Why Paris may be the most important AI city outside Silicon Valley

Europe’s startup ecosystem has matured significantly; its founders are increasingly willing to scale companies domestically instead of immediately looking to relocate to the U.S.

In just 3 weeks, StrictlyVC is coming to Los Angeles

StrictlyVC Los Angeles is on June 18. Join for meaningful networking and fireside chats with leaders from Mach Industries, Shinkei Systems, and more. Register here.

Startup Battlefield 200 application deadline extended to June 8 after overwhelming demand

After overwhelming demand from founders around the world, TechCrunch has extended the Startup Battlefield 200 application deadline to June 8. Nominate a standout startup or apply yours today.

Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation — double what it was worth three weeks ago

Insurance tech Corgi announced today an $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion, just three weeks after announcing a $160 million Series B.

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.

Waymo’s newest robotaxi is Chinese-made, built to make money, and now accepting riders

The launch of the Ojai minivan robotaxi comes after years of development and testing, but arrives amid a challenging time for Waymo.

Why are AI companies buying the teams behind your favorite dev tools?

AI companies are buying developer tools as coding agents turn runtimes, package managers, and linters into strategic infrastructure. The post Why are AI companies buying the teams behind your favorite dev tools? appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

AI-assisted development governance: A practical guide

Learn how AI-assisted development governance uses rules, agents, hooks, and protocols to help AI coding tools produce safer, more consistent code. The post AI-assisted development governance: A practical guide appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

The project that made me question the UX process

A three-week mobile banking project taught me that the “proper” UX process is not always realistic. Sometimes, the better approach is to work with what you know, identify what you still need to learn, and make the strongest decision possible under real constraints. The post The project that made me question the UX process appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to rethink scope creep as strategic flexibility

Controlled scope creep can help PMs use capacity buffers, AI tools, and clear guardrails to turn new ideas into better outcomes. The post How to rethink scope creep as strategic flexibility appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Understanding A/B testing in UX research

A/B testing compares two versions of a design to see which performs better with real users. Here’s how UX teams can use it to test hypotheses, measure outcomes, and make smarter product decisions. The post Understanding A/B testing in UX research appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to build your first MCP server with Node.js

A step-by-step guide to building your first MCP server using Node.js, covering core concepts, tool design, and upgrading from file storage to MySQL. The post How to build your first MCP server with Node.js appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

New Benchmark Reveals Hidden Trade-offs in AI Model Tuning Methods

Researchers uncover how popular parameter-efficient finetuning techniques balance learning new tasks against forgetting existing capabilities.

A new evaluation framework is challenging how the AI industry assesses parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT), the dominant approach for adapting large language mode...

What I Learned Building My First Chrome Extension for Google Calendar

Recently I launched my first Chrome extension: Tint Calendar, a small tool that adds more color options and text color customization to Google Calendar.

The idea was simple.

I use Google Calendar a lot, and at some point the default color options started to feel too limited. I wanted more control over event colors, better readability, and a more flexible way to ...

Trider – The AI Habit Tracker That Actually Gets You (Free, No Ads)

Why Most Habit Trackers Fail After 2 Weeks

You know the pattern: install a habit tracker, go hard for 3 days, miss one day, feel guilty, open the app less, forget it exists by week 3.

The problem isn't you. It's the apps. Most habit trackers are built around streaks and punishing you for failure. You miss a day and your streak resets to zero — which ...

4 Best AI TTS APIs in 2026

Text-to-speech has gotten good enough that it is no longer just an accessibility feature or a novelty. If you are building an AI app, voice agent, audiobook tool, customer support bot, or content workflow, your TTS provider now has a huge impact on how polished the final product feels.

In this post, I am comparing four of the best TTS services worth considering right now:

1. ...

Claude Opus 4.8: What Developers Need to Know About Anthropic's New Flagship

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. Same price as Opus 4.7, fast mode at 2.5x speed, fast mode 3x cheaper than before. Alongside the model release: dynamic workflows in Claude Code and effort control in claude.ai.

This post covers the benchmark numbers, the practical changes for coding and agents, and what teams building on Claude should pay attention to.

Benchmar...

Full Stack Developer Looking for Internship Opportunities

Hey everyone,

I’m currently looking for Software Development internship opportunities.

Open to:

• Hybrid internships in Delhi or Noida
• Remote/online opportunities as well

I’m a Full Stack & Desktop Application Developer focused on building scalable web apps, automation tools, and AI-powered applications using:

• JavaScript / Ty...

11 Best V0 Alternatives 2025: Real Reviews & Pricing

Why Look Beyond V0 by Vercel? V0 by Vercel is solid for generating React components, but what if you need more than just frontend UI? Look, V0 does one thing really well - it takes your text prompts and spits out clean React components with Tailwind CSS. Perfect if you're building in the Vercel ecosystem and just need UI pieces. But here's what V0 can't do(as of now): Build full applications wit...

8 AI Developer Tools for Faster & Smarter Development 👨‍💻🚀

Artificial intelligence has been transforming the way software developers build applications by providing them with new ways to simplify repetitive tasks, increase their productivity, and create smarter programs. But the problem is that there are so many AI-powered tools coming out that deciding which ones to use and how to integrate them into your workflow might take a long time and be very frust...

The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check

TLDR You can check your Kubernetes cluster's health in under 5 minutes using five key commands: checking node status, monitoring resource usage, reviewing pod health across namespaces, investigating problem pods, and examining cluster events. This quick routine helps catch issues before they escalate into critical problems. Kubernetes is great until it's not. One bad node, a pod stuck in CrashLoop...

Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components

This week at Laracon Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies 🤤 Unifying Livewire Caleb takes the stage to address one of the most pressing issues in the Livewire's ecosystem: fragmentation. With three different ways to create Livewire components (traditional, Volt functional, and Volt class-based), the communi...

Laracon 2025 Keynote

This year's Laracon keynote was absolutely insane! There were seven segments packed with open source goodies, AI-powered development tools, and infrastructure that'll make you rethink what modern web development can be. Here's everything that went down. 🎯 New Framework Features (Taylor Otwell) 🚀 Open Source Deep Dive (Joe Tannenbaum) 🤖 Laravel AI (Ashley Hindle) 🎨 Laravel Design (David Hill) ...

Laravel Wayfinder

Laravel has announced a new package called Wayfinder. This package will allow you to easily generate fully-typed, importable TypeScript functions for your controllers and named routes, providing devs with a seamless integration between a Laravel backend and a TypeScript frontend. Let's learn how to use Wayfinder with the Laravel React Starter Kit. First, create a new Laravel app using the followin...