







San Francisco Bay Area software company working on creating the machine that creates the machine.
Conscious Engines • Studio on Twitter / X
5. @feynon_ is the founder of Tiles, a privacy-focused AI assistant built around local models and ATProto.At the Mumbai meetup, he will be speaking about building privacy-first AI products using local models and open protocols. pic.twitter.com/x4ZAGyZu24— Conscious Engines • Studio (@cengines_studio) May 18, 2026


Stanford AO — Building the autonomous organization
Stanford AO is building the autonomous organization — an incubator at Stanford OpenLab for agent swarms, DAOs, AI villages, and related experiments.

On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more

Matt Webb
I have worked with some of the world’s largest firms on design-led product invention using new technology for over 20 years. I was MD of two London startup accelerators with R/GA Ventures, and co-founder and CEO of pioneering design studio BERG, where we shipped connected products and got work into the New York MoMA.

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare | TechCrunch
Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.

Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran, "User Technology—From Pointing to Pondering"
Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

Our designer built an operating system with Cursor
A Primordial Computing Soup
Fostering AI art scenius, creating an open planetary network of robots

The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI [Digital Download] — Welch Labs
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI offers unique perspectives on artificial intelligence through hands-on exploration and richly detailed graphics that give readers a visceral understanding of how AI actually works. From the fundamental perceptron to cutting-edge AI video generation, each chapte

manjunathshiva/gpt-oss-20b-tq3 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Osaurus — Own Your AI on Apple Silicon
Own your AI: local-first agents with memory, tools, and identity on Apple Silicon. Offline, open source, and API-compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama.

Bluesky’s CTO @pfrazee.com has been hard at work building AI tools on atproto, he’s going to be presenting his explorations on Tuesday in SF and Wednesday at the Seattle AI meetup luma.com/zfjek18n
Seattle AI Meetup - Post Alley · Luma
luma.com"The truly visionary AI for Science company is not automating experiments or AI-generating Nature papers, but building technology to improve the collective sensemaking ability of scientists @cosmik.network and alphaXiv are both examples of startups trying to build new sensemaking infrastructure"
Science as Collective Sensemaking
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