Today, January 17, 2026, the developer landscape is dominated by a major shift in the web infrastructure market, deepening financial pressures on AI giants, and a growing focus on system resilience following high-profile service disruptions. While AI remains a central pillar, the conversation has moved from "what can it do" to "how do we pay for it" and "how do we build it better.
Hacker News
Updated 7 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 3 hours agoTheir startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.
The flood of AI-generated sexual imagery has spurred concern from state and congressional officials alike.
The $400 million round was led by Dragoneer.
Think TikTok, but every single video you come across is a short episode of a fictional story.
Elon Musk's AI company had installed and operated 35 natural gas turbines without permits, something the EPA now says was illegal.
Ars Technica
Updated 32 minutes ago"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.
WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.
Hypervirulent germ nearly destroys man, invading brain and blowing out an eye.
VentureBeat
Updated 28 minutes agoThe 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...
Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute...
Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external too...
InfoQ
Updated 5 minutes agoCloudflare Automates Salt Configuration Management Debugging, Reducing Release Delays
Cloudflare recently shared how it manages its huge global fleet with SaltStack (Salt). They discussed the engineering tasks needed for the "grain of sand" problem. This c...
Pulumi Adds Native Support for Terraform and HCL
Pulumi now natively supports Terraform and HCL, enabling direct HCL execution and state management within Pulumi Cloud. Currently in private beta with a Q1 2026 release,...
Cloudflare Introduces Aggregations in R2 SQL for Data Analytics
Cloudflare recently announced support for aggregations in R2 SQL, a new feature that lets developers run SQL queries on data stored in R2. This enhancement expands R2 SQL...
ArkType Introduces ArkRegex with Type Safe Regular Expressions
Introducing ArkRegex: a revolutionary drop-in for JavaScript's RegExp that ensures type safety in regular expressions without runtime overhead. Seamlessly integrate with...
350PB, Millions of Events, One System: Inside Uber’s Cross-Region Data Lake and Disaster Recovery
Uber’s HiveSync is a sharded, cross-region batch replication system keeping Hive/HDFS data consistent across multiple regions. Handling 5M daily Hive events and 8PB of da...
Wired AI
Updated about 1 hour agoLeaders 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...
Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 3 hours agoLearn how to be a more efficient programmer The post Maximum-Effiency Coding Setup appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why your final LLM layer is OOMing and how to fix it with a custom Triton kernel. The post Cutting LLM Memory by 84%: A Deep Dive into Fused Kernels appeared first on Tow...
A multi-tier approach to segmentation, color correction, and domain-specific enhancement The post From RGB to Lab: Addressing Color Artifacts in AI Image Compositing appe...
Acquisitions, venture, and an increasingly competitive landscape all point to a market ceiling The post The Great Data Closure: Why Databricks and Snowflake Are Hitting T...
Let's make sense of the current state of retrieval-augmented generation The post TDS Newsletter: Is It Time to Revisit RAG? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Anthropic News
Updated 6 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 3 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 6 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 3 hours agoThe 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...
OpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and exper...
OpenAI launches a new RFP to strengthen the U.S. AI supply chain by accelerating domestic manufacturing, creating jobs, and scaling AI infrastructure.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 3 hours 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 6 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 5 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 3 hours agoNVIDIA will join the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission as a private industry partner to keep U.S. AI both the leader and the standard in technology around...
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU is now generally available, bringing robust agentic and generative AI capabilities powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture...
Step out of the vault and into the future of gaming with Fallout: New Vegas streaming on GeForce NOW, just in time to celebrate the newest season of the hit Amazon TV sho...
Physical AI is moving from research labs into the real world, powering intelligent robots and autonomous vehicles (AVs) — such as robotaxis — that must reliably sense, re...
The Hao AI Lab research team at the University of California San Diego — at the forefront of pioneering AI model innovation — recently received an NVIDIA DGX B200 system...
arXiv
Updated about 3 hours agoWe present a novel differentiable grid-based representation for efficiently solving differential equations (DEs). Widely used architectures for neural solvers, such as si...
Diffusion models have shown remarkable empirical success in sampling from rich multi-modal distributions. Their inference relies on numerically solving a certain differen...
Recent advances in end-to-end autonomous driving show that policies trained on patch-aligned features extracted from foundation models generalize better to Out-of-Distrib...
We study a semi-asynchronous client-server perceptron trained via iterative parameter mixing (IPM-style averaging): clients run local perceptron updates and a server form...
Federated learning enables multiple parties to jointly train learning models without sharing their own underlying data, offering a practical pathway to privacy-preserving...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 3 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 3 hours 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 about 3 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 3 hours 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 about 3 hours agoMartin Fowler
Updated about 3 hours agoJim Highsmith notes that many teams have turned into tribes wedded to exclusively adaptation or optimization. But he feels this misses the point that both of these are im...
My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a un...
Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in...
Gitanjali Venkatraman does wonderful illustrations of complex subjects (which is why I was so happy to work with her on our Expert Generalists article). She has now publi...
If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ll have noticed that in the last few months I’ve been making a number of “fragments” posts. Such a post is a short post with a...
Hugging Face Trending
Updated 4 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...
fal/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Multiple-Angles-LoRA
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Multiple-Angles-LoRA is a multi-angle camera control LoRA designed for the Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 base model. It enables precise image-to-image editing...
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...
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...
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AWS News Blog
Updated about 3 hours 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 about 3 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 3 hours agoThe 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...
There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests ca...
IGN News
Updated about 3 hours agoFallout Season 2 ratings are down compared to the explosive debut of Season 1 – but there’s a good reason for that.
Speedy Gonzales is reportedly racing to the big screen with a new movie from director Jorge R. Gutiérrez.
Animal Crossing: New Horizon's big 3.0 update is now live, and with it a bustling hotel where you can decorate rooms and attract villagers from the game's massive roster...
Disney has unceremoniously pulled 14 of its licensed games off of Steam with no explanation, leaving us unable to purchase games like Disney's Hercules Action Game and Fi...
Netflix has secured the exclusive streaming rights for The Legend of Zelda movie following its theatrical and home releases.
Game Rant
Updated about 3 hours agoA Pokemon fan artist shows fellow trainers what it could have been like if Unova starters Snivy, Oshawott, and Tepig were in the Gen 1 games.
There are various ways to get villagers to move into the player's island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and some require more effort than othes.
An award-winning Blizzard veteran with three Emmys to his name joins CD Projekt Red to work on The Witcher 4 and the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel.
Get lazy and distracted or try to rush through these open-world games, and they'll swiftly send your character to the death screen.
The director of multiplayer survival game Rust is trying to save New World: Aeternum from shutting down by offering millions of dollars to Amazon.