<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Musk’s companies eye a trillion-dollar merger</strong>: Elon Musk’s SpaceX, xAI, and potentially Tesla are reportedly in early discussions to merge, aiming to create a trillion-dollar super-company. This consolidation could combine rockets, satellites, AI, and electric vehicles, with a key rationale being the development of space-based AI data centers to cut training costs. While SpaceX’s IPO is planned for 2026, the move is seen as a way to strengthen Pentagon contracts and military AI integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wMYF638eZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is in a slump</strong>: Microsoft’s Q2 FY26 earnings show a 17% overall revenue increase, but its gaming division is the sole underperformer. Xbox console sales plummeted 32% year-over-year, marking the sixth consecutive year of decline, with gaming revenue dropping 9%. This follows price hikes for Game Pass and consoles, along with multiple layoffs and studio closures throughout 2025. Despite record PC players, Microsoft expects continued declines. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uKbAAElcM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes RCE flaw found in common permissions</strong>: Edera Advisory has uncovered a critical design flaw in Kubernetes that allows remote code execution (RCE) in any container on a node. The vulnerability exploits commonly used <code>nodes/proxy GET</code> permissions, which are often granted to monitoring tools and network overlays. While Kubernetes 1.36 (expected April 2025) will remove this problematic permission, many production clusters will remain vulnerable for months or years, necessitating fine-grained authorization controls and regular RCE scans. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/phMyeDnVg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Meta doubles down on AI infrastructure investment</strong>: Meta plans to invest a staggering $115-135 billion in AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly doubling its 2025 spend, to support its Superintelligence Labs and develop ‘personal superintelligence’ agents. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JHGPGk0MW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apple acquires audio AI startup <a href="http://Q.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Q.ai</a></strong>: Apple has acquired Israeli audio AI startup <a href="http://Q.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Q.ai</a> for an estimated $1.6 to $2 billion, strengthening its AI hardware capabilities with technology for whispered speech recognition and audio enhancement, likely for AirPods and Vision Pro. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PknWg8Xks" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft deploys in-house AI chip, still buys from Nvidia</strong>: Microsoft has deployed its Maia 200 AI inference chip in data centers for frontier AI models and OpenAI, but CEO Satya Nadella confirmed they will continue purchasing chips from Nvidia and AMD, indicating a diversified supply chain strategy. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kN85HgrLU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Container security survey reveals major gaps</strong>: A BellSoft survey found 23% of respondents experienced container security incidents in the past year, with human error being the primary cause, and many organizations prioritizing performance over security when selecting base images. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/I55IVTrKU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud launches conversational analytics in BigQuery</strong>: Google Cloud launched Conversational Analytics in BigQuery (preview), an AI-powered agent integrated into BigQuery Studio that enables natural language data analysis, eliminating the need for users to learn SQL. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2YKMeABdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js affected by OpenSSL vulnerabilities</strong>: Three low to moderate severity OpenSSL CVEs, related to PFX certificate file processing, affect Node.js across all branches, though fixes will be included in regular releases rather than dedicated security patches due to limited attack surface. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jITntLdtr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NVIDIA GeForce NOW launches native Linux support</strong>: NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming service now offers native Linux PC support in beta, providing RTX performance streaming up to 5K at 120fps on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later, distributed as a Flatpak. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/RB8XUehQ7" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Google DeepMind’s Project Genie: infinite worlds, finite fun</strong>: Google DeepMind launched Project Genie, an ‘experimental web prototype’ that generates ‘infinite, interactive environments’ using its Genie 3 world model. While Google frames this as a step toward AGI and a game prototyping tool, game developers are apparently concerned, with 52% believing AI negatively impacts their field. So, Google’s ‘infinite worlds’ might just mean ‘infinite ways to put game developers out of a job,’ all while struggling with photorealism and object interaction, according to #cXEPGpaCA. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iit38VC43" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta’s Reality Labs: peak losses or just a new peak of delusion?</strong>: Meta’s Reality Labs reported another $19.2 billion in losses for FY25, bringing its total to $83.6 billion since 2020. Mark Zuckerberg, ever the optimist, claims FY25 will be ‘peak losses’ as they pivot to ‘AI-integrated wearables.’ Apparently, after burning tens of billions on a metaverse nobody wanted, the solution is to throw more money at a slightly different, equally speculative vision. It’s not a loss, it’s ‘strategic investment’ in a future where your glasses spy on you with AI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ALCffHVkc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Apiiro’s Guardian Agent: AI to save us from AI’s own mess</strong>: Apiiro launched Guardian Agent, an AI security tool that ‘rewrites developer prompts into secure ones in real-time’ to prevent AI coding agents from generating vulnerable code. So, we’ve reached the point where AI is so good at creating insecure code that we need <em>another</em> AI to fix its mistakes. Apiiro claims enterprises expand attack surfaces 6x after adopting AI coding agents, which sounds less like a problem to solve and more like a business model for selling AI-powered duct tape. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5AaMXyHJd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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