<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro enters public preview</strong>: Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Pro in public preview, touting it as their most powerful agentic and coding model yet. It scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, a massive jump from its predecessor, and features a 1 million token context window. While it leads most coding benchmarks, it’s not a clean sweep, with Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex still holding leads in specific areas. Pricing is competitive at $2 per million input tokens. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PjE6Xo1XG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MySQL community demands independent governance from Oracle</strong>: A coalition of over 248 database professionals, including engineers from Percona and MariaDB, have signed an open letter urging Oracle to transfer MySQL governance to an independent non-profit foundation. They cite declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor base, lack of AI-era features, and an opaque roadmap as reasons for the move. This push highlights growing community frustration with Oracle’s stewardship of the critical open-source database. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GY7vcPtOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic tightens Claude Code OAuth policy</strong>: Anthropic updated its Claude Code documentation, restricting OAuth token usage from Pro/Max subscription accounts in third-party tools, causing a stir among developers. While Anthropic claims it’s just a documentation cleanup, actions like sending a cease-and-desist to OpenClaw and banning OpenCode from OAuth access suggest a shift. Developers building commercial products are now explicitly required to use API key authentication, signaling a potential end to affordable flat-rate AI subscriptions for commercial development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=3lsZ5Vula&amp;id=FQxtQgg9R&amp;id=GYB8zPRsi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Wix engineering finds mixed results for AI coding productivity</strong>: Wix Engineering’s 5-week experiment found that while developers felt more productive with AI coding tools like Cursor, actual measurable output gains were only significant with Claude Code, and only after developers learned to trust it. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qQhctEUPB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kernel-level tracing reveals hidden AI agent activity</strong>: AI agents in Docker containers generate far more kernel-level syscalls than their application logs reveal, making tools like Azazel, an open-source eBPF-based runtime tracer, essential for verifying agent actions and detecting suspicious behavior. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=cbOVi24pM&amp;id=dtY8IcMQN&amp;id=iGzH52Vzz&amp;id=k9XThzl85&amp;id=qBKhvArRq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Claude Sonnet 4.6 edges out GPT-5 in coding benchmark</strong>: A new benchmark comparing Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5 across 50 real-world coding tasks found Sonnet 4.6 slightly outperformed GPT-5 overall, excelling in debugging and refactoring, while GPT-5 led in documentation and boilerplate generation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/n3hmoYYhr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI expands aggressively into the Indian market</strong>: OpenAI is expanding aggressively in India, partnering with Pine Labs for fintech integration and Reliance for AI-powered search in JioHotstar, alongside plans for data centers with Tata Group and new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JlixRkBbI&amp;id=JodTqUZtB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Redwood materials scales energy storage for AI data centers</strong>: Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, is rapidly expanding its energy storage business, repurposing EV batteries to meet the surging power demands of AI data centers, with Google and Nvidia backing its recent $425 million funding round. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1mD3jO5pQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sony shutters Bluepoint games</strong>: Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, known for remakes like Demon’s Souls, citing rising development costs and broader economic pressures, leading to approximately 70 job losses. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NivzB6VtH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Epic games discontinues quixel mixer</strong>: Epic Games has officially ended development of Quixel Mixer, releasing the final 2023.1 beta as a free, unsupported offline application, marking the end of a decade-long run for the popular texturing tool. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/YFmiwWeKv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI is a job creator, not a job destroyer, say experts</strong>: A new report suggests AI is increasing labor productivity by 4% in Europe with no short-term job losses, and that fears of AI destroying democracy and jobs are just ‘Chicken Littles of Silicon Valley’ repeating history. Apparently, AI is a ‘force multiplier’ that amplifies human capability, not replaces it. So, all those executives cutting headcount in anticipation of AI impact? Just being proactive, I guess. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=iZlTkI8Me&amp;id=tiBubXcsb&amp;id=yOsJJlumD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Link11 launches AI management dashboard for crawler traffic</strong>: Link11, an IT security provider, launched an ‘AI Management Dashboard’ to give companies ‘dedicated visibility and control over AI crawler traffic.’ Because what we really needed was another dashboard to tell us what bots are doing, now with ‘AI’ in the name. It’s not just bot traffic anymore, it’s <em>AI</em> bot traffic, which is clearly a whole different beast requiring its own special analytics category. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zxo3wKZNk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Scopely acquires loom games for over $1 billion</strong>: Scopely, a Saudi-owned mobile publisher, acquired a majority stake in Loom Games, valuing the studio at over $1 billion. Loom Games’ hit, Pixel Flow!, apparently reached the top-20 grossing charts in the US within months. Because nothing says ‘innovation’ like another mobile game studio acquisition for an undisclosed ‘majority stake’ and a billion-dollar valuation based on a hybrid-casual puzzle game. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3OFDJf8zz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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