Wednesday, February 18, 2026, marks a pivotal moment in the developer landscape as the industry grapples with the rapid evolution of autonomous agents, the physical infrastructure limits of the AI boom, and a growing counter-movement toward digital privacy and simplicity. From OpenAI’s new architectural standards to a massive hardware shortage, today’s landscape is defined by the friction between boundless software innovation and the reality of physical and ethical constraints.
Hacker News
Updated 28 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 5 hours agoOpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from "Cameo" to "Characters."
The decision comes a month after Tesla discontinued Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system.
Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator spyware against a prominent jour...
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner.
A combination of 3D-printed Lego-like parts, Formula 1 thinking, and a bounty program will help the company hit that target. The team, led by Tesla veteran Alan Clarke, i...
Ars Technica
Updated about 2 hours agoGameHub's existing Windows emulator on Android has its fair share of issues.
Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
Colbert: "I want to assure you this decision is for purely financial reasons."
Broadcom's "strategy was never to keep every customer," CloudBolt report says.
Connected car servers won't be online indefinitely, and startups often go bust.
VentureBeat
Updated about 2 hours agoAnthropic on Tuesday released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a model that amounts to a seismic repricing event for the AI industry. It delivers near-flagship intelligence at mid-tier...
The chatbot era may have just received its obituary. Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw — the open-source AI agent that took the developer world by storm over the...
Building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for AI agents often involves using multiple layers and technologies for structured data, vectors and graph informati...
As AI-powered coding tools flood the market, a critical weakness has emerged: by default, as with most LLM chat sessions, they are temporary — as soon as you close a sess...
From miles away across the desert, the Great Pyramid looks like a perfect, smooth geometry — a sleek triangle pointing to the stars. Stand at the base, however, and the...
InfoQ
Updated 37 minutes agoPresentation: Panel: Modern Data Architectures
The panelists emphasize that data engineering is no longer just about "click-and-drag" UI tools; it is software engineering applied to data. By Fabiane Nardon, Matthias N...
How Dropbox Built a Scalable Context Engine for Enterprise Knowledge Search
Dropbox engineers have detailed how the company built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash, revealing a shift toward index-based retrieval, knowledge graph-derived cont...
Uber and OpenAI Retool Rate Limiting Systems
Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M R...
Moonshot AI Releases Open-Weight Kimi K2.5 Model with Vision and Agent Swarm Capabilities
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, their latest open-weight multimodal LLM. K2.5 excels at coding tasks, with benchmark scores comparable to frontier models such as GPT-5 an...
Leapwork Research Shows Why AI in Testing Still Depends on Reliability, Not Just Innovation
Leapwork recently released new research showing that while confidence in AI-driven software testing is growing rapidly, accuracy, stability, and ongoing manual effort rem...
Wired AI
Updated about 3 hours agoSecurity experts have urged people to be cautious with the viral agentic AI tool, known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make healthier c...
The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “greenbelt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London from the endless demand for AI infrastructure.
Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.
As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 4 hours agoThe work to do before the work begins The post Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Learn how to set up OpenClaw as a personalized AI agent The post Use OpenClaw to Make a Personal AI Assistant appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Everything you need to know to get started The post Building a LangGraph Agent from Scratch appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Conceptual overview and practical guidance The post Iron Triangles: Powerful Tools for Analyzing Trade-Offs in AI Product Development appeared first on Towards Data Scien...
Why insanely fast GPUs still can’t make LLMs feel instant The post The Strangest Bottleneck in Modern LLMs appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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 5 hours agoClaude 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.
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...
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 5 hours agoA new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.
How OpenAI built a real-time access system combining rate limits, usage tracking, and credits to power continuous access to Sora and Codex.
GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at s...
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 5 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 7 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoFrom AI infrastructure leaders to frontier model developers, India is teaming with NVIDIA to drive AI transformation across the nation.
Agentic AI is reshaping India’s tech industry, delivering leaps in services worldwide. Tapping into NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA Nemotron models, India’s tech...
India is entering a new age of industrialization, as AI transforms how the world designs, builds and runs physical products and systems. The country is investing $134 bil...
The NVIDIA Blackwell platform has been widely adopted by leading inference providers such as Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI and Together AI to reduce cost per token by...
The worldwide tour of NVIDIA AI Days — bringing together AI enthusiasts, developers, researchers and startups — made its latest stop in São Paulo, Brazil.
arXiv
Updated about 5 hours agoFair scores reward ensemble forecast members that behave like samples from the same distribution as the verifying observations. They are therefore an attractive choice as...
The superficial alignment hypothesis (SAH) posits that large language models learn most of their knowledge during pre-training, and that post-training merely surfaces thi...
Learning generalist policies capable of accomplishing a plethora of everyday tasks remains an open challenge in dexterous manipulation. In particular, collecting large-sc...
While recent advances in humanoid locomotion have achieved stable walking on varied terrains, capturing the agility and adaptivity of highly dynamic human motions remains...
A central challenge in large language model (LLM) editing is capability preservation: methods that successfully change targeted behavior can quietly game the editing prox...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 5 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 5 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 5 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 5 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 (H...
We explore context engineering for background coding agents and what makes a good migration prompt. The post Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2)...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated about 1 hour 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...
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5
MiniMax-M2.5 is a frontier text-generation model extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It is de...
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...
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.1-3B
Nanbeige4.1-3B is an enhanced iteration of the Nanbeige4-3B-Thinking-2511 reasoning model, built upon the Nanbeige4-3B-Base. It is designed to achieve robust reasoning, p...
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...
GitHub Trending
Updated about 1 hour agohummingbot/hummingbot
Open source software that helps you create and deploy high-frequency crypto trading bots
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
nautechsystems/nautilus_trader
A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester
MudBlazor/MudBlazor
Blazor Component Library based on Material Design principles with an emphasis on ease of use and extensibility
juce-framework/JUCE
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoAmazon 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...
I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-...
Here 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...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 5 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 5 hours agoecdysis is a Rust library enabling zero-downtime upgrades for network services. After five years protecting millions of connections at Cloudflare, it’s now open source.
The 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...
IGN News
Updated about 5 hours agoNetflix has announced its first live MMA event will see Ronda Rousey enter the ring against Gina Carano.
Blizzard has partnered with real estate website Zillow to create Zillow for Warcraft, a goofy Zillow-like website intended to promote the game's new player housing featur...
Highguard, the free-to-play PvP "raid shooter" announced at The Game Awards last year and released to preemptive criticism and mockery only for most of its developers to...
DC has released a redacted version of the cover to Absolute Batman #20, hinting that the Absolute Universe version of Robin is about to make his explosive debut.
Game Rant
Updated about 5 hours agoA group of Palworld players shares an amazing 243-level tower that they created within the game, and claim they did so without using any mods.
Genshin Impact redeem codes commonly come with Primogems rewards that aid in players’ gacha experience.
There are six Season of Spectre Klues in MK1 Invasions Mode, most of which can be solved by performing a certain Fatality or Kameo Fatality.
White Radish seeds are one of the most useful seasonal resources in Heartopia’s Fashionwave Event. Here’s how to get them.
A Sims 4 player's game takes a terrifying turn when a child brings home a ghostly 'friend' from school, blending horror and heartwarming moments.