Today is Friday, January 30, 2026, and the developer landscape is currently defined by a volatile mix of massive corporate restructuring, heightening platform tensions, and a significant shift toward open-source mobile development. While AI remains the underlying engine of change, the human and ethical costs are taking center stage in today’s discussions.
Hacker News
Updated 13 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 2 hours agoApple announced its acquisition of Q.AI for a reported nearly $2 billion, making it the company's second-largest acquisition to date.
Waymo's SFO win comes as the company faces criticism and concerns about safety in some of the cities it operates.
Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world model Genie 3, i...
New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending, as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off.
Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.
Ars Technica
Updated about 11 hours agoMore than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.
One of the last holdouts for ransomware discussions, RAMP is taken down.
For the Mac versions of pro apps, things aren't actually changing much (yet).
“We need to think about food and shelter. We need to help each other and be good camp mates.”
SpaceX won't make specific promises on Starlink network capacity or subscribers.
VentureBeat
Updated about 11 hours agoTel Aviv-based startup Factify emerged from stealth today with a $73 million seed round for an ambi
The generative AI era has sped everything up for most enterprises we talk to, especially development cycles (thanks to "vibe coding" and "agentic swarming").But even as t...
Airtable is applying its data-first design philosophy to AI agents with the debut of Superagent on Tuesday. It's a standalone research agent that deploys teams of sp...
Presented by SAPTen years ago, Western Sugar made a decision that would prove prescient: move from on-premise SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. At the time, ar...
The average enterprise SOC receives 10,000 alerts per day. Each requires 20 to 40 minutes to investigate properly, but even fully staffed teams can only handle 22% of the...
InfoQ
Updated 13 minutes agoArticle: Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs
Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. Bu...
Uber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage
Uber engineers detailed how they evolved their storage platform from static rate limiting to a priority-aware load management system. The approach protects Docstore and S...
Building Software Organisations Where People Can Thrive
Continuous learning, adaptability, and strong support networks are the foundations for thriving teams, Matthew Card mentioned. Trust is built through consistent, fair lea...
Google DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models
Google DeepMind researchers have introduced ATLAS, a set of scaling laws for multilingual language models that formalize how model size, training data volume, and languag...
Presentation: Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned
Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains h...
Wired AI
Updated about 12 hours agoGas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monit...
ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
Catastrophic risks are increasing, cooperation is declining, and swift action is needed from global leaders to correct course.
People are letting the viral AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot run their lives, regardless of the privacy concerns.
Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat.
Towards Data Science
Updated 42 minutes agoAn analysis of how flattening structured data can boost precision and recall by up to 20% The post Optimizing Vector Search: Why You Should Flatten Structured Data appear...
Going beyond the math to build intuition The post RoPE, Clearly Explained appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Confessions of a vibe coder The post The Unbearable Lightness of Coding appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Randomization usually balances confounders in experiments, but what happens when it doesn't? The post Randomization Works in Experiments, Even Without Balance appeared fi...
Implementing cross-silo federated learning step by step The post Federated Learning, Part 2: Implementation with the Flower Framework 🌼 appeared first on Towards Data Sc...
Anthropic News
Updated 18 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 about 2 hours agoGPT-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...
The most capable model in Windsurf yet, now available at Sonnet prices for a limited time
GPT 5.1, GPT 5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex Mini deliver a solid upgrade for agentic coding with variable thinking and improved steerability
Cursor
Updated 18 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 about 2 hours agoHow OpenAI built an in-house AI data agent that uses GPT-5, Codex, and memory to reason over massive datasets and deliver reliable insights in minutes.
Apply for the EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant, a €500,000 program funding NGOs and researchers advancing youth safety and wellbeing in the age of AI.
OpenAI launches the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 with new data, partnerships, and initiatives to accelerate AI adoption, skills, and growth across Europe.
Learn how OpenAI protects user data when AI agents open links, preventing URL-based data exfiltration and prompt injection with built-in safeguards.
PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 2 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 18 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 4 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoOpen 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...
Quantum technologies are rapidly emerging as foundational capabilities for economic competitiveness, national security and scientific leadership in the 21st century. Sust...
At the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting, NVIDIA today unveiled a new NVIDIA Earth-2 family of open models, libraries and frameworks for weather and climat...
AI-powered driver assistance technologies are becoming standard equipment, fundamentally changing how vehicle safety is assessed and validated. The recent recognition of...
arXiv
Updated about 2 hours agoOne of the biggest missing capabilities in current AI systems is the ability to learn continuously after deployment. Implementing such continually learning systems have s...
We introduce LLMStinger, a novel approach that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically generate adversarial suffixes for jailbreak attacks. Unlike traditi...
Tabular data remains a challenging domain for generative models. In particular, the standard Variational Autoencoder (VAE) architecture, typically composed of multilayer...
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant advancements in reasoning and agent-based problem-solving, current evaluation methodologies fail to adequ...
Traditional machine learning systems are typically designed for static data distributions, which suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning from evolving data stre...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 2 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 2 hours agoAI 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...
Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without...
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...
Incident investigation can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape, where large-scale systems comprise numerous interconnected components and dependencies DrP is...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 2 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 2 hours 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 about 2 hours 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...
Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice is a large-scale text-to-speech model supporting ten major languages and multiple dialectal profiles. It utilizes a discrete multi-codeboo...
microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR
VibeVoice-ASR is a unified speech-to-text model designed to handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass within a 64K token length. It jointly performs ASR, diarizat...
Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
Z-Image is an efficient image generation foundation model based on a Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer. It is designed as a full-capacity, undistilled transformer that...
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AWS News Blog
Updated about 2 hours agoHey! 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...
At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 whic...
AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available onl...
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Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 2 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 2 hours agoMoltworker is a middleware Worker and adapted scripts that allows running Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare's Sandbox SDK and our Developer Platform APIs. So you...
As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.
The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weat...
An automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol prefixes unintentionally from a router at our Miami data center. We discuss...
A vulnerability was recently identified in Cloudflare’s automation of certificate validation. Here we explain the vulnerability and outline the steps we’ve taken to mitig...
IGN News
Updated about 2 hours agoRainbow Six Siege is getting a Metal Gear Solid crossover, as Ubisoft is teasing that Solid Snake will appear as a new Operator in Year 11.
Yeah, you heard me. World of Warcraft is finally getting a Prop Hunt mode, or something like it, sometime later this year.
Nintendo fans have criticized the company's decision to heavily restrict image-sharing from within Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is getting the first of a number of planned voice packs at the end of February, each sold for $4.99.
Xbox has been having a hard time selling consoles lately, and it didn't get any better over the 2025 holiday quarter. The company has just reported hardware sales were do...
Game Rant
Updated about 2 hours agoSplatoon 3 has just received a new update over three years after its launch, and it's made a rather bizarre change to a key feature.
Fully-realized, magnetic, and impossible to root against, these video game heroes are stand-out icons from the past decade of gaming.
Cairn, one of the most anticipated indie games of 2026, has finally launched. This brutal, realistic climbing game challenges players to scale Mount Kami while managing s...
A recent leak suggested that two hugely popular GameCube games could be heading to Switch Online, and Nintendo has just issued an official statement.
Pokemon Legends: Z-A may officially be wrapped up with a final event in February, and the biggest announcement for the series could follow suit.