<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI hits 730 billion valuation in circular funding round</strong>: OpenAI secured a massive $110 billion investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, though much of it is tied to compute commitments rather than pure cash. Amazon’s $50 billion deal includes renting two gigawatts of Trainium accelerators and making AWS the exclusive third-party distributor for OpenAI Frontier. Critics note these ‘circular deals’ effectively inflate valuations while guaranteeing returns for the investors’ own infrastructure businesses. <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>Google API keys silently exposed private Gemini data</strong>: Researchers at Truffle Security discovered that GCP API keys, originally intended for billing, were quietly 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 run up massive API bills. 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% of workforce citing AI efficiency</strong>: Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm Block laid off approximately 4,000 employees, reducing its headcount to under 6,000 to preserve morale through a single large reduction. Dorsey claimed AI tools are now performing many roles better than humans, predicting most tech companies will undergo similar structural shifts within the year. Despite the stock jumping 24% on the news, analysts are debating if this is a genuine AI pivot or a correction for pandemic-era overhiring. <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 Computer launches as a 200 dollar monthly orchestration tool</strong>: The new agentic tool routes complex workflows across 19 different models, signaling a pivot toward high-value enterprise users over general search growth. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>React Foundation officially launches under the Linux Foundation</strong>: Meta, Vercel, and Microsoft have joined the board of the new foundation to oversee the ecosystem’s long-term governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jHrxBDFP6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare proposes a faster Web Streams API built on async iterables</strong>: A core contributor argues the current WHATWG standard is fundamentally flawed, offering a proof-of-concept that runs up to 120x faster in some environments. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x39TDoHIL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious Go module <a href="http://github.com/xinfeisoft/crypto" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">github.com/xinfeisoft/crypto</a> targets SSH passwords</strong>: The package impersonates the official <a href="http://golang.org/x/crypto" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">golang.org/x/crypto</a> library to exfiltrate credentials and deploy the Rekoobe Linux backdoor. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUbOU1Zfx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon hits final monthly snapshot</strong>: The upcoming LTS release features the Linux 6.19 kernel and GNOME 50 beta components ahead of its April 23 launch. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QvM4ZBs0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dokploy emerges as a Swarm-first alternative to Coolify</strong>: For self-hosters, Dokploy offers better horizontal scaling and cluster monitoring, while Coolify remains the choice for simpler maintenance automation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pWdc17poR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 brings Python asyncio to GA</strong>: The release includes deterministic partitioners, full type hints, and significant performance tuning for .NET and Go clients. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XxtrJwDiH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The Minimum Lovable Product is the new corporate hug</strong>: Since AI has ‘collapsed software costs,’ some are now arguing that ‘lovability’ is the only defensible moat left for your CRUD app. Apparently, we should stop building functional MVPs and start adding ‘lovemarks’ and ‘personality’ to our roadmaps to create emotional connections with users. It’s a classic pivot from ‘our product works’ to ‘our product has a soul’ because the features are now being generated by a bot. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/IvDJTiclN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The Pentagon wants Anthropic to stop being so ethical</strong>: Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to strip the ‘safety guardrails’ from Claude so it can be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The irony of a company founded on ‘safety-first’ principles being threatened with the Defense Production Act to become a war machine is peak 2026. It turns out ‘Responsible Scaling’ is only binding until the Department of War shows up with a $200 million check and a deadline. <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>
<li><strong>AI agents are coming for your job but they can’t align a memory page</strong>: While the hype cycle claims AI agents will replace 90% of SaaS and turn every junior into an ‘orchestrator,’ real-world tests show they still choke on environment-level bugs. One developer found that both Cursor and Claude Code were useless for a 16 KB memory page alignment issue in React Native, requiring—wait for it—actual human research in documentation. It’s almost as if generating 1,200 lines of C code for a Z80 emulator is easier than understanding why a specific Android build is crashing. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=gyXs0PFon&amp;id=DIRvJ6zhx&amp;id=2tLfgrwTH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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