The developer landscape today is dominated by a high-stakes standoff between AI ethics and national security, alongside a significant push toward "agent-ready" infrastructure. As AI models move from experimental chat interfaces to autonomous system actors, the industry is grappling with how to secure, evaluate, and even "kill" these features when they overstep.
Hacker News
Updated 14 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 2 hours agoOpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.
Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort.
As Netflix continues its live sports push, the company has partnered with Apple to air the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix.
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system."
The 10th-generation starter Pokémon were revealed in the trailer: Browt (a grass bird), Pombon (a fire puppy), and Gecqua (a water gecko).
Ars Technica
Updated about 11 hours ago"Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings.
It's also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.
“Temu sound wall” not enough to quell fury over xAI’s power plant.
Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars music.
Google's new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.
VentureBeat
Updated about 11 hours agoFormer Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new company Block — the parent of merchants payment system Square, mobile peer-to-peer payments Cash App, music streamer Tida...
When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recog...
For the last six months, enterprises wanting to deploy high quality AI image generation at scale have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: pay premium prices for Google'...
Attackers jailbroke Anthropic’s Claude and ran it against multiple Mexican government agencies for approximately a month. They stole 150 GB of data from Mexico’s federal...
ServiceNow is handling 90% of its own employee IT requests autonomously, resolving cases 99% faster than human agents. On Thursday it announced the product technology it...
InfoQ
Updated 15 minutes agoVercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents
Vercel has launched "react-best-practices," an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agen...
Kubernetes Introduces Node Readiness Controller to Improve Pod Scheduling Reliability
The Kubernetes project recently announced a new core controller called the Node Readiness Controller, designed to enhance scheduling reliability and cluster health by mak...
Presentation: Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code
Jim Gough discusses the transition from accidental architect to API program leader, explaining how to manage the complexity of secure API connectivity. He shares the Comm...
Microsoft Open Sources Evals for Agent Interop Starter Kit to Benchmark Enterprise AI Agents
Microsoft's Evals for Agent Interop is an open-source starter kit that enables developers to evaluate AI agents in realistic work scenarios. It features curated scenarios...
Pinterest’s CDC-Powered Ingestion Slashes Database Latency from 24 Hours to 15 Minutes
Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+...
Wired AI
Updated about 12 hours agoGoogle’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables.
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.
Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate an...
Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do.
Towards Data Science
Updated 39 minutes agoImplementing the classic Pong game in Python using OOP and Turtle The post Coding the Pong Game from Scratch in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Start asking what question the explanation should answer. The post Stop Asking if a Model Is Interpretable appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How to think critically about AI in an ocean of hype The post Generative AI, Discriminative Human appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why my obsession with complex algorithms was actually holding my career back. The post The Gap Between Junior and Senior Data Scientists Isn’t Code appeared first on Towa...
A system-level perspective on architecture, agents, and responsible scale The post Designing Data and AI Systems That Hold Up in Production appeared first on Towards Data...
Anthropic News
Updated about 2 months 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 agoGemini 3.1 Pro is now available in Windsurf with Low and High thinking variants. For a limited time, enjoy promotional pricing on credit usage.
Claude Sonnet 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.
GLM-5 from Zhipu AI and Minimax M2.5 are now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing. Both models are included in Arena Mode's Frontier Arena and Hybr...
OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model optimized for real-time coding, is now available in Windsurf's Arena Mode Fast and Hybrid battle groups.
We are releasing the initial results of the Windsurf Arena Mode leaderboard today — with some surprising upsets.
Cursor
Updated about 2 months 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 agoMicrosoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.
Stateful Runtime for Agents in Amazon Bedrock brings persistent orchestration, memory, and secure execution to multi-step AI workflows powered by OpenAI.
OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory introduce DraftNEPABench, a new benchmark evaluating how AI coding agents can accelerate federal permitting—showing poten...
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 2 hours agoOur latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.
The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.
Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education
Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated about 2 months 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 agoLilly this week launched the most powerful AI factory wholly owned and operated by a pharmaceutical company to help its teams make meaningful medical advancements faster,...
GeForce NOW’s anniversary celebration reaches a chilling crescendo as Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem creeps into the cloud — and the horrors look better than ever on a Ge...
AI is accelerating every aspect of healthcare — from radiology and drug discovery to medical device manufacturing and new treatment methods enabled by digital twins of th...
As technologies and systems become more digitalized and connected across the world, operational technology (OT) environments and industrial control systems (ICS) — from e...
AI is accelerating the telecommunications industry’s transformation, becoming the backbone of autonomous networks and AI-native wireless infrastructure. At the same time,...
arXiv
Updated about 2 hours agoNumerous lines of aim to control $\textit{model disagreement}$ -- the extent to which two machine learning models disagree in their predictions. We adopt a simple and sta...
A dataset server must often distribute the same large payload to many clients, incurring massive communication costs. Since clients frequently operate on diverse hardware...
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis posits that neural networks trained on different modalities converge toward a shared statistical model of the world. Recent work ex...
Standard mixed-precision training of neural networks requires many bytes of accelerator memory for each model parameter. These bytes reflect not just the parameter itself...
Coarse data arise when learners observe only partial information about samples; namely, a set containing the sample rather than its exact value. This occurs naturally thr...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 2 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 2 hours agoBy mid-morning, a typical knowledge worker is already juggling a client report, a budget spreadsheet, a slide deck, and an email backlog, all interdependent and all deman...
As synthetic media grows, verifying what’s real, and the origin of content, matters more than ever. Our latest report explores media integrity and authentication methods,...
Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing...
This 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...
We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully integrated with...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 2 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 2 hours agoWhen we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural... The post Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising ap...
In 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 (H...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoHugging Face Trending
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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a multimodal foundation model featuring a unified vision-language architecture and a vision encoder. It utilizes an efficient hybrid architecture combi...
Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen3.5-27B is a multimodal foundation model designed as a unified vision-language foundation for reasoning, coding, and visual understanding. This 27B parameter causal l...
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is a multimodal causal language model featuring a vision encoder and a native context length of 262,144 tokens. It utilizes an efficient hybrid architec...
Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is a multimodal causal language model featuring a vision encoder and a hybrid architecture of Gated Delta Networks and sparse Mixture-of-Experts. It is...
unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF is a causal language model with a vision encoder, featuring a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 35B total parameters and 3B activated. It s...
GitHub Trending
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XZ Utils
chroma-core/chroma
Open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications.
NVIDIA/Megatron-LM
Ongoing research training transformer models at scale
huggingface/transformers
🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and trainin...
codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoAWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and cur...
AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and soc...
Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of buildi...
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter...
AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custo...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 2 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 2 hours agoMinor misconfigurations or request anomalies often seem harmless in isolation. But when these small signals converge, they can trigger a security incident known as a toxi...
The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like.
We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user inte...
Cloudflare Radar has added new tools for monitoring PQ adoption, KT logs for messaging, and ASPA routing records to track the Internet's migration toward more secure encr...
ASPA is the cryptographic upgrade for BGP that helps prevent route leaks by verifying the path network traffic takes. New features in Cloudflare Radar make tracking its a...
IGN News
Updated about 2 hours agoBuried between fresh footage of Pokémon Pokopia and today's truly momentous Gen 10 announcement for Pokémon Winds and Waves, Nintendo announced a miniature version of its...
According to a recent study, Gen Z and Gen Alpha want to change the way masculinity is portrayed on screen.
The reveal of Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves for Nintendo Switch 2 has given us our first look at the franchise's long-awaited 10th generation of creatures — as well as...
A special 30th anniversary collection was teased for Pokémon TCG during the recent Pokémon Presents livestream.
The Pokémon Company has just unveiled the three new starter Pokémon who we'll choose from in Pokémon Winds and Waves. Among them is a cute little fire-type pomeranian-ins...
Game Rant
Updated about 2 hours agoResident Evil Requiem is now out in the wild, and some fans may be wondering about the fate of Leon S. Kennedy.
Explore the hunters surpassing Goto Ryuji's strength in Solo Leveling.
Find all Pokemon and items inside Viridian Forest in Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen.
Pokemon Cafe ReMix is celebrating the franchise’s 30th anniversary with Kanto starters, new outfits, and themed cafe decor starting February 28.
Fortnite players can unlock a free skin as part of the Lantern Fest celebrations - here's how.