Tuesday, February 3, 2026, marks a pivotal moment in the tech landscape as the industry grapples with the fallout of rapid AI expansion, significant security breaches, and a growing pushback against the dominance of major tech hubs. While foundational repositories like freeCodeCamp and System Design Primer continue to anchor the developer community's educational efforts, today’s discourse is dominated by high-stakes corporate maneuvers and the human cost of the current engineering culture.
Hacker News
Updated 8 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 5 hours agoStarting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings.
In a bold move to close the gap with rivals, Grubhub is waiving delivery and service fees on restaurant orders over $50.
OpenAI has released a new MacOS app for Codex, integrating many of the agentic coding practices that have become popular since Codex launched last year.
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software...
Ring's Search Party feature for finding lost dogs is now available across the U.S. — even if you don't own a Ring camera.
Ars Technica
Updated about 2 hours agoTrump admin's "it's classified" ploy put on hold in five different cases.
Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”
The more RAM the Pi board has, the more its price is increasing.
Meant to undercut EPA regulations, the group tried to work in secret.
VentureBeat
Updated about 2 hours agoThe key to successful AI agents within an enterprise? Shared memory and context. This, according to Asana CPO Arnab Bose, provides detailed history and direct access from...
OpenAI on Monday released a new desktop application for its Codex artificial intelligence coding system, a tool the company says transforms software development from a co...
Enterprises have moved quickly to adopt RAG to ground LLMs in proprietary data. In practice, however, many organizations are discovering that retrieval is no longer a fea...
By now, many enterprises have deployed some form of RAG. The promise is seductive: index your PDFs, connect an LLM and instantly democratize your corporate knowledge.But...
OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, crossed 180,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week, according t...
InfoQ
Updated 3 minutes agoPresentation: Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations
Thiago Ghisi discusses the strategic evolution required to lead 100+ engineers without breaking the organization. He explains his "Three Levels of Impact" framework and s...
Airbnb Expands Global Checkout with “Pay as a Local,” Scaling to 220 Markets in 14 Months
Airbnb expands its global checkout with the “Pay as a Local” initiative, supporting over 20 locally preferred payment methods across 220 markets. The company replatformed...
MyTerms: A New IEEE Standard Enabling Online Privacy and Aiming to Replace Cookies
Nicknamed MyTerms, the new 7012-2025 IEEE standard defines mechanisms for exchanging personal information between individuals and online service providers, and specifies...
Daggr Introduced as an Open-Source Python Library for Inspectable AI Workflows
The Gradio team has released Daggr, a new open-source Python library designed to simplify the construction and debugging of multi-step AI workflows. Daggr allows develope...
Article: Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail to Reach Production
In this article, the author diagnoses common failures in ML initiatives, including weak problem framing and the persistent prototype-to-production gap. The piece provides...
Wired AI
Updated about 2 hours agoSince March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” o...
Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and...
Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that’s the idea.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the news that's held our attention this week: ICE activity as it's been unfolding in Minnesota.
Across Instagram and Facebook, AI-generated videos show people of color putting ICE agents in their place. Are they cathartic or just adding to a stew of misinformation?
Towards Data Science
Updated about 3 hours agoSara Nobrega on the transition from data science to AI engineering, using LLMs as a bridge to DevOps, and the one engineering skill junior data scientists need to stay co...
We are confusing “size” with “smart.” The next leap in artificial intelligence will not come from a larger data center, but from a more constrained environment. The post...
Leveraging massive parallelism, asynchronous updates, and multi-machine training to match and exceed human-level performance The post Distributed Reinforcement Learning f...
Learn how to efficiently solve problems with coding agents The post How to Apply Agentic Coding to Solve Problems appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Ollama now offers Anthropic API compatibility The post How to Run Claude Code for Free with Local and Cloud Models from Ollama appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Anthropic News
Updated 22 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 5 hours agoArena 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
GPT-5.2 is now live in Windsurf! Available for 0x credits for a limited time (paid and trial users). The version bump undersells the jump in intelligence: Biggest leap fo...
The most capable model in Windsurf yet, now available at Sonnet prices for a limited time
Cursor
Updated 22 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 5 hours agoOpenAI and Snowflake partner in a $200M agreement to bring frontier intelligence into enterprise data, enabling AI agents and insights directly in Snowflake.
Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.
How OpenAI built an in-house AI data agent that uses GPT-5, Codex, and memory to reason over massive datasets and deliver reliable insights in minutes.
On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement of GPT‑5 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mi...
Taisei Corporation uses ChatGPT Enterprise to support HR-led talent development and scale generative AI across its global construction business.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 5 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 22 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 7 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoMercedes-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...
Get ready to game — the native GeForce NOW app for Linux PCs is now available in beta, letting Linux desktops tap directly into GeForce RTX performance from the cloud. Al...
Quantum technologies are rapidly emerging as foundational capabilities for economic competitiveness, national security and scientific leadership in the 21st century. Sust...
At the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting, NVIDIA today unveiled a new NVIDIA Earth-2 family of open models, libraries and frameworks for weather and climat...
arXiv
Updated about 5 hours agoWhile recent video diffusion models (VDMs) produce visually impressive results, they fundamentally struggle to maintain 3D structural consistency, often resulting in obje...
Shared autonomy systems require principled methods for inferring user intent and determining appropriate assistance levels. This is a central challenge in human-robot int...
Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning seeks to train agents to reach specified goals from previously collected trajectories. Scaling that promises to long-horiz...
Accurate segmentation annotations are critical for disease monitoring, yet manual labeling remains a major bottleneck due to the time and expertise required. Active learn...
We propose a data-efficient, physics-aware generative framework in function space for inverse PDE problems. Existing plug-and-play diffusion posterior samplers represent...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 5 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 5 hours agoAI 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....
By decoupling how agents work from how they’re trained, Agent Lightning turns each step an agent takes into data for reinforcement learning. This makes it easy for develo...
Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without...
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...
Incident investigation can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape, where large-scale systems comprise numerous interconnected components and dependencies DrP is...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 5 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 5 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 5 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 20 minutes agomoonshotai/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...
Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
Z-Image is an efficient image generation foundation model based on a Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer. It is designed as a full-capacity, undistilled transformer that...
tencent/HunyuanImage-3.0-Instruct
HunyuanImage-3.0-Instruct is a native multimodal model designed for intelligent image generation, creative editing, and multi-image fusion. It utilizes a unified autoregr...
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2
DeepSeek-OCR-2 is a vision-language model designed for image-text-to-text tasks and advanced optical character recognition. Based on the paper Visual Causal Flow, it aims...
GitHub Trending
Updated 34 minutes agoyt-dlp/yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
tailscale/tailscale
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
hrydgard/ppsspp
A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issu...
Atlas-OS/Atlas
🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and usability.
endless-sky/endless-sky
Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoOver 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...
At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 whic...
AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available onl...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 5 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 5 hours agoGoogle'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...
As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.
The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weat...
IGN News
Updated about 5 hours agoA big band remix of Super Mario themes just won a Grammy Award, beating Wicked star Cynthia Erivo to win in the Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella category.
Netflix has pulled the curtain back on Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85, the upcoming animated series set between Seasons 2 and 3 of the hit show. We have a new trailer, n...
As part of a "month of anniversary surprises," Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has formally introduced us to the "face of Freedom, the voice of Victory, the light of Lib...
Nioh 3 is slated to release on Friday, February 6, on PC via Steam and PS5, but the game's latest trailer has revealed that Xbox and maybe even Nintendo Switch 2 owners m...
Veteran actor John Lithgow has addressed his decision to play Albus Dumbledore in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter TV series, despite pressure for him to ditch the role due to...
Game Rant
Updated about 5 hours agoThe creator of one of 2025's most-played new Steam games has another title coming out soon, which very much builds on its predecessor's achievements.
There’s finally some major action in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 3, “The Squire,” and with it comes a significant reveal.
Daemons of the Shadow Realm has released a new trailer.
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Bandai Namco attempts to go "back to basics" with Season 3 for Tekken 8, announcing returning legacy characters, balance adjustments, and much more.