Happy Friday, developers! As we wrap up the week of March 13, 2026, the tech landscape is dominated by the rapid evolution of agentic AI, significant shifts in architectural standards, and a growing tension between global geopolitical realities and the tech industry.
Hacker News
Updated 3 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 5 hours agoAfter selling his AI startup to AMD for $665 million, Peter Sarlin is back with QuTwo, a new venture building the infrastructure it believes enterprises will need when qu...
Caller identity platform Truecaller recently launched a new feature that lets one person become an admin of a family group, get alerts about fraud calls received by other...
GTC — which stands for GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia's flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion...
Rox, founded in 2024 by the former chief growth officer of New Relic, offers an AI-native alternative to CRM tools.
The web app lets you turn on YouTube and surf channels like you're watching cable TV in the '90s.
Ars Technica
Updated about 2 hours agoCompany says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.
Unsealed messages add wrinkle to trial after US agreed to settle with Live Nation.
Trade group callls out HP for latest Dynamic Security firmware update.
SBF is still twisting facts to hide FTX crypto losses, DOJ says to block new trial.
Three smaller SUVs are in development, starting at under $50,000.
VentureBeat
Updated about 2 hours agoThe software engineering world is currently wrestling with a fundamental paradox of the AI era: as models become more capable, the "systems problem" of managing them has...
What's the role of vector databases in the agentic AI world? That's a question that organizations have been coming to terms with in recent months. The narrative...
Every GPU cluster has dead time. Training jobs finish, workloads shift and hardware sits dark while power and cooling costs keep running. For neocloud operators, those em...
Multi-agent systems, designed to handle long-horizon tasks like software engineering or cybersecurity triaging, can generate up to 15 times the token volume of standard c...
Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and poten...
InfoQ
Updated 18 minutes agoArticle: The Oil and Water Moment in AI Architecture
Have you ever tried mixing oil and water? That is the moment software architecture is entering as deterministic systems meet non deterministic AI behaviour. Architects mu...
Podcast: Information Flow: The Hidden Driver of Engineering Culture
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adrian Peryer about Ron Westrum's organizational culture continuum, the role of information flo...
Advance Your Socio-Technical Architecture Skills with InfoQ’s New Online Cohorts
Enhance your architectural leadership with InfoQ’s new online cohorts starting April 15, May 7, and June 10, 2026. Led by Luca Mezzalira, this 5-week program focuses on s...
Making Retrospectives Effective with Small Concrete Actions and Rotating Facilitators
Teams can run regular retrospectives that focus on 1–2 concrete weekly actions to avoid complaint circles, Natan Žabkar Nordberg mentioned at QCon London. You can rotate...
AWS Launches Strands Labs for Experimental AI Agent Projects
Amazon Web Services has introduced Strands Labs, a new GitHub organization created to host experimental projects related to agent-based AI development. By Daniel Domingue...
Wired AI
Updated about 3 hours agoIn today’s episode, we discuss how the saga between Anthropic and the Department of Defense is far from over.
WIRED spoke with Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of knowledge and information, about how AI is changing the company’s advertising business.
“Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini questions about locations and even to plan trips on your behalf.
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 4 hours agoUnderstanding default risk through statistical analysis of borrower and loan characteristics. The post Exploratory Data Analysis for Credit Scoring with Python appeared f...
How AI has completely transformed the way I study as a graduate student The post Solving the Human Training Data Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Navigating the performance cliff: How pairing MRL with int8 and binary quantization balances infrastructure costs with retrieval accuracy. The post Scaling Vector Search:...
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of API calls, environment variables, and real-world AI infrastructure The post I Finally Built My First AI App (And It Wasn’t What I Expec...
Tired of the AI hype? Let's talk about the probabilistic algorithms actually driving high-end quantitative finance. The post An Intuitive Guide to MCMC (Part I): The Metr...
Anthropic News
Updated 2 months 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 5 hours agoGPT-5.4 is now available in Windsurf with multiple reasoning effort levels. For a limited time, self serve users enjoy promotional pricing starting at 1x credits.
Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available in Windsurf with Low and High thinking variants. For a limited time, enjoy promotional pricing on credit usage.
Claude Sonnet 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.
GLM-5 from Zhipu AI and Minimax M2.5 are now available in Windsurf with limited-time promotional pricing. Both models are included in Arena Mode's Frontier Arena and Hybr...
OpenAI'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.
Cursor
Updated 2 months 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 5 hours agoRakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in week...
How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows.
How OpenAI built an agent runtime using the Responses API, shell tool, and hosted containers to run secure, scalable agents with files, tools, and state.
Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.
IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 5 hours agoTen years since AlphaGo, we explore how it is catalyzing scientific discovery and paving a path to AGI.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.
The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated 2 months 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 5 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoIndustrial AI, digital twins, AI physics and accelerated AI infrastructure are empowering companies across industries to accelerate and scale the design, simulation and o...
GeForce NOW is bringing the game to the Game Developers Conference (GDC), running this week in San Francisco. While developers build the future of gaming, GeForce NOW is...
Launched today, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120‑billion‑parameter open model with 12 billion active parameters designed to run complex agentic AI systems at scale. Avail...
Rolling coverage from San Jose, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, news highlights, live demos and on‑the‑ground color through March 20.
The Cat 306 CR mini-excavator weighs just under eight tons and fits inside a standard shipping container. It’s the machine a contractor rents when the job site is tight:...
arXiv
Updated about 5 hours agoText-to-image generation models have advanced rapidly, yet achieving fine-grained control over generated images remains difficult, largely due to limited understanding of...
We introduce NeuralOS, a neural framework that simulates graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of operating systems by directly predicting screen frames in response to user in...
Humans perceive and understand real-world spaces through a stream of visual observations. Therefore, the ability to streamingly maintain and update spatial evidence from...
Cross-entropy (CE) training provides dense and scalable supervision for language models, but it optimizes next-token prediction under teacher forcing rather than sequence...
Reasoning LLMs-as-Judges, which can benefit from inference-time scaling, provide a promising path for extending the success of reasoning models to non-verifiable domains...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 5 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 5 hours agoAs AI agents transition from simple chatbots to autonomous systems capable of managing cloud incidents, navigating complex web interfaces, and executing multi-step API wo...
It seems counterintuitive: giving AI agents more memory can make them less effective. As interaction logs accumulate, they grow large, fill with irrelevant content, and b...
We are pleased to announce Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15 billion parameter open‑weight multimodal reasoning model, available through Microsoft Foundry (opens in new ta...
Microsoft research lead Doug Burger introduces his new podcast series, "The Shape of Things to Come", an exploration into the fundamental truths about AI and how the tech...
By mid-morning, a typical knowledge worker is already juggling a client report, a budget spreadsheet, a slide deck, and an email backlog, all interdependent and all deman...
We’re sharing the technical details behind how Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger protects the privacy of the links clicked on within chats while still warni...
FFmpeg is truly a multi-tool for media processing. As an industry-standard tool it supports a wide variety of audio and video codecs and container formats. It can also or...
Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to redu...
We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully integrated with...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 5 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 5 hours agoWhat if we could identify interesting listening moments from your year, and tell you a story about them? The post Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Hi...
When we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural... The post Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising ap...
In 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 Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated about 1 hour agoJackrong/Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled
Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled is a reasoning model fine-tuned on the Qwen3.5 architecture to leverage Chain-of-Thought distillation from Claude-4.6 Opus...
Lightricks/LTX-2.3
LTX-2.3 is a DiT-based audio-video foundation model designed to generate synchronized video and audio within a single model. As an update to the LTX-2 model, it offers im...
fishaudio/s2-pro
Fish Audio S2 Pro is a text-to-speech model designed for fine-grained inline control of prosody and emotion through free-form textual descriptions. It utilizes a Dual-Aut...
HauhauCS/Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive
Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive is a fully uncensored version of the Qwen3.5-9B model designed to eliminate refusals while maintaining original model capabiliti...
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B is a 9B-parameter causal language model featuring a vision encoder and a native context length of 262,144 tokens. It utilizes a unified vision-language foundat...
GitHub Trending
Updated 14 minutes agoDevilXD/TwitchDropsMiner
An app that allows you to AFK mine timed Twitch drops, with automatic drop claiming and channel switching.
airbnb/lottie-ios
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations
jaywcjlove/awesome-mac
Now we have become very big, Different from the original idea. Collect premium software in various categories.
tiann/KernelSU
A Kernel based root solution for Android
ultralytics/yolov5
YOLOv5 🚀 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > TFLite
AWS News Blog
Updated about 5 hours agoAWS launches a new feature of Amazon S3 that lets you create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as...
Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with...
AWS launches OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lig...
This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the...
AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and cur...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 5 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 5 hours agoBlocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.
Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing heavyweight HTML pages with machine-readable instructions. T...
Cloudflare AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing a security layer to discover and protect AI-powered applications, regardless of the model or hosting...
Log Explorer customers can now identify and investigate multi-vector attacks. Log Explorer supports 14 additional Cloudflare datasets, enabling users to have a 360-degree...
Cloudflare's new Security Overview dashboard transforms overwhelming security data into prioritized, actionable insights, empowering defenders with contextual intelligenc...
IGN News
Updated about 5 hours agoBlight: Survival has reemerged with a new gameplay trailer — and its developers are promising big news in 2026 after a whopping 1.5 million Steam wishlists.
Fortnite fans are in uproar over Epic Games' changes to the pricing and availability of V-Bucks, and now the game's developer has finally acknowledged the wave of negativ...
KPop Demon Hunters 2 is golden just days before the first movie’s starring role at this Sunday's Oscars ceremony, with Netflix snapping up directors Maggie Kang and Chris...
The cast of James Gunn's Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow continues to grow, with Aaron Pierre set to reprise his role as rookie Green Lantern John Stewart.
A YouTuber has said they will "return" ownership of a website address that Capcom hid in Resident Evil Requiem, if the game's publisher was to get in contact.
Game Rant
Updated about 5 hours agoIf you're done being a noble, good-hearted hero of the people, these RPGs with morally questionable protagonists are for you.
Using a variety of pieces, one creative builder creates an incredible replica of their real-life lizard for the LEGO Ideas program.
World of Warships has several exciting updates looming large on the horizon. Here's a look at all of the limited-time events that are coming soon.
Here’s how to heal your characters and recover their Life meter in GreedFall 2: The Dying World.
In GreedFall 2 The Dying World, Gobannon is looking for some golden scales that have recently gone missing. Here’s where to find them.