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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>SpaceX acquires xAI, plans orbital AI data centers</strong>: SpaceX has acquired xAI in a deal valued at $250 billion, with plans to build AI data centers in space powered by solar energy. Elon Musk claims this will drastically reduce AI computing costs for model training within 2-3 years, leveraging Starship rockets to deploy 100 gigawatts of AI capacity annually. This consolidation merges Grok, X, Starlink, and SpaceX under one umbrella, raising concerns about oversight, ethics, and national security, as reported by various sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=wMYF638eZ&amp;id=n9USqOv7M" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents are still a security nightmare</strong>: The security risks of AI agents continue to escalate, with new vulnerabilities emerging. OpenClaw, an AI agent project, gained massive traction but was found to have critical vulnerabilities including data exfiltration and prompt injection weaknesses, leading to a database breach affecting 1.49 million records. This highlights that AI agents, with their elevated privileges and access to sensitive systems, are becoming prime targets for attackers, demanding a zero-trust approach and rigorous security reviews, as detailed by security researchers from Cisco, Vectra, and 1Password. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=fuL6WfKHt&amp;id=pIx77zx7B&amp;id=oj5PHQnXi&amp;id=y8Dci6Fk6&amp;id=yBxtGCVqr&amp;id=ylNMd9VEn&amp;id=zG1YpV8p9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent memory limitations and solutions emerge</strong>: Current vector databases are proving insufficient for AI agent memory due to their focus on semantic similarity rather than temporal truth or context evolution. Effective AI memory systems require both short-term and long-term capabilities, incorporating conflict resolution and temporal awareness. Frameworks like Cognee are emerging to address these challenges by combining vector search with knowledge graphs to handle memory conflicts and temporal logic, as discussed in recent articles. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=qmDVLLbCW&amp;id=Xn0fa2TTg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Snowflake expands AI data cloud with PostgreSQL and Openflow</strong>: Snowflake launched a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI Data Cloud, enabling transactional workloads to run alongside analytics and AI, and introduced Openflow for plug-and-play data integration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ppuh0CVeq&amp;id=qgdGrzKKG" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Deno Deploy reaches GA, launches Sandbox for untrusted code</strong>: Deno Deploy is now generally available with Node.js framework support and integrated PostgreSQL, while Deno Sandbox offers instant Linux microVMs for securely running untrusted code, especially LLM-generated code. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/Jmdw76tdu" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>China’s open-source AI ecosystem transforms</strong>: China’s AI ecosystem has shifted to an open-source approach, with major tech companies and startups adopting collaborative development, supported by significant infrastructure investment and an ‘AI+’ action plan prioritizing large-scale deployment over AGI. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mPvh8h9et" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel ISH firmware upstreamed for Panther Lake processors</strong>: Intel ISH firmware has been upstreamed to the Linux kernel, providing necessary support for Dell’s upcoming XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops featuring Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) processors. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DUa6sPBrf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Grab develops custom vision LLM for eKYC in Southeast Asia</strong>: Grab developed a custom 1-billion-parameter Vision LLM for eKYC verification, optimized to extract information from diverse Southeast Asian documents with 48-56% faster latency than larger models. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oKYF7U3Na" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>MLflow integrates LLM evaluation frameworks</strong>: MLflow 3.9.0 now integrates over 50 evaluation metrics from DeepEval, RAGAS, and Arize Phoenix, allowing simultaneous evaluation of LLM agents and RAG systems with a unified API and dashboard. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=zVcgznCs0&amp;id=KsHm2AH9p&amp;id=gmGqWGOak" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes edge computing deployment challenges</strong>: Kubernetes edge computing deployments are failing because they treat edge as an exception; solutions require treating edge as first-class infrastructure with declarative GitOps and resilient workloads. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DbwDQnWsK" 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 assistants transmit code to China</strong>: Apparently, two popular AI coding assistants, used by 1.5 million developers, are secretly transmitting ingested code to servers in China. Schneier on Security reports this as unauthorized data exfiltration, supposedly to steal intellectual property. So, while you’re happily coding away, your ‘assistant’ might just be moonlighting as a digital spy. Who needs supply chain attacks when your own tools are doing the heavy lifting? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/puWFcrOO1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI axes ChatGPT models with two weeks’ notice</strong>: OpenAI is once again deprecating several ChatGPT models, including GPT-4o, with a generous two weeks’ warning. This is their second attempt to kill off GPT-4o, but apparently, only 0.1% of users still bother with it. So, while they’re busy making their models obsolete, at least they’re consistent in their short-notice deprecation policy. Good thing the API isn’t affected, because who actually uses the chatbot for anything serious anymore? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JR3z1jag0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-generated websites: a triumph of convenience over security</strong>: A development team used an AI tool to generate a landing page, which, predictably, was promptly compromised through a vulnerable third-party package, redirecting users to gambling sites. The incident highlights that while AI can churn out code at warp speed, it still requires human oversight to prevent your shiny new website from becoming a malware delivery service. Because, you know, security is just an afterthought when you’re chasing that ‘instant website’ dream. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/yqL3YAYGj" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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