<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI valuation hits 730 billion in circular investment frenzy</strong>: OpenAI secured a massive $110 billion funding round from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, pushing its valuation to $730 billion. According to reports from multiple financial outlets, the deal includes ‘circular’ components where Amazon and Nvidia’s investments are tied to multi-billion dollar compute and hardware commitments. While OpenAI now claims 900 million weekly users, it is not projected to reach profitability until 2029. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8imM4YubL&amp;id=2MnggU5aN&amp;id=3EaP1eYC2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google API keys silently exposed private Gemini data</strong>: Researchers at Truffle Security discovered that Google Cloud Platform API keys, originally intended for billing, were silently upgraded to full authentication credentials for the Gemini AI API without developer notification. This change left nearly 3,000 live keys exposed in public repositories, potentially allowing attackers to access private datasets or exhaust API quotas. Google initially dismissed the report as intended behavior before acknowledging it as a bug and restricting the leaked keys. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=InhdaYtFz&amp;id=MCX5U1vV0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Block cuts 40 percent of staff citing AI efficiency</strong>: Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm, Block, announced a massive workforce reduction from 10,000 to under 6,000 employees, claiming AI tools now perform many roles better than humans. Following the announcement, Block’s stock surged over 23% in after-hours trading as the company reported $6.25B in quarterly revenue. Dorsey predicted that most tech companies will undergo similar AI-driven structural shifts within the next year. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yB8j5HQ6b&amp;id=eacyfq01e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Perplexity pivots to 200 dollar monthly enterprise orchestration</strong>: Perplexity launched ‘Perplexity Computer,’ an agentic tool that orchestrates 19 different models for complex workflows, signaling a shift away from advertising toward high-value enterprise users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon enters final testing phase</strong>: The fourth and final monthly snapshot for the upcoming LTS release is now available, featuring the Linux 6.19 kernel and GNOME 50 beta components. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QvM4ZBs0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious Go module impersonates crypto package to drop backdoors</strong>: Socket researchers identified a malicious package, <code>github.com/xinfeisoft/crypto</code>, which exfiltrates passwords and installs the Rekoobe Linux backdoor linked to state-sponsored actors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUbOU1Zfx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare proposes a faster alternative to Web Streams API</strong>: A core contributor has presented a proof-of-concept API built on async iterables that reportedly runs up to 120x faster than the current WHATWG standard. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x39TDoHIL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Alibaba releases 400B parameter Qwen3.5 vision model</strong>: The new open-source multimodal model features a 256K context window and is optimized for UI navigation and visual reasoning on Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6VdFiRBoH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Windows 11 Canary build adds native taskbar speed tests</strong>: The latest Insider Preview includes a built-in network speed test directly in the taskbar and adds Emoji 16.0 support. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AiIIhbrwP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hetzner raises VPS prices by 37 percent</strong>: The popular European hosting provider announced a significant price hike for its virtual private servers, effective immediately. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/T4Zacfyu8" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The Pentagon wants Anthropic to pinky swear it’ll be a war machine</strong>: Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to strip ethical guardrails from Claude so it can be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. According to reports from MIT Technology Review and others, the Pentagon is threatening to use the Defense Production Act if Anthropic doesn’t comply by Friday. It’s a classic ‘safety-first’ startup meeting the ‘kill-first’ reality of a $200 million defense contract. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DOq4pZFPp&amp;id=XR0JM9qQf&amp;id=tvtB990kl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Claude Code supposedly crashed the entire cybersecurity market</strong>: A viral narrative claims Anthropic’s Claude Code release wiped $15 billion off the cybersecurity market cap because it can ‘fix all the bugs.’ In reality, as noted by industry skeptics, the market is just reacting to the latest AI flavor-of-the-week while ignoring that 76% of AI-generated security fixes are actually hallucinated garbage. It’s not a market crash; it’s just a collective hallucination by investors who don’t know what a compiler is. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=1jEDFREq6&amp;id=601vxKUqh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenClaw is the new GitHub star-farm for script kiddies</strong>: The OpenClaw framework is bragging about 230,000 GitHub stars in 60 days, mostly fueled by ‘look at me hack’ demos on TikTok. While the hype machine claims it can perform full website pentests from a mobile phone, the reality is usually just an LLM running basic OSINT scripts and calling it a ‘cyberattack.’ It’s less ‘Mr. Robot’ and more ‘ChatGPT with a terminal skin.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4SfWcr1Bw&amp;id=N17PnarCl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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