<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI hits 730 billion valuation in circular investment deal</strong>: OpenAI secured a massive $110 billion funding round led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, though much of it is tied to compute commitments rather than liquid cash. Amazon’s $50 billion stake includes a 2GW Trainium accelerator rental, while Nvidia’s $30 billion is linked to deploying 5GW of Vera Rubin systems. This ‘circular’ structure effectively guarantees returns for the investors while inflating OpenAI’s valuation to nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8imM4YubL&amp;id=2MnggU5aN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Block cuts 40 percent of staff as Dorsey bets on AI efficiency</strong>: Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm, Block, announced a drastic reduction of its workforce from 10,000 to under 6,000 employees, claiming AI tools now perform many roles better than humans. Despite the stock jumping 24% on the news, analysts are debating whether this is a genuine technological pivot or a convenient narrative to mask aggressive cost-cutting. Dorsey predicted most tech companies will undergo similar AI-driven structural overhauls 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>
<li><strong>Lazarus Group targets npm with steganographic malware</strong>: Socket’s research team identified 26 malicious npm packages linked to the North Korean Lazarus Group that use character-level steganography to hide command-and-control infrastructure. These packages specifically target Web3 and blockchain developers, attempting to exfiltrate SSH keys, Git credentials, and cryptocurrency wallet data. The infection chain uses whitespace-hidden persistence in VS Code configurations to remain undetected by traditional scanners. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FlnRaRBz6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>React Foundation launches under the Linux Foundation with Meta and Microsoft</strong>: The new foundation aims to provide neutral governance for the ecosystem, coinciding with React Native’s new support for Meta Quest devices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jHrxBDFP6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare contributor proposes 120x faster Web Streams API alternative</strong>: A technical critique argues the current WHATWG standard is fundamentally broken, proposing an async iterable-based API that significantly outperforms Chrome and Node.js. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x39TDoHIL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Perplexity pivots to 200 dollar monthly enterprise orchestration</strong>: The new ‘Perplexity Computer’ tool abandons the ad model to orchestrate 19 different AI models for complex, high-value autonomous workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Type-safe asset management comes to React Native</strong>: The new smart-assets library auto-generates TypeScript definitions for local images and SVGs, catching typos at build time via a Metro plugin. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dzP7AsXlg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon enters final snapshot phase</strong>: The fourth monthly test image is live with Linux 6.19 and GNOME 50 beta components ahead of the April 23 LTS release. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QvM4ZBs0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Confluent Kafka Python client hits GA with asyncio support</strong>: Version 2.13.0 introduces deterministic partitioners, full type hints, and improved lifecycle management via context managers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XxtrJwDiH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Heroku enters maintenance mode as Salesforce shifts focus</strong>: With Heroku moving to a sustaining engineering model, developers are eyeing Render and <a href="http://Fly.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Fly.io</a> as the primary migration targets for 2027. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/AqdbSWcjR" 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 to lobotomize Claude’s ethics</strong>: Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to strip ethical guardrails so the military can use Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. It’s a classic ‘safety-first’ startup meeting the ‘kill-first’ reality of a $200 million defense contract. Apparently, ‘Responsible Scaling’ only applies until the Defense Production Act enters the chat. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DOq4pZFPp&amp;id=XR0JM9qQf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ChatGPT Health is a liability masquerading as a doctor</strong>: A Nature Medicine study found OpenAI’s health feature failed to recommend emergency care in 51% of critical cases and ignored suicidal ideation if you added lab results to the prompt. OpenAI’s defense is that the study ‘doesn’t reflect real-world usage,’ which is corporate-speak for ‘please don’t sue us when our chatbot kills someone.’ It’s not a medical assistant; it’s a hallucination engine with a stethoscope. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/4G7vYOGa4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The Minimum Lovable Product is the new MVP</strong>: Marketing gurus are now claiming that because AI has ‘collapsed software costs,’ you need to build ‘Minimum Lovable Products’ to create emotional moats. This is just a fancy way of saying ‘our features are commoditized, so please like our brand personality.’ It’s the same old ‘delight the user’ bullshit, rebranded for an era where we’re all drowning in AI-generated slop. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/IvDJTiclN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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