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ESPHome 2026.5.0 Brings the New Device Builder Dashboard to All

The ESPHome project, which provides a firmware designed to easily turn a range of microcontrollers into devices compatible with the Home Assistant ecosystem, has announced a major new release — bringing with it beta access to the in-browser ESPHome Device Builder.

"The headline change in ESPHome 2026.5.0 is the public beta of the new ESPHome Device Builder," the project maintainers explain in the ESPHome 2026.5.0 release notes, "a from-scratch web app that replaces the legacy in-tree dashboard with a real configuration editor, a firmware job queue, multi-select bulk actions, labels and areas, out-of-sync detection, cross-config search, distributed builds, and a proper settings UI [User Interface]."

ESPHome 2026.5.0 brings the beta of a whole new user interface: the ESPHome Device Builder. (📷: ESPHome)

Announced during the Open Home Foundation's State of the Open Home 2026 conference earlier this year, the ESPHome Device Builder is designed to entirely replace ESPHome's native dashboard....

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Gartner predicts AI coding costs will surpass average developer salaries by 2028

According to Gartner, the rapid adoption of AI coding agents is set to significantly increase software development costs, with AI coding expenses expected to surpass the average developer’s salary by 2028. The primary driver is the surge in large language model (LLM) token consumption, coupled with the industry’s

OpenAI's Free GPT-5.5 Model Makes ChatGPT Better At Understanding Context

GPT-5.5 Instant is now more capable at processing complex questions. Alexsl/Getty Images OpenAI has updated GPT-5.5 Instant, the model you interact with the most when you use ChatGPT, to be better at understanding context and adapting to queries as you alter them to add more conditions or

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CM Yogi’s Growth Dialogue with Google: Roadmap for a Viksit Uttar Pradesh through AI, Investment and Innovation

In a step towards connecting the vision of a Viksit Uttar Pradesh with the global technology and investment ecosystem, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held an important meeting with Google Cloud Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Tarun Pant and his team during his Bengaluru visit. In this interaction, held before the roundtable

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New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a $50M Series B led by DST at a $500M valuation, as it enters the US

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Gartner predicts AI coding costs will surpass average developer salaries by 2028

OpenAI's Free GPT-5.5 Model Makes ChatGPT Better At Understanding Context

CM Yogi’s Growth Dialogue with Google: Roadmap for a Viksit Uttar Pradesh through AI, Investment and Innovation

New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a $50M Series B led by DST at a $500M valuation, as it enters the US