<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>xAI faces co-founder exodus amidst Grok deepfake controversy</strong>: xAI is experiencing significant internal turmoil, with nine engineers, including two co-founders, publicly departing in the past week. This exodus means over half of xAI’s founding team has now left, citing desires for more autonomy and to build new ventures. These departures coincide with regulatory scrutiny over Grok’s generation of nonconsensual explicit deepfakes and the company’s upcoming IPO, raising questions about xAI’s stability and governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Am4GYAifG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>North Korean hackers use AI deepfakes and macOS backdoors to target crypto</strong>: North Korean threat actor UNC1069 is targeting cryptocurrency organizations with a sophisticated social engineering campaign. They’re using tactics like compromised Telegram accounts and fake Zoom meetings with AI-generated video to trick victims into executing malicious terminal commands. This deploys a multi-stage malware stack, including previously undocumented macOS backdoors like WAVESHAPER, HYPERCALL, and DEEPBREATH, designed to bypass macOS security and steal sensitive data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WHtUJSDcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI disbands mission alignment team</strong>: OpenAI has disbanded its mission alignment team, which focused on developing safe, trustworthy, and human-aligned AI systems. The team’s leader was reassigned as Chief Futurist, and other members were distributed to different roles. This follows the earlier disbanding of OpenAI’s superalignment team, raising concerns about the company’s commitment to long-term AI safety amidst rapid development and commercialization. <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" 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 launches enterprise AI agent program</strong>: Google Cloud launched the GEAR (Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready) program, a structured learning pathway for building and deploying AI agents using its Agent Development Kit, aiming to help enterprises move AI from pilot 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>GitHub Copilot gets memory in VS Code 1.109</strong>: GitHub Copilot Memory, a new preview feature in VS Code 1.109, allows the AI assistant to remember coding preferences, team conventions, and project guidelines across sessions, automatically detecting and storing important context. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5N1lX56RH&amp;id=G584EWgXq&amp;id=Gy8KSnnkq&amp;id=Mwx7DfisA&amp;id=Ppujf8q6c&amp;id=Q24kBNJ2h&amp;id=TsFQIm4Vj&amp;id=QJP16aVAU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GLM-OCR open-source model released for document understanding</strong>: GLM-OCR, an open-source multimodal OCR model with 0.9 billion parameters, was released, claiming state-of-the-art performance on document understanding benchmarks and excelling at complex layouts like tables and code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Zm3R4GzeA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft .NET 11 Preview 1 is out</strong>: Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 1, featuring JIT compiler improvements, CoreCLR support for WebAssembly, Zstandard compression, and C# 15 additions like collection expression arguments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4y7L7j8R0&amp;id=YEAeTDtDo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Broadcom adopts monorepo for efficiency gains</strong>: Broadcom successfully unified over 177 software projects into a single monorepo using Nx, achieving a 70% cache hit rate and reducing average 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>Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 brings native records and quantum-resistant SSH</strong>: Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc1 introduces native records, multi-valued comprehensions, a new <code>is_integer/3</code> guard BIF, and defaults SSH to quantum-resistant <code>mlkem768x25519-sha256</code> key exchange. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fTCktIrzF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Arcjet releases v1.0 JavaScript SDK for app security</strong>: Arcjet released v1.0 of its JavaScript SDK, providing security features like bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, and OWASP Top 10 attack protection for major JavaScript frameworks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/smytjQdID" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Generative AI makes tech workers work longer, get more burned out</strong>: A Harvard Business Review study, published on 2026-02-11, found that generative AI leads to tech workers taking on more tasks, working longer hours, and experiencing increased cognitive fatigue and burnout. Apparently, AI is so good at boosting productivity that it just makes us work ourselves into the ground. Who needs work-life balance when you have AI-driven workload creep? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mEvZkBSFL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Windsurf’s AI leaderboard says speed beats quality, conveniently</strong>: Windsurf’s Arena Mode leaderboard, released on 2026-02-11, claims users prefer faster AI models even if they’re just “good-enough.” Their evaluation, which penalizes “inefficient thinking tokens,” conveniently shows their own SWE 1.5 outperforming Claude Haiku. Because, obviously, the company running the leaderboard would never frame results to highlight its own product’s strengths, right? The people want speed, or so Windsurf tells us. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SQAix1lCw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI scrapers take down 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 logrotate and causing a disk space outage. The developer, in a post titled “Thank you, AI¹,” had to migrate to GitLab and GitHub. So, AI is now so good it can take down your personal infrastructure just by trying to learn from it. Progress! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/l8YCDT7qf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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