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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>React moves to an independent foundation</strong>: Meta has officially transferred React, React Native, and the JSX specification to the newly formed React Foundation under the Linux Foundation. While Meta remains a platinum member alongside Amazon and Microsoft, technical direction stays with the existing maintainers to ensure development remains decoupled from corporate interests. This transition aims to improve global accessibility and long-term sustainability for the ecosystem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Vf1iZDHHt" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Nvidia hits record revenue as AI demand shifts to tokens</strong>: Nvidia reported a staggering $68 billion in quarterly revenue, a 73% year-over-year increase driven almost entirely by its data center business. CEO Jensen Huang noted that demand is shifting toward ‘compute tokens’ and confirmed ongoing $30 billion partnership talks with OpenAI. Despite export restrictions, Nvidia acknowledged that Chinese competitors like Moore Threads are making technical progress. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/I58Ho2pR9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Anthropic acquires Vercept to boost Claude computer use</strong>: Anthropic has acqui-hired the team behind Vercept, a startup that developed ‘Vy,’ an agent capable of controlling remote MacBooks via graphical interfaces. The acquisition specifically targets enhancing Claude’s ability to interact with desktop environments and complex UI tasks. Vercept’s existing product will be shuttered in March as the founders integrate into Anthropic’s core research teams. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VoPayj2dv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cilium 1.19 released with sidecar-free mutual authentication</strong>: The 10th-anniversary release introduces strict IPsec/WireGuard modes and beta Ztunnel integration for hardened multi-cluster security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VJq8q5iXQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google brings Gemini-powered app automation to Android</strong>: New AppFunctions APIs allow AI agents to execute structured tasks on-device, rolling out first to Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hXcElb2hp" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Mercury 2 LLM targets latency with parallel refinement</strong>: Inception’s new model uses diffusion-based reasoning to generate multiple tokens simultaneously, aiming for real-time agentic loops. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ea5kyYvcg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Database design shifts for AI agent workloads</strong>: Architects are moving toward compute-storage separation and serverless branching to handle the unpredictable, high-speed spikes of agentic users. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/CsrS8L3oL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity kills HDRP in favor of a unified URP strategy</strong>: Unity is moving HDRP to maintenance mode to consolidate resources into the Universal Render Pipeline for all platforms by 2026. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kOn1P0sth" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenTelemetry driving the rise of observability warehouses</strong>: The industry is decoupling visualization from storage, centralizing logs and traces into cost-effective object storage for AI-driven analysis. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/x1M34c90H" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New York sues Valve over loot boxes</strong>: The Attorney General alleges that loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 constitute illegal gambling targeting minors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/lD39bPNsE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The fully conscious filesystem LLM</strong>: Kent Overstreet, the bcachefs creator, claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’ and helping him rewrite C code into Rust. He’s defending this on Hacker News as being grounded in ‘neuroscience’ rather than the more likely explanation of sleep deprivation and chatbot-induced psychosis. It’s a bold strategy to claim AGI while your primary evidence is a sentient C-to-Rust transpiler. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9O7PJDBRB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Research and the 76 point miracle</strong>: A viral claim suggests Google Research boosted LLM accuracy by 76 percentage points with ‘zero latency’ and ‘zero extra tokens.’ This miracle comes from a single unverified retweet without a linked paper or methodology. In the real world, a 76-point jump usually means your baseline was a random number generator or you’re over-fitting the test set into oblivion. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/73tgOim8I" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Salesforce and the SaaSpocalypse denial</strong>: Marc Benioff is desperately trying to convince investors that AI agents will save SaaS, introducing ‘Agent Work Units’ as a new metric to distract from modest organic growth. Despite the hype about Agentforce ‘wins’ against ServiceNow, the market responded by tanking the stock 5.6% after hours. It turns out investors aren’t quite ready to trade actual revenue for ‘meaningful task completion’ metrics. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/R4O8qdc3C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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