<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Hetzner hikes prices up to 50% due to AI-driven hardware costs</strong>: Hetzner, a major European cloud provider, is increasing prices by up to 50% starting April 1, 2026, across all regions. This is primarily due to a dramatic surge in hardware costs, particularly for DRAM, NAND flash, and server CPUs, driven by the AI industry’s insatiable demand. Unlike hyperscalers with long-term vendor contracts, smaller providers like Hetzner are directly passing these increased costs to users, impacting cloud infrastructure budgets significantly. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/van1jyyDC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta commits $100 billion to AMD for AI chips</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 shares, contingent on AMD’s stock reaching $600, highlighting the strategic importance of this partnership for Meta’s “personal superintelligence” ambitions. <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 to enable visual perception and control of user interfaces directly on mobile, web, and desktop platforms, prioritizing low latency, privacy, and offline capability. It contrasts with larger, cloud-dependent GUI agents and could significantly reduce Siri’s reliance on external cloud services. <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>OTelBench released for OpenTelemetry and AI 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 observability. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/OB1MlP8PG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New technique triples LLM inference speed</strong>: A new multi-token prediction technique triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary draft models by fine-tuning pretrained models with a student-teacher RL-inspired paradigm and a confidence-adaptive decoding strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hxaAjvILy" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Formae IaC platform expands to multi-cloud with AI-assisted development</strong>: Platform Engineering Labs updated formae, its open-source IaC platform, with multi-cloud support (GCP, Azure, OCI, OVHcloud) and a redesigned Plugin SDK that leverages AI-assisted development for rapid extension. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oAyNaPkCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Elasticsearch v9 boosts vector search performance</strong>: Trendyol’s load tests show Elasticsearch v9.2.1 delivers 4x performance boost for vector search compared to v8.18.3, with significantly higher throughput and lower latency under high concurrency. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Iw8wLbMFe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js 25.7.0 released with SQLite RC</strong>: Node.js 25.7.0 introduces HTTP/2 <code>http1Options</code>, ESM support for Single Executable Applications, and marks the built-in SQLite module as a release candidate. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K4geCuziz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Spark introduces declarative pipelines</strong>: Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) in Apache Spark 4.1 extends declarative programming to entire data pipelines, automating incremental processing, data quality, and orchestration with significantly less boilerplate. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4b5vqOEib" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Debezium joins GSoC 2026 with AI integration projects</strong>: Debezium joins Google Summer of Code 2026, offering projects including source connectors for Milvus and SQLite, a CLI tool, and PyDebeziumAI for AI integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XH8DOZHBb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Google enhances Opal with agentic AI workflows</strong>: Google upgraded its “vibe-coding app” Opal with new agentic AI workflows, powered by Gemini 3 Flash, allowing non-technical users to create automated workflows with text prompts. Because apparently, we all need more “vibe-coding” in our lives, and who better to deliver it than an AI that autonomously selects tools and plans tasks? It’s almost like they’re trying to make coding so easy, you don’t even have to think. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ZbbWKhN8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent browser sandbox project announced</strong>: A new project called “browser sandbox” was announced by <code>@nickscamara_</code>, promising a secure browser environment for AI agents with “zero config” setup. Because what could possibly go wrong with AI agents freely browsing the web in a “secure” sandbox? The announcement is from the future (2026-02-24), so maybe they’ll figure out what it actually does by then. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AY0JUdVv6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft and Salesforce confirm AI suspicions (details withheld)</strong>: Microsoft Research and Salesforce AI supposedly analyzed over 200,000 AI conversations and confirmed “industry suspicions.” What suspicions? What findings? Who knows! The tweet from @rryssf_ on 2026-02-24 is vague enough to be clickbait, generating curiosity without delivering any actual information. Perhaps the “suspicions” are that AI can generate a lot of words without saying anything meaningful. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FAzFsVs8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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