Happy Wednesday! Keep that mid-week energy high!
Geek Gossip
#Android - Google debuted its Android Bench benchmarking portal in March. The service is intended to provide a continuously updated leaderboard. And guess which model Google says is the best to build Android applications? Gemini? Nah - it’s GPT 5.5!!
#AIOverviews - Google’s AI Overviews has been role-playing characters when users ask it to, and it does not require switching into AI Mode. Users have been running similar tests and posting the results.
#Uber - Uber president says AI spending is getting “harder to justify”. They exhausted their annual AI budget in just four months - and are now questioning if it’s seeing meaningful returns on its investments.
Latest Updates
Ola Electric Reports 56.6% Decline In Operating Revenue In Q4 Fy26
Ola Electric reported a 56.6% year-on-year decline in operating revenue to Rs 265 crore in Q4 FY26. The company significantly reduced its overall expenditure, with total expenses declining 58.2% to Rs 546 crore.
Human Archive Taps Into Indias Services Startups To Collect Data For Physical AI
This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots. It has partnered with three companies to have workers wear special caps with cameras to collect egocentric video data of everyday tasks that could be used to train robots.
Changelog
Nvidia Control Panel - Officially Retired, Features Migrated to Nvidia App.
Spotify - Adds Narrated Articles in English, a curated collection of over 650 long-form magazine articles from top publications.
Website Wednesday
Orval - Do you have a specification written in OpenAPI format and wished to quickly scaffold an API around it? Orval is the ultimate automation tool for frontend development, generating fully-typed TypeScript API clients directly from your OpenAPI or Swagger specifications. It creates everything you need - from HTTP request functions and models to MSW mock handlers - ensuring your frontend stays perfectly in sync with your backend. Ship faster and eliminate type mismatches with this essential bridge for your production stack.
Microsoft Webwright - Stop wasting time on repetitive UI automation! Webwright is Microsoft’s powerful framework designed to streamline web-based agentic workflows. By providing a structured, reliable interface for AI agents to interact with complex web pages, it bridges the gap between human intent and automated execution. From data extraction to multi-step navigation, Webwright makes your agents more capable and robust.
Agent Email - This provides a developer-friendly API that allows you to integrate your applications with email functionality seamlessly. Whether you need to automate lead responses, parse incoming messages for data extraction, or trigger workflows based on email events, this tool bridges the gap. Automate your inbox.
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Miscellaneous
Using AI To Write Better Code More Slowly
The point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. But LLM agents can also be used to write high- quality code more slowly. The problem is not so much finding the bugs, but instead prioritizing and validating them.
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