Today is Tuesday, January 27, 2026, and the developer landscape is currently dominated by a heavy intersection of high-stakes tech policy, the practical evolution of AI in the development workflow, and a renewed focus on long-term software architecture. While the industry grapples with the ethical implications of government surveillance tools, developers are simultaneously exploring new programming languages designed for the AI era and refining how they build scalable systems.
Hacker News
Updated 14 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 4 hours agoSkylight, a TikTok alternative built on open protocols, has had a busy weekend.
Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.
The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.
The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity last week.
Europe-based venture fund 2150 raised the money to invest in climate tech startups that help solve cities' carbon footprint.
Ars Technica
Updated about 1 hour agoThis is the first major upgrade since Apple introduced AirTags five years ago.
Staffers warn DOT's use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.
Storing recovery keys with Microsoft allows the company to unlock your disk.
Toad: "So some dinosaur just shows up and he's now part of the group. Cool."
US TikTok users experienced a wide range of errors, sparking conspiracies.
VentureBeat
Updated about 1 hour agoOne of the biggest constraints currently facing AI builders who want to deploy agents in service of their individual or enterprise goals is the "working memory" required...
Anthropic announced Monday that users can now open and interact with popular business applications directly inside Claude, the company's AI assistant—a significant e...
Your web gateway can't see it. Your cloud access broker can't see it. Your endpoint protection can't see it. And yet 95% of organizations experienced brows...
When Anthropic announced Monday that it was embedding nine workplace applications directly inside Claude, transforming its AI chatbot into what I earlier described as a "...
Presented by SplunkOrganizations across every industry are rushing to take advantage of agentic AI. The promise is compelling for digital resilience — the potential to mo...
InfoQ
Updated 6 minutes agoPresentation: Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software
Guilherme Carreiro discusses the architecture behind Shopify’s theme system, focusing on balancing extreme customizability with platform stability. He explains how they l...
Article: Virtual Panel - AI in the Trenches: How Developers Are Rewriting the Software Process
This virtual panel brings together engineers, architects, and technical leaders to explore how AI is changing the landscape of software development. Practitioners share t...
Podcast: Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imper...
Rust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language
Innovative programmer Steve Klabnik, known for his contributions to Rust, unveils Rue, a new systems programming language that enhances memory safety without garbage coll...
Google Releases Gemma 3 270M Variant Optimized for Function Calling on Mobile and Edge Devices
FunctionGemma is a new, lightweight version of the Gemma 3 270M model, fine-tuned to translate natural language into structured function and API calls, enabling AI agents...
Wired AI
Updated about 2 hours agoSexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the technology.
As the data center backlash grows, support is growing for server factories and the hundreds of jobs they’re expected to bring.
Plus: Asus exits the smartphone market, and Sony partners with TCL on TVs.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World Economic Forum.
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.
Towards Data Science
Updated about 2 hours agoExploring the RAG pipeline in Cursor that powers code indexing and retrieval for coding agents The post How Cursor Actually Indexes Your Codebase appeared first on Toward...
Deploying and running Python code on cloud-based clusters The post Ray: Distributed Computing For All, Part 2 appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Learning audio embeddings with contrastive learning and deploying them in a real music recommendation app The post How Convolutional Neural Networks Learn Musical Similar...
An accessible introduction to causal inference and ML The post Causal ML for the Aspiring Data Scientist appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why specialized models still hold the 30x speed advantage in production environments The post SAM 3 vs. Specialist Models — A Performance Benchmark appeared first on Towa...
Anthropic News
Updated 15 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 4 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 15 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 4 hours agoA technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.
An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.
How Praktika uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2 to build adaptive AI tutors that personalize lessons, track progress, and help learners achieve real-world language fluency
A data-driven report on how workers across industries use ChatGPT—covering adoption trends, top tasks, departmental patterns, and the future of AI at work.
Discover how Higgsfield gives creators cinematic, social-first video output from simple inputs using OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and Sora 2.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 4 hours agoD4RT: 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.
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 15 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 6 hours agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 4 hours agoAt 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...
AI-powered driver assistance technologies are becoming standard equipment, fundamentally changing how vehicle safety is assessed and validated. The recent recognition of...
AI-powered content generation is now embedded in everyday tools like Adobe and Canva, with a slew of agencies and studios incorporating the technology into their workflow...
AI has taken center stage in financial services, automating the research and execution behind algorithmic trading and helping banks more accurately detect fraud and money...
The wait is over, pilots. Flight control support — one of the most community-requested features for GeForce NOW — is live starting today, following its announcement at CE...
arXiv
Updated about 4 hours agoModern generative video models excel at producing convincing, high-quality outputs, but struggle to maintain multi-view and spatiotemporal consistency in highly dynamic r...
Understanding the curvature evolution of the loss landscape is fundamental to analyzing the training dynamics of neural networks. The most commonly studied measure, Hessi...
We introduce MapAnything, a unified transformer-based feed-forward model that ingests one or more images along with optional geometric inputs such as camera intrinsics, p...
Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are the bedrock for modern computational sciences and engineering, and inherently computationally expensive. While PDE foundation mo...
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are a key component for protecting Internet of Things (IoT) environments. However, in Machine Learning-based (ML-based) IDSs, performan...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 4 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 4 hours agoArgos 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...
Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer. The post GigaTIME:...
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 4 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 4 hours 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 4 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated 41 minutes agozai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash
GLM-4.7-Flash is a 30B-A3B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for text generation. Positioned as a leading model in the 30B class, it provides a lightweight deployme...
microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR
VibeVoice-ASR is a unified speech-to-text model designed to handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass within a 64K token length. It jointly performs ASR, diarizat...
Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice is a large-scale text-to-speech model supporting ten major languages and multiple dialectal profiles. It utilizes a discrete multi-codeboo...
unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF
GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF is a 30B-A3B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed to balance performance and efficiency for lightweight deployment. As a leading model in the 30B cl...
GitHub Trending
Updated about 1 hour agohyprwm/Hyprland
Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
pathwaycom/pathway
Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.
evcc-io/evcc
solar charging ☀️🚘
ggml-org/whisper.cpp
Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
usememos/memos
An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service. Your thoughts, your data, your control — no tracking, no ads, no subscription fees.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 4 hours agoHey! 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...
Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector o...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 4 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 4 hours agoThe last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weat...
An automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol prefixes unintentionally from a router at our Miami data center. We discuss...
A 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...
IGN News
Updated about 4 hours agoCapcom has responded to ongoing fan speculation about Resident Evil Requiem being an open world game with a definitive-sounding response.
Embark Studios is launching into new Arc Raiders content when the Headwinds update brings a solo vs. squads matchmaking option, a Bird City map condition, and more to the...
Just a week after announcing the cancelation of six games, the closure of two studios and further job losses at another three locations, Ubisoft is now aiming its cost-re...
Actress Eman Ayaz has said she's lost three years of work in a "life-changing role," just days after Ubisoft canceled its long-awaited Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Rem...
Another Nintendo Direct is coming this Thursday, January 29, dedicated to the company's upcoming social sim game Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.
Game Rant
Updated about 4 hours agoHere is every quest, combat encounter, and more in Original Sin's second act: Reaper's Coast.
Found yourself aboard the Lady Vengeance? Here's how to get around.
It looks like the heavily rumored '2.0' update for Starfield may release in 2026 after all, as another insider comments on the much anticipated patch.
You knew that more often than not, these Naruto characters were going to win whatever fight they were in.
Discover the best games that let you build and upgrade your dream base, from survival crafting to zombie apocalypses and fantasy adventures.