CopilotKit raises $27M to help devs deploy app-native AI agents
Many companies today provide AI simply as a chatbot inside their apps: you type in (or dictate) what you want it to do, and the AI bot goes and tries…
Valve is giving Steam Deck game devs real player performance data
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Valve now provides developers with 30 days of average frame rate data for Steam Deck Verified games to help optimize handheld performance.…
Diablo 4 devs deny allegations of AI-voiced localization
Diablo 4 Season 8 has only recently started, and has been the source of controversy — allegations of AI-voicing in the Spanish localization have been leveled by the community. Similar…
Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance
AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways. While any website might be…
India had 12% of crypto devs in 2024, only behind the US, up from 4% in 2018 (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
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Devs reveal how terribly underpowered the Nintendo Switch was
Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Japanese Nintendo Switch port developers revealed how the Nintendo Switch’s underpowered hardware hampered development. Everything from the weak CPU to the paltry 4GB of…
Hugging Face makes it easier for devs to run AI models on third-party clouds
AI dev platform Hugging Face has partnered with third-party cloud vendors including SambaNova to launch Inference Providers, a feature designed to make it easier for devs on Hugging Face to…
Google Developer Program gains new features, but you’ll have to pay for them
In June, Google announced the Google Developer Program, a free program to give devs access to resources designed to help them build applications using Google services. Now that “millions” of…
This Week in AI: VCs (and devs) are enthusiastic about AI coding tools
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This week in AI, two startups developing tools to generate…