The big AI story of the day, whoever it happens to
The big AI story of the day, whoever it happens to
Big Story
GitHub.com was degraded for 7 hours 47 minutes on August 17. Copilot stayed broken for four and a half of them, because a retry bug in VS Code kept hitting the service that had just come back.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 22, 2026
Products
If OpenAI's model estimates an account belongs to someone under 18, the teen experience applies, and the route back is identity verification.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 19, 2026
Money
Meta acquires AI agent startup Manus for $2B in fastest major tech deal closure (10 days). Inside the geopolitical complexity, competitive landscape, and why this signals the AI agent land grab has begun.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Dec 30, 2025
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The big AI story of the day, whoever it happens to
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