AI APIs

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds and phasing out free public API access, citing widespread scraping by AI bots. The company says it wants tighter control over the vast trove of user-generated content on its platform, much of which has been used to train large language models. The move continues Reddit's broader shift toward licensing its data to AI companies and charging commercial scrapers, while cutting off the open access tools that researchers and hobbyist developers have long relied on.

Earendil Works has released pi, an open-source TypeScript toolkit for building AI agents. It bundles a unified API for multiple large language models, a built-in agent loop, a terminal user interface, and a command-line coding agent. Developers are picking it up as interest grows in lightweight tools for wiring LLMs into autonomous coding and task-running agents.

A developer has released a command-line tool that compresses tokens before they are sent to AI coding assistants such as Codex and Astra, aiming to reduce API costs. The launch was shared on Hacker News, where early reactions are beginning to form around whether the compression can cut spending without degrading model output quality.

Enso, an AI marketing startup co-founded by one of the founders of API marketplace RapidAPI, has raised $15 million in funding. The funding announcement was reported by Israeli tech outlet Calcalist. The round positions the startup to expand its AI-driven marketing offerings, though details on the investors and valuation were not disclosed.

Palmer Luckey's case for robotics is drawing attention alongside claims that ARK Invest's forecasts on the sector have been beaten and that China is racing ahead in embodied AI. The discussion frames humanoid robots not as single machines but as an interface, or API, for the physical world, combining hardware and software into one platform.

Figma has limited access to its Model Context Protocol server to a whitelist of approved clients, excluding Pi. The move, announced by a Figma employee, restricts which AI-powered development tools can connect to Figma's API for design data. Developers are debating whether the tighter controls protect the platform or close off an open ecosystem for AI tooling.

A firm rented four Nvidia H200 GPUs, reportedly paying $13,200 a month, to independently test DeepSeek's claim that its AI model costs 80 times less to run than rivals like Anthropic's Claude. According to Tom's Hardware, the GPU rental bill alone doubled the comparable Claude API cost, raising questions about whether the widely cited savings hold up in real-world self-hosted deployments.