<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Musk’s companies exploring trillion-dollar mergers</strong>: Elon Musk’s SpaceX, xAI, and potentially Tesla are in early discussions to merge, aiming to create a trillion-dollar super-company. Two main scenarios are on the table: SpaceX with Tesla, or SpaceX with xAI, potentially before SpaceX’s IPO. The goal is to consolidate rockets, satellites, AI, and electric vehicles, with a key rationale being the development of space-based AI data centers to reduce training costs. This move could also strengthen Pentagon contracts and military AI integration, according to various reports. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wMYF638eZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes RCE flaw identified, patch delayed</strong>: Edera Advisory has uncovered a critical design flaw in Kubernetes that allows remote code execution (RCE) in any container on a node via <code>nodes/proxy GET</code> permissions. These permissions are commonly used by monitoring tools, making the risk significant if compromised. While a fix is slated for Kubernetes 1.36, expected in April 2025, many production clusters will take months or years to update, leaving them vulnerable. Organizations should scan for RCE attempts and implement fine-grained authorization controls, as reported by Edera Advisory. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/phMyeDnVg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division reports significant declines</strong>: Microsoft’s Q2 FY26 earnings show a 17% overall revenue increase, largely driven by cloud services. However, the Xbox gaming division is the sole underperforming segment, with console sales down 32% and gaming revenue dropping 9% year-over-year. This marks the sixth consecutive year of declining Xbox console sales, following price increases and layoffs throughout 2025. Despite record PC players, Microsoft anticipates continued declines in Q3, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uKbAAElcM" 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 escalates AI infrastructure investment</strong>: Meta plans to invest $115-135 billion in AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly doubling its 2025 investment, to support Superintelligence Labs and integrate large language models with recommendation systems across its platforms. <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 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 <a href="http://Q.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Q.ai</a>’s expertise in whispered speech recognition and audio enhancement for products like 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 custom AI inference chip</strong>: Microsoft has deployed its Maia 200 AI inference chip in data centers, claiming superior performance over competitors, while confirming continued purchases from Nvidia and AMD to maintain a diversified AI hardware supply chain. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kN85HgrLU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud previews conversational analytics in BigQuery</strong>: Google Cloud launched Conversational Analytics in BigQuery (preview), an AI-powered agent integrated into BigQuery Studio that uses Gemini models to enable natural language data analysis, generating and visualizing SQL queries without requiring users to learn SQL. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2YKMeABdR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Codespaces now supports data residency</strong>: GitHub Codespaces is now in public preview for GitHub Enterprise Cloud, offering full feature parity with standard Codespaces while ensuring sensitive data remains within selected regions for compliance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/m4rSRbzRV" 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>
<li><strong>Formae IaC platform adds multi-cloud support and plugin SDK</strong>: Platform Engineering Labs announced beta multi-cloud support for its open-source IaC platform, formae, including Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and OVHcloud, alongside a Plugin SDK for custom extensions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bqzmDPKsL" 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 agents: the new productivity mirage</strong>: Apiiro, in a stroke of marketing genius, claims enterprises using AI coding agents generate 4x more code and expand attack surfaces 6x. Their solution? A new ‘Guardian Agent’ that rewrites developer prompts into ‘secure’ ones. So, AI creates more problems, and then we need more AI to fix the AI-created problems. It’s almost like they’re selling us a perpetual motion machine of code and security vulnerabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/5AaMXyHJd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta’s Reality Labs: still burning cash, now with more AI!</strong>: Meta’s Reality Labs just reported another $19.2 billion in losses for FY25, bringing their grand total to $83.6 billion since 2020. But fear not, Mark Zuckerberg promises this is ‘peak losses’ and they’re pivoting to ‘AI-integrated wearables.’ Because nothing says ‘we’ve learned our lesson’ like throwing more money at a losing venture and slapping ‘AI’ on it. Maybe next year they’ll pivot to ‘blockchain-integrated wearables’ for even more losses. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ALCffHVkc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google DeepMind’s project genie: infinite worlds, infinite hype</strong>: Google DeepMind launched Project Genie, an ‘AI world generator’ that creates ‘infinite, interactive environments’ in real-time. It’s available to Google AI Ultra subscribers, because who doesn’t want to pay to generate whimsical claymation worlds that struggle with photorealism and object interaction? Google frames this as a step toward AGI and a game prototyping tool, while 52% of game developers believe AI negatively impacts their field. Sounds like a real genie in a bottle, if the bottle is full of unfulfilled promises and developer layoffs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iit38VC43" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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