TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.

Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better

The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.

How to build a real time voice AI agent in the browser

A step-by-step guide to building a fully local, real-time voice AI agent in the browser, no external APIs, no network latency, just Transformers.js and WebGPU. The post How to build a real time voice AI agent in the browser appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to find the invisible product features users won’t ask for

Learn how product managers can uncover invisible features that reduce friction, protect user trust, and create a stronger competitive edge. The post How to find the invisible product features users won’t ask for appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Comparing AI agent sandbox platforms: E2B, Modal, Daytona, and more

Compare 15 AI agent sandbox platforms across cold start, isolation, persistence, SDK ergonomics, and pricing to find the best fit for your agent. The post Comparing AI agent sandbox platforms: E2B, Modal, Daytona, and more appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to use Vercel eve: The Next.js framework for AI agents

Vercel eve brings familiar Next.js file-based routing to AI agents. Discover how eve simplifies agent orchestration, sandboxing, and durable execution in this developer guide. The post How to use Vercel eve: The Next.js framework for AI agents appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Understanding user stories in UX design: A practical guide

User stories help UX designers turn research into better design decisions. Learn what makes UX user stories different from Agile user stories, how to write them from user research, and what strong UX-focused stories look like. The post Understanding user stories in UX design: A practical guide appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to implement JWT authentication in NestJS

This tutorial provides an overview of NestJS and demonstrates how to implement JWT user authentication on a NestJS API. The post How to implement JWT authentication in NestJS appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

VaultLedger AI — Zero-Leak Local Invoice & Receipt Sorter for Freelancers

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle

What I Built

VaultLedger AI is a privacy-first, local-running invoice and receipt sorter designed specifically for freelancers, solopreneurs, and independent consultants who handle sen...

ChatGPT: Six Reasons It Ignores Your Instructions, and the One-Line Fix for Each

An ignored rule never looks expensive when it happens. It looks expensive a week later.

Take a made-up five-person marketing agency. The account manager has a standing rule in ChatGPT: "Never quote a price. Prices come from the rate card." On a busy Thursday, a draft goes out that says a landing page "usually runs about $1,500." The real rate is $2,400. Now someone has to walk that back...

Everything You Need to Know About MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI agents to the tools and data they need. Before MCP, every agent had its own way to call a database, read a file, or run a command, so each integration was built from scratch. MCP defines one protocol, so a server written once can serve any agent that speaks it.

The three parts

An MCP server offers...

I stopped asking AI to count. Now it catches 95.6% of the mistakes in crochet patterns, on a laptop

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle

Round 5 says 31 stitches. You've counted three times. You keep getting 30.

Somewhere tonight, someone is pulling out an evening's work because of a number like that. The...

Deploy a docker-compose.yml as-is: 8 platforms, which keys survive, and what web + Postgres + Redis costs

Originally published on the Hubfly blog.

TL;DR

• What you get: which platforms take your docker-compose.yml witho...

Build a Text-to-Speech Chrome Extension

Why a Text‑to‑Speech Chrome Extension?

If you spend any time on the web, you’ve probably wished you could listen to articles, docs, or chat messages instead of reading them. A lightweight Chrome extension that turns selected text into natural‑sounding speech can boost productivity, aid accessibility, and just be plain fun.

In this guide we’ll build a Text‑t...

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...