Today is Sunday, January 18, 2026, and the developer ecosystem is buzzing with massive infrastructure shifts, debates over AI sustainability, and a deeper look into the mechanics of rendering and regular expressions. From high-profile acquisitions to the financial health of AI’s biggest players, here is your daily summary of the trending developer landscape.
Hacker News
Updated 9 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 7 hours agoAs highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they own.
While it's easy to romanticize space as an escape to a pristine frontier where people will float weightlessly among the stars, it’s worth remembering there are no oceans...
Three offshore wind projects under construction on the U.S. East Coast are back to building after judges rebuked the Department of the Interior's actions.
Oshen has signed contracts with multiple government agencies for its C-Star robots to collect ocean data autonomously.
Musk's legal team argues he should be compensated as an early startup investor who sees returns "many orders of magnitude greater" than his initial investment.
Ars Technica
Updated about 5 hours agoSupernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates.
"I’ve got one job, and it’s the safe return of Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy."
Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.
VentureBeat
Updated about 4 hours agoEvery year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025,...
The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former Stability AI engineers, is continuing to build out its suite of open source AI image generators with the...
Researchers at Google have developed a technique that makes it easier for AI models to learn complex reasoning tasks that usually cause LLMs to hallucinate or fall apart....
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers...
Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute...
InfoQ
Updated 7 minutes agoHuman‑Centred AI for SRE: Multi‑Agent Incident Response without Losing Control
A growing body of recent research and industry commentary suggests that a shift in how organisations approach site reliability engineering is underway. Rather than handin...
Hugging Face Releases FineTranslations, a Trillion-Token Multilingual Parallel Text Dataset
Hugging Face has released FineTranslations, a large-scale multilingual dataset containing more than 1 trillion tokens of parallel text across English and 500+ languages....
Android Studio Otter Boosts Agent Workflows and Adds LLM Flexibility
The latest Android Studio Otter feature drop introduces several new features that make it easier for developers to integrate AI-powered tools in their workflows, includin...
Cloudflare Automates Salt Configuration Management Debugging, Reducing Release Delays
Cloudflare recently shared how it manages its huge global fleet with SaltStack (Salt). They discussed the engineering tasks needed for the "grain of sand" problem. This c...
Pulumi Adds Native Support for Terraform and HCL
Pulumi now natively supports Terraform and HCL, enabling direct HCL execution and state management within Pulumi Cloud. Currently in private beta with a Q1 2026 release,...
Wired AI
Updated about 5 hours agoLeaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming to light.
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.
OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest eff...
X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to full...
Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 7 hours agoDo you know where your data has been? The post Data Poisoning in Machine Learning: Why and How People Manipulate Training Data appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Imagine a flock of birds in flight. There’s no leader. No central command. Each bird aligns with its neighbors—matching direction, adjusting speed, maintaining cohe...
Learn how to be a more efficient programmer The post Maximum-Effiency Coding Setup appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why your final LLM layer is OOMing and how to fix it with a custom Triton kernel. The post Cutting LLM Memory by 84%: A Deep Dive into Fused Kernels appeared first on Tow...
A multi-tier approach to segmentation, color correction, and domain-specific enhancement The post From RGB to Lab: Addressing Color Artifacts in AI Image Compositing appe...
Anthropic News
Updated 7 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 7 hours agoGPT-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
GPT 5.1, GPT 5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex Mini deliver a solid upgrade for agentic coding with variable thinking and improved steerability
Cursor
Updated 7 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 7 hours agoThe truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing.
ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, offering expanded access to GPT-5.2 Instant, higher usage limits, and longer memory—making advanced AI more affordable globally.
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer qual...
OpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and exper...
OpenAI launches a new RFP to strengthen the U.S. AI supply chain by accelerating domestic manufacturing, creating jobs, and scaling AI infrastructure.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 7 hours agoOur 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.
Open interpretability tools for language models are now available across the entire Gemma 3 family with the release of Gemma Scope 2.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated 7 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...
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
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 9 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 7 hours agoNVIDIA kicked off the year at CES, where the crowd buzzed about the latest gaming announcements — including the native GeForce NOW app for Linux and Amazon Fire TV sticks...
NVIDIA and Lilly are putting together “a blueprint for what is possible in the future of drug discovery,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees at a fireside...
Startup works with leading cell therapy companies to bring robotics manufacturing into the clean room, reducing costs by more than 70% while accelerating output compared...
Every “that was easy” shopping moment is made possible by teams working to hit shipping deadlines, scrambling to fix missing product details and striving to provide curat...
In the rolling hills of Berkeley, California, an AI agent is supporting high-stakes physics experiments at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) particle accelerator. Researche...
arXiv
Updated about 7 hours agoWe present a novel differentiable grid-based representation for efficiently solving differential equations (DEs). Widely used architectures for neural solvers, such as si...
Diffusion models have shown remarkable empirical success in sampling from rich multi-modal distributions. Their inference relies on numerically solving a certain differen...
Recent advances in end-to-end autonomous driving show that policies trained on patch-aligned features extracted from foundation models generalize better to Out-of-Distrib...
We study a semi-asynchronous client-server perceptron trained via iterative parameter mixing (IPM-style averaging): clients run local perceptron updates and a server form...
Federated learning enables multiple parties to jointly train learning models without sharing their own underlying data, offering a practical pathway to privacy-preserving...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 7 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 7 hours agoOptiMind 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...
Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer. The post GigaTIME:...
As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on...
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...
We’re going behind the scenes of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s most advanced AI glasses yet. In a previous episode we met the team behind the Meta Neural Band, the EMG...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 7 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 7 hours agoThe 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...
Thousands of merged AI-generated pull requests and the future of large-scale software maintenance. The post 1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 7 hours agoMartin Fowler
Updated about 7 hours agoJim Highsmith notes that many teams have turned into tribes wedded to exclusively adaptation or optimization. But he feels this misses the point that both of these are im...
My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a un...
Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in...
Gitanjali Venkatraman does wonderful illustrations of complex subjects (which is why I was so happy to work with her on our Expert Generalists article). She has now publi...
If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ll have noticed that in the last few months I’ve been making a number of “fragments” posts. Such a post is a short post with a...
Hugging Face Trending
Updated 6 minutes agozai-org/GLM-Image
GLM-Image is an image generation model that adopts a hybrid autoregressive and diffusion decoder architecture. It is designed for high-fidelity text-to-image and image-to...
Lightricks/LTX-2
LTX-2 is a DiT-based audio-video foundation model developed by Lightricks and presented in the paper LTX-2: Efficient Joint Audio-Visual Foundation Model. It is designed...
fal/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Multiple-Angles-LoRA
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Multiple-Angles-LoRA is a multi-angle camera control LoRA designed for the Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 base model. It enables precise image-to-image editing...
openbmb/AgentCPM-Explore
AgentCPM-Explore is an agent foundation model with 4B parameters designed for on-device deep research and long-horizon tasks. It is the first full-parameter 4B model to r...
GitHub Trending
Updated 20 minutes agoyt-dlp/yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
nautechsystems/nautilus_trader
A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester
withastro/astro
The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
meshery/meshery
Meshery, the cloud native manager
ente-io/ente
🔥 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 7 hours agoAWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available onl...
Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector o...
At the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If AI and cloud computing are on your resolution lis...
Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and...
Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days,...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 7 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 7 hours agoThe Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-dr...
Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic mo...
A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root c...
Cloudflare Radar data shows Internet traffic from Iran has effectively dropped to zero since January 8, signaling a complete shutdown in the country and disconnection fro...
There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests ca...
IGN News
Updated about 7 hours agoRian Johnson has responded to Kathleen Kennedy’s suggestions that ‘Online Negativity’ put The Last Jedi director off making more Star Wars - ‘lol zero spooked, sorry’.
Fallout Season 2 ratings are down compared to the explosive debut of Season 1 – but there’s a good reason for that.
Speedy Gonzales is reportedly racing to the big screen with a new movie from director Jorge R. Gutiérrez.
Animal Crossing: New Horizon's big 3.0 update is now live, and with it a bustling hotel where you can decorate rooms and attract villagers from the game's massive roster...
Disney has unceremoniously pulled 14 of its licensed games off of Steam with no explanation, leaving us unable to purchase games like Disney's Hercules Action Game and Fi...
Game Rant
Updated about 7 hours agoJust days after its early access release, one Hytale modder is already trying to make the game look like Minecraft.
A 2022 management sim game inspired by Little Big Workshop is currently free to claim on Steam, courtesy of its first-ever 100% discount.
A Helldivers 2 executive shares his thoughts about "review bombings," claiming that an older game from the studio was review bombed because of Sony.
While no details about Fallout 5 have been shared by Bethesda, one twist in Fallout Season 2 may hint at the setting for the game series' next entry.
PlayStation Plus subscribers should keep an eye on January 20, as that is when the service's next big update will drop.