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McDonald’s is testing a new AI system that can take drive-thru orders and support restaurant operations. The system, called ArchIQ and nicknamed “Archy,” was introduced during the company’s Worldwide convention, according to Restaurant Business. It is being tested at five McDonald’s locations in the
Einride, the Swedish electric and autonomous trucking startup, began trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday through a merger with blank-check firm Legato Merger Corp III. The deal values the company at approximately $1.35 billion pre-money, down from the $1.8 billion announced in November and well below
Proxy servers aren’t exactly a high-profile tool – and yet, they power much of AI infrastructure. A proxy server is another device with its own IP address that you use to access the web. In aggregate, they let you open many webpages through automated means without encountering CAPTCHAs or other road
Rotomate, a Finnish industrial AI startup, has raised €2.1M in pre-seed funding to expand a platform that reads machine data and recommends maintenance actions the way a senior reliability engineer would. The round was led by Helsinki-based Kvanted, with Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Accel’s scout pr
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how software businesses are built, launched, and scaled. In particular, it is driving a surge in micro-SaaS startups, small, highly focused software-as-a-service companies often built by solo founders or tiny teams. What once required large engineering teams, sig
Cambridge Aerospace, a British defence-technology startup building systems to shoot down drones and cruise missiles, is in talks to raise around $300M at a valuation of about $3.5bn, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. Venture firm DFJ Growth is in talks to lead t
Amazon is deepening its UK investment, putting more than £1bn into two sites in Northamptonshire and adding over 4,000 jobs in one of the largest single-county commitments of its £40bn UK programme. The company has opened a £500M fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirmed a second £500M facility
Bizlink Holding, a Taiwanese manufacturer of cables, connectors, and power distribution systems, has agreed to buy the information and communications technology unit of Blackstone’s Interplex for $850 million in cash. The deal includes an additional $50 million earnout and is expected to close in th
Uncovr, a surgical AI startup based in New York and Paris, has raised $7M in seed funding to turn the video from an operation into its official written record. The round was led by Index Ventures. Seedcamp, Frst, No Label Ventures, and Entrepreneurs First also took part, alongside angels including D
01Health, a London healthtech company, has raised £11.2M ($15M) in Series A funding to open up the clinical platform behind its dental brands and sell it to other practices. The round was led by Gresham House Ventures. Existing backers Balderton Capital, Eka Ventures, and Wavemaker360 followed on, a
Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.
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Over the last few weeks, while learning LangGraph and agentic systems, I ended up building Co-Founder Memory. It's a stateful AI assistant with: • long-term memory • planning loops • self-correcting RAG • web search fallback • automated timeline summaries • project and preference tracking Nothing re
A practical guide for frontend developers who want faster, leaner React apps - without the fluff. Performance is no longer a "nice to have." With Core Web Vitals directly influencing SEO rankings and user retention dropping sharply after a 2-second load time, a slow React app is a business problem.
I want to be precise about what I mean by that title, because it's easy to read it as anti-AI and it isn't. I use LLMs every day. I used one to write this article's first outline. I use them to parse prose, extract structure, and summarise documents. They're genuinely useful for that. What I stopped
Originally published on mihaibuilds.com. Cross-posting here because dev.to is where I read a lot of work like this myself. Three weeks ago I shipped the second milestone of The Brain — the scheduler daemon, cron triggers, workflows that read their previous run, an opt-in HTTP endpoint. That was M2.
Generation is easy to demo. Production needs reviewable claims, validation contracts, small experiments, and rollback. AI-assisted game development has a strange failure mode: It can produce more ideas, more critiques, more feature suggestions, more balance notes, more UI opinions, and more implemen
In part 1, I wrote about why coding agents should not hold write credentials. GitHub was the example, because the problem is easy to see there. A coding agent can read a repository, reason about a change, and produce useful work. But if the same agent also owns the token that creates branches, commi
Decoding System Observability: Building Transparent and Resilient Architectures Introduction In today's complex software ecosystems, ensuring system reliability and performance requires more than just traditional monitoring. System observability—an extension of monitoring—provides a comprehensive vi
