As of Friday, January 30, 2026, the developer landscape is navigating a complex intersection of aggressive corporate monetization, groundbreaking AI reasoning techniques, and a significant shift in the mobile development ecosystem. While the industry grapples with large-scale layoffs and platform instability, new open-source breakthroughs are providing fresh avenues for cross-platform engineering.
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Updated about 7 hours agoThe profitable life-insurance platform was one of the first major tech companies to test the 2026 public markets.
Growth in regions like China and India are credited with pushing Apple's phone sales higher than ever.
One intrepid Morgan Stanley analyst dared to ask how Apple will make money on its AI investments. The answer will not shock you.
This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.
If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy.
Ars Technica
Updated about 4 hours agoWith ACA tax credits gone, more people are turning to high-deductible plans.
The JUMPSEAT satellites loitered over the North Pole to spy on the Soviet Union.
Windows 11 clears a milestone as Windows 10 continues its slow fade.
Anthropic's latest paper on "user disempowerment" has some troubling findings.
Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.
VentureBeat
Updated about 4 hours agoA new study by Google suggests that advanced reasoning models achieve high performance by simulating multi-agent-like debates involving diverse perspectives, personality...
Clawdbot's MCP implementation has no mandatory authentication, allows prompt injection, and grants shell access by design. Monday's VentureBeat article document...
AI agents can talk to each other now — they just can't understand what the other one is trying to do. That's the problem Cisco's Outshift is trying to solv...
Two days after releasing what analysts call the most powerful open-source AI model ever created, researchers from China's Moonshot AI logged onto Reddit to face a re...
Tel Aviv-based startup Factify emerged from stealth today with a $73 million seed round for an ambi
InfoQ
Updated 7 minutes agoRspack Releases Version 1.7: Final 1.x Update Before 2.0 Transition
Rspack 1.7 has launched, enhancing performance and plugin compatibility as it prepares for a major version transition. Key features include improved SWC plugin compatibil...
Presentation: WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend
Laurent Doguin shares why Wasm’s cold-start performance and security model make it the ideal FaaS runtime. He discusses the WebAssembly Component Model for polyglot inter...
Article: Autonomous Big Data Optimization: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Self-Tuning Apache Spark
This article introduces a reinforcement learning (RL) approach grounded in Apache Spark that enables distributed computing systems to learn optimal configurations autonom...
Podcast: The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Trisha Ballakur about transitioning from coder to startup CEO, balancing technical leadership w...
Microsoft Adds Custom Copilot Agents for .NET Developers with C# and WinForms Experts
Microsoft and GitHub have expanded the Copilot ecosystem with the first .NET-focused GitHub Copilot custom agents, designed to improve productivity and code quality for C...
Wired AI
Updated about 4 hours agoOn 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?
As the world’s largest companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into large language models, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is trying something different i...
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company’s...
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monit...
Towards Data Science
Updated about 5 hours agoAn analysis of how flattening structured data can boost precision and recall by up to 20% The post Optimizing Vector Search: Why You Should Flatten Structured Data appear...
Going beyond the math to build intuition The post RoPE, Clearly Explained appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Confessions of a vibe coder The post The Unbearable Lightness of Coding appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Randomization usually balances confounders in experiments, but what happens when it doesn't? The post Randomization Works in Experiments, Even Without Balance appeared fi...
Implementing cross-silo federated learning step by step The post Federated Learning, Part 2: Implementation with the Flower Framework 🌼 appeared first on Towards Data Sc...
Anthropic News
Updated 19 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 19 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 agoHow 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.
Taisei Corporation uses ChatGPT Enterprise to support HR-led talent development and scale generative AI across its global construction business.
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...
Apply for the EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant, a €500,000 program funding NGOs and researchers advancing youth safety and wellbeing in the age of AI.
OpenAI launches the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 with new data, partnerships, and initiatives to accelerate AI adoption, skills, and growth across Europe.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 7 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 19 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 9 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 7 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 7 hours agoPublic repositories host millions of fine-tuned models, yet community usage remains disproportionately concentrated on a small number of foundation checkpoints. We invest...
Hybrid Transformer architectures, which combine softmax attention blocks and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), have shown a desirable performance-throughput tradeoff for...
Neural networks have been successfully applied in various resource-constrained edge devices, where usually central processing units (CPUs) instead of graphics processing...
Due to limited supervised training data, large language models (LLMs) are typically pre-trained via a self-supervised "predict the next word" objective on a vast amount o...
We introduce MORPH, a modality-agnostic, autoregressive foundation model for partial differential equations (PDEs). MORPH is built on a convolutional vision transformer b...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 7 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 7 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
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Updated about 7 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
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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...
Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice is a large-scale text-to-speech model supporting ten major languages and multiple dialectal profiles. It utilizes a discrete multi-codeboo...
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...
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Updated about 7 hours agoHey! 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...
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Updated about 7 hours agoMoltworker is a middleware Worker and adapted scripts that allows running Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare's Sandbox SDK and our Developer Platform APIs. So you...
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...
An automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol prefixes unintentionally from a router at our Miami data center. We discuss...
A vulnerability was recently identified in Cloudflare’s automation of certificate validation. Here we explain the vulnerability and outline the steps we’ve taken to mitig...
IGN News
Updated about 7 hours agoSony Pictures has unveiled the first look at director Sam Mendes’ The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event through postcard drops at various Beatles landmarks and music...
Casting for the live-action God of War show is in full swing, as just moments after announcing the actor for Thor, Amazon and Sony have confirmed that Mandy Patinkin will...
Video game adaptation company Story Kitchen is cooking up a movie based on the popular Roblox experience, Steal a Brainrot.
Over the years, speedrunners have found ways to break GTA: San Andreas that got an any% speedrun of it down to a little under three hours, but recently an absolutely buck...
Borderlands 4 is getting a major update today, including, among other things, the addition of the long-awaited Photo Mode that was announced prior to the game's launch, b...
Game Rant
Updated about 7 hours agoHytale developers share exciting details on how the game will be updated in an effort to speed up production for players and the devs.
PlayStation 5 has a stacked year ahead of it in terms of upcoming releases, but owners can already try one of February's biggest games for free.
Always expect the unexpected in RPGs, because you never know how things end, and that includes these games that surprise you with branching endings.
Two LEGO fans create a touching tribute to a home that has been in their family for years, earning the approval of their fellow builders.
If a new leak is to be believed, an upcoming Assassin's Creed game is reportedly dealing with some significant problems.