Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.

On Wednesday night, Runlayer and Rippling dropped their respective lawsuits against each other. No settlement was made. No money changed hands. Not even lawyers’ fees, according to court documents seen by TechCrunch. Rippling celebrated by instantly releasingits MCP gateway,the product at the heart of the dueling lawsuits and the one that competes with Runlayer’s offering. … Devamını oku

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

As AI continues tokill trafficto websites, Google on Thursday threw a bone to those publishers negatively impacted by the change. It’s now allowing readers to push a button on a publisher’s website to indicate it’s a “favorite source” they’d like to see highlighted more often across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. The tech giant … Devamını oku

I should have loved biology

I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA. In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one … Devamını oku

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

With back-to-school season approaching (or already here in some places), keeping track of everyone’s schedules can get pretty chaotic. Between work, school, appointments, sports, chores, and everything else going on, a regular paper calendar just doesn’t cut it. That’s whereLinkdaze’ssmart digital calendar comes in — a touchscreen tablet built specifically to organize a household rather … Devamını oku

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

An unusual glitch has resulted in xAI’s Grok chatbot speaking gibberish to many users. After asking the model to generate a PDF, one user received the response: “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese…” with similar nonsense continuing for several paragraphs. Checking source links, another user found … Devamını oku

ATDev gives update on its journey building autonomous wheelchairs

The Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform pairs a modern power wheelchair with a coordinated robotic arm on an open software platform. | Source: ATDev There are millions of powered wheelchair users in the U.S. today. Assistive Technology Development Inc., or ATDev, aims to use robotics to give these users more independence and freedom in … Devamını oku

HTML Can Do That

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML. Update2026-08-20: I originally built this page in one hour duringHTML Day 2026to write and celebrate HTML, but I’ve since made some edits to better express and … Devamını oku

A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

Over one-third of webpages published after the release of ChatGPT show signs of being written by AI, according toa new study from Pew Researchreleased on Thursday. The report corroboratesother studiesthat detail how much of the web’s newer webpages are now either written by or “substantially edited” by AI, the firm says. It also arrives shortly … Devamını oku

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

Corporate expense management platform Ramp is hot on the heels ofStripe in setting up toll houses for AI inference. Ramp on Wednesday evening launched its own AI model routing service, dubbedRouter, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models through an API. The company says it has been using the … Devamını oku