Today is Tuesday, February 3, 2026, and the developer landscape is currently dominated by a sobering mix of high-stakes security breaches, a pushback against mandatory AI integration, and the evolving ethics of large-scale data scraping. While engineering organizations continue to focus on scaling and system design, the human cost of the industry and the vulnerability of our core tools are taking center stage in the community’s discourse.
Hacker News
Updated 1 minute agoTechCrunch
Updated about 1 hour agoSee what to expect for Startup Battlefield 200 in 2026, the ultimate startup pitch competition on the global stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Join the mailing list to be the...
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of...
Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.
Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.
Gradient's heat pumps fit in windows, minimizing installation times. Now, it is introducing software to make those units more intelligent.
Ars Technica
Updated about 11 hours agoRomero, Carmack, and colleagues discuss an oft-forgotten piece of PC gaming history
Sony has made streaming anime pricier since buying Crunchyroll.
"This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission."
Defense chief: "No Ukrainians have been killed by Russian drones using Starlink."
Trump admin's "it's classified" ploy put on hold in five different cases.
VentureBeat
Updated about 11 hours agoThe key to successful AI agents within an enterprise? Shared memory and context. This, according to Asana CPO Arnab Bose, provides detailed history and direct access from...
OpenAI on Monday released a new desktop application for its Codex artificial intelligence coding system, a tool the company says transforms software development from a co...
Enterprises have moved quickly to adopt RAG to ground LLMs in proprietary data. In practice, however, many organizations are discovering that retrieval is no longer a fea...
By now, many enterprises have deployed some form of RAG. The promise is seductive: index your PDFs, connect an LLM and instantly democratize your corporate knowledge.But...
OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, crossed 180,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week, according t...
InfoQ
Updated 14 minutes agoOpenAI Begins Article Series on Codex CLI Internals
OpenAI recently published the first in a series of articles detailing the design and functionality of their Codex software development agent. The inaugural post highlight...
Etleap Launches Iceberg Pipeline Platform to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of Apache Iceberg
Etleap has recently launched the Iceberg pipeline platform, a new managed data pipeline layer designed to let enterprises adopt Apache Iceberg without building or maintai...
Article: Working with Code Assistants: The Skeleton Architecture
Prevent AI-generated tech debt with Skeleton Architecture. This approach separates human-governed infrastructure (Skeleton) from AI-generated logic (Tissue) using Vertica...
Dev Proxy v2.1 Introduces Configuration Hot Reload and Stdio Traffic Proxying
The Dev Proxy team has released Dev Proxy version 2.1, introducing new features aimed at improving developer productivity and simplifying local testing workflows. This re...
MongoDB Introduces Embedding and Reranking API on Atlas
MongoDB has recently announced the public preview of its Embedding and Reranking API on MongoDB Atlas. The new API gives developers direct access to Voyage AI’s search mo...
Wired AI
Updated about 11 hours agoBy fusing SpaceX and xAI—which acquired X last year—Elon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.
Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” o...
Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and...
Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that’s the idea.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the news that's held our attention this week: ICE activity as it's been unfolding in Minnesota.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 12 hours agoSara Nobrega on the transition from data science to AI engineering, using LLMs as a bridge to DevOps, and the one engineering skill junior data scientists need to stay co...
We are confusing “size” with “smart.” The next leap in artificial intelligence will not come from a larger data center, but from a more constrained environment. The post...
Leveraging massive parallelism, asynchronous updates, and multi-machine training to match and exceed human-level performance The post Distributed Reinforcement Learning f...
Learn how to efficiently solve problems with coding agents The post How to Apply Agentic Coding to Solve Problems appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Ollama now offers Anthropic API compatibility The post How to Run Claude Code for Free with Local and Cloud Models from Ollama appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Anthropic News
Updated 23 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 1 hour agoArena 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...
The most capable model in Windsurf yet, now available at Sonnet prices for a limited time
Cursor
Updated 23 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 1 hour agoDiscover 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.
Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.
How 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.
On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement of GPT‑5 (Instant, Thinking, and Pro), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mi...
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 1 hour 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 23 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 3 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 1 hour agoMercedes-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...
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...
arXiv
Updated about 1 hour agoDirect alignment methods are increasingly used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, many real-world alignment problems involve multiple...
Clinical brain-to-text interfaces are designed for paralysed patients who cannot provide extensive training recordings. Pre-training improves data-efficient generalisatio...
We propose RLAnything, a reinforcement learning framework that dynamically forges environment, policy, and reward models through closed-loop optimization, amplifying lear...
The success of RL for LLM post-training stems from an unreasonably uninformative source: a single bit of information per rollout as binary reward or preference label. At...
Most Large Language Model (LLM) agent memory systems rely on a small set of static, hand-designed operations for extracting memory. These fixed procedures hard-code human...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 1 hour agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 1 hour 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 1 hour agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 1 hour 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 1 hour agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 13 minutes 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...
tencent/HunyuanImage-3.0-Instruct
HunyuanImage-3.0-Instruct is a native multimodal model designed for intelligent image generation, creative editing, and multi-image fusion. It utilizes a unified autoregr...
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...
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...
GitHub Trending
Updated 27 minutes agotrufflesecurity/trufflehog
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
activepieces/activepieces
AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents
tailscale/tailscale
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
k3s-io/k3s
Lightweight Kubernetes
juicedata/juicefs
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 1 hour agoOver 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...
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...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 1 hour agoCloudflare
Updated about 1 hour 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 about 1 hour agoVeteran role-playing game maker Obsidian Entertainment has no plans to continue The Outer Worlds with a third game, the studio has confirmed.
Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D'Amaro will officially succeed Bob Iger to become The Walt Disney Company's next Chief Executive Officer on March 18, 2026.
Microsoft has announced the Xbox Game Pass February 2026 Wave 1 lineup, which includes big hitters such as High on Life 2, Madden NFL 26, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora...
IGN interviews the boss of the Epic Games Store to find out how the company behind Fortnite plans to convince PC gamers to move away from Valve's Steam.
Netflix is being removed from the PlayStation 3 — yes, the PlayStation 3 — on March 2, 2026.
Game Rant
Updated about 1 hour agoStardew Valley creator Eric Barone reveals there's still one secret in the game that hasn't been discovered after nearly 10 years.
Every Saiyan has had a single form that they have become known by, so let's take a look at what this is for each of them.
The debate about who is stronger between Maki and Toji rages on in the JJK fandom.
In these RPGs, it's not just your characters and skills that level up; your equipment levels up and evolves with you.
Players who want to unlock special weapons or earn the Irreplaceable trophy can learn about Code Vein 2’s partner affinity mechanic here.