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The dark factory is real, most developers are getting slower, and your org chart is the bottleneck (plus 5 prompts to get from level 2 to 5)

Three engineers at StrongDM run a software factory where no human writes code and no human reviews code. The system takes specifications written in markdown, builds the software, tests it against behavioral scenarios, and produces shippable artifacts. The humans approve outcomes.

OpenAI is charging $20K/month for an AI employee

The unit of work in software just changed from instructions to tokens. If you’re still thinking about AI as a productivity tool for developers, you’re missing what’s actually happening: computing itself has changed form, and the second-order effects are already reshaping careers, org charts, and entire markets.

7 days until ticket prices rise for Disrupt 2026

Lowest ticket prices to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end February 27. Up to $680 off individual passes and up to 30% off group passes. Register here.

This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the top stories from the past few days, featuring the likes of Bedrock Robotics, Anthropic,

Anker’s X1 Pro shouldn’t exist, but I’m so glad it does

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India's Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up

Sarvam's Indus chat app is currently available in beta.

I Love a Good AI Rant

“If your best idea for what AI can do in the workspace is ‘replace a hundred human beings with a server rack doing the same thing’, you’ve got no business calling yourself a techno-optimist.” Let’s gooooo!

The Creator Economy's Ad Revenue Problem and India's AI Ambitions

Watch as Equity unpacks how creators are diversifying beyond ads, whether their model can scale beyond the top 1%, everything happening at India's AI Impact Summit, and more of the week's headlines.

Fury over Discord's age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK

Persona confirmed all age-check data from Discord's UK test was deleted.

Why creators are ditching ad revenue for chocolate bars and fintech acquisitions

Equity unpacks how creators are diversifying beyond ads, whether their model can scale beyond the top 1%, everything happening at India's AI Impact Summit, and more of the week's headlines.

Samsung brings a generative AI-powered Bixby to its TVs

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Xslop?

Xbox shakeup: Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft