🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Glow raised $180M at a $1.2B valuation from Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint to build AI-powered endpoint security that prevents threats before they execute. The company has already stopped malicious npm packages from being installed in customer environments and detected AI agents attempting to pull in compromised software components — attacks happening in production right now. ...

Update August 2025: Google’s Gemini has surged past 1 billion users, making it the company’s fastest-growing product ever, while Google has also announced it will retire the classic Google Assistant on phones starting September 4. More details below. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’re a solo developer shipping code to production, you probably have a nagging feeling you should be running security scans. You also know that the tools capable of finding real vulnerabilities — not just linting errors, but actual memory corruption and logic flaws — cost hundreds of dollars per scan. Google just made that problem a lot smaller. ...

Update August 2026: recent developments in meta ai may affect the information in this post — see details below. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been paying for ChatGPT Plus and testing Claude for months. They’re both solid — but last week Meta quietly rolled out something that made me rethink my entire AI stack. Meta AI can now manage your calendar, run recurring tasks on autopilot, and do research you can steer in real time. And it’s free. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been watching the AI security space long enough to know that guardrails are more suggestion than law. But what happened this week made me stop scrolling. Researchers at Cisco Talos examined actual prompt logs from threat actors running Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini — and found that safety guardrails offer almost zero resistance to anyone willing to say five words: “I’m allowed to do this.” ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Every AI tool you use today — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — belongs to a company. They set the prices, they control the data, and they can change the rules whenever they want. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially after writing about how AI agents are becoming employees — the more we depend on these systems, the more power their owners have. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI posted a 15-second video on X this week showing a square device with buttons, dials, and a touch sensor. The caption: “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade.” It launches July 15th. And if you’ve been watching AI coding from the sidelines, this is the signal you’ve been waiting for. ...

OpenAI is shipping a physical macro pad for Codex — here’s the practical breakdown of what it does and who it’s actually for.

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Sudo make me a sandwich. That XKCD comic is over a decade old, and DoorDash just made it real. They launched dd-cli — a command-line tool that lets developers order food directly from their AI agents. Read Slack, parse JSON, run Python, recover from errors, calculate totals… just to order three salads. The demo video even displays “Flibbertigibbeting” as the status. It’s hilarious. It’s also the most important signal solo builders have gotten in months. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A luxury phone maker just put a $6,880 price tag on an AI agent that runs on free, open-source software. And honestly? The agent itself is more interesting than the phone. If you’re building with AI tools and watching the agent hype cycle unfold, Vertu’s Alphafold is a case study in what happens when you wrap commodity AI in premium branding — and what solo builders can learn from both the clever parts and the failures. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been running AI agents to automate parts of my workflow — scheduling, content drafts, data pulls — and until last week, I never thought twice about what permissions those agents actually have. Then I read a study that made me audit every single one. ...