so it has become irrelevant in the AI race. How do we fix this? @nickclegg @UKParliament France has @MistralAI
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AI-Powered Feature Development Speed and Market Competition
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It's fast. And gives a good start to quickly add features. AI should allow them to ship a new feature every day. If so motivated. I guess we'll find out soon. If we get a flood of features, then we win. If we don't, you do, but the rest of us lose. They should look at a new