<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>European Parliament bans cloud AI on devices</strong>: The European Parliament has banned cloud-based AI features on lawmakers’ corporate devices due to data security and privacy concerns. Their IT department can’t guarantee data security when AI assistants use cloud services, fearing confidential information could be processed in unknown locations. This temporary ban highlights broader European unease about relying on U.S. tech companies for sensitive data, despite the EU’s own AI Act. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NW6nIRqB9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Alibaba launches Qwen3.5 multimodal AI model</strong>: Alibaba has released Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model designed for enterprise agent workflows, claiming benchmark improvements over GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 3 Pro. It expands language support to 201 languages and comes in both open-weight and hosted versions, offering context windows up to 1 million tokens. However, analysts note potential adoption challenges due to trust concerns regarding its Chinese origin and compliance requirements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UOocLbfK4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI shifts software development focus to verification</strong>: AI agents are fundamentally changing software development, shifting the focus from writing code to specifying outcomes and verifying results. Research shows that overly detailed context files for AI agents can actually reduce success rates and increase inference costs, suggesting that minimal, essential requirements are best. This implies a need for structured approaches like the ‘blue-red framework’ to ensure quality and prevent AI from accelerating technical debt. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=X6nRpouih&amp;id=bzMzHxxko&amp;id=rYJW937q8&amp;id=smOggDoX8&amp;id=u1BVhEcKI&amp;id=uLTyA1fH1&amp;id=vtqAmTWpP&amp;id=S6u98Bbpq&amp;id=ZrBLHCGzU&amp;id=xGLYUerTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Figma integrates with Claude Code for design-code workflow</strong>: Figma now integrates with Claude Code, allowing bidirectional conversion of live code interfaces into editable Figma designs, enabling a more fluid design-to-code workflow. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=iBUqWA8OS&amp;id=jwuzwzVmy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2.5 multimodal LLM</strong>: Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2.5, an open-weight multimodal LLM with vision capabilities and an Agent Swarm mode, claiming coding performance comparable to GPT-5 and Gemini. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tfdJsRaBj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Temporal raises $300M for AI workflow orchestration</strong>: Temporal secured $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, driven by demand for Durable Execution in AI and long-running workflows, with revenue growing 380% YoY. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Btt27SjiL&amp;id=H860fyfMj&amp;id=HqHJFpyjl&amp;id=ME7WSXyrj&amp;id=O7fDdRA8l&amp;id=X1zVEwts3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta deploys Nvidia Grace CPUs for AI workloads</strong>: Meta is deploying Nvidia’s Grace CPUs as standalone processors at scale for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads, marking a shift from the typical Grace-Hopper Superchip configuration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tohNH8UoB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Python security team seeks new members</strong>: The Python Security Response Team (PSRT) is actively seeking new members with security expertise to help coordinate vulnerability reports and remediations for CPython and pip. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k8sHlR5Xv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OWASP releases Smart Contract Top 10 2026</strong>: OWASP released its Smart Contract Top 10 2026, highlighting governance failures and access control issues as dominant security risks in blockchain systems, based on 2025 exploit data. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U7Z7c8wKd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux 7.0 optimizes close_range system call</strong>: Linux 7.0 introduces a performance optimization for the <code>close_range</code> system call, reducing its complexity from O(range size) to O(active file descriptors) for significantly faster operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2IrhD5aAX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Toilet maker Toto is an AI play, apparently</strong>: Activist investor Palliser Capital claims Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto is an “AI play” due to its advanced ceramics division, which makes electrostatic chucks for 3D NAND memory chips. Apparently, a toilet maker is now a tech stock if you squint hard enough and mention “AI” a few times. Who knew my bathroom could be a venture capital opportunity? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/08TkDSLKo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI datacenter demand blamed for Steam Deck shortages</strong>: Valve is warning of Steam Deck OLED stock issues due to ongoing memory and storage component shortages, blaming “AI datacenter demand.” So, your inability to get a handheld gaming device is now officially AI’s fault. Because, you know, AI needs all the RAM to generate more cat pictures, obviously. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ttFo5ZiRW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Quest Software launches AI-powered data management platform</strong>: Quest Software launched an “AI-Powered Data Management Platform” with an “Automated Data Product Factory” that uses generative AI to create data products from natural language prompts. They claim up to 54% faster delivery and 40% cost savings. Because nothing says “trusted data” like letting an AI hallucinate your data products from a prompt, right? What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wlE5eAAsI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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