<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta and Google push multimodal AI and infrastructure</strong>: Meta is scaling up its AI infrastructure with ‘Meta Compute,’ aiming for massive power capacity to support future AI workloads, as reported by their own executive announcements. Meanwhile, Google released Gemini 3, a multimodal AI platform that processes various data types with a huge context window, and Veo 3.1 for vertical video creation. These moves signal an escalating competition for AI dominance, with both companies making significant investments in foundational AI capabilities and infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=2S31ZjKRT&amp;id=NEGZugNBg&amp;id=kwRMqebwB&amp;id=qjYQj2ENJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic restricts Claude Code tokens for third-party tools</strong>: Anthropic has started strictly enforcing its terms of service, preventing the use of Claude Code subscription tokens with third-party tools like Cursor and Open Code. This means developers must now use Claude Code exclusively or pay significantly higher API prices for integrations, a move that has sparked considerable backlash among developers who had built workflows around these tools. The enforcement, detailed in technical reporting, is seen as a strategic effort by Anthropic to lock developers into its ecosystem and potentially manage infrastructure costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DEqFrm707&amp;id=jcpFkjQkx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents gain traction with new platforms and open-weight models</strong>: New multi-agent AI platforms like Atoms and LangSmith Agent Builder are emerging, enabling full-stack application development and complex task automation using natural language, often without coding. Concurrently, open-weight AI models such as GLM 4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 are demonstrating advanced autonomous coding capabilities, nearing the performance of closed-source models at significantly lower costs. This dual trend, highlighted by InfoQ and The New Stack, suggests a future where AI agents become more accessible and powerful, both through specialized platforms and increasingly capable open-source alternatives. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VkDnavm3j&amp;id=sDf9ENrg4&amp;id=p3khbP8jU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Quantum computing sees product launches and leadership shifts</strong>: The quantum computing industry is buzzing with activity, including SuperQ’s ChatQLM launch, Xanadu’s leadership changes ahead of a public listing, and IBM’s early cloud access to its 120-qubit Nighthawk processor. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=EJu78wwgZ&amp;id=J8FTmD4cu&amp;id=JmIuGeLwy&amp;id=Lx6jVDI9P&amp;id=MkzC4PEYB&amp;id=QPb7M1IyK&amp;id=RHyOC3Vzq&amp;id=RONvWGnCv&amp;id=dtnIdUSBt&amp;id=hhNibwkwa" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft AI data center expansion faces backlash</strong>: Microsoft’s ‘Community-First AI Infrastructure’ initiative, promising to cover power costs and minimize water usage, is a direct response to widespread community protests against its data center expansions in 24 U.S. states. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jqtBl3Jnb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New Linux malware targets cloud and container infrastructure</strong>: Check Point Research has identified VoidLink, a new Linux malware framework written in Zig, designed to infiltrate cloud and container environments like AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes using advanced rootkit techniques. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uJaIfhgHH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta closes VR studios and cuts Reality Labs workforce</strong>: Meta is closing three VR studios—Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru, and Armature—and laying off 10% of its Reality Labs staff, signaling a strategic pivot away from the Metaverse and VR towards AI-powered glasses and wearables. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7ystcAQPc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js releases address security vulnerabilities</strong>: Node.js 20.20.0 (LTS) and 25.3.0 (Current) have been released, both including security updates that address multiple CVEs, disable futimes with the permission model enabled, and tighten network permission checks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DwsoMgMKH&amp;id=Wy4br4Zyw&amp;id=Zr0Dv9dwZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress 7.0 to drop PHP 7.2/7.3 support</strong>: The WordPress core development team is preparing for the 7.0 release, which will discontinue support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3, and is calling for volunteers to participate in the release process. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/xho5u0zys" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bun v1.3.6 and Ruby 4.0.1 released with performance and bug fixes</strong>: Bun v1.3.6 introduces Bun.Archive for tarball handling, a JSONC parser, and significant performance improvements, while Ruby 4.0.1 addresses a specific bug related to Kernel#sleep. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Wx4br4Zyw&amp;id=Wy4br4Zyw&amp;id=Yy5NFIIOM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI will save ecology, just don’t ask about the field work</strong>: Ecologists are apparently ditching their boots for AI, machine learning, and automated sensors to study biodiversity. While this ‘allows for broader and more frequent data collection,’ some scientists are worried about ‘diminishing hands-on ecosystem understanding.’ So, we’re trading actual boots-on-the-ground knowledge for more data, because, you know, data always tells the whole story. What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=YsLIINgTC&amp;id=dHxdm7wPU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Agentic AI: the next big thing, or just another way to fail?</strong>: Agentic AI is being touted as the savior for managing non-human identities and boosting cybersecurity, promising ‘proactive risk reduction.’ Yet, Gartner, bless their cynical hearts, predicts 40% of these projects will fail by 2027, not because the AI is bad, but because of ‘inadequate implementation of guardrails.’ So, we’re building super-smart systems without bothering to put up fences. Sounds like a solid plan. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=9X1ifJmCu&amp;id=QnCK3ryB4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>WordPress performance team chats about tickets, groundbreaking stuff</strong>: The WordPress Performance team had a chat about an issue with ‘Modern Image Formats’ and other ‘performance-related Trac tickets.’ This riveting summary from Make WordPress Core is a ‘meeting record for contributors.’ Truly, the cutting edge of innovation, folks. Don’t want to miss those crucial chat summaries. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/84gKfimYq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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