Friday, February 6, 2026, marks a watershed moment in the AI arms race, with major releases from Anthropic and OpenAI competing for developer mindshare. Beyond the LLM hype, today’s landscape is defined by a growing "cloud-exit" sentiment, significant shifts in enterprise infrastructure, and a tightening regulatory environment surrounding facial recognition and data privacy.
Hacker News
Updated 5 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 2 hours agoElon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion...
Reddit said during earnings it's looking to buy 'capabilities' and 'companies.'
The company says it has continuous age check systems running in the background to ensure age accuracy.
The two-line letter to the CIA's director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and in...
If you primarily want a tablet device to mark up, highlight, and annotate your e-books and documents, and perhaps sometimes scribble some notes, Amazon's new Kindle Scrib...
Ars Technica
Updated about 11 hours agoClaude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
Hamster Corp.'s new "Console Archives" does what Nintendon't.
The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."
Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."
Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.
VentureBeat
Updated about 11 hours agoA developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud c...
Researchers from Stanford, Nvidia, and Together AI have developed a new technique that can discover new solutions to very complex problems. For example, they managed to o...
OpenAI on Wednesday released GPT-5.3-Codex, which the company calls its most capable coding agent to date, in an announcement timed to land at the exact same moment Anthr...
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.6, a major upgrade to its flagship artificial intelligence model that the company says plans more carefully, sustains longer...
The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators h...
InfoQ
Updated 14 minutes agoGoogle Supercharges Gemini 3 Flash with Agentic Vision
Google has added agentic vision to Gemini 3 Flash, combining visual reasoning with code execution to "ground answers in visual evidence". According to Google, this not on...
LinkedIn Leverages GitHub Actions, CodeQL, and Semgrep for Code Scanning
LinkedIn has rebuilt its static application security testing (SAST) pipeline using GitHub Actions and custom workflows, enabling consistent, enforceable code scanning acr...
Datadog Integrates Google Agent Development Kit into LLM Observability Tools
Datadog recently announced that its LLM Observability platform now provides automatic instrumentation for applications built with Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK), of...
Presentation: Expanding Swift from Apps to Services
Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a garbage collecto...
MUI Releases Base UI 1 with 35 Accessible Components
Base UI 1.0 has officially launched! This unstyled React component library, backed by MUI, offers 35 accessible components with a commitment to long-term maintenance. Wit...
Wired AI
Updated about 12 hours agoFounders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after D...
Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.
Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.
“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup’s vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.
Towards Data Science
Updated 18 minutes agoThe real value lies in writing clearer code and using your tools right The post Pydantic Performance: 4 Tips on How to Validate Large Amounts of Data Efficiently appeared...
How much of your AI agent's output is real data versus confident guesswork? The post Prompt Fidelity: Measuring How Much of Your Intent an AI Agent Actually Executes appe...
Are the human-like cognitive abilities of LLMs real or fake? How does information travel through the neural network? Is there hidden knowledge inside an LLM? The post Mec...
Stop guessing and start diagnosing performance issues using Py-Spy The post Why Is My Code So Slow? A Guide to Py-Spy Python Profiling appeared first on Towards Data Scie...
A simple mental model to remember when each one works (with examples that finally click). The post The Rule Everyone Misses: How to Stop Confusing loc and iloc in Pandas...
Anthropic News
Updated 26 days agoThe best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use, with meaningful improvements to everyday tasks like slides and spreadsheets.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 sets new benchmark records in coding, reasoning, and computer use while being Anthropic's most aligned model.
Claude Haiku 4.5 matches state-of-the-art coding capabilities from months ago while delivering unprecedented speed and cost-efficiency.
Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F round at a $183 billion valuation to expand enterprise offerings, safety research, and international growth.
Anthropic's response to the White House AI Action Plan supports infrastructure and safety measures while calling for stronger export controls.
Windsurf News
Updated about 2 hours agoClaude Opus 4.6 is now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing for self serve users: 2x credits without thinking and 3x credits with thinking. Availab...
We've completely rewritten and retrained the old Windsurf Tab, increasing accepted lines by up to 100% and introducing 2 new aggression levels on our new Pareto Frontier...
Arena Mode brings side-by-side model comparison directly into your IDE, plus Plan Mode and Megaplan for smarter task planning.
GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in Windsurf with multiple reasoning effort levels. For a limited time, enjoy discounts on credit usage.
Parallel agents, Git worktrees, multi-pane Cascade, dedicated terminal, and SWE-1.5 Free
Cursor
Updated 26 days agoA comprehensive guide to working with coding agents, from starting with plans to managing context, customizing workflows, and reviewing code.
As models improve as agents, we've found success by providing fewer details up front, making it easier for the agent to pull relevant context on its own.
We're partnering with ecosystem vendors who have built hooks support with Cursor.
Graphite has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor.
Bringing design and engineering closer together.
OpenAI News
Updated about 2 hours agoOpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safe...
An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation.
OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse.
OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 2 hours agoGoogle AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can try out Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets you create and explore worlds.
D4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.
Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.
Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated 26 days agoThe capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of t...
Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents
Beyond permission prompts: making Claude Code more secure and autonomous
Hugging Face Blog
Updated about 4 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoBreak out the cake and green sprinkles — GeForce NOW is turning six. Since launch, members have streamed over 1 billion hours, and the party’s just getting started. Throu...
Businesses today face the challenge of uncovering valuable insights buried within a wide variety of documents — including reports, presentations, PDFs, web pages and spre...
Everything Will Be Represented in a Virtual Twin, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Says at 3DEXPERIENCE World
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz announced a partnership to build a shared industrial AI architecture, merging virtual twins wit...
Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of automotive innovation with a new S-Class built for the AI era, bringing together automotive safety and NVIDIA’s advanced autonomous...
Open source has become essential for driving innovation in robotics and autonomy. By providing access to critical infrastructure — from simulation frameworks to AI models...
arXiv
Updated about 2 hours agoThe rapid growth of large models has raised concerns about their environmental impact and equity in accessibility due to significant computational costs. Low-Rank Adapter...
Adapting large pretrained models to new tasks efficiently and continually is crucial for real-world deployment but remains challenging due to catastrophic forgetting and...
The Moore-Penrose Pseudo-inverse (PInv) serves as the fundamental solution for linear systems. In this paper, we propose a natural generalization of PInv to the nonlinear...
To complete assignments provided by humans in natural language, robots must interpret commands, generate and answer relevant questions for scene understanding, and manipu...
Pre-trained vision language models do not have good intuitions about the physical world. Recent work has shown that supervised fine-tuning can improve model performance o...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 2 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 2 hours agoThis research looks at why Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models often outperform standard Behavior Cloning in imitation learning. By using simple predictions of what happen...
Microsoft Research unveils Paza, a human-centered speech pipeline, and PazaBench, the first leaderboard for low-resource languages. It covers 39 African languages and 52...
AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance o...
Argos improves multimodal RL by evaluating whether an agent’s reasoning aligns with what it observes over time. The approach reduces visual hallucinations and produces mo...
OptiMind is a small language model that converts business operation challenges, described naturally, into mathematical formulations that optimization software can solve....
We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of...
WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats. WhatsApp’s exp...
We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback. Our new U...
Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which is why we op...
The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 2 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 2 hours agoTL;DR Established in 2022 as a way to help support the great open source ecosystem projects that Spotify... The post Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify...
The technical and practical rationale for a clear separation between these domains. The post Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation appea...
The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code. The post Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (P...
We explore context engineering for background coding agents and what makes a good migration prompt. The post Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Part 2) appear...
Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For... The post Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human appeared first...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 32 minutes agozai-org/GLM-OCR
GLM-OCR is a multimodal OCR model built on the GLM-V encoder–decoder architecture for complex document understanding. It integrates a CogViT visual encoder, a GLM-0.5B la...
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
Kimi K2.5 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model built by Moonshot AI through continual pretraining on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens. It utilizes a...
Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next
Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model designed specifically for coding agents and local development. It features a Mixture of Experts architecture with...
stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash
Step 3.5 Flash is an open-source foundation model built on a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, selectively activating 11B of its 196B parameters per token. It...
circlestone-labs/Anima
Anima is a 2 billion parameter text-to-image model developed through a collaboration between CircleStone Labs and Comfy Org. Built on NVIDIA Cosmos, it is specifically de...
GitHub Trending
Updated about 1 hour agoaquasecurity/trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
bitwarden/clients
Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).
microsoft/qlib
Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diver...
sdmg15/Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit
🔗 Some useful websites for programmers.
bitwarden/server
Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).
AWS News Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoAWS launches Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offe...
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication of workforce identities and permission sets, enabling improved resiliency for AWS account access and allowin...
Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in Chi...
Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still...
Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
AWS introduces Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 2.3 times inference performance. G7e instances del...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 2 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 2 hours agoThe number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2025. The network layer is under particular threat as hyper-volumetric attacks grew 700%.
Local Uploads on R2 reduces request duration for uploads by up to 75%. It writes object data to a nearby location and asynchronously copies it to your bucket, all while d...
Google's dual-purpose crawler creates an unfair AI advantage. To protect publishers and foster competition, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority must mandate crawle...
Deploy multiple Workers under a single domain with the ability to make them feel like single-page applications. We take a look at how service bindings enable URL path rou...
Moltworker is a middleware Worker and adapted scripts that allows running OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare's Sandbox SDK and our Developer Pla...
IGN News
Updated about 2 hours agoThe development team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 have been given the status of Knight under the French Order of Arts and Letters, in recognition of their significa...
The Last of Us and Alien: Romulus star Isabela Merced is set to star in an upcoming film adaptation of the hit Sega franchise The House of the Dead.
Insomniac Games, the developer behind PlayStation's beloved Spider-Man games and the upcoming Wolverine, just dropped a teasing hint at another Marvel hero who fans now t...
A Tomb Raider TV show set video has hit the internet, showing Sophie Turner as Lara Croft complete with dual pistols.
Game Rant
Updated about 2 hours agoThe legendary developer Nihon Falcom announces a brand new action RPG during the February 2026 Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase.
Xbox Game Pass could see major expansions in the future, with Microsoft considering the possibility of more mergers and bundles.
Heading into a monster-infested lab in Final Fantasy 7 Remake triggers a tough, but fun, optional boss fight.
The orphans in the Sector 5 Slums have gone missing again in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and, once again, it’s up to Cloud to find them.
From a new planet to a card game, here's everything announced in Honkai: Star Rail 4.0 livestream.