The RealReal won’t let AI agents hog designer clothing (opens theverge.com)
The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for AI agents to shop on its site.
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The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for AI agents to shop on its site.
We're a small team building live AI virtual try-on for eCommerce and one of our biggest challenges has been making the economics work. When we started, running real-time video generation through third-party APIs was costing us close to ₹20 per second. That's ₹400 for a 20-second virtual try-on.
I've posted here a couple of times before, but in case you haven't been following along, I make a product called EXTRA EXTRA Chili Crunch, which is a Californian take on the more classic Asian condiment.
Sources: Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used — Also: The company rolls out a retail store tool to reduce wasted inventory. — Apple's touch-screen MacBook Pro will arrive on Wednesday …
Hi, I'm Neeraj. Two days ago I started Bulkwagon in Indore and Gwalior. The idea: people who want the same car join one group, and authorised dealers compete for the whole group instead of each of us negotiating alone at the showroom. 7 people have joined so far. Nobody has paid anything yet.
Bro went from a 700-person village in Slovakia to Google, then built a startup that got bought by Amazon. Meet Rasty. After high school he moved to Boston to work for a security company that got acquired by Google.
There’s a misconception that a successful launch video needs to cost tens of thousands of dollars and feel like a high production commercial. But Farza Majeed has a radically different approach. Farza is the founder of Hey Clicky and previously Buildspace, one of the largest online schools for…
impuls8 tracks consumer markets. We read who sells, at what price, on which platform. Pets is the category founders research most on our site. On Zepto, Indian D2C pet brands are 22.4% of what a dark store carries. So we asked how much of the money they take.
The doctor asked what my mom’s sugar level was last year. Simple question. My dad pulled out the plastic bag of reports (you know the one), I scrolled through my gallery, nothing. The test got done again. That annoyed me enough to build something. It’s called KinLab.
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
Bro built a fun tool for his dad, now it makes $16K-$20K per month. Kourosh launched Voicy, a speech-to-text app, as a Chrome extension two years ago. “Originally, I just built it as a fun tool for my dad.” Then people started downloading it without any marketing, so he picked it up as a side…
Block unveiled Dessa, a speech-to-speech AI model trained on human conversation that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer.
Google updated its privacy policy to say data shared through Personal Intelligence from connected apps such as Gmail and Photos could be used to target ads.
Utopai, an AI film studio with more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation.
10月21日,Anthropic发布了Claude Duet:AI不只等着回答问题,还能主动提醒、在后台持续处理任务。从卖二手家具、订机票,到整理客户资料、协调工作,一批能替人办事的AI Agent,正在争夺我们生活和工作中的位置。 Instinct把私人助理放进短信,Meta Muse借助社交生态承接日常需求,Grok…
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Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year. SiliconANGLE reported the round as $25M.
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
Loomerang lets artists open free storefronts and keep 60% of what is left after manufacturing; it prints, inspects and ships every order.
Founder here, posting on Saturday with the Spotlight flair. This is self-promotion: I built it. The problem: videos from good phones look soft and blocky on WhatsApp Status. The usual tricks (send to yourself, forward, the HD toggle) don't reliably fix it.
A personal agent from Anthropic; Lenny's Newsletter published a hands-on review the same day.
Walmart is introducing technology that lets AI agents buy on customers' behalf, with spending controls and approvals, while Amazon blocks agents.
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Third-party app stores must be allowed on iPhones in Australia from March 1, 2027; Apple plans to appeal, and Epic says Fortnite returns tomorrow.
When I started, "a lesson on any topic, built just for you" sounded like a product. Now a competitor with a $16M round lets you generate courses for free, and every chat assistant will teach you anything if you ask. So I've stopped leading with that.
ChatGPT Ads is now in 26 more countries; OpenAI says over 100,000 advertisers have used it. A companion post explains how the ad stack keeps ads separate from answers.