Saturday, February 28, 2026, marks a pivotal moment in the intersection of artificial intelligence, national security, and developer autonomy. As we head into the weekend, the tech landscape is dominated by a high-stakes standoff between major AI labs and government entities, a renewed focus on engineering "best practices" for an agentic world, and a growing consumer pushback against forced AI integration in everyday software.
Hacker News
Updated 4 minutes agoTechCrunch
Updated about 11 hours agoIndia, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.
The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.
"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.
In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.
Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and...
Ars Technica
Updated about 8 hours agoMerkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
"There were assumptions that were made in the strategy that obviously didn’t come to fruition."
Can two declining companies form a profitable one?
Interactions between neighboring materials is mediated by virtual photons.
Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says.
VentureBeat
Updated about 8 hours agoThe relationship between one of Silicon Valley's most lucrative and powerful AI model makers, Anthropic, and the U.S. government reached a breaking point on Friday,...
For the past year, the enterprise AI community has been locked in a debate about how much freedom to give AI agents. Too little, and you get expensive workflow automation...
The landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence shifted fundamentally today as OpenAI announced $110 billion in new funding from three of tech's largest firms: $...
AI agents now carry more access and more connections to enterprise systems than any other software in the environment. That makes them a bigger attack surface than anythi...
Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new company Block — the parent of merchants payment system Square, mobile peer-to-peer payments Cash App, music streamer Tida...
InfoQ
Updated 5 minutes agoMySQL 9.6 Changes Foreign Key Constraints and Cascade Handling
MySQL is changing the way foreign key constraints and cascades are managed. Starting with MySQL 9.6, foreign key validation and cascade actions are handled by the SQL lay...
Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents
Vercel has launched "react-best-practices," an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agen...
Kubernetes Introduces Node Readiness Controller to Improve Pod Scheduling Reliability
The Kubernetes project recently announced a new core controller called the Node Readiness Controller, designed to enhance scheduling reliability and cluster health by mak...
Presentation: Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code
Jim Gough discusses the transition from accidental architect to API program leader, explaining how to manage the complexity of secure API connectivity. He shares the Comm...
Microsoft Open Sources Evals for Agent Interop Starter Kit to Benchmark Enterprise AI Agents
Microsoft's Evals for Agent Interop is an open-source starter kit that enables developers to evaluate AI agents in realistic work scenarios. It features curated scenarios...
Wired AI
Updated about 9 hours agoAnthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.
The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privac...
Towards Data Science
Updated about 9 hours agoImplementing the classic Pong game in Python using OOP and Turtle The post Coding the Pong Game from Scratch in Python appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Start asking what question the explanation should answer. The post Stop Asking if a Model Is Interpretable appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How to think critically about AI in an ocean of hype The post Generative AI, Discriminative Human appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why my obsession with complex algorithms was actually holding my career back. The post The Gap Between Junior and Senior Data Scientists Isn’t Code appeared first on Towa...
A system-level perspective on architecture, agents, and responsible scale The post Designing Data and AI Systems That Hold Up in Production appeared first on Towards Data...
Anthropic News
Updated about 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 11 hours agoGemini 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.
We are releasing the initial results of the Windsurf Arena Mode leaderboard today — with some surprising upsets.
Cursor
Updated about 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 11 hours agoMicrosoft and OpenAI continue to work closely across research, engineering, and product development, building on years of deep collaboration and shared success.
Stateful Runtime for Agents in Amazon Bedrock brings persistent orchestration, memory, and secure execution to multi-step AI workflows powered by OpenAI.
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.
OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments.
Google DeepMind News
Updated about 11 hours agoOur 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.
Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education
Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.
Anthropic Engineering
Updated about 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 1 hour agoNvidia Blog
Updated about 11 hours agoLilly this week launched the most powerful AI factory wholly owned and operated by a pharmaceutical company to help its teams make meaningful medical advancements faster,...
GeForce NOW’s anniversary celebration reaches a chilling crescendo as Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem creeps into the cloud — and the horrors look better than ever on a Ge...
AI is accelerating every aspect of healthcare — from radiology and drug discovery to medical device manufacturing and new treatment methods enabled by digital twins of th...
As technologies and systems become more digitalized and connected across the world, operational technology (OT) environments and industrial control systems (ICS) — from e...
AI is accelerating the telecommunications industry’s transformation, becoming the backbone of autonomous networks and AI-native wireless infrastructure. At the same time,...
arXiv
Updated about 11 hours agoNumerous lines of aim to control $\textit{model disagreement}$ -- the extent to which two machine learning models disagree in their predictions. We adopt a simple and sta...
A dataset server must often distribute the same large payload to many clients, incurring massive communication costs. Since clients frequently operate on diverse hardware...
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis posits that neural networks trained on different modalities converge toward a shared statistical model of the world. Recent work ex...
Standard mixed-precision training of neural networks requires many bytes of accelerator memory for each model parameter. These bytes reflect not just the parameter itself...
Coarse data arise when learners observe only partial information about samples; namely, a set containing the sample rather than its exact value. This occurs naturally thr...
Netflix TechBlog
Updated about 11 hours agoMicrosoft Research
Updated about 11 hours agoBy 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...
As synthetic media grows, verifying what’s real, and the origin of content, matters more than ever. Our latest report explores media integrity and authentication methods,...
Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing...
This 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...
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...
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...
Pinterest Engineering
Updated about 11 hours agoSpotify Engineering
Updated about 11 hours agoWhen 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 system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code. The post Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (H...
The Airbnb Tech Blog
Updated about 11 hours agoHugging Face Trending
Updated about 1 hour agoQwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a multimodal foundation model featuring a unified vision-language architecture and a vision encoder. It utilizes an efficient hybrid architecture combi...
Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen3.5-27B is a multimodal foundation model designed as a unified vision-language foundation for reasoning, coding, and visual understanding. This 27B parameter causal l...
unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF is a causal language model with a vision encoder, featuring a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 35B total parameters and 3B activated. It s...
Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is a multimodal causal language model featuring a vision encoder and a hybrid architecture of Gated Delta Networks and sparse Mixture-of-Experts. It is...
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is a multimodal causal language model featuring a vision encoder and a native context length of 262,144 tokens. It utilizes an efficient hybrid architec...
GitHub Trending
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XZ Utils
modelscope/FunASR
A Fundamental End-to-End Speech Recognition Toolkit and Open Source SOTA Pretrained Models, Supporting Speech Recognition, Voice Activity Detection, Text Post-processing...
microsoft/onnxruntime
ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
trufflesecurity/trufflehog
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
mnfst/manifest
Take Control of Your OpenClaw Costs.
AWS News Blog
Updated about 11 hours agoAWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and cur...
AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and soc...
Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of buildi...
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter...
AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custo...
Alibaba Cloud
Updated about 11 hours agoCloudflare
Updated about 11 hours agoMinor misconfigurations or request anomalies often seem harmless in isolation. But when these small signals converge, they can trigger a security incident known as a toxi...
The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like.
We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user inte...
Cloudflare Radar has added new tools for monitoring PQ adoption, KT logs for messaging, and ASPA routing records to track the Internet's migration toward more secure encr...
ASPA is the cryptographic upgrade for BGP that helps prevent route leaks by verifying the path network traffic takes. New features in Cloudflare Radar make tracking its a...
IGN News
Updated about 11 hours agoThe upcoming 10th-gen Pokémon game, out in 2027 for Switch 2, is inspired by countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Today, Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves were announced during a Pokémon Presents, showing off a new region, three new starter Pokémon, new player characters, a lot of retu...
Bluepoint, the studio behind the successful Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes, reportedly pitched a Bloodborne remake last year that was rejected not by So...
Director Zack Snyder isn't mincing words when it comes to defending members of the #ReleasetheSnyderCut fan movement, telling critics to "Go f*** yourself."
Fans are sharing their reactions to the first image of live-action Kratos and Atreus in the Prime Video God of War show…and they are not impressed.
Game Rant
Updated about 11 hours agoPorsche responds after Resident Evil Requiem fans joke that Leon will definitely destroy his expensive car in the new survival horror title.
Here's how to beat Lucas in the Not a Hero DLC for RE7.
Having trouble solving today's Wordle? Check out this guide, which contains hints and solutions for all of this month's NY Times Wordle puzzles.
Language app Duolingo comments on the new Grass starter featured in Pokemon Winds and Waves.
How to complete the 'Bedroom' Banned Footage DLC in RE7, with all rat locations included.