<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>EU targets Meta over WhatsApp AI assistant restrictions</strong>: The European Commission has formally accused Meta of violating EU competition rules by blocking third-party AI assistants like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot from WhatsApp. This follows Meta’s policy changes in October 2025, making Meta AI the sole assistant allowed. The EU regulator is considering emergency measures, arguing these restrictions could severely harm the AI assistant market, as reported by the European Commission. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/w9RLQf8YH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic’s Claude Co-work plugin release sparks SaaS market concerns</strong>: Anthropic introduced Claude Co-work with industry-specific plugins for sales, finance, data, marketing, and legal work, supporting both pre-built and custom integrations including GitHub. This release has triggered market concerns about potential disruption to the traditional SaaS business model, raising questions about the future of existing software-as-a-service companies, according to various sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QnkkrfiEd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Zscaler acquires SquareX for browser-native zero trust security</strong>: Zscaler has acquired SquareX to integrate its browser-native threat protection into Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform. SquareX’s technology operates as a browser extension within Chrome and Edge, aiming to provide enterprise security for unmanaged BYOD devices against phishing, malicious extensions, and AI data leakage without requiring dedicated browsers or complex agents. This acquisition is part of Zscaler’s strategy to position the browser as a critical control point for Zero Trust architectures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cYMDggZgc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Discord rolls out global age verification</strong>: Discord is implementing new global age verification settings, defaulting unverified accounts to ‘teen-by-default’ restrictions, requiring ID or facial estimation for full platform access, following lawsuits regarding minor exploitation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/J7jpcebnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Australia challenges Roblox on child safety</strong>: Australian officials are demanding Roblox address child safety concerns, including exposure to explicit content and predators, and are reviewing its PG classification and potential extension of online safety regulations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LeKezdNaM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Toyota Connected North America launches open-source game engine for automotive</strong>: Toyota Connected North America announced Fluorite, an open-source game engine built with C++ and an ECS architecture, designed for automotive digital cockpits and optimized for low-end hardware, integrating with Flutter and Google’s Filament renderer. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FTwlzGL8G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon Redshift enhances automatic optimizations with dedicated compute</strong>: Amazon Redshift now allows allocating extra compute resources for automatic optimization features like Automatic Table Optimization and Auto Vacuum, ensuring they run without impacting user workloads, available in all AWS Regions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7o3DKKn6E" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust Foundation outlines 2026-2028 strategic goals</strong>: The Rust Foundation approved strategic goals for 2026-2028, addressing infrastructure challenges like AWS costs for <a href="http://crates.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">crates.io</a>, advancing Trusted Publishing, and prioritizing an accreditation program for Rust training providers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Rvs7vPPfT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MIT discovers reversible thermal conductivity material</strong>: MIT researchers have developed an olefin block copolymer that can reversibly double its heat conduction capacity in 0.22 seconds when stretched, aligning its carbon chains to conduct heat like marble, then returning to an insulating state when relaxed. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=gjUxIUjHY&amp;id=pn7MCCqlT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Remedy Entertainment appoints new CEO</strong>: Remedy Entertainment has appointed Jean-Charles Gaudechon, formerly of EA, as its new CEO, effective March 1, 2026, with plans to scale operations, drive profitable growth, and strengthen the studio’s independence through self-publishing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zhJTn9d3d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will make you 10x productive, just ignore the anxiety</strong>: Apparently, AI adoption has shifted from ‘curiosity’ to ‘high-pressure expectations,’ with leaders demanding ‘10x productivity’ while teams are just getting anxious. The solution? ‘AI fluency’ through ‘practical confidence and experimentation.’ So, just experiment your way out of unrealistic expectations, because it’s definitely not the leadership’s fault for pushing unproven tech as a magic bullet. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0CiZDAswQ&amp;id=0hMgfxxrs&amp;id=0kAKYT0HK&amp;id=gVU0l8bpQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are the future, just don’t mind the security holes and emergent religions</strong>: We’re seeing a surge in AI agent development, with Atlassian’s Rovo AI agents showing 78% user preference and Salesforce developing ‘Agentic Memory’ for reliable enterprise agents. But don’t worry about OpenClaw, an open-source local AI agent platform, which introduces ‘critical security vulnerabilities like prompt injection and memory poisoning,’ and has already spawned ‘Moltbook (AI-only social network)’ and ‘Crustafarianism (AI-created digital religion).’ Because what could go wrong with autonomous agents creating their own social networks and religions? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=293WSrLBM&amp;id=7nlRQsizg&amp;id=A2wJ2xOWB&amp;id=AVkBPwGIz&amp;id=BBFD5k1qv&amp;id=Gdv0X8z4e&amp;id=GofUqzdNa&amp;id=HWByJzbVh&amp;id=Ik4RG9gCW&amp;id=L3J2vIigB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI to introduce ads, because making billions wasn’t enough</strong>: Sam Altman, who once said he was against AI-powered ads, is now apparently reversing course, with OpenAI reportedly introducing advertising to ChatGPT. This comes as OpenAI faces ‘significant financial pressure,’ needing to raise ‘substantial capital’ while ‘losing billions annually.’ So, after all the hype about AGI and saving humanity, it turns out they just need more money, and your attention is the next product. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5kN0YzGRy&amp;id=BoDPkFq8Y&amp;id=cX7pVnhKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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