Monday, February 16, 2026, marks a pivotal moment in the developer ecosystem as we witness a collision between high-level AI autonomy and the fundamental privacy concerns of the digital age. While massive AI investments continue to dominate headlines, the developer community is showing a renewed interest in "back-to-basics" mastery and the preservation of open-source integrity.
Hacker News
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Updated about 5 hours agoOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.
In this week's episode of the Equity podcast, Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains the company's shift from enterprise search tool to middleware layer for enterprise AI.
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Ars Technica
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We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.
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VentureBeat
Updated about 2 hours agoFrom miles away across the desert, the Great Pyramid looks like a perfect, smooth geometry — a sleek triangle pointing to the stars. Stand at the base, however, and the...
The average Fortune 1000 company has more than 30,000 employees and engineering, sales and marketing teams with hundreds of members. Equally large teams exist in governme...
Your developers are already running OpenClaw at home. Censys tracked the open-source AI agent from roughly 1,000 instances to over 21,000 publicly exposed deployments in...
Researchers at Nvidia have developed a technique that can reduce the memory costs of large language model reasoning by up to eight times. Their technique, called dynamic...
Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants,...
InfoQ
Updated 16 minutes agoLocalStack for AWS Drops Community Edition Raising Developer Concerns
LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that...
Sixteen Claude Agents Built a C Compiler Without Human Intervention... Almost
In an effort to probe the limits of autonomous software development Anthropic used sixteen Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a Rust-based C compiler from scratch. Workin...
From Paging to Postmortem: Google Cloud SREs on Using Gemini CLI for Outage Response
A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. This approach improves reliability in cri...
Firestore Adds Pipeline Operations with Over 100 New Query Features
Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Fire...
Nuxt Studio Released: Open Source CMS for Content Editing in Production
Introducing Nuxt Studio: the ultimate open-source content management solution for Nuxt websites, offering a powerful self-hosted module for complete control over your con...
Wired AI
Updated about 3 hours agoBeyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.
As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.
As the housing market stalls, Zillow’s CEO sees AI as “an ingredient rather than a threat” that can both help the company protect its turf and reinvent how people search...
EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help making AI-human relationships a “new normal.”
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts dive into WIRED’s scoop about a secret Trump administration campaign extending right into your backyard.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 3 hours agoOne of the new things I’ve come across recently, while researching command-line-based coding assistants, is the mention and use of a tool I hadn’t heard of before. That t...
A practical onboarding checklist for building trust, business fluency, and data intuition The post Your First 90 Days as a Data Scientist appeared first on Towards Data S...
Stephanie Kirmer on the $200 billion investment bubble, how AI companies can rebuild trust, and how her day-to-day work changed with the rise of LLMs. The post The Evolvi...
Learn PyTorch distributed operations for multi GPU AI workloads The post AI in Multiple GPUs: Point-to-Point and Collective Operations appeared first on Towards Data Scie...
Moving beyond the black box to turn complex model outputs into actionable organizational strategies. The post How to Leverage Explainable AI for Better Business Decisions...
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 5 hours agoOpenAI'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...
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...
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 5 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 5 hours agoOur 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.
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.
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 7 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoThe worldwide tour of NVIDIA AI Days — bringing together AI enthusiasts, developers, researchers and startups — made its latest stop in São Paulo, Brazil.
A diagnostic insight in healthcare. A character’s dialogue in an interactive game. An autonomous resolution from a customer service agent. Each of these AI-powered intera...
At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data‑center‑class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and students’ system...
The GeForce NOW sixth-anniversary festivities roll on this February, continuing a monthlong celebration of NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service. This week brings even more reaso...
Break 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...
arXiv
Updated about 5 hours agoUnified models can handle both multimodal understanding and generation within a single architecture, yet they typically operate in a single pass without iteratively refin...
Accurate characterization of subsurface flow is critical for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) but remains challenged by the ill-posed nature of inverse problems with spar...
We propose an optimization-informed deep neural network approach, named iUzawa-Net, aiming for the first solver that enables real-time solutions for a class of nonsmooth...
Real-time video generation with Diffusion Transformers is bottlenecked by the quadratic cost of 3D self-attention, especially in real-time regimes that are both few-step...
We propose a data-efficient, physics-aware generative framework in function space for inverse PDE problems. Existing plug-and-play diffusion posterior samplers represent...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 5 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 5 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....
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 5 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 5 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 33 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...
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...
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...
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...
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AWS News Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoHere 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...
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 5 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 5 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 5 hours agoRainbow Six Siege is getting Snake from Metal Gear Solid as a new Operator next month — but the game also nearly had a cardboard box item to hide in, too.
Bloober Team has revealed the video game it teased last month as Layers of Fear 3.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 will not include the version of Metal Gear Online featured with the original release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot...
Ryan Gosling will notch his fourth Saturday Night Live hosting gig next month, and with him will be the first ever SNL performance of Gorillaz, NBC Universal announced.
Hollywood has slammed the company behind an AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, which was so realistic it prompted Deadpool's writer to state "it's likely ove...
Game Rant
Updated about 5 hours agoThere are a few good spots on Starsand Island for farming Iron, as this guide explains, but new players will need to upgrade their pickaxe first.
The deeper into Dragon Ball Super the story gets, the more it feels like Vegeta is the series' real main character.
Kaido's Devil Fruit makes him a tough opponent to beat, but these Devil Fruits are way stronger.
Ahead of Resident Evil Requiem's launch, here is how long it takes to beat every other main game in the Resident Evil franchise.
People may think of Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi when it comes to Mario RPGs, but Camelot adds a JRPG twist to early Mario Tennis and Mario Golf.