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If you can't see how traffic moves, you can't truly calculate cost or detect latency issues — especially if you use dozens of services. In this eBook, Datadog & AWS Solutions Architects provide 6 steps to diagramming your cloud architecture [9] at the infra and traffic
AI agent capabilities crossed a threshold at the end of last year. This has caused a phase shift in software engineering. The intelligence part is a bit ahead of integration, so there is a need for new organizational workflows and processes. This year will be a high-energy year as the industry digests the new capability.
37signals' engineering strategy results in good code. The company stays small, cuts scope ruthlessly, and hires well. Its strategy creates a flywheel where developers maintain less code, allowing them to apply more fixup/review cycles, creating a cleaner code base, which helps to reduce headcount. Most companies can't adopt the strategy because they think more features equals more money.
AI models are now beginning to make progress in solving unsolved mathematical problems. It is so good that strong engineers are now handing their coding to AI. Similar improvements are occurring across biological science, finance, physics, and a variety of agentic tasks. If progress continues, it will only be a few years before AI is better than humans at essentially everything. This could result in a serious civilizational challenge that will require decisive and careful action.
Today's personalized pricing is different. The average person probably doesn't even know that haggling is an option or the factors that contribute to personalized pricing. In the future, people will cultivate their digital representations so they can get the lowest prices and best treatment. This access could even be sold to others who aren't so careful.
The Holy Grail of software development is full self-improvement, and the key to building this is a system that can autonomously generate bug reports and understand features that users will want.
This post is a review of a blog post written by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the power duo who arguably made Google what it is today.
Starship Flight 12 will launch in six weeks.
Replacing SaaS with AI would cost more and deliver a lower-quality product in almost all scenarios, so it makes no sense from an economic or product perspective.
The only way to actually meet demand in 2028 and beyond is to have competition in the foundry space.
Claude makes problems that used to take hours take minutes, automating every tedious task away.
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Nebius Token Factory [4] is built for teams running open-source LLMs in real products. We deliver managed inference with explicit control over execution paths: speculative decoding, cache-aware routing, and post-training tuned to real traffic. Predictable tail latency, stable cost, and production-grade systems for AI that actually ships.
Apple's AI efforts have resulted in a Google partnership, management changes, and two new versions of Siri. The company had considered partnering with OpenAI or Anthropic, but Anthropic wanted too much money, and OpenAI was actively poaching Apple engineers. Google was willing to agree to a financial structure Apple deemed reasonable, and its technology had improved significantly in recent months. Apple is planning an announcement for the second half of February that will include demonstrations of the new Siri.
ChatGPT's worldwide traffic declined in January as Google's Gemini's traffic increased. The shift marks a significant acceleration of competitive pressure. ChatGPT had a commanding share last year, but its dominance eroded over the course of the year. Gemini's growth reflects Google's systematic integration across its services and devices, which creates a distribution advantage through existing userbases.
The next launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will carry an AST SpaceMobile large communications satellite into low-Earth orbit. The mission will use a refurbished booster from New Glenn's second mission. It will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than late February. Blue Origin's turnaround time for the rocket (less than four months) is impressive, even for a well-capitalized program.
A new experimental drug uses CRISPR to manipulate a single gene in the liver that normally boosts cholesterol levels. The approach works after one dose, helping people lower their levels of cholesterol and other fats in the blood permanently. While a Phase 1 clinical trial showed that the treatment is effective, its long-term safety is unknown. There are already safe and effective medications that can control cholesterol and fats, but patients tend to stop using them within a year due to side effects.
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Gas Town is a provocative piece of speculative design, but its design is too poorly thought through to persist. The problems with Gas Town will undoubtedly show up in the next generation of development tools. Thoughtful design, critical thinking, user research, and planning and coordination within teams will become more important as the pace of software development speeds up. The most valuable tools will help people think more clearly, plan more carefully, and keep the quality bar high.
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business in an all-cash deal for $27.75 a share. The deal has been unanimously approved by Warner Bros.' board, and shareholders will vote on it in the next couple of months. The deal could be blocked by regulators, and Paramount could still increase its offer, but it previously said that the last bid was final.
Tesla will start to charge $99 per month for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) subscription starting on February 14. The capability can be bought for a one-time fee of $8,000 until then. The $99 per month price will rise as FSD's capabilities improve. Tesla's falling profit margins, declining sales, and loss of emissions credits may be pushing the company to find other sources of regular income.
As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [16].
Advice on building agents from someone with two years of experience building AI agents for financial services.
Software engineering is about keeping code running over time as systems change.
Clarity-1 proved sustainable orbit operations in VLEO, validated its mid-size, high-performance Precision bus, and validated 98% of the technology required to capture 10 cm resolution visible imagery and 2-meter thermal infrared imagery.
Vimeo, which started before YouTube in 2004, was acquired by Bending Spoons in September last year.
Google is introducing extra steps when sideloading to ensure users understand the risks of installing apps from unverified developers.
A centralized burn can completely prevent users from interacting with people using Bluesky.
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As AI evolves at an unprecedented pace, measuring intelligence requires more than a few AI research labs alone – it requires the imagination and collective expertise of the global community. That's why Kaggle launched Community Benchmarks, a new way for anyone to build, design, run and share custom benchmarks for evaluating AI models AT NO COST.
TikTok has formed a joint venture to keep its platform operating in the US. Adam Presser, who has worked at TikTok for almost four years and was previously a senior executive at Warner Bros., will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture. TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director. The joint venture will operate under defined safeguards that protect national security.
Capital One Financial has agreed to buy Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock. Brex launched in 2017 to cater to startups that ran into difficulties getting corporate cards from traditional players. It is one of the youngest US startups to join the billion-dollar valuation club. Capital One expects to close the deal in the second quarter.
Tesla Robotaxi riders in Austin, Texas, are now able to hail a Model Y Robotaxi without anyone in the vehicle. The company has removed the human Safety Monitors that have been present in its robotaxis since launch last June. The change has not rolled out to the entire fleet yet. Videos of riders experiencing the driverless service are available in the article.
Elon Musk says he expects Tesla to begin selling humanoid robots to the public by the end of 2027. Tesla's Optimus robots are already performing simple tasks in the company's factories. There are still profound technological challenges remaining for humanoid robots, including basic issues like hand function. Musk has warned that initial production for Optimus and the Cybercab will be agonizingly slow, but eventually will end up being insanely fast.
GitHub Copilot SDK allows developers to embed the same agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot CLI into any application. It provides programmatic access to the same production-tested execution loop, so developers don't have to manage context across turns, orchestrate tools and commands, route between models, integrate MCP servers, or think through permissions, safety boundaries, and failure modes. The SDK also provides support for multiple AI models, custom tool definitions, GitHub authentication, and real-time streaming. It is now available in technical preview.
There is a lot of power in composing CLIs. With some creativity, it's possible for an individual to maintain CLIs instead of an MCP server. This post discusses how to expose SaaS functionality to agents without MCP. It provides examples of how to do so by giving an agent access to Google Docs and to Google Groups.
Netflix is facing increasing skepticism from Wall Street due to its intention to acquire Warner Bros. The decision is a stark departure from Netflix's build-not-buy philosophy. This article contains an interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters where he discusses why engagement is an important metric and how live events play into that, the Warner Bros. acquisition, why Peters is convinced it is a home run, and the company's arguments as to why regulators should allow the acquisition. The interview is available as a podcast.
Becca Selah joined Amazon in April of 2019, six months after becoming a mother. This post takes a look at her time at the company. It covers Amazon's levels, work/life balance, vacations, vesting, and more. Selah left a year and two days into her tenure with an unceremonious exit.
As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [16].
Apple's hardware chief John Ternus' role now includes design work, a role that has long been entrusted to a senior leader.
Barret Zoph's firing from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has resulted in several employees leaving for OpenAI and other companies.
a16z's State of Markets slide deck shares what the firm sees in the private and public markets, what it thinks the state of AI looks like, and why today's winners are just built different.
Epic helped Google market Android, and in return, Google helped market Fortnite.
Microsoft's Windows, Teams, M365, and other divisions have been told to install Claude Code for internal testing alongside Copilot.
The job cuts are part of the company's broader goal of cutting about 10% of its corporate workforce.