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Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed  —  Sycamore, an agentic AI operating system founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath, raised $65 million in seed funding led by Coatue and Lightspeed.

Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity

Today, I’m talking with Todd McKinnon, who is co-founder and CEO of Okta, a platform that lets big companies manage security and identity across all the apps and services their employees use. Think of it like login management — actually, that’s a great way to think about it because the way most people encounter Okta […]

Super Meat Boy 3D review: a sloppy transition from 2D to 3D

Super Meat Boy 3D features plenty of familiar challenges, but the series' precise platforming doesn't cleanly translate to 3D.

After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

Sean Endicott / Windows Central:
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback”  —  Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.

Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere (Derek Thompson)

Derek Thompson:
Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere  —  Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe.