<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AWS embraces multicloud, Oracle struggles with AI spending</strong>: AWS has launched Interconnect-multicloud, finally enabling direct, high-speed links to Google Cloud and soon Azure, reversing its decade-long stance against multicloud strategies. This shift acknowledges enterprise demand for flexibility and cost control, validating long-standing complaints about vendor lock-in. Meanwhile, Oracle’s shares dropped 10-11% after missing revenue expectations and increasing its AI data center capital expenditure forecast by $15 billion to $50 billion for fiscal 2026, raising investor concerns about returns on massive AI infrastructure investments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5jJq8yrEI&amp;id=H4zbIYXSn&amp;id=PWiVvhoXo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI deepfakes escalate financial fraud, state AGs warn tech giants</strong>: AI-powered deepfakes are driving a rapid escalation in financial fraud, with a Hong Kong firm losing $25.6 million to a deepfake video call impersonation. Total fraud losses hit $12.5 billion in 2024, with 42.5% attributed to AI. Simultaneously, US state attorneys general have warned Meta, Google, and OpenAI that their chatbots may be violating state laws, citing alleged deaths and inappropriate chatbot-minor conversations, demanding compliance measures by January 16, 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=UIVGa3ULN&amp;id=WjwsBcKYO&amp;id=FCLXIzEtB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Harness raises $240M for AI-driven software delivery automation</strong>: Harness, founded by AppDynamics creator Jyoti Bansal, secured $240 million in Series E funding at a $5.5 billion valuation. The company provides an AI-driven platform to automate the ‘after-code’ stages of software delivery, including testing, security, deployment, and compliance. Harness claims over 1,000 enterprise customers and projects $250 million ARR for 2025, aiming to reduce the 60-70% of engineering time spent on post-code workflows, especially as AI-generated code output is expected to quadruple. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/svQKpdtiz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>TypeScript tops GitHub, Python gets immutable dicts and Rust type checking</strong>: TypeScript has surpassed Python and JavaScript as the most used language on GitHub in 2025, gaining 1 million contributors, while Python is evolving with a proposed built-in immutable dictionary type (frozendict) and the adoption of Rust-based type checkers like pyrefly. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=W6cqmM6Rh&amp;id=9MWi8JIie&amp;id=ej3LEolXF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes enhances GPU allocation and workload scheduling</strong>: Kubernetes 1.34 introduces dynamic resource allocation (DRA) for GPU management, allowing users to specify GPU types beyond just quantity, and version 1.35 will add a new workload abstraction for complex, multinode AI deployments with grouped pods and scheduling constraints. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4ydbjZb0C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New open-source front-end framework ripple emerges</strong>: Svelte maintainer Dominic Gannaway has open-sourced Ripple, a new TypeScript-first front-end framework combining features from React, SolidJS, and Svelte, emphasizing fine-grained reactivity, direct DOM updates, and a compiler-driven design. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GvgZyGx94" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Chrome patches eighth zero-day flaw of 2025</strong>: Google released an emergency Chrome update to address an actively exploited, high-severity zero-day vulnerability (466192044), marking the eighth such flaw patched in 2025, with users advised to update immediately. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Zy1rbVgtA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Serverless framework pro adds automated troubleshooting</strong>: Serverless Framework Pro now offers automatic monitoring and troubleshooting for Express.js and Flask monolambda applications, as well as AWS HTTP APIs, providing detailed invocation data without manual code instrumentation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UhFbfuMAQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Android ecosystem upgrades security and XR development</strong>: Google is enhancing Android and Google Play with new security features like Play Policy Insights in Android Studio, an improved Play Integrity API, and mandatory age verification for child-targeted apps, while also expanding XR development with an Android XR SDK for Unity and Gemini-based AI features. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1C9DPUwo4&amp;id=870U3N2Rw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel optimizes LLM inference on Arc graphics with new beta release</strong>: Intel launched llm-scaler-vllm Beta 1.2, an optimized Docker container for vLLM-based AI model inference on Arc Graphics hardware, adding support for Qwen3-VL, Qwen3-Omni, ERNIE-4.5-vl, and Whisper transcription models, with attention kernel optimizations yielding over 10% throughput improvement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ahv6unOtM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Time magazine names ‘architects of AI’ person of the year, because of course</strong>: Time Magazine, in a move that surprises absolutely no one, has declared the ‘Architects of AI’ as its 2025 Person of the Year. Apparently, eight tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman, are responsible for these ‘thinking machines’ that are reshaping everything. Never mind the public anxiety, geopolitical competition, or that lawsuit against OpenAI after a teenager’s suicide allegedly linked to ChatGPT conversations. It’s all about the ‘transformative technology,’ folks, even if it comes with a side of existential dread and potential conflicts of interest, given Time’s licensing deal with OpenAI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/azwR0XCrE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200+ characters for sora AI video</strong>: In a stunning display of corporate pragmatism (or perhaps desperation), Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing over 200 characters for Sora AI video generation. This comes after Disney sent cease and desist letters to Google, Meta, and <a href="http://Character.AI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Character.AI</a> for unauthorized use of its IP. So, while they’re suing some for copyright infringement, they’re happily partnering with others. It’s almost as if ‘responsible AI use’ and ‘protection of creator rights’ are just buzzwords until a billion dollars changes hands. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dMfeLlT4Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are ‘human-replacement viable’ and will displace software roles first</strong>: Well, well, well, it seems the ‘AI will take your job’ crowd is back, now claiming AI agents achieved ‘functional human-replacement viability’ in April 2025, starting with software roles. This, of course, contradicts earlier hype that legal or accounting professions would go first. Meanwhile, 67% of developers have ‘serious quality concerns’ about AI-generated code, and it boosts productivity but increases pull request review workload by 90% and doesn’t reduce bugs. So, yes, AI can replace you, but it’ll probably make a mess that another human has to clean up. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=6e2hRFMNm&amp;id=JS4RHy2uG&amp;id=V8ZbKOZSN&amp;id=W67Okkzwv&amp;id=XDjj2ax4N&amp;id=bNtHI2Rzk&amp;id=bVsJzNmRd&amp;id=cVIXnJOKo&amp;id=gaNWeLwZa" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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