As we settle into the third week of 2026, the developer landscape is buzzing with a mix of nostalgic software milestones, critical infrastructure warnings, and a maturing perspective on the "AI revolution. " From the surprising return of web development’s most famous library to the physical limits of the data centers powering our future, here is the summary of today’s top trends.
Hacker News
Updated 5 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated 33 minutes agoLast year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?
The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ambitions.
Misaligned agents are just one layer of the AI security challenge that startup Witness AI is trying to solve. It detects employee use of unapproved tools, blocking attack...
See 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...
TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 2023 winner, BioticsAI, announced on Monday that it has received FDA clearance for its AI software that helps detect fetal abnormalities in...
Ars Technica
Updated about 10 hours agoIgnoring the blue economy has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance.
Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates.
"I’ve got one job, and it’s the safe return of Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy."
Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
VentureBeat
Updated about 10 hours agoIt’s the question on everyone’s minds and lips: Are we in an AI bubble?It's the wrong question. The real question is: Which AI bubble are we in, and when will each o...
Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025,...
The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former Stability AI engineers, is continuing to build out its suite of open source AI image generators with the...
Researchers at Google have developed a technique that makes it easier for AI models to learn complex reasoning tasks that usually cause LLMs to hallucinate or fall apart....
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers...
InfoQ
Updated 18 minutes agoGoogle and Retail Leaders Launch Universal Commerce Protocol to Power Next‑Generation AI Shopping
Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard enabling AI-driven shopping agents to complete tasks end-to-end from product discovery to checkout...
Presentation: No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS
Po Linn Chia shares the sociotechnical journey of ClassPass, moving from a flaky, homegrown testing framework to a dynamic routing architecture on ECS. She discusses leve...
Article: Preventing Data Exfiltration: A Practical Implementation of VPC Service Controls at Enterprise Scale in Google Cloud Platform
Implementing VPC Service Controls is more about people and process than technology. Organizations must conduct extensive upfront discovery, use phased rollouts to avoid b...
Podcast: [Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker
In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current,...
Microsoft Releases Azure Functions Support for Model Context Protocol Servers
Microsoft has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Azure Functions, ensuring secure, standardized workflows for AI agents. With built-in OBO authentication and s...
Wired AI
Updated about 10 hours agoAs Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.
Leaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming to light.
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.
OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest eff...
X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to full...
Towards Data Science
Updated 33 minutes agoDiluting complex research, spotting silent data leaks, and why the best way to learn is often backwards. The post Bridging the Gap Between Research and Readability with M...
How I used open-source models to explore new frontiers in efficient code generation, using my MacBook and local LLMs. The post Using Local LLMs to Discover High-Performan...
Why modeling SKUs as a network reveals what traditional forecasts miss The post Time Series Isn’t Enough: How Graph Neural Networks Change Demand Forecasting appeared fir...
How to use n8n with multimodal AI and optimisation tools to help companies with low data maturity accelerate their digital transformation. The post The Hidden Opportunity...
How science, regulation, collaboration, and public funding shaped the world’s most mature semantic infrastructure The post Why Healthcare Leads in Knowledge Graphs appear...
Anthropic News
Updated 8 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 33 minutes 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 8 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 33 minutes agoHow AI can expand human agency by closing the capability overhang—helping people, businesses, and countries unlock real productivity, growth, and opportunity.
OpenAI’s business model scales with intelligence—spanning subscriptions, API, ads, commerce, and compute—driven by deepening ChatGPT adoption.
The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing.
ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, offering expanded access to GPT-5.2 Instant, higher usage limits, and longer memory—making advanced AI more affordable globally.
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer qual...
Google DeepMind News
Updated 33 minutes agoOur 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.
Open interpretability tools for language models are now available across the entire Gemma 3 family with the release of Gemma Scope 2.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated 8 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...
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
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 2 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated 33 minutes agoNVIDIA kicked off the year at CES, where the crowd buzzed about the latest gaming announcements — including the native GeForce NOW app for Linux and Amazon Fire TV sticks...
NVIDIA and Lilly are putting together “a blueprint for what is possible in the future of drug discovery,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees at a fireside...
Startup works with leading cell therapy companies to bring robotics manufacturing into the clean room, reducing costs by more than 70% while accelerating output compared...
Every “that was easy” shopping moment is made possible by teams working to hit shipping deadlines, scrambling to fix missing product details and striving to provide curat...
In the rolling hills of Berkeley, California, an AI agent is supporting high-stakes physics experiments at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) particle accelerator. Researche...
arXiv
Updated 33 minutes agoFrontier language model capabilities are improving rapidly. We thus need stronger mitigations against bad actors misusing increasingly powerful systems. Prior work has sh...
This paper presents a novel learning based framework for predicting power outages caused by extreme events. The proposed approach targets low probability high consequence...
Recent advances in 3D shape generation have achieved impressive results, but most existing methods rely on clean, unoccluded, and well-segmented inputs. Such conditions a...
Social recommender systems facilitate social connections by identifying potential friends for users. Each user maintains a local social network centered around themselves...
Progress in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) algorithm development is limited by the fragmentation and lack of standardization across existing T1D management datasets. Current datas...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated 33 minutes agoMicrosoft Research
Updated 33 minutes agoOptiMind 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...
Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer. The post GigaTIME:...
As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on...
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...
We’re going behind the scenes of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s most advanced AI glasses yet. In a previous episode we met the team behind the Meta Neural Band, the EMG...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated 33 minutes agoSpotify Engineering
Updated 33 minutes agoThe 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...
Thousands of merged AI-generated pull requests and the future of large-scale software maintenance. The post 1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated 33 minutes agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 17 minutes agozai-org/GLM-Image
GLM-Image is an image generation model that adopts a hybrid autoregressive and diffusion decoder architecture. It is designed for high-fidelity text-to-image and image-to...
openbmb/AgentCPM-Explore
AgentCPM-Explore is an agent foundation model with 4B parameters designed for on-device deep research and long-horizon tasks. It is the first full-parameter 4B model to r...
Lightricks/LTX-2
LTX-2 is a DiT-based audio-video foundation model developed by Lightricks and presented in the paper LTX-2: Efficient Joint Audio-Visual Foundation Model. It is designed...
GitHub Trending
Updated 31 minutes agonautechsystems/nautilus_trader
A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester
yt-dlp/yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
itzg/docker-minecraft-server
Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server for Java Edition that automatically installs/upgrades versions, modloaders, modpacks and more at startup
paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
AWS News Blog
Updated 33 minutes agoAWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available onl...
Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector o...
At the beginning of January, I tend to set my top resolutions for the year, a way to focus on what I want to achieve. If AI and cloud computing are on your resolution lis...
Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and...
Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days,...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated 33 minutes agoCloudflare
Updated 33 minutes agoA 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...
The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-dr...
Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic mo...
A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root c...
Cloudflare Radar data shows Internet traffic from Iran has effectively dropped to zero since January 8, signaling a complete shutdown in the country and disconnection fro...
IGN News
Updated 33 minutes agoDoctor Who, Daredevil and The Last of Us director Peter Hoar has reflected on Disney+ ditching its lucrative co-funding deal for Doctor Who, and admitted that ultimately...
Rockstar Games has reportedly granted the wish of a terminally-ill fan whose family member asked if they could play Grand Theft Auto 6 ahead of its November launch date.
Peter Hoar, the Emmy-nominated director of The Last of Us, is working on a reboot of the British sci-fi cult classic Blake’s 7.
Capcom is expected to reveal its all-new Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake this year, according to a fresh report.
Everyone’s noticing how the industry is shifting — including major A-Listers like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who recently opened up about the fact that Netflix wants to...
Game Rant
Updated 33 minutes agoLEGO is retiring a long list of great sets this year, but these particular builds could be the best additions to your collection.
The Royal Rumble PPV has a long and storied history in the WWE. These Royal Rumble events, however, are the best of the bunch.
Here’s a complete farming guide for Hytale, including how to get farming tools, plant seeds, fertilize soil, and harvest crops.
Following a leak, Bungie has officially confirmed the release date for its upcoming extraction shooter Marathon, along with a collector's edition.
In a recent interview, long time Like a Dragon developer explains his thoughts and plans regarding future entries in the franchise.