Wednesday, February 11, 2026, marks a pivotal moment in the tech landscape, characterized by a massive pushback against digital surveillance, a maturing AI toolset for developers, and a significant shift in the global fintech ecosystem. As the industry grapples with the fallout of privacy-invasive policies, developers are simultaneously seeing new ways to integrate powerful AI models directly into their local workflows.
Hacker News
Updated 11 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 3 hours agoAccording to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that wi...
The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.
Whatever the cause of the departures, the cumulative impact is alarming. There is a lot of work left to do at xAI, and an IPO will bring more scrutiny than the lab has ev...
A new report claims the e-commerce giant is looking to create a pipeline of licensable content between media publishers and AI companies.
Czech ice dancers Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek are learning the hard way that LLMs sometimes spit out straight-up plagiarism.
Ars Technica
Updated 18 minutes agoThe move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
The next Starship flight is a key precursor for more ambitious missions.
DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023.
Tony Wu leaves a company now entangled with social media, space-based IPOs.
There's no reason to think ivermectin cures cancer, but RFK Jr's NIH is on it anyway.
VentureBeat
Updated 13 minutes agoUntil recently, the practice of building AI agents has been a bit like training a long-distance runner with a thirty-second memory. Yes, you could give your AI models too...
RAG isn't always fast enough or intelligent enough for modern agentic AI workflows. As teams move from short-lived chatbots to long-running, tool-heavy agents embedd...
Fraud protection is a race against scale. For instance, Mastercard’s network processes roughly 160 billion transactions a year, and experiences surges of 70,000 transacti...
Presented by EdgeVerveBefore addressing Global Business Services (GBS), let’s take a step back. Can agentic AI, the type of AI able to take goal-driven action, transform...
In a major milestone for the "AI coding wars," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on X that the company's standalone Codex application (currently only for Mac computers...
InfoQ
Updated 11 minutes agoArticle: From Prompts to Production: A Playbook for Agentic Development
In this article, author Abhishek Goswami shares a practitioner's playbook with development practices, that describes building agentic AI applications and scaling them in...
Pandas 3.0 Introduces Default String Dtype and Copy-on-Write Semantics
The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory semantics, and datetime resolution, while removing a...
Kubernetes Drives AI Expansion as Cultural Shift Becomes Critical
A new CNCF report identifies Kubernetes as the primary engine for AI growth, with 82% production adoption. However, technical maturity has outpaced organisational change....
GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI's Engine into Apps
Now available in technical preview on GitHub, the GitHub Copilot SDK lets developers embed the same engine that powers GitHub Copilot CLI into their own apps, making it e...
QCon Previews 20th Anniversary Conferences: Production AI, Resilience, and Staff+ Engineering
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, QCon’s 2026 conferences in London and San Francisco will focus on the engineering realities of agentic AI, resilient architectures, and...
Wired AI
Updated about 1 hour agoThe site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.
A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.
New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none has.
The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take...
From drones with “first-person” visualization to real-time 360-degree replays and Olympics GPT, get ready to immerse yourself in the Winter Games in Milan and Cortina.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 2 hours agoThe approach that takes companies to the next level of data maturity The post How to Model The Expected Value of Marketing Campaigns appeared first on Towards Data Scienc...
An easy step-by-step guide to building the snake game from scratch The post Implementing the Snake Game in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Learn how to get more out of Claude code by giving it access to more information. The post How to Personalize Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Delayed January: deadlines, downtimes, and flow times The post The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned Last Month appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How the new Interactions API enables deep-reasoning, stateful, agentic workflows. The post The Death of the “Everything Prompt”: Google’s Move Toward Structured AI appear...
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 3 hours agoClaude 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...
Claude Opus 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. Availab...
We've completely rewritten and retrained the old Windsurf Tab, increasing accepted lines by up to 100% and introducing 2 new aggression levels on our new Pareto Frontier...
Arena 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.
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 3 hours agoOpenAI for Government announces the deployment of a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, bringing secure, safety-forward AI to U.S. defense teams.
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safe...
An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation.
OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 3 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 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 5 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoBreak out the cake and green sprinkles — GeForce NOW is turning six. Since launch, members have streamed over 1 billion hours, and the party’s just getting started. Throu...
Businesses today face the challenge of uncovering valuable insights buried within a wide variety of documents — including reports, presentations, PDFs, web pages and spre...
Everything Will Be Represented in a Virtual Twin, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Says at 3DEXPERIENCE World
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz announced a partnership to build a shared industrial AI architecture, merging virtual twins wit...
Mercedes-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...
arXiv
Updated about 3 hours agoLarge Language Models (LLMs) often provide chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning traces that appear plausible, but may hide internal biases. We call these *unverbalized biases...
Scaling action-controllable world models is limited by the scarcity of action labels. While latent action learning promises to extract control interfaces from unlabeled v...
Data privacy and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) are two important aspects for modern Machine Learning systems. To enhance data privacy, recent machine learning...
Leveraging representation encoders for generative modeling offers a path for efficient, high-fidelity synthesis. However, standard diffusion transformers fail to converge...
We study how individual training examples shape the internal computation of looped transformers, where a shared block is applied for $τ$ recurrent iterations to enable la...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 3 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 3 hours agoThis 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...
OptiMind is a small language model that converts business operation challenges, described naturally, into mathematical formulations that optimization software can solve....
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...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 3 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 3 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 (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...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
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Updated about 1 hour agoQwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next
Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model designed specifically for coding agents and local development. It features a Mixture of Experts architecture with...
zai-org/GLM-OCR
GLM-OCR is a multimodal OCR model built on the GLM-V encoder–decoder architecture for complex document understanding. It integrates a CogViT visual encoder, a GLM-0.5B la...
openbmb/MiniCPM-o-4_5
MiniCPM-o 4.5 is an end-to-end multimodal model with 9B parameters designed for vision, speech, and full-duplex live streaming. Built on SigLip2, Whisper-medium, CosyVoic...
moonshotai/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...
ACE-Step/Ace-Step1.5
ACE-Step 1.5 is a highly efficient open-source music foundation model designed to bring commercial-grade music generation to consumer hardware. It utilizes a novel hybrid...
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AnalogJ/scrutiny
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AWS News Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoThis week's roundup covers launches across compute, networking, security, and AI. Amazon EC2 introduces new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6...
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...
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication of workforce identities and permission sets, enabling improved resiliency for AWS account access and allowin...
Over 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...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 3 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 3 hours agoThe 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...
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...
IGN News
Updated about 3 hours agoBlizzard Entertainment is just one day away from unveiling the future of Diablo with its 30th Anniversary Spotlight – here's what to expect.
The Mist will join a lengthy list of existing King collaborations for Flanagan.
Magic: The Gathering just had its most financially successful year yet, Hasbro has announced. And it's largely thanks to its collaborations with other brands, via its Uni...
Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that it doesn't "currently" have plans to visit any magical schools besides its own Strixhaven in future sets, suggesting that a Harry...
Game Rant
Updated about 3 hours agoFrom massive mountain ranges to Olympic competitions, these video games deliver the ultimate winter sports experience, accessible to all skill levels.
Players need to complete a quest and offer some dung balls to unlock the door above the blacksmith in Nioh 3.
Roblox rolls out changes to system badges, and fans are having mixed reactions to the changes and additions they bring to the game.
Get ready for the Path of Elation in Honkai: Star Rail 4.0, starting with the debut of Yao Guang banner.
Look across, look up, and look down, because these open-world games have layers waiting for you to explore them.