The developer landscape today, February 5, 2026, is defined by a push for standardizing AI workflows and a growing tension between global tech consolidation and digital sovereignty. While AI remains the dominant force, the conversation has shifted from "what can LLMs do?
Hacker News
Updated 9 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated 6 minutes agoHe posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival "dishonest" and "authoritarian."
The company is engaged in a strategy to diversify its revenue sources as it heads into the new year.
Spain-based deeptech and climate megafund Kembara has just completed a €750 million first close toward its €1 billion target.
Having raised a €30 million Series A round led by CapitalG, business identity verification startup Duna is now among the most well-capitalized European startups founded b...
Alphabet CEO skipped an analyst's question about Apple on the company's earnings call.
Ars Technica
Updated about 9 hours agoChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.
"We will continue to rely on the ingenuity of the private sector."
Musk is stuck fighting SEC suit seeking $150M in disgorgements from his Twitter takeover.
In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.
Sen. Markey: Database of peaceful protesters, if it exists, should be shut down.
VentureBeat
Updated about 9 hours agoToday’s LLMs excel at reasoning, but can still struggle with context. This is particularly true in real-time ordering systems like Instacart. Instacart CTO Anirban Kundu...
Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can...
Remote-first AI coding startup Kilo doesn't think software developers should have to pledge their undying allegiance to any one development environment — and certain...
Presented by CertiniaThe initial euphoria around Generative and Agentic AI has shifted to a pragmatic, often frustrated, reality. CIOs and technical leaders are asking wh...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a h...
InfoQ
Updated 10 minutes agoLinkedIn Re-Architects Service Discovery: Replacing Zookeeper with Kafka and xDS at Scale
LinkedIn's engineering team successfully upgraded its legacy ZooKeeper service discovery platform to enhance scalability and performance. By leveraging Apache Kafka and t...
Presentation: Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems
Sarah Usher discusses the architectural "breaking point" where warehouses like BigQuery struggle with latency and cost. She explains the necessity of a conceptual data li...
Java Explores Carrier Classes to Extend Data-Oriented Programming Beyond Records
The OpenJDK Amber project has published a new design note proposing “carrier classes” and “carrier interfaces” to extend record-style data modeling to more Java types. Th...
Vercel Introduces Skills.sh, an Open Ecosystem for Agent Commands
Vercel has released Skills.sh, an open-source tool designed to provide AI agents with a standardized way to execute reusable actions, or skills, through the command line....
Agent Trace: Cursor Proposes an Open Specification for AI Code Attribution
Cursor has published Agent Trace, a draft open specification aimed at standardizing how AI-generated code is attributed in software projects. Released as a Request for Co...
Wired AI
Updated about 10 hours agoAxiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.
“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup's vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.
New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.
Experts worry Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda.
I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 11 hours agoThis article covers how Azure ML's persistent, workspace-centric compute resources differ from AWS SageMaker's on-demand, job-specific approach. Additionally, we explored...
Learn how to be an effective full-stack engineer with Claude Code The post How to Work Effectively with Frontend and Backend Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Step-by-step guide to building autonomous memory retrieval systems The post How to Build Your Own Custom LLM Memory Layer from Scratch appeared first on Towards Data Scie...
The case against pre-built tools in Agentic Architectures The post Plan–Code–Execute: Designing Agents That Create Their Own Tools appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Distributed agents need only decide one move ahead. The post Routing in a Sparse Graph: a Distributed Q-Learning Approach appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Anthropic News
Updated 25 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 6 minutes agoWe'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.
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...
Cursor
Updated 25 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 5 minutes agoA family shares how ChatGPT helped them prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son alongside expert guidance from his doctors.
Learn how to embed the Codex agent using the Codex App Server, a bidirectional JSON-RPC API powering streaming progress, tool use, approvals, and diffs.
By focusing on people, not pilots, the Bundesliga club is scaling efficiency, creativity, and knowledge—without losing its football identity.
Discover the Sora feed philosophy—built to spark creativity, foster connections, and keep experiences safe with personalized recommendations, parental controls, and stron...
OpenAI and Snowflake partner in a $200M agreement to bring frontier intelligence into enterprise data, enabling AI agents and insights directly in Snowflake.
Google DeepMind News
Updated 6 minutes 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 25 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 2 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated 5 minutes agoBusinesses 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...
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...
arXiv
Updated 1 minute agoPost-training with Reinforcement Learning (RL) has substantially improved reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) via test-time scaling. However, extending this paradig...
We present protein autoregressive modeling (PAR), the first multi-scale autoregressive framework for protein backbone generation via coarse-to-fine next-scale prediction....
Internet of Things (IoT) deployments operate in nonstationary, dynamic environments where factors such as sensor drift, evolving user behavior, and heterogeneous user pri...
We propose a spectrally normalized surrogate for forward and inverse mechanical homogenization with hard physical guarantees. Leveraging the Voigt-Reuss bounds, we factor...
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) serving as the de facto standar...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated 4 minutes agoMicrosoft Research
Updated 5 minutes agoMicrosoft 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....
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...
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...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated 6 minutes agoSpotify Engineering
Updated 6 minutes 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
Updated 5 minutes agoHugging Face Trending
Updated about 1 hour agomoonshotai/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...
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...
stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash
Step 3.5 Flash is an open-source foundation model built on a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, selectively activating 11B of its 196B parameters per token. It...
circlestone-labs/Anima
Anima is a 2 billion parameter text-to-image model developed through a collaboration between CircleStone Labs and Comfy Org. Built on NVIDIA Cosmos, it is specifically de...
Qwen/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...
GitHub Trending
Updated 5 minutes agomicrosoft/qlib
Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diver...
pocketbase/pocketbase
Open Source realtime backend in 1 file
apache/arrow
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
PostHog/posthog
🦔 PostHog is an all-in-one developer platform for building successful products. We offer product analytics, web analytics, session replay, error tracking, feature flags,...
projectdiscovery/nuclei
Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trend...
AWS News Blog
Updated 5 minutes agoAWS 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...
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...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated 6 minutes agoCloudflare
Updated 5 minutes agoLocal 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...
As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.
IGN News
Updated 6 minutes agoThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre finally has more gas in the tank, as A24 has started working on a TV series and movie based on the iconic horror franchise.
Overwatch 2 is officially ditching the "2" from its name. It's all just Overwatch now as the game enters a "new, story-driven era" with a year-long narrative, 10 new hero...
Overwatch 2, or I guess as I should call it now, Overwatch, is about to get a massive overhaul as it enters the year-long storyline entitled The Reign of Talon including...
David Jaumandreu and I are supposed to be having our interview about his upcoming game, Denshattack, in a studio built out to look like a train. And we will, eventually,...
Game Rant
Updated 6 minutes agoCan any RPG out there deliver a co-op experience on par, or even superior to Baldur's Gate 3? The following just might.
A list of all the latest Sorcerer Ascent codes and step-by-step instructions on how to redeem them.
Valve reveals that the Steam Machine and its other upcoming hardware products are facing a delay, but not the way gamers might expect.
LEGO and Netflix team up to bring the hit animated musical film KPop Demon Hunters to life in brick form with sets in 2026 and 2027.
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