<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI hits 730 billion valuation in circular investment frenzy</strong>: OpenAI secured a massive $110 billion funding round from 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 structure effectively guarantees returns for the investors while inflating OpenAI’s paper 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, laid off approximately 4,000 employees, reducing its headcount to under 6,000. Dorsey explicitly attributed the cuts to AI tools performing roles more effectively than humans, predicting a broader industry shift toward smaller, AI-augmented teams within the next year. Despite the stock jumping 24% on the news, analysts are debating whether this is a genuine technological pivot or a convenient narrative for aggressive cost-cutting. <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>Pentagon pressures Anthropic to strip Claude of ethical guardrails</strong>: The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly pushing Anthropic to remove safety restrictions from Claude to enable its use in autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Defense Secretary Hegseth has allegedly threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act if the lab does not comply with military requirements. This development follows Anthropic’s recent revision of its Responsible Scaling Policy, which removed binding commitments to halt development if safety measures lag. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DOq4pZFPp&amp;id=XR0JM9qQf&amp;id=2WI5jKJAu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>RoguePilot vulnerability enables full GitHub repository takeovers</strong>: A critical flaw in GitHub Codespaces allowed attackers to hijack tokens via passive prompt injection hidden in HTML comments within issues. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LAZy65aYK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Perplexity pivots to 200 dollar monthly enterprise orchestration</strong>: Abandoning its ad model, Perplexity launched ‘Computer,’ an agentic tool that routes complex workflows across 19 different AI models. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Lazarus Group uses steganography in Pastebin to hide malware</strong>: The ‘StegaBin’ campaign targets Web3 developers by hiding C2 infrastructure inside character-level steganography within npm packages. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FlnRaRBz6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Hyprland 0.54 delivers massive performance gains for Wayland</strong>: The update introduces per-monitor layouts and a redesigned management system, with performance boosts up to 500% on integrated graphics. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/1UYKWZFIm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Open Source Endowment launches to fund critical infrastructure</strong>: A new 501©(3) aims to create a permanent fund for underfunded projects, mirroring university endowments to pay independent contributors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/fRs0oZgID" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon hits final monthly snapshot</strong>: The LTS release is on track for April 23, 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>Deff provides interactive side by side git diffs in the terminal</strong>: A new Rust-based TUI tool offers vim-like navigation and syntax highlighting for reviewing code changes directly in the console. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QSo6X6mTM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The AI agent that hacks for me is just a glorified script</strong>: Hype around ‘OpenClaw’ agents performing automated pentests via mobile phones is largely marketing fluff for basic OSINT tools. While the ‘Claw Market Map’ claims 230,000 stars, most of these ‘autonomous’ breakthroughs are just wrappers for SQLmap and password crackers that still require a human to actually understand the output. It’s script kiddie culture rebranded as ‘agentic intelligence.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=N17PnarCl&amp;id=4SfWcr1Bw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Claude Code did not actually crash the cybersecurity market</strong>: Headlines claiming Anthropic’s CLI tool wiped out $15 billion in market cap are a classic case of correlation-causation confusion. Investors are panicking over ‘ecosystem’ shifts, but the idea that a terminal-native agent is currently replacing enterprise-grade WAFs or EDRs is laughable. It’s a productivity tool for developers, not a magic wand that makes professional security services obsolete overnight. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=XC53yZqKA&amp;id=601vxKUqh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Foray Bioscience wants to be the operating system for plants</strong>: Foray’s ‘Pando AI’ is being marketed as a ‘Google Maps for plant growth’ that will solve the endangered species crisis through biomanufacturing. This is peak Silicon Valley hubris, promising to replace complex ecological systems with lab-grown wood and ‘fabricated seeds’ without mentioning a single technical hurdle or competitor. It’s a pitch deck masquerading as a scientific breakthrough. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NxqDUFa2W" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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