<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI disbands safety team, AI security funding surges</strong>: OpenAI has disbanded its mission alignment team, which focused on ensuring AI systems are safe and trustworthy. This follows the earlier disbanding of their superalignment team, raising questions about the company’s commitment to long-term AI safety amidst rapid development. Meanwhile, GitGuardian secured $50M in Series C funding to tackle the explosion of secrets and non-human identities driven by AI adoption, highlighting the growing security debt in the AI space. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=IO6hLocFc&amp;id=MZmobK75f&amp;id=NhCMJ1Tfp&amp;id=QEFiurih6&amp;id=a3FxaIBGB&amp;id=bbgCShUl6&amp;id=mmQEWnSC4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>North Korean hackers use AI in crypto attacks</strong>: North Korean threat actor UNC1069 is targeting crypto organizations with sophisticated social engineering, using fake Zoom meetings and AI-generated video to deploy new macOS backdoors like WAVESHAPER and HYPERCALL. This campaign aims to steal sensitive data and bypass macOS security, demonstrating an escalating threat landscape for high-value targets. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WHtUJSDcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>xAI sees co-founder exodus amid deepfake scrutiny</strong>: xAI is experiencing significant senior engineer and co-founder departures, with more than half of its founding team leaving. These exits coincide with regulatory scrutiny over Grok’s deepfake generation and the company’s upcoming IPO, raising questions about xAI’s stability and governance as it competes in the intense AI sector. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Am4GYAifG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google Cloud pushes enterprise AI agent adoption</strong>: Google Cloud launched the GEAR (Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready) program to help enterprises build and deploy AI agents, offering labs and credits to address the challenge of moving AI pilots to production. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5vBXjGSRC&amp;id=9C4SjPZli&amp;id=BVDGJFJMY&amp;id=eHLDiGxOj&amp;id=r88T1MoRe&amp;id=zMoTcSuI3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft rolls out .NET 11 preview and new Windows 11 build</strong>: Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 1 with JIT compiler improvements, WebAssembly support for CoreCLR, Zstandard compression, and C# 15 updates, while also releasing Windows 11 26H1 exclusively for new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4y7L7j8R0&amp;id=AlPAdiSMa&amp;id=BbEN4kYM7&amp;id=eOlZw3FkV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS boosts Lake Formation sharing and EC2 instance availability</strong>: AWS enhanced cross-account sharing for Lake Formation, allowing sharing of hundreds of thousands of tables, and expanded regional availability for EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5atbRAfWV&amp;id=AlPAdiSMa&amp;id=BbEN4kYM7&amp;id=eOlZw3FkV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 brings new data types and security</strong>: Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 introduces native records, multi-valued comprehensions, and quantum-resistant SSH key exchange, while removing 32-bit Windows builds. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fTCktIrzF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Broadcom’s monorepo strategy yields massive efficiency gains</strong>: Broadcom successfully unified 177+ software projects into a single monorepo using Nx, achieving a 70% cache hit rate and reducing CI times to 29 minutes, saving 361 days of compute time monthly. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0esOYLd2k" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ESLint 10.0.0 mandates flat config</strong>: ESLint 10.0.0 removes support for <code>.eslintrc</code> files, making flat config the sole option, improving monorepo resolution, and adding built-in TypeScript types. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eQ0JUyyzE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PyTorch Foundation expands to multi-project ecosystem</strong>: The PyTorch Foundation expanded its scope to a multi-project ecosystem, now hosting PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray, with new leadership and a focus on growth and open collaboration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2JQZDZ3HD&amp;id=6KtxamPBN&amp;id=CAIsBRQIQ&amp;id=pbGBRZXIy&amp;id=s66cOa3Zf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Windsurf’s AI leaderboard: speed over substance</strong>: Windsurf released its ‘Arena Mode’ leaderboard, claiming users prefer speed over quality in AI models, conveniently highlighting its own model’s strengths. It’s almost as if the company that makes a fast model wants you to believe speed is the ultimate metric, regardless of whether the output is actually useful. Shocking, I know. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SQAix1lCw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI makes you work longer, not smarter</strong>: A Harvard Business Review study found that generative AI leads to tech workers working longer hours, taking on more tasks, and experiencing increased cognitive fatigue and burnout. So, AI is making us ‘more productive’ by essentially turning us into always-on, perpetually tired automatons. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mEvZkBSFL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI scrapers kill self-hosted git server</strong>: A developer shut down their self-hosted Git server after 14 years because AI scrapers generated millions of 404s, overwhelming their logs and disk space. Apparently, the ‘intelligence’ in AI doesn’t extend to respecting <code>robots.txt</code> or, you know, not being a digital pest. Thanks, AI, for making the internet a worse place for hobbyists. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/l8YCDT7qf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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