Friday, February 13, 2026, marks a fascinating intersection of high-scale engineering triumphs, growing public friction with AI services, and a heightened focus on memory-safe infrastructure. While the AI hype cycle continues, we are seeing a distinct shift toward "AI skepticism" in the consumer sector, even as developers push the boundaries of what these models can do on the backend.
Hacker News
Updated 3 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 3 hours agoWP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees.
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.
CEO Chris Urmson called it a “superhuman” moment, adding that Aurora’s trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours — faster than what a human driver can legally...
Coupang’s massive data breach has sparked U.S. investor lawsuits against the South Korean government over alleged discrimination.
Ars Technica
Updated about 12 hours agoSpaceX's crew missions will now launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality.
"I want to be very, very clear that this should’ve never happened."
ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.
VentureBeat
Updated about 12 hours agoChinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5.The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impres...
Anthropic released its Claude Cowork AI agent software for Windows on Monday, bringing the file management and task automation tool to roughly 70 percent of the desktop c...
When enterprises fine-tune LLMs for new tasks, they risk breaking everything the models already know. This forces companies to maintain separate models for every skill.Re...
The rapid viral adoption of Austrian developer Peter Steinberger's open source AI assistant OpenClaw in recent weeks has sent enterprises and indie developers into a...
Presented by Cisco AI agents are breaking traditional IT operations models, adding complexity, data silos, and fragmented workflows. DJ Sampath, Cisco's SVP of AI So...
InfoQ
Updated 12 minutes agoOpenAI Scales Single Primary Postgresql to Millions of Queries per Second for ChatGPT
OpenAI described how it scaled PostgreSQL to support ChatGPT and its API platform, handling millions of queries per second for hundreds of millions of users. By running a...
Creating Impactful Teams through Diversity Using Session 0
Diverse and empowered teams are impactful teams, Natan Žabkar Nordberg mentioned in his talk on creating impactful software teams at QCon London. A session 0 helps set ex...
WhatsApp Deploys Rust-Based Media Parser to Block Malware on 3 Billion Devices
WhatsApp has rewritten its media handling library in Rust, replacing 160,000 lines of C++ with 90,000 lines of memory-safe code for 3 billion devices. The rollout, part o...
Article: You’ve Generated Your MVP Using AI. What Does That Mean for Your Software Architecture?
AI‑generated code creates implicit architectural decisions, forcing teams to rely on experimentation to validate quality attributes. To get useful results from AI, teams...
Presentation: Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations
Thiago Ghisi explains the structural shifts required as an engineering org scales from 30 to 100+ engineers. He shares how to transition from managing performance to buil...
Wired AI
Updated 28 minutes agoFrom small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are...
Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 1 hour agoMoving beyond the black box to turn complex model outputs into actionable organizational strategies. The post How to Leverage Explainable AI for Better Business Decisions...
Learn how CPU and GPUs interact in the host-device paradigm The post AI in Multiple GPUs: Understanding the Host and Device Paradigm appeared first on Towards Data Scienc...
Combining statistical detection with agentic decision-making The post Building an AI Agent to Detect and Handle Anomalies in Time-Series Data appeared first on Towards Da...
How baseline strength, churn, and subjectivity determine complexity The post Not All RecSys Problems Are Created Equal appeared first on Towards Data Science.
The approach that takes companies to the next level of data maturity The post How to Model The Expected Value of Marketing Campaigns appeared first on Towards Data Scienc...
Anthropic News
Updated about 1 month 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 3 hours agoWe are releasing the initial results of the Windsurf Arena Mode leaderboard today — with some surprising upsets.
Claude Opus 4.6 (fast mode) is now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing for self serve users: 10x credits without thinking and 12x credits with thi...
Claude 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.
Cursor
Updated about 1 month 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 3 hours agoIntroducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
OpenAI for Government announces the deployment of a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, bringing secure, safety-forward AI to U.S. defense teams.
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safe...
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 3 hours agoOur most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.
Research papers point to the growing impact of Deep Think across fields
Google 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.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated about 1 month 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 5 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoA diagnostic insight in healthcare. A character’s dialogue in an interactive game. An autonomous resolution from a customer service agent. Each of these AI-powered intera...
At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data‑center‑class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and students’ system...
The GeForce NOW sixth-anniversary festivities roll on this February, continuing a monthlong celebration of NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service. This week brings even more reaso...
Break 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...
arXiv
Updated about 3 hours agoIn this report, we introduce pplx-embed, a family of multilingual embedding models that employ multi-stage contrastive learning on a diffusion-pretrained language model b...
Recent advances in robot learning have generated significant interest in capable platforms that may eventually approach human-level competence. This interest, combined wi...
The Euclidean distance between wavelet scattering transform coefficients (known as paths) provides informative gradients for perceptual quality assessment of deep inverse...
Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual generation. Yet, existing benchmarks predominantly assess $\textit{Crystallized Intelligence}$,...
Hierarchical goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (H-GCRL) provides a powerful framework for tackling complex, long-horizon tasks by decomposing them into structured s...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 3 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 3 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....
WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means t...
We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thous...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 3 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 3 hours agoIn Part 2, we will peek under the hood at the tooling that makes the Spotify release process possible. The post How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Par...
TL;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...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 29 minutes agozai-org/GLM-5
GLM-5 is a large-scale language model designed for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. It features a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 744B tot...
openbmb/MiniCPM-SALA
MiniCPM-SALA is a large-scale hybrid model designed for million-token context modeling. It utilizes an innovative architecture that integrates 25% Sparse Attention via In...
openbmb/MiniCPM-o-4_5
MiniCPM-o 4.5 is an end-to-end multimodal model with 9B parameters designed for vision, speech, and full-duplex live streaming. Built on SigLip2, Whisper-medium, CosyVoic...
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...
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...
GitHub Trending
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Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
Infisical/infisical
Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.
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element-hq/element-web
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
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The leading workflow orchestration platform. Run stateful step functions and AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoHere are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my atten...
AWS 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...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 3 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 3 hours agoThe way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to conside...
The 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...
IGN News
Updated about 3 hours agoFollowing an unexpected delay in January, the first trailer for Battlefield 6 Season 2 is here, revealing a first look at its three-month roadmap, a limited-time nightfal...
Amazon Prime just dropped the first trailer for its upcoming series Spider-Noir, which features Nicolas Cage as a classic detective with Spidey-senses.
Geoff Keighley opened a segment of the DICE Summit keynote talks dedicated to honoring Zampella's legacy and memory, during which a number of other industry luminaries bo...
Norwegian electronics retailer Komplett has promised it will provide free copies of GTA 6 to anyone giving birth on the game's launch day, exactly nine months ahead of it...
X-Men actress Halle Berry is adamant she won't be reprising her role as Storm in Avengers: Doomsday, but has left the door open to a return in future — potentially in the...
Game Rant
Updated about 3 hours agoWhen it comes to the original Dragon Ball and DBZ, One Piece just doesn't hold a candle to Akira Toriyama's best-written story arcs.
These RPGs are masters are feeding you their story not just through cutscenes, but through powerful environmental storytelling.
There are 61 achievements (& 1 platinum) in Yakuza Kiwami 3, and if players are looking to earn them all, then they can use this guide.
After announcing a surprising content addition to Diablo 2, Blizzard confirms the Resurrected Edition is available on a highly requested platform.
Starsand Island's developer, Seed Sparkle Island, claims the game is currently under attack on Steam from users who are 'overpraising' it.