Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes

He told the Wall Street Journal he thinks autonomous planes will be "10 times harder than Nikola ever was."

Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.

Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators 

Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform. 

The Gemini-powered features in Google Workspace that are worth using

From summarizing emails, drafting content, organizing data, and tracking meetings, here are all the best Gemini features in Google Workspace.

Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doomscrolling

It's hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that can help you spend more time on content that’s engaging and productive.

The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks

Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]...

Stop wasting money on AI: 10 ways to cut token usage

Learn practical techniques to reduce token usage in LLM applications and build more cost-efficient, scalable AI systems. The post Stop wasting money on AI: 10 ways to cut token usage appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Stop fighting forms: The schema-driven approach to validation

Build dynamic forms using a JSON schema-driven approach that keeps frontend and backend validation in sync. The post Stop fighting forms: The schema-driven approach to validation appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Does splitting work across AI agents actually save time? I tested it.

Within roughly the same six-month window, Anthropic shipped Agent Teams for Claude Code, OpenAI published Swarm and the production-ready Agents […] The post Does splitting work across AI agents actually save time? I tested it. appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

AI dev tool power rankings & comparison [March 2026]

Compare the top AI development tools and models of March 2026. View updated rankings, feature breakdowns, and find the best fit for you. The post AI dev tool power rankings & comparison [March 2026] appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

The Replay (3/11/26): AI education failures, Prisma Next, and more

Discover what's new in The Replay, LogRocket's newsletter for dev and engineering leaders, in the March 11th issue. The post The Replay (3/11/26): AI education failures, Prisma Next, and more appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

What to do when product-market fit starts to break

Learn how to spot PMF erosion early, diagnose the cause, and help your product recover before decline turns into panic. The post What to do when product-market fit starts to break appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Why AI Agents Pay for Skills but Not Data Feeds: 368-Probe Analysis

We run an x402-gated marketplace. Agents probe our endpoints, receive a 402 Payment Required response, and decide whether to pay and pull the resource.

After 368 probes across 45 assets, a structural pattern has emerged that wasn't in any of the x402 design docs.

Skill assets: ~33% conversion rate.
Data feed assets: ~0% conversion rate.

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Vibe-coded a simple image tool with pipeline editing (no ads, no login)

I got tired of using multiple image tools for simple edits… so I built my own

Most tools I used had this problem:

You crop → download → upload again → resize → download → compress… 😐

So I built a simple tool where you can chain everything together in one go.

👉 https://ihateimg.in

What i...

PM2 has no web UI. Every open source alternative is dead. So I built one.

Why I started this project

PM2 is the most popular process manager for Node.js, with 2 million downloads per week, but it's provided as a CLI tool. If you want to view processes in a browser, manage them, and receive notifications via Slack or email, you need to use PM2 Plus. This is a paid, subscription-based cloud service.

All open-source alternatives are built usi...

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Meta AI Spend Per Job Cut

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A Record Growth Day Revealed Who's Actually Using My Korean Scrapers

Day 6 of monetization. 3,651 runs. And the data just told me something I didn't expect.

The Numbers That Stopped Me

Yesterday was the biggest single-day user growth since I launched 13 Korean web scrapers on Apify:

+9 new users in 24 hours.

To put that in context — it took my first two weeks to accumulate 15 unique u...

Building ShieldRide: Why We Chose Blinkit's Dark Store for Parametric Insurance Platform for Guidewire DevTrails Hackathon

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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru | March 2026

THE 10:47 PM MOMENT THAT DEFINED OUR IDEA

On December 31, 2025, while the rest of India was counting down to the new year, over 2,00,000 delivery workers across Zomato, Blinkit, Swiggy, and Amazon went on a nationwide flash strike.

They weren't asking for a salar...

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...