Welcome to DevTrends. fyi for Friday, February 13, 2026.
Hacker News
Updated 10 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 4 hours agoIf a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.
The longevity-obsessed investor Bryan Johnson is charging $1 million to sign up for his "Immortals" program.
Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot.
IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.
The company's annual revenue was boosted by its technology joint venture with Volkswagen Group.
Ars Technica
Updated about 1 hour agoThis was the first launch of the Ariane 64, the most powerful rocket in European space history.
OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.
FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.
Nicolas Cage described his character as "70 percent Humphrey Bogart and 30 percent Bugs Bunny."
Vulcan's Blue Origin-made BE-4 engines appear to have saved the rocket from failure.
VentureBeat
Updated about 1 hour agoResearchers 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,...
OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a stripped-down coding model engineered for near-instantaneous response times, marking the company's first significa...
When an AI agent visits a website, it’s essentially a tourist who doesn’t speak the local language. Whether built on LangChain, Claude Code, or the increasingly popular O...
Lowering the cost of inference is typically a combination of hardware and software. A new analysis released Thursday by Nvidia details how four leading inference provider...
InfoQ
Updated 1 minute agoPodcast: Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ben Greene about embracing AI in software engineering, expanding beyond pure technical skills t...
Shadcn Releases Visual Project Builder
Introducing Shadcn's innovative visual project builder, accessible via `npx shadcn create`. This tool empowers developers to customize project setups visually before codi...
VillageSQL Launches as an Extension-Focused MySQL Fork
A new open-source project, VillageSQL, has been introduced as a tracking fork of MySQL aimed at expanding extensibility and addressing feature gaps increasingly relevant...
OpenAI Scales Single Primary Postgresql to Millions of Queries per Second for ChatGPT
OpenAI described how it scaled PostgreSQL to support ChatGPT and its API platform, handling millions of queries per second for hundreds of millions of users. By running a...
Creating Impactful Teams through Diversity Using Session 0
Diverse and empowered teams are impactful teams, Natan Žabkar Nordberg mentioned in his talk on creating impactful software teams at QCon London. A session 0 helps set ex...
Wired AI
Updated about 2 hours agoIn this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts dive into WIRED’s scoop about a secret Trump administration campaign extending right into your backyard.
From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are...
Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 2 hours agoMoving beyond the black box to turn complex model outputs into actionable organizational strategies. The post How to Leverage Explainable AI for Better Business Decisions...
Learn how CPU and GPUs interact in the host-device paradigm The post AI in Multiple GPUs: Understanding the Host and Device Paradigm appeared first on Towards Data Scienc...
Combining statistical detection with agentic decision-making The post Building an AI Agent to Detect and Handle Anomalies in Time-Series Data appeared first on Towards Da...
How baseline strength, churn, and subjectivity determine complexity The post Not All RecSys Problems Are Created Equal appeared first on Towards Data Science.
The approach that takes companies to the next level of data maturity The post How to Model The Expected Value of Marketing Campaigns appeared first on Towards Data Scienc...
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 4 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 4 hours agoIntroducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
OpenAI for Government announces the deployment of a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, bringing secure, safety-forward AI to U.S. defense teams.
OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safe...
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 4 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 6 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 4 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 4 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 4 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 4 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 4 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 4 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
Updated about 4 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 37 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...
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...
openbmb/MiniCPM-o-4_5
MiniCPM-o 4.5 is an end-to-end multimodal model with 9B parameters designed for vision, speech, and full-duplex live streaming. Built on SigLip2, Whisper-medium, CosyVoic...
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...
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 about 1 hour agomicrosoft/PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
Infisical/infisical
Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.
traefik/traefik
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
element-hq/element-web
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
inngest/inngest
The leading workflow orchestration platform. Run stateful step functions and AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 4 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 4 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 4 hours agoThe 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...
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...
IGN News
Updated about 4 hours agoTonight has brought our best look yet at Silent Hill: Townfall, the next installment in Konami's classic survival horror series that's set and developed in Scotland.
After a significant delay and a rocky 2025, Bungie shared another look at Marathon at the February 2026 State of Play, reaffirming its March 5 release date with a weekend...
Sony finished tonight's State of Play broadcast with confirmation of a God of War Trilogy Remake project, and the shadow drop of a side-scrolling spinoff — God of War: So...
The Unbreakable X-Men join the fray in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls this August.
We've just had a full reveal for Project Windless, a single-player action RPG long in development at the Montreal studio set up by PUBG publisher Krafton.
Game Rant
Updated about 4 hours agoOverwatch fans discover evidence involving Emre that may finally answer one of the oldest mysteries of Future Earth: What is 'The Conspiracy'?
A recently released farming sim with Stardew Valley vibes and an Ancient China setting is giving away a free DLC pack for a limited time.
Ubisoft's original side-scrolling platformer Rayman officially makes a comeback after more than 30 years since its debut in the gaming industry.
Embodying choices and consequences like few other games, players can really mess up the world in these open-world RPGs.
You need to team Sparxie with Yao Guang to build the best Elation teams in Honkai: Star Rail.