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RecipeBook by Shofo offers video training data by the hour with over 25 million clips for AI model training.

Passionfroot, a German B2B creator marketplace, raised $15M in Series A funding led by Insight Partners to expand to the US and Brazil, and will use the funds to grow its team and develop AI features.

Etsy sellers are fleeing the platform due to an influx of AI-generated art and drop-shipped products, which has eroded trust and sales. Competitor Fybe aims to attract dissatisfied sellers by explicitly banning AI content and drop-shipping.

Gravity, an AI agent marketplace, has shifted its builder rewards from flat fees to a quality- and difficulty-based system, with a new leaderboard offering Rs 6,000 for first place.

This paper presents a training-free LLM-based candidate generation pipeline for vacation rental marketplaces, using an off-the-shelf LLM to synthesize semantic queries and dense retrieval to complement collaborative filtering, significantly improving coverage for long-tail properties while maintaining performance on well-served ones.

The author announces building an AI Agent marketplace and seeks feedback from the community.

Knockoff is a new platform that offers an Amazon-like shopping experience but without counterfeit products.

Explores the future of AI agents collaborating in networks, referencing projects like AnvitaFlow and Moltbook, and raises questions about trust and marketplaces for agent services.

Poses the question of whether users would utilize a marketplace to hire or rent specialized AI agents, exploring a potential new service model.

A website containing tens of thousands of AI Skills with installation instructions was discovered, enabling users to add capabilities to their AI Agent on their own, potentially leading to unemployment for sellers who install Skills.

A startup founder describes a platform enabling AI agents to pay per-call for API services, moving away from subscription models. They seek feedback on the concept.

This paper presents an integrated framework for personalizing free-value thresholds in a two-sided job marketplace, addressing competing objectives and constrained experiments. The deployed system shows significant lift in target metrics while respecting engagement guardrails.

An Amazon seller exposes a persistent black market where middlemen bribe Amazon employees to gain inside access and competitive advantages, highlighting ongoing corruption despite prior prosecutions.

Jason Zhou shares a technique to give coding agents a map across repos, reducing token usage by ~50% and enabling richer grep and call chain tracing. He also releases a Claude Code plugin marketplace called AI Builder Club Skills for setting up codebase harness and compounding agent loops.

OKX launches a marketplace where AI agents can hire each other, settle payments autonomously using stablecoins, and build on-chain reputations, aiming to support the emerging agent economy.

Gravity is an AI agent marketplace in alpha that lets users describe tasks in plain English for end-to-end execution, and is seeking 20 real testers with actual workflows before public launch.

Qwen code companion is now available on the VS Code marketplace, offering an AI-powered coding assistant for developers.

Facebook's new AI Mode turns its search bar into a conversational tool that mines public posts, Reels, and Marketplace data to answer questions, aiming to boost engagement and support subscription tiers, though critics raise privacy and accuracy concerns.

BlenderHunt is an indie marketplace for Blender artists and creators to showcase and sell their work.

The author is building AgenC, an onchain marketplace where AI agents can find tasks, submit results, and get paid via escrow, with security measures like moderation and hardware wallet integration.