A Month of AI Coding Cost OpenClaw’s Founder $1.3M in API Spend

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Peter Steinberger, the founder behind OpenClaw, just posted one of the most revealing screenshots in AI tooling this year. His latest CodexBar update shows real-time API spending, token usage, and request volume in a way that makes the economics of AI coding impossible to ignore. The screenshot quickly spread across X because it answered a … Read more

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Vercel engineer built Zero, a programming Language for AI Agents

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Most programming languages were built for humans sitting behind keyboards. Humans write the code, humans read the errors, and humans fix the problems when software breaks. But AI coding agents are starting to handle more of that work on their own, and developers are beginning to realize current programming languages were never really designed for … Read more

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Two Brothers Want AI Agents to Finally Get Their Own Phone Numbers

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AI agents can write code, manage workflows, and browse the internet on their own now. But ask one to call a customer, send a text, or handle a verification code, and everything suddenly breaks apart. That problem pushed Meet Modi and Manav Modi to start AgentPhone. The startup gives AI agents something simple but surprisingly … Read more

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Three Engineers Got Tired of Kafka Headaches and Started S2.dev (YC F25)

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Three engineers saw something developers hate: battling live data streams. Shikhar Bhushan, Stephen Balogh and Dwarak Govind Parthiban had all built massive systems at Etsy and Meta, so they know how quickly an app can choke on real-time data. Now their startup, S2.dev, is live – it just announced general availability and a $3.85M seed … Read more

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Elon Musk Open Sources Latest X Algorithm

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X has published the latest version of its “For You” recommendation algorithm on GitHub, according to a new announcement from Elon Musk. The update was shared through Musk’s official 𝕏 account alongside a link to the public repository managed by xAI. The repository contains code related to the recommendation systems that help power content ranking … Read more

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xAI Launches Grok Build CLI for Coding and AI Workflow Automation

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xAI has announced the early beta launch of Grok Build, a new AI-powered command line interface designed for software engineering and workflow automation. The company revealed the product through an official post on X and a dedicated launch page. According to xAI, the tool is currently available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers as part of an … Read more

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