<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agents are getting real, but so are the headaches</strong>: AI agents are now capable of complex research, analyzing thousands of papers, and generating reports autonomously, boosting productivity significantly. However, this comes with a catch: <a href="http://Monday.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Monday.com</a>’s experience with their Slack bot, as reported by them, shows LLM hallucinations are a major challenge, requiring server-side pre-computation and human-in-the-loop approvals to ensure reliability. This highlights the ongoing struggle to make AI agents production-ready and trustworthy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AJzG7x8FZ&amp;id=AS53pzdrZ&amp;id=ATZPMmQn8&amp;id=NG1jOcpWT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA accused of training AI on pirated books</strong>: NVIDIA is facing an amended lawsuit alleging that its executives actively sought and used millions of copyrighted books from pirate libraries like Anna’s Archive for AI model training. According to TorrentFreak, the lawsuit claims NVIDIA was explicitly warned about the illegal nature of the content but proceeded anyway, potentially exposing the company to significant copyright infringement damages. This raises serious questions about the ethical and legal boundaries of AI training data acquisition. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2IcgLruSE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitLab 18.8 brings AI orchestration to DevOps</strong>: GitLab 18.8 introduces the Duo Agent Platform, now generally available, which orchestrates AI agents across the software development lifecycle. This includes a Planner Agent for managing work items and a Security Analyst Agent that uses natural language processing to triage vulnerabilities, even automatically dismissing irrelevant ones. This move, detailed in GitLab’s release announcement, signifies a major step towards AI-driven automation in DevOps, aiming to streamline security and planning processes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R9WyVAVPv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI is reshaping IT outsourcing and cloud costs</strong>: India’s top IT outsourcers are drastically slowing hiring, adding only 3,910 employees collectively last year, while shifting focus to AI-specific skills, and Microsoft’s Copilot is consuming significant capacity units on Fabric platforms, leading to unexpected cloud costs for users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DLuyoqNjG&amp;id=nKPk64Gpl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>jQuery 4.0.0 is here, 20 years later</strong>: jQuery 4.0.0, the first major update in a decade, has been released for its 20th anniversary, focusing on removing deprecated features, dropping old browser support, and modernizing the codebase to ES modules, while still being used by over 70% of websites globally. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=5SOCKxGlX&amp;id=dThF1vPz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft open-sources XAML Studio</strong>: Microsoft has open-sourced XAML Studio, a lightweight prototyping tool for WinUI and UWP, under the .NET Foundation, aiming to foster community contributions and provide a faster UI feedback loop for developers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hUJrXK08w" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Steam clarifies AI disclosure rules for games</strong>: Steam has updated its AI disclosure policy, now only requiring developers to disclose player-facing AI-generated content like artwork or narrative, exempting AI used for internal workflows or efficiency gains without direct player impact. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/C2CcXjt7M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Malicious Chrome extensions steal enterprise tokens</strong>: Five Chrome extensions, disguised as productivity tools, were found stealing authentication session tokens from enterprise HR and ERP platforms like Workday and NetSuite, bypassing MFA and allowing full account takeovers for over 2,300 users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/3ImoRkfEG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Wine 11.0 stable brings major upgrades to Linux gaming</strong>: Wine 11.0 stable has been released with over 6,300 changes, including NTSYNC kernel module support for better performance, a completed WoW64 architecture, and upgraded graphics with Vulkan 1.4.335 support, enhancing Windows application compatibility on Linux. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5LDn1X8et" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel boosts LLM support on Arc Graphics</strong>: Intel released an update to LLM-Scaler-Omni, enhancing support for ComfyUI and SGLang on Intel Arc Graphics, specifically targeting improved performance for image, voice, and video generation in both Omni Studio and Omni Serving modes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XBX3pzO5M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI coding tools: the new ‘learn to code’ shortcut?</strong>: Apparently, AI and low-code platforms are making framework-specific knowledge like React or Vue less important for junior developers. Stefan Mischook suggests focusing on fundamentals, APIs, and system design instead. So, if you’re a junior dev, just learn the basics, let the AI do the heavy lifting, and hope you don’t get replaced by a well-prompted chatbot. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6PqxqIHlh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents: the new ‘psychosis’ in your workflow?</strong>: Changelog News is coining the term ‘AI agent psychosis’ to describe erratic AI behavior, which sounds dramatic. Meanwhile, <a href="http://Monday.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Monday.com</a> is actually building production-ready LLM agents for Slack, dealing with ‘hallucinations’ by pre-computing statistics and adding human oversight. So, while some are busy with conceptual fears, others are just, you know, engineering solutions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=AJzG7x8FZ&amp;id=AS53pzdrZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sequoia Capital: ‘Conflict of interest? What conflict of interest?’</strong>: Sequoia Capital, already invested in OpenAI and xAI, is now pouring money into Anthropic’s $25 billion round, valuing it at $350 billion. This move, reported by the FT, completely ignores established VC norms against backing direct competitors. Sam Altman once warned investors would lose access to confidential info if they funded rivals, but I guess $350 billion valuations make you forget such trivialities. Who needs norms when you have FOMO? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yuiHTajaU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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