New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.

Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board

Hastings helped to transform the video rental industry — first with physical, then digital, delivery.

Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

Astro vs Next.js: When SSG beats React for content sites

A side-by-side look at Astro and Next.js for content-heavy sites, breaking down performance, JavaScript payload, and when each framework actually makes sense. The post Astro vs Next.js: When SSG beats React for content sites appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

I replaced my entire test suite with AI agents: Here’s what actually broke

AI-generated tests can speed up React testing, but they also create hidden risks. Here’s what broke in a real app.re The post I replaced my entire test suite with AI agents: Here’s what actually broke appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

5 principles for designing context-aware multimodal UX

Multimodal UX goes beyond designing for screens. Learn how context-aware systems, progressive modality, failover modes, and accessibility-first design create better digital product experiences. The post 5 principles for designing context-aware multimodal UX appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

The DX shift no one noticed: Web interoperability

Why the future of DX might come from the web platform itself, not more tools or frameworks. The post The DX shift no one noticed: Web interoperability appeared first on LogRocket Blog.

How PMs can use code-style reasoning to make better decisions

Learn how code-style reasoning helps product managers make sharper decisions, surface edge cases, and write clearer requirements. The post How PMs can use code-style reasoning to make better decisions appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

I let Claude review my PRs: What it caught and missed

A hands-on test of Claude Code Review across real PRs, breaking down what it flagged, what slipped through, and how the pipeline actually performs in practice. The post I let Claude review my PRs: What it caught and missed appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

The Conjugate Pair

Precision and range in knowledge are constitutively incompatible. Schooler’s 1990 verbal overshadowing showed that describing a face degrades recognition. The same displacement is appearing at organizational scale: formalizing knowledge sharpens the explicit representation at the cost of the tacit original.

Interloom raised $16.5 million in March to solve a problem that every e...

วิธีตัดต่อวิดีโอด้วย AI ขั้นเทพ HyperFrames

TL;DR

เอเจนต์ AI สามารถเขียนโค้ด เรียกใช้ API และรันเวิร์กโฟลว์แบบหลายขั้นตอนได้ แต่การตัดต่อวิดีโอยังเป็นข้อจำกัด เครื่องมืออย่าง After Effects และ DaVinci Resolve ใช้ไทม์ไลน์แบบเลเยอร์และ JSON scene graph ที่ LLM ไม่ถนัด โปรเจกต์โอเพนซอร์สใหม่จาก HeyGen ชื่อ HyperFrames แก้ปัญหานี้โดยปล่อยให้เอเจนต์สร้างวิดีโอด้วย HTML, CSS, JavaScript แล้วเรนเดอร์เป็น MP4...

My OpenClaw Journey: 30 Hands-On Experiences That Built My Wealth of Knowledge (Kolkata AI Agent Engineer Edition)

This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge in the Wealth of Knowledge track.

Hey DEV Community 🙋‍♂️

I’m ANIRUDDHA ADAK (@aniruddhadak on X), a final-year B.Tech Computer Science student at Budge Budge Institute of Technology (BBIT) in Kolkata, and a full-tim...

Lab: next lab sre

What we are going to create next

We will create a small enterprise-style network from your existing lab.

Current lab

You already have:

• Network A
• Network B
• Router between them

Next lab

We will add these ideas:

1. Service separation
...

Video bearbeiten mit KI: HyperFrames für die Videobearbeitung

TL;DR

KI-Agenten können Code schreiben, APIs aufrufen und mehrstufige Workflows ausführen. Bisher fehlte ihnen eine Fähigkeit: Videobearbeitung. Professionelle Tools wie After Effects und DaVinci Resolve verwenden geschichtete Zeitleisten und JSON-Szenengraphen, die nicht im Trainingsdatensatz von LLMs enthalten sind. HeyGens Open-Source-Projekt HyperFrames ...

🚀 I stopped using console.log() – and you might want to, too

I Broke Up With console.log() - And I'm Not Going Back

Last month, I hit a wall. My code was drowning in console.log statements, async bugs were invisible, and I spent more time cleaning up debug code than fixing actual issues.

So I switched to:

• console.table() for arrays/objects at a glance
• debugge...

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...