Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ powering ChatGPT and Claude apps

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...
Muddy River News

The 2026 Software Development Outsourcing Report: Quality, Cost, and Time-to-Market Benchmarks

How many times have you heard that outsourcing is just a race to the bottom for prices? If you believe that you are living in 2010. Today the global market for software development is not about ...
PC Magazine

I Vibe Coded a Global Mass-Surveillance Site in 2 Hours Using OpenAI's Codex. That's a Privacy Nightmare

With zero coding skills, I was able to quickly assemble camera feeds from around the world into a single view. Here's how I did it, and why it's both promising and terrifying for all of us. I'm the ...
Time

Why AI Systems Can’t Help Developing Personalities

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. It’s day 262 in the AI village—an ongoing experiment where frontier AIs complete weekly challenges—and Gemini 2.5 Pro is ...