Wednesday, February 25, 2026 The developer ecosystem is currently navigating a complex intersection of technical evolution and regulatory friction. While the "vibe coding" era promises unprecedented speed, it is simultaneously creating a crisis for open-source sustainability.
Hacker News
Updated 4 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 4 hours agoChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.
The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.
Major automakers, tech giants, AI companies, and chipmakers are all trying to get a piece of Wayve.
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model.
Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.
Ars Technica
Updated about 1 hour agoSpare a thought for the intrepid graduate students who spent last summer in Africa collecting chimp urine.
WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.
DJI lawsuit says company has been "severely harmed by the FCC’s ruling."
UK agency alleges "Reddit failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism."
VentureBeat
Updated about 1 hour agoClaude Code has become increasingly popular in the first year since its launch, and especially in recent months, as developers and non-technical users alike flock to AI u...
Anthropic opened its virtual "Briefing: Enterprise Agents" event on Tuesday with a provocation. Kate Jensen, the company's head of Americas, told viewers that the hy...
Web Search has already been disrupted by AI — just take a look at how readily Google is presenting users with AI Overviews (summaries of search results) at the top of the...
On Tuesday, Anthropic published tools that let Claude read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. By the end of the trading day,...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the distance between a developer’s idea and a functioning agent has historically been measured in hours of c...
InfoQ
Updated 5 minutes agoPresentation: Achieve Optimal Efficiency for Your Developer Experience Teams
Fabien Deshayes discusses the strategies behind Monzo’s Developer Velocity squad. He explains the "Platform as a Product" mindset, emphasizing the need for engineers with...
AWS Drops Patent Infringement Protection for Video Encoding Services
AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec...
Apple Researchers Introduce Ferret-UI Lite, an On-Device AI Model for Seeing and Controlling UIs
Apple's Ferret-UI Lite is a 3B-parameter model optimized for mobile and desktop screens, designed to interpret screen images, understand UI elements such as icons and tex...
Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Multi-Cloud Support
Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (...
AI "Vibe Coding" Threatens Open Source as Maintainers Face Crisis
Daniel Stenberg shut down cURL's bug bounty after AI submissions hit 20%. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI code from Ghostty. Steve Ruiz closed all external PRs to tldraw. Ec...
Wired AI
Updated about 2 hours agoIn his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.
This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a conservative...
You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether.
Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.
Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?
Towards Data Science
Updated about 3 hours agoHiding host-device synchronization via CUDA stream interleaving The post Optimizing Token Generation in PyTorch Decoder Models appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Policy-to-Agency Optimization with PuLP The post Decisioning at the Edge: Policy Matching at Scale appeared first on Towards Data Science.
A deep dive into the Sharpness-Aware-Minimization (SAM) algorithm and how it improves the generalizability of modern deep learning models The post Optimizing Deep Learnin...
Inside the research that shows algorithmic price-fixing isn't a bug in the code. It's a feature of the math. The post AI Bots Formed a Cartel. No One Told Them To. appear...
What you should be doing in the current job market The post Is the AI and Data Job Market Dead? 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 4 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 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 4 hours agoOpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro...
OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.
We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.
OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 4 hours ago3.1 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.
Research papers point to the growing impact of Deep Think across fields
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 6 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 4 hours agoAI 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,...
The GeForce NOW anniversary celebration keeps on rolling, and this week is all about the games that make it possible. With more than 4,500 titles supported in the cloud —...
From AI infrastructure leaders to frontier model developers, India is teaming with NVIDIA to drive AI transformation across the nation.
arXiv
Updated about 4 hours agoTest-time training (TTT) with KV binding as sequence modeling layer is commonly interpreted as a form of online meta-learning that memorizes a key-value mapping at test t...
Test-time scaling methods improve the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by increasing the amount of compute used during inference to make a prediction. Inferen...
Visual reinforcement learning is appealing for robotics but expensive -- off-policy methods are sample-efficient yet slow; on-policy methods parallelize well but waste sa...
We report the performance of Aletheia (Feng et al., 2026b), a mathematics research agent powered by Gemini 3 Deep Think, on the inaugural FirstProof challenge. Within the...
Embodied LLMs endow robots with high-level task reasoning, but they cannot reflect on what went wrong or why, turning deployment into a sequence of independent trials whe...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 4 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 4 hours agoAs 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...
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...
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 4 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 4 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 4 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated about 1 hour agoQwen/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/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
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...
zai-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...
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...
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...
GitHub Trending
Updated 1 minute agoNVIDIA/Megatron-LM
Ongoing research training transformer models at scale
AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
Stable Diffusion web UI
rustdesk/rustdesk
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
danielgatis/rembg
Rembg is a tool to remove images background
nats-io/nats-server
High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 4 hours agoAWS 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...
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-...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 4 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 4 hours agoOne engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single co...
We’ve upgraded Cloudflare One to support post-quantum encryption by implementing the latest IETF drafts for hybrid ML-KEM into our Cloudflare IPsec product. This extends...
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet w...
The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools a...
ecdysis 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.
IGN News
Updated about 4 hours ago“We’re committed to art made by people,” insists new Xbox CCO Matt Booty.
The Arc Raiders Shrouded Sky update is here, but instead of Hurricanes and new cosmetics, all players can talk about how it nerfs one of the best grenades for PvE.
Marvel has revealed a new batch of What If? comics for 2026, including one that offers a fresh take on one of the most controversial X-Men storylines of all time.
Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad fans are embroiled in a review bomb war after an episode of spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms threatened to dethrone Breaking Bad's...
The original Final Fantasy VII is getting a makeover on Steam. No, not the remake. I mean the actual, original game.
Game Rant
Updated about 4 hours agoThere is a new wave of discussion about how Steam handles library metadata, as users call for a more unified visual experience.
A Pokemon fan creates an impressive re-design of a Paradox form of Ho-Oh, giving the classic Pokemon Gold Legendary a stunning new look.
These open-world games live in a gray area, and you'll be hard-pressed trying to figure out who the goodies and baddies are.
The latest season of Overwatch brings various changes to the decade-old title, and now it's doing something last seen for the game in 2022.
Here's a Genshin Impact tier list to help players see who's in the meta and who isn't.