<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Gemini AI faces intellectual property theft and nation-state exploitation</strong>: Google reports that over 100,000 attempts were made to extract proprietary reasoning capabilities from its Gemini AI model using distillation techniques, which they consider intellectual property theft. Simultaneously, nation-state actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are integrating Gemini into attack operations, including social engineering and phishing, with new malware families like HONESTCUE embedding Gemini’s API to generate and execute malicious code that bypasses safety filters. This highlights escalating AI security threats and the dual-use nature of advanced models. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OQLlwLpSw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic raises $30 billion amid enterprise AI boom</strong>: Anthropic secured a massive $30 billion Series G funding round, doubling its valuation to $380 billion, driven by a reported $14 billion revenue run rate from enterprise adoption of its Claude AI models. This significant investment, led by GIC and Coatue, underscores investor confidence in enterprise-grade AI, with plans to expand research and infrastructure. However, questions linger about the sustainability of such valuations and the actual quality of AI-generated code, as seen with Claude’s C compiler. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0dRrHpMfv&amp;id=2KG0fxG7Z&amp;id=KBiI9wOrx&amp;id=MPMZLgvp3&amp;id=PryOnuBPQ&amp;id=Qmgd9m7GA&amp;id=s5BDVI2HR&amp;id=vELqgGbwK&amp;id=vz4jhHvn8&amp;id=xNryU16Jc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Odido data breach impacts 6.2 million customers</strong>: Dutch mobile operator Odido disclosed a data breach affecting 6.2 million customers, roughly one-third of the Netherlands’ population. Attackers accessed their customer contact system, compromising names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, bank account numbers, and ID document details. While passwords and call records were not stolen, customers are warned about potential phishing and impersonation scams, underscoring the persistent threat of large-scale data breaches. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3j2lBB9LH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Minimax launches cost-effective M2.5 AI model</strong>: Minimax launched its M2.5 AI model, claiming it’s over 90% cheaper than competitors and excels in coding tasks, with OpenHands benchmarking it as a top open model. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VQt2ETdNG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Laravel-PDF v2 integrates Cloudflare API</strong>: Spatie released Laravel-PDF v2, featuring a Cloudflare API driver that allows PDF generation without local dependencies like Node.js or Docker, and includes new features like queued PDF generation and metadata support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/cK3euMd6K" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Gartner predicts high failure rate for AI projects</strong>: Gartner predicts 40% of AI projects will fail by 2027 due to unsustainable velocity, fragmented systems, and shadow AI, emphasizing the need for unified platforms and governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZY9MBJa3v" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Auth0 updates B2B plans for flexibility</strong>: Auth0 updated its B2B plans, offering more flexible enterprise connections and M2M token add-ons, aiming to enhance scalability for business customers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UzL5CQ1eX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents create new governance challenges</strong>: A new report highlights that AI agents and copilots in ERP and SaaS systems create governance gaps by operating as autonomous identities with access to sensitive data, necessitating unified control planes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EvW1FrjUS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>JetBrains to host free JVM developer conference</strong>: JetBrains is hosting a free virtual conference for JVM developers on March 26-27, 2026, covering modern Java, Kotlin, JVM evolution, and tooling. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OCNfWceqP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Docker Compose handles 500k logs/day, Kubernetes often overkill</strong>: A team successfully runs a production observability platform handling 500k logs/day on a single server using Docker Compose, arguing Kubernetes is often overkill due to its complexity and overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PNwYwcQ5e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI eliminates junior developer jobs, makes seniors ‘more productive’</strong>: Apparently, AI tools like GitHub Copilot are eliminating ‘routine coding tasks,’ which means junior developers are now obsolete because they can’t do ‘grunt work.’ But don’t worry, senior engineers are ‘more productive,’ not obsolete. So, the future of software engineering is just senior folks architecting while AI does all the actual coding. Sounds like a great career path for anyone starting out, right? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0wFgrbFqP&amp;id=cnjrcboRc&amp;id=msRcSBSy1&amp;id=uYi4r0TWL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Startup raises $8M to build brain-inspired AI for robots</strong>: Stanhope AI just raised $8M to build ‘adaptive AI’ for robotics and defense, based on ‘neuroscience principles’ from a theoretical neurobiologist. They claim their ‘Real World Model’ runs efficiently on edge devices with limited data, unlike those pesky cloud-based deep learning models. Because, you know, the human brain is just a tiny, low-power edge device, and replicating its complexity with $8M is totally feasible. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PfcpC4dDt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Vibe coding platform promises production-ready apps from voice commands</strong>: YouWare is a ‘vibe coding platform’ that turns natural language, voice, and screen recordings into ‘production-ready’ web and mobile apps. It even has ‘CoView’ for multimodal debugging using voice. So, now you can just talk to your computer, and it’ll magically build your app, debug it, and make it production-ready. Because writing actual code and understanding system architecture is so last decade. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JCxhs7Ipe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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