<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Hetzner price hikes due to AI hardware demand</strong>: Hetzner, a major European cloud provider, is increasing prices by up to 50% starting April 1, 2026, across all regions. This significant hike is attributed to dramatic increases in hardware costs, particularly for DRAM, NAND flash, and server CPUs, driven by the AI industry’s demand. This situation highlights the vulnerability of smaller providers, who lack the long-term vendor contracts that insulate hyperscalers like AWS and Google from such supply chain shocks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/van1jyyDC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta inks massive AI chip deal with AMD</strong>: Meta has signed a multiyear deal with AMD, reportedly worth up to $100 billion, to acquire MI540 GPUs and CPUs for its data centers. This massive investment aims to add 6GW of compute capacity to accelerate AI model development, diversifying Meta’s AI compute stack beyond Nvidia. The deal includes a performance-based warrant for AMD to issue Meta up to 160 million shares if AMD’s stock reaches $600, underscoring the strategic importance of this partnership. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vYZNsZv8f" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple unveils on-device UI AI model</strong>: Apple researchers introduced Ferret-UI Lite, a lightweight, 3B-parameter multimodal AI model designed for on-device UI understanding and interaction. This model aims for efficient inference without cloud processing, prioritizing low latency, privacy, and offline capability across mobile, web, and desktop platforms. It contrasts with existing GUI agents that rely on larger foundation models, potentially reducing Siri’s dependence on Google Cloud. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/qj9GoBvQx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>NPM supply chain attack targets AI coding tools</strong>: A new npm supply chain attack, SANDWORM_MODE, targets developer utilities and AI coding tools like Claude Code, harvesting credentials and injecting malicious code into CI pipelines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/q6c2RLQKH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OTelBench evaluates OpenTelemetry and AI agent performance</strong>: Quesma released OTelBench, an open-source benchmarking suite to evaluate OpenTelemetry pipeline performance and AI agent effectiveness in SRE tasks, revealing LLMs often achieve success rates below 30% in production-grade scenarios. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OB1MlP8PG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google enhances Opal with agentic AI workflows</strong>: Google upgraded its Opal Workflow builder with new agentic capabilities, allowing users to create automated workflows using text prompts and Gemini 3 Flash, including memory support and integration into the Gemini web app. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZbbWKhN8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New technique triples LLM inference speed</strong>: Researchers developed a multi-token prediction technique that triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary draft models, achieving 3x+ speedup with under 3% accuracy loss on reasoning-heavy tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hxaAjvILy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js 25.7.0 released with HTTP/2 and SEA updates</strong>: Node.js 25.7.0 introduces HTTP/2 <code>http1Options</code>, ESM support for Single Executable Applications, a release candidate SQLite module, and various fixes and improvements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K4geCuziz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cilium 1.19 boosts Kubernetes networking</strong>: Cilium 1.19 enhances Kubernetes networking with BPF Host Routing for IPsec, Gateway API v1.4 support, stable Multi-Pool IPAM, and initial Ztunnel integration for ambient mesh-style encryption. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zYLvcHpYh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elixir ecosystem expands with new tools</strong>: The Thinking Elixir podcast covers Hackney 3.1 with pure Erlang QUIC, Hornbeam 1.0 for Python web apps on BEAM, and Pyex, a pure Elixir Python interpreter. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/rNCq4cuuf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Pentagon demands Anthropic remove AI guardrails</strong>: The Pentagon issued an ultimatum to Anthropic to remove AI guardrails on Claude for military use, threatening to label them a ‘supply chain risk’ if they refuse. Because apparently, the DOD’s single-vendor reliance on Anthropic for classified AI means they get to dictate ethical boundaries, or lack thereof. Who needs principles when you have a deadline? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/vbdfUwGoN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft and Salesforce confirm AI suspicions, details TBD</strong>: Microsoft Research and Salesforce AI supposedly analyzed over 200,000 AI conversations, confirming ‘industry suspicions.’ The tweet from @rryssf_ offers zero details, making it a masterclass in generating curiosity without delivering any actual information. So, they confirmed suspicions, but what suspicions? And what did they find? Guess we’ll never know, but hey, at least they analyzed something! <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FAzFsVs8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent browser sandbox announced, details pending</strong>: <code>@nickscamara_</code> announced a new ‘browser sandbox’ project for AI agents to interact with the web, promising ‘zero config’ setup. The announcement is from a future date (2026-02-24) and is conveniently truncated, leaving us to wonder if this is a groundbreaking innovation or just a very early, very vague marketing tease. Because nothing says ‘secure and ready’ like a future-dated, incomplete announcement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AY0JUdVv6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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