As the trade war escalates, Hence launches an AI ‘advisor’ to help companies manage risk

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have underscored the increasing geopolitical risk that almost all businesses now face. As the situation continues to shift with Trump’s unpredictable deal-making, it’s also becoming clear how challenging it is for companies, nonprofits, consultants, and lawyers to keep up with the rapid day-to-day changes. “We are drowning in trade updates every [...]

AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company

Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming a company called Arena Intelligence Inc., reports Bloomberg. In a blog post published Thursday, Chatbot Arena said that the company will “give [it] the resources to improve [its platform] significantly over what it is today.” [...]

Wasp’s platform is the glue that holds web dev apps together

When Matija Šošić started working in web development, he was surprised by how hard it was to build a full-stack production-ready web application. One of the biggest hurdles Šošić faced was navigating the fragmented dev tooling landscape. Coding a web application required utilizing different tools for developing the front end versus the back end, and [...]

Zoom blames registrar and .us registry for downtime

“Communication error” between registrar and registry results in major outage. Zoom has seemingly blamed GoDaddy Registry, which manages the .us namespace, for an outage yesterday that impacted its zoom.us domain. Its official incident report states: On April 16, between 2:25 P.M. ET and 4:12 P.M. ET, the domain zoom.us was not available due to a [...]