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A GitHub issue on Postman's support repository reports that the app auto-installs AI plugins without asking and attempts to share API data. The thread reached 1,027 points and 343 comments on Hacker News.
Why it mattersAPI collections hold tokens and internal endpoints, so any developer tool adding AI features should ask before enabling them.
Read on github.com ↗02ToolsTechmeme
Revolut says it reduced AI coding inference costs by roughly 90% in under a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools such as Claude Code.
It is a concrete data point for teams weighing hosted coding assistants against running open models themselves.
techmeme.com ↗03AISimon Willison
Simon Willison reports that a locally run Qwen 3.8 27B can interpret model weights, following the Sparks of Weight-Space Programming write-up from Takehi, Teoh, Zhang and Khattab.
Weight-level inspection on consumer hardware could make interpretability experiments available to small teams.
simonwillison.net ↗04MoneyTechmeme
Traversal, which provides AI agents for site reliability engineering, raised $120M co-led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint and Khosla.
Large rounds for operations-focused agents show where investors expect agents to take on production work.
techmeme.com ↗05LaunchesHN front page
Stringman is an open-source gripper robot that covers a whole room and is priced at about $800. It reached 385 points on Hacker News.
Low-cost open hardware gives robotics software builders an affordable platform to test against.
neufangled.com ↗06IndiaInc42
Indian startups Soket Labs and ZenteiQ AiTech Innovations have rolled out new indigenously developed large language models.
More domestic model options may matter to builders serving Indian languages or data-residency requirements.
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