<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are just APIs, not magic</strong>: Turns out, the ‘revolutionary’ AI agents everyone’s hyping are mostly just fancy wrappers around existing APIs and web automation. Technical experts are calling out the investor-driven rebranding, suggesting it’s more about financial gain than groundbreaking tech. The real progress still relies on good old machine-readable data and standards, not marketing fluff, according to ‘Agents. It Is All APIs. Nothing Has Changed’. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4rJ96gwiU&amp;id=J1BKrq2u6&amp;id=JE89HgTw1&amp;id=JItr1KihQ&amp;id=bXoqeH8eP" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA and Lilly team up for AI drug discovery</strong>: NVIDIA and pharmaceutical giant Lilly are pouring $1 billion into an AI co-innovation lab to revolutionize drug discovery. Announced at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the lab aims to blend computational modeling with experimental wet labs, using NVIDIA’s DGX SuperPOD with B300 systems. While the corporate optimism is high, details on operations, location, or timelines are conspicuously absent, as noted in the joint announcement. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/TcHQkCPbq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft pushes unified AI governance and marketplace</strong>: Microsoft is positioning itself as a leader in unified AI governance, integrating responsible AI standards across its platforms like Foundry, Purview, and Defender. Their marketplace now boasts over 11,000 AI models and 4,000 applications, including offerings from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. This move aims to simplify enterprise AI adoption while tackling regulatory demands and operational complexity, according to Microsoft’s statements and an IDC MarketScape report. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=VuTiPUrsF&amp;id=XdBf9IqBR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Shopify deprecates tracking cookies, Hydrogen users must update</strong>: Shopify is deprecating <code>shopify_y</code> and <code>shopify_s</code> tracking cookies in 2026, requiring Hydrogen storefronts using React Router on Oxygen to upgrade by April 30, 2026, to maintain analytics attribution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=QzarOUOVo&amp;id=yU3ZcbWbA&amp;id=zoNDLvNFD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA expands GeForce NOW to Linux and Fire TV</strong>: NVIDIA is bringing native GeForce NOW apps to Linux PCs (Ubuntu 24.04+) and Amazon Fire TV devices, offering up to 5K resolution at 120fps or 1080p at 360fps streaming, powered by RTX 5080 GPUs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5ceYZHV0v" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA boosts AI video generation on RTX PCs</strong>: NVIDIA announced major performance upgrades for AI video and image generation on RTX GPUs, including 3x faster 4K video generation and 60% VRAM savings with ComfyUI optimizations, and integration with Lightricks’ LTX-2 model. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JItr1KihQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Porffor JavaScript compiler aims for tiny, fast binaries</strong>: Porffor is a new ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler targeting WebAssembly and native code, promising up to 50x smaller binaries and significant speed improvements for serverless, game engines, and embedded systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=xTAvQVuAU&amp;id=xU3ZYAZlY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>KDE Plasma 6.6 nearing release, 6.7 development begins</strong>: KDE developers are finalizing Plasma 6.6 for a February 2026 release while simultaneously starting feature implementation for Plasma 6.7, indicating a productive development cycle. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Htkecunm3" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Black Basta ransomware leader targeted by EU and INTERPOL</strong>: Ukrainian and German authorities have identified Oleg Nefedov as the alleged leader of the Black Basta ransomware group, adding him to EU Most Wanted and INTERPOL Red Notice lists after internal chat logs leaked. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/O0PAVFWl9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>ClickHouse acquires Langfuse for LLM tracing</strong>: ClickHouse has acquired Langfuse, an open-source platform for LLM tracing and evaluation, aiming to accelerate its development while maintaining open-source commitments and enhancing performance with ClickHouse infrastructure. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=O5KxwsHsv&amp;id=dliP781v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI solves Erdos problem #281, or so they say</strong>: GPT 5.2 Pro supposedly solved Erdos problem #281, a previously unsolved mathematical problem. Mathematician Terence Tao called it ‘perhaps the most unambiguous instance’ of AI solving an open math problem. While impressive, the details of the solution are conveniently missing, and the claim relies on a single tweet-like post. So, AI is now a math genius, but don’t ask it to show its work. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/pRkd3CPEF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated code: the gift that keeps on giving… technical debt</strong>: Developers are sharing war stories about AI-generated code. One team found AI-scaffolded SwiftUI views compiled but lacked product context, leading to state management nightmares and a refactor that took longer than writing from scratch. Another caught ChatGPT hallucinating a plausible but nonexistent API property. It seems AI is great at generating code that looks right until it breaks everything, proving that human judgment is still very much in demand. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=6XeVWOBXO&amp;id=STWE5tRXe&amp;id=UAphs9F5B&amp;id=euzGVQGzQ&amp;id=iukrPGTg6&amp;id=m6P4U0J0b&amp;id=wCQfiCXDa" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google engineer’s AI productivity claims get a reality check</strong>: Remember that Google engineer who claimed Claude Code did a year’s work in an hour? Turns out, it was a ‘simplified toy version.’ The incident highlights the chasm between AI hype and practical software development. It seems the ‘AI will replace developers’ narrative is still mostly hot air, leading to funding obstacles and inflated expectations for dev tool firms. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=6XeVWOBXO&amp;id=STWE5tRXe&amp;id=UAphs9F5B&amp;id=euzGVQGzQ&amp;id=iukrPGTg6&amp;id=m6P4U0J0b&amp;id=wCQfiCXDa" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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