OpenAI announces $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank…Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia invested $30 billion and SoftBank invested $30 billion in the round, OpenAI said Friday…more than 900M weekly active users, and we now have more than 50 million consumer subscribers.
Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents, repo
New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
Smartphone market set for biggest-ever decline in 2026 on memory price surge, IDC says
Norway’s $2 trillion oil fund, the largest of its kind, generated an annual profit of about $248 billion last year, with strong gains in global equities driving a 15.1% return.
Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents
Incorporating AI impacts in BLS employment projections: occupational case studies…BLS projects employment of software developers to increase 17.9 percent between 2023 and 2033, much faster than the average for all occupations (4.0 percent)
Block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls
Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation
Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use ‘Dara AI’ before talking to the big boss himself
A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
Citrini Research: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
One of the humblest and most ubiquitous file formats is stumping the world’s most advanced models
Claude now remembers what it learns across sessions — your project context, debugging patterns, preferred approaches — and recalls it later without you having to write anything down. pic.twitter.com/c7PyGaukNQ
An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services…”…Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter…”
When Every Company Can Use the Same AI Models, Context Becomes a Competitive Advantage (HBR) “...What do we mean by “context”? Context is demonstrated execution: the workflows teams actually follow across systems, the signals they respond to, the order in which roles get involved, the exceptions that trigger action, and the judgment calls that repeat across real work. These patterns are visible only in execution, not in stated process…“
“...Thus, the idea is that just making code is not enough. For example, India based companies have had the ability to create and market enterprise class software for decades … at scale. And there is certainly enough talent that has been exposed to business logic and domain expertise while working at India-based subdivisions of the biggest legacy players. Yet over the decades, even with this insight and a massive low-cost skilled workforce, no regional vendors have successfully emerged to challenge the legacy US vendors, in our view. Factors such as having enterprise class sales teams, technology cross-licensing agreements, proprietary and patented IP, industry specific domain expertise, aligned workflows with industry practice, being first-to-market, having brand awareness, scale, or effective go-to-market strategies are just the tip of the iceberg when looking into the key attributes needed to compete effectively in the software sector and … just making code is not enough…“
🦔 Jason Calacanis says his company hit $300/day per agent using Claude's API at only 10-20% capacity, which scales to around $100,000/year per agent. Chamath Palihapitiya added that he's now asking "what's the token budget for our best devs?" and said AI-assisted developers need… pic.twitter.com/BZmFKWhTeL
Introducing Claude Code Security, now in limited research preview.
It scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix issues that traditional tools often miss.
Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups
Amazon engineers grate against internal limits on Claude Code
X Subscriptions Hit $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Exec Says
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
OpenAI’s new Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex – but there’s a catch
China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test
Apple acquires all rights to ‘Severance,’ will produce future seasons in-house
“…And it is allowing us to move with much higher speed. As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute, from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app. And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production. All before they even arrived at the office. We call the system internally Honk, and we have been told by key AI partners that our work here is industry leading… …In terms of transformation of internal processes, I did briefly share in my prepared remarks this tool called Honk. Where you can, using Claude Code, literally on the bus or the train, just ask Claude to add a feature or a bug to, for example, the iOS code base. It will push a QR code back to you so that you can actually try the app with that feature. If you like it, you can merge it to production without even getting off the bus. This is speeding us up tremendously. Now we foresee this not being the end of the line in terms of AI development, just the beginning.“
Anthropic subscription surge cuts into OpenAI’s lead
New art project. Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.https://t.co/HmiRrQugnP
NASA writes mission-critical flight software in C. And the rules are absolutely INSANE.
> No recursion. Ever. > Every loop must have a provable upper bound. > No dynamic memory allocation after initialization. > Max ~60 lines per function. > Minimum 2 assertions per… pic.twitter.com/gopYIvPAxO
Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
OpenAI in talks with Abu Dhabi’s G42 to create specialized ChatGPT version for UAE
Google is expanding AirDrop support to more Android devices ‘very soon’
Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars
Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea
Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic’s Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles…Embedded Anthropic engineers have spent six months at Goldman building autonomous systems for time-intensive, high-volume back-office work.
Big Tech’s $1.1 trillion cloud computing backlog…Tech AI spending may approach $700 billion this year, but the blow to cash raises red flags
Exclusive: Anthropic’s new model is a pro at finding security flaws
“…The semiconductor industry is set to hit a significant milestone this year, reaching $1 trillion in annual revenue for the first time as artificial intelligence drives chip demand across nearly every corner of the economy…”
more than 750 million monthly active users for the Gemini app, and more than 10 billion tokens processed per minute through direct API usage
Apple plans to allow external voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay, Bloomberg News reports
Spotify Partners With Bookshop.org and Debuts Page Match Feature to Bridge Physical, E-book, and Audio Formats
“…We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task…”
The World’s First Viral AI Assistant Has Arrived, and Things Are Getting Weird (WSJ)
Feel the Claude Code!
-"4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of 2026"
Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant’s OpenAI exposure…Microsoft stock drops as Azure cloud growth slows to 39%, while capex surges 66% to $37.5 billion in a single quarter
Lightspeed Backs Robotics Startup in $100 Million Round
Tesla kills Models S and X to build humanoid robots instead
How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management
Meta is under pressure to justify its aggressive AI spending as it predicts its capital expenditures could nearly double this year to a whopping $135 billion
“There’s a Mexican standoff happening between product manager, designer, and coder.”
Marc Andreessen on how AI is reshaping core tech roles:
“Every coder now believes they can also be a product manager and a designer, because they have AI. Every product manager thinks they can… pic.twitter.com/NbvrwaYhM5
What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People's Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately. https://t.co/A9iYOHeByi
A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks.
Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in…
Chrome DevTools now supports *individual* network request throttling!
Folks have been asking for this for years! DevTools now allows developers to simulate slow network conditions for specific requests rather than the entire page.
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering https://t.co/uIJSBJdzVa < these are five crazy-relevant questions to ask of yourself and your team. @addyosmani then offers strong recommendations to consider.
Meta’s deal for Manus AI could be worth $2.5 billion
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (WSJ)
Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse works enter the public domain in 2026
Nvidia deal shows why inference is AI’s next battleground…”…Why it matters: Groq’s language processing unit (LPU) chips power real-time chatbot queries — as opposed to model training — potentially giving Nvidia an edge in the AI race…”
AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
Poor sleep health is associated with older brain age: the role of systemic inflammation
Transformers v5: Simple model definitions powering the AI ecosystem
“..Microsoft 365’s AI assistant, Copilot, surpassed 150mn monthly active users, the company told investors in October. But this remains short of the around 650mn users reported by Google for its Gemini chatbot and the 800mn by OpenAI for ChatGPT… (FT)”
“…The first is steel. Before steel, buildings in the 19th century had a limit of six or seven floors. Iron was strong but brittle and heavy; add more floors, and the structure collapsed under its own weight. Steel changed everything. It’s strong yet malleable. Frames could be lighter, walls thinner, and suddenly buildings could rise dozens of stories. New kinds of buildings became possible. AI is steel for organizations. It has the potential to maintain context across workflows and surface decisions when needed without the noise. Human communication no longer has to be the load-bearing wall. The weekly two-hour alignment meeting becomes a five-minute async review. The executive decision that required three levels of approval might soon happen in minutes. Companies can scale, truly scale, without the degradation we’ve accepted as inevitable…“
Nvidia Reaches Technology Licensing Deal With Startup Groq
How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks
“…Before public launch, Chinese companies must pepper their models with questions…The regulations call for testing chatbots with 2,000 questions and regular updates of the questions at least once a month…”
When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Driverless future gains momentum with global robotaxi deployments
The relentless rise of YouTube.”…In September, YouTube said it had paid more than $100bn to creators, artists and media groups since 2021. In the most recent quarter, YouTube advertising revenues increased 15 per cent to $10.3bn…”
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become…
🚨 BREAKING: Google Research just dropped the textbook killer.
Its called "Learn Your Way" and it uses LearnLM to transform any PDF into 5 personalized learning formats. Students using it scored 78% vs 67% on retention tests.