It is Thursday, February 19, 2026, and the developer landscape is currently defined by a fascinating tension between monumental AI architectural breakthroughs and a sobering reality check regarding their immediate economic impact. While the industry is rapidly moving toward "agentic" systems that can manage themselves, a wave of executive sentiment suggests we are in a "productivity paradox" reminiscent of the early computing era.
Hacker News
Updated 7 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 4 hours agoAmazon said Blue Jay's core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.
Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.
The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment us...
The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5. It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian.
Ars Technica
Updated about 1 hour agoReport: Verizon's goal is "immediate unlock for all payment methods really soon."
Two of Ars' favorite electric vehicles are now available for not very much money.
EPA sued for abandoning its mission to protect public health.
The 26.3 updates were mostly invisible; these changes are more significant.
Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.
VentureBeat
Updated about 1 hour agoAlibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay...
Typically, when building, training and deploying AI, enterprises prioritize accuracy. And that, no doubt, is important; but in highly complex, nuanced industries like law...
Anthropic 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...
InfoQ
Updated 4 minutes agoGitHub Agentic Workflows Unleash AI-Driven Repository Automation
Recently launched in technical preview, GitHub Agentic Workflows introduce a way to automate complex, repetitive repository tasks using coding agents that understand cont...
Presentation: 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...
Wired AI
Updated about 2 hours agoScout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.
The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.
A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.
WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss."
Security experts have urged people to be cautious with the viral agentic AI tool, known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 3 hours agoDesigning a hybrid SQL + vector retrieval system without schema changes, data migration, or performance trade-offs The post Building Cost-Efficient Agentic RAG on Long-Te...
Get the data architecture right, and everything else becomes easier. I know it sounds simple, but in reality, little nuances in designing your data architecture may have...
Stop babysitting training runs. Start shipping research. Autonomous experiment management built for/by deep learning engineers. The post Agentic AI for Modern Deep Learni...
The 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.
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 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 4 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 4 hours agoThe 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
Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can try out Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets you create and explore worlds.
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 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 4 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 4 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 4 hours agoProject 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...
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...
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 4 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 4 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 4 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 4 minutes 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 17 minutes 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 4 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 4 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 4 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 4 hours agoIGN Fan Fest is returning for its seventh edition later this month, and this guide will give you a sneak peek into all the big reveals across movies, shows, games, comics...
Nintendo fans believe a new trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie may be teasing a cameo from none other than Star Fox leader Fox McCloud.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife star McKenna Grace has been cast as Daphne in Netflix's upcoming live-action Scooby-Doo series.
A Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 commercial starring comedian Nikki Glazer has been banned in the UK, following viewer complaints that it trivialized sexual violence.
A significant number of Counter-Strike 2 pros have switched to a new mouse in the first tournament after its release, thanks to its high tech solution for delivering fast...
Game Rant
Updated about 4 hours ago2026 will be filled with otherworldly adventures, as the year is packed with isekai anime that will strive to entertain or bemuse audiences.
A game that was first announced in 2021 and slated for a March 2026 launch on Xbox Game Pass has just received another lengthy delay.
While the biggest question is when players can get their hands on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, the second biggest is when they'll see it.
Unlock unique cosmetics and rewards by completing the new Chronicle System in Diablo 2 Resurrected - Reign of the Warlock. Our guide explains how it works and what reward...
Unfortunately for Xbox players, one of the most highly-anticipated game releases of 2026 has some bad news that may dampen fan hype.