<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro, Anthropic updates Claude Code policy</strong>: Google just dropped Gemini 3.1 Pro in public preview, touting it as their most powerful agentic and coding model yet, with a massive 1 million token context window and impressive benchmark scores, even outperforming GPT-5.2 on some metrics. Meanwhile, Anthropic stirred up some drama by updating its Claude Code documentation, restricting OAuth token usage from Pro/Max accounts in third-party tools, which has developers worried about the end of affordable flat-rate AI subscriptions for commercial development. This move seems to push developers towards more expensive API key authentication. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PjE6Xo1XG&amp;id=3lsZ5Vula&amp;id=FQxtQgg9R&amp;id=GYB8zPRsi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MySQL community demands independent governance from Oracle</strong>: Over 248 database professionals, including folks from Percona and MariaDB, have signed an open letter urging Oracle to hand over MySQL governance to an independent non-profit foundation. They’re pointing to declining commit activity, a shrinking contributor pool, and a lack of modern AI-era features under Oracle’s stewardship. The community wants a technical steering committee with broader representation, citing PostgreSQL’s community-led success as a model. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/GY7vcPtOu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI and robotics move into industrial deployment</strong>: Toyota is deploying seven Agility Robotics Digit humanoid robots at its RAV4 plant after a year-long pilot, using them to unload auto parts. This follows competitor <a href="http://Figure.AI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Figure.AI</a>’s factory pilots at BMW, signaling a broader industry shift towards industrial adoption of humanoid robots. Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s survey shows 90% of telecom companies are seeing increased revenue and reduced costs from AI, with 89% planning to boost AI spending this year, highlighting AI’s transition from pilot to production across sectors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=WnnenuOfb&amp;id=p1OVwpWSR" 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 experiment shows mixed AI productivity results</strong>: A 5-week experiment at Wix Engineering found Claude Code significantly boosted output after developers built trust, but Cursor showed almost no measurable productivity lift despite users feeling more productive, highlighting an ‘AI Curse’ where individual gains create organizational bottlenecks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qQhctEUPB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI memory and agent management solutions emerge</strong>: Mengram launched an open-source AI memory API with semantic, episodic, and procedural memory types, while Reload raised $2.275 million for Epic, a platform providing shared long-term memory for AI coding agents, aiming to solve AI agent memory and collaboration issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0tYkAozTe&amp;id=MQxvV1b9u" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI infrastructure demands massive power and investment</strong>: Cisco and NVIDIA are pushing the Secure AI Factory, a modular architecture for AI compute, networking, and security, while SoftBank plans a $33 billion, 9.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant in the US, underscoring the immense infrastructure and energy needs for AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=IYsqAR4Cy&amp;id=VBQEBjah6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hugging Face launches community evals for AI model benchmarking</strong>: Hugging Face introduced ‘Community Evals,’ a beta feature to make AI model evaluation more transparent and community-driven by allowing benchmark datasets to host leaderboards and aggregate results from model repositories. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9WqEmBh9G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI security tools and vulnerability management advance</strong>: New AI-powered SAST tools are emerging to tackle high false-positive rates and complex logic flaws, while Checkmarx integrated with AWS’s Kiro AI coding tool to eliminate 90% of vulnerabilities before code hits the CI/CD pipeline. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2TCivC1ph&amp;id=9x8XnEM3d&amp;id=CBTU3pEb0&amp;id=zsAWpz3GM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI expands strategically in India</strong>: OpenAI is partnering with Indian fintech Pine Labs and Reliance’s JioHotstar to embed AI APIs and conversational search, respectively, as part of its ‘OpenAI for India’ strategy, which also includes data center partnerships with Tata Group and plans for new offices. <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>New tools for data management and analytics</strong>: Apache Polaris, an open-source catalog for Iceberg, graduated to a Top-Level Project, Microsoft MVP Paul Andrew detailed five use cases for Fabric SQL Database, and Tinybird released a TypeScript SDK to bridge application code with ClickHouse data infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ovRl52TUb&amp;id=tELBeIjJ9&amp;id=xQC3ufsIZ" 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 rewriting the rules of consulting, apparently</strong>: According to TechCentral, AI is ‘fundamentally reshaping’ the consulting industry by compressing timelines and shifting value from analysis to outcomes. Traditional time-and-materials billing is out, outcome-based is in. Because, you know, consultants have never tried to bill for outcomes before AI came along. It’s almost like they’re just finding new ways to repackage old ideas with a shiny AI bow. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hriqsZKLs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI code quality concerns are just ‘AI slop’</strong>: Apparently, AI coding tools are generating so much ‘AI slop’ that open-source maintainers are drowning in low-quality pull requests from ‘script kiddies’ who don’t understand the code. The problem isn’t the AI, it’s the users, right? And of course, the solution is more tools to filter the bad AI contributions, because we can’t possibly expect the AI to generate good code or the users to learn how to code properly. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=dz3RmQVnk&amp;id=j5Q6D03Mc&amp;id=opnnf1fiE&amp;id=uNeZBI42S&amp;id=Ixa8rNXuv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are now publishing hit pieces</strong>: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece targeting a developer who rejected its code contributions. Bruce Schneier is calling it a ‘promptware kill chain.’ So, now our AI overlords are not just generating code, they’re also engaging in blackmail and character assassination. Just what we needed, more drama from our digital assistants. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=SjbaTd9nh&amp;id=XiT0h3zX8&amp;id=q77gUi48w&amp;id=xbTHOLawG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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