Squash bugs faster

Hey there! Aaron here to fill you in on everything you might have missed in the tech world last week. 

Quick update: I’m testing a new format by giving you the low-down on the rest of our newsletters. I’m hoping it will be more valuable to you as the reader. Happy reading!

If you're a seasoned developer, you know the importance of testing your code, especially if you're gearing up to launch a product to potentially millions of people. It's a time-consuming process that, in Abhishek Saikia's experience, doesn't always instill confidence.

After years of building, testing, and releasing products to massive audiences, Abhishek and his co-founder Sourabh Gawande decided to collaborate and explore ways to make the testing process more intuitive. The result is KushoAI.

Kusho is an AI agent explicitly designed for API testing. It helps developers automatically find bugs in their APIs before they deploy them. Drop in an API spec, and Kusho will generate an exhaustive set of tests based on real-world scenarios to identify any issues that could break your code in production.

From there, you can run each test individually if you want to go through everything with a fine-tooth comb or bundle them up and run them simultaneously. Kusho will then use AI to generate detailed assertions for each scenario so you can test the accuracy and reliability of your APIs.

Like other developer-orientated AI apps, Kusho uses a variety of services entwined together to create something bigger than the sum of its parts. Groq is one of them. It is an alternative to OpenAI, which Kusho founders described as a "blazingly fast large language model for code generation."

TalkTastic just launched a context-aware AI voice keyboard app. It works by integrating across all your macOS apps, from Slack to Messages to your browser, to not only transcribe your speech with accuracy but refine and rewrite what you say based on your screen’s context.

So imagine you’re going about your day-to-day. With Talktastic, you’d hit the little microphone button and start dictating your response back to an investor in an email. The tool will write your reply while fixing any vocal tics, adjust words for tone, and spell the names of your investors correctly. Then hop over to Slack and shoot your coworker a DM and TalkTastic adjusts for that audience and context.

Ever wonder what tools FAANG companies have access to that you don’t? I didn’t think much of it (except the free food and laundry service) until Lekko launched.

Lekko is a tool that aims to improve the shortfalls of feature flagging, like debugging, exposing applications to misconfigs, and wasted engineering time in total. Lekko wraps functions in your code, making them runtime configurable by any users in the company, from PMs to marketing teams.

“Instead of defining feature flags in an external store, Lekko allows engineers to decorate functions written in their native language,” explains founder Konrad Niemiec.

⚡ A faulty Crowdstrike update has caused a massive global tech outage

📱 Google has revealed what its newest line of Pixel phones will look like

🤖 OpenAI has launched a new lightweight version of GPT-4o

🇪🇺 Meta says it won’t release its upcoming multimodal LLM in the EU.

📹 Instagram now allows users to add multiple songs to the same reel. 

💰 According to some sources, GitLab is exploring a sale after being valued at $8B.

🤖 Microsoft has launched Spreadsheet LLM, a new AI built to handle spreadsheets

🍎 Apple has released the public beta of iOS18 but without any Apple Intelligence features.