Friday, February 20, 2026, is shaping up to be a day of reckoning for the "AI Hype Cycle. " While technical advancements continue to break records, the developer community and corporate boardrooms are beginning to ask harder questions about the actual ROI of these tools.
Hacker News
Updated 7 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 3 hours agoSplit View, PDF annotations and 'Save to Chrome' features come to the Chrome browser.
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.
The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo.
Meta's CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.
Ars Technica
Updated 28 minutes agoNew skill tree paths offer a fun twist on some generally familiar mechanics.
There seems to be a deep-seated association between sounds and shapes.
Everyone's trying to get mileage as F1 undergoes huge technical changes.
Google says 3.1 Pro is ready for "your hardest challenges."
Where we're racing, we don't need roads.
VentureBeat
Updated 24 minutes agoCX platforms process billions of unstructured interactions a year: Survey forms, review sites, social feeds, call center transcripts, all flowing into AI engines that tri...
Late last year, Google briefly took the crown for most powerful AI model in the world with the launch of Gemini 3 Pro — only to be surpassed within weeks by OpenAI and An...
Rapidata emerges to shorten AI model development cycles from months to days with near real-time RLHF
Despite growing chatter about a future when much human work is automated by AI, one of the ironies of this current tech boom is how stubbornly reliant on human beings it...
Traditional ETL tools like dbt or Fivetran prepare data for reporting: structured analytics and dashboards with stable schemas. AI applications need something different:...
Agents built on top of today's models often break with simple changes — a new library, a workflow modification — and require a human engineer to fix it. That's...
InfoQ
Updated 4 minutes agoReducing Onboarding From 48 Hours to 4: Inside Amazon Key’s Event-Driven Platform
Amazon Key modernized its event platform by adopting a centralized, event-driven architecture built on Amazon EventBridge. The redesign processes millions of daily events...
Presentation: DevOps Modernization: AI Agents, Intelligent Observability and Automation
The panelists share how AI is redefining DevOps and SRE practices by moving teams beyond reactive monitoring toward predictive, automated delivery and operations. They di...
How a Small Enablement Team Supported Adopting a Single Environment for Distributed Testing
Po Linn Chia presented how they re-used a single development environment to deploy multiple service versions for testing their distributed system in her presentation "No...
Hugging Face Introduces Community Evals for Transparent Model Benchmarking
Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their own leaderboards and automatically collect evaluation result...
Article: Spec-Driven Development – Adoption at Enterprise Scale
Spec‑Driven Development shifts AI‑augmented software delivery from tactical prompting to collaborative intent articulation. Enterprises face gaps in tooling, workflow int...
Wired AI
Updated about 1 hour agoThe Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.
Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider.
Scout 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.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 2 hours agoAI can write the code, but you have to steer the ship. Master the knowledge to keep you relevant in the age of AI. The post The Missing Curriculum: Essential Concepts For...
How categorical data becomes statistical evidence. The post Understanding the Chi-Square Test Beyond the Formula appeared first on Towards Data Science.
All you need to know about Chain of Causation reasoning and the current state of Autonomous Driving! The post AlpamayoR1: Large Causal Reasoning Models for Autonomous Dri...
A deep dive into the hardware infrastructure that enables multi-GPU communication for AI workloads The post AI in Multiple GPUs: How GPUs Communicate appeared first on To...
When your warehouse and transportation teams blame each other for late deliveries, who's right? We can ask an agent connected to the data settle the debate. The post Can...
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 agoGemini 3.1 Pro is now available in Windsurf with Low and High thinking variants. For a limited time, enjoy promotional pricing on credit usage.
Claude 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.
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 commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.
OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.
A 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.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 3 hours ago3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.
The 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
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 agoAI is accelerating the telecommunications industry’s transformation, becoming the backbone of autonomous networks and AI-native wireless infrastructure. At the same time,...
The GeForce NOW anniversary celebration keeps on rolling, and this week is all about the games that make it possible. With more than 4,500 titles supported in the cloud —...
From 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...
arXiv
Updated about 3 hours agoLatent space models are widely used for analyzing high-dimensional discrete data matrices, such as patient-feature matrices in electronic health records (EHRs), by captur...
Interpretability research on large language models (LLMs) has yielded important insights into model behaviour, yet recurring pitfalls persist: findings that do not genera...
Machine unlearning aims to remove specific data points from a trained model, often striving to emulate "perfect retraining", i.e., producing the model that would have bee...
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data exhibit strong and reproducible statistical structure. This has motivated the development of large-scale foundation models, su...
Language models famously improve under a smooth scaling law, but some specific capabilities exhibit sudden breakthroughs in performance. Advocates of "emergence" view the...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 3 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 3 hours agoAs synthetic media grows, verifying what’s real, and the origin of content, matters more than ever. Our latest report explores media integrity and authentication methods,...
Project 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...
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 3 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 3 hours agoWhen we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural... The post Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising ap...
In 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...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 4 minutes agoMiniMaxAI/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...
zai-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...
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...
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AWS News Blog
Updated about 3 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 3 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 3 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 3 hours agoAs Pokémon Go announces a seismic shakeup of its Mega Pokémon, IGN has chatted with the smash hit smartphone game's developer on the inspirations for the move, what's cha...
Major Peaky Blinders movie news ahead: the official trailer for the upcoming film Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man was just released — and it reveals that Barry Keoghan w...
Mattel is kicking off an ambitious Masters of the Universe publishing program that will see the release of new novels, storybooks, and comics tied to the movie reboot.
Epic Games has cast Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr as a key in-game Fortnite character, following in the footsteps of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Brie Larsen...
Puerto Rican pop sensation Bad Bunny has snagged his first leading film role, and will appear in a movie alongside Javier Bardem and Edward Norton.
Game Rant
Updated about 3 hours agoIf you want to move the tractor in the Village, then you're going to need to know the Workshop combination code, which we have right here.
ARC Raiders developer Embark Studios admits that players are beating bosses like the Queen and Matriarch quicker than intended.
How exactly did Naruto evolve throughout the Fourth Great Ninja War in Naruto?
Unlike many other games where soon you're quickly drowning in cash, every coin matters in these open worlds and can be put to good use immediately.
Final Fantasy 14 players will soon have more to do, as Square Enix reveals when Little Ladies' Day and Patch 7.45 will hit live servers.