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<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Musk’s companies eye a trillion-dollar AI-space merger</strong>: Elon Musk’s SpaceX, xAI, and potentially Tesla are in early talks to merge, aiming to create a trillion-dollar super-company. This consolidation could combine rockets, satellites, AI, and electric vehicles, with a key goal of building space-based AI data centers to cut training costs, according to reports. The move also seeks to strengthen Pentagon contracts and military AI integration, though building data centers in space is noted as a risky proposition given AI’s rapid evolution. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wMYF638eZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google DeepMind launches Project Genie for AI world generation</strong>: Google DeepMind has unveiled Project Genie, an experimental web prototype powered by the Genie 3 world model, capable of generating interactive environments in real-time. Available to Google AI Ultra subscribers, it allows users to create and explore dynamic worlds using text and image prompts, simulating physics and interactions. While it excels at whimsical styles, it struggles with photorealism and object interaction, and the gaming industry views it with concern, with 52% of developers believing AI negatively impacts their field, as reported by various sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/iit38VC43" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Meta doubles down on AI infrastructure despite Reality Labs losses</strong>: Meta plans to invest a staggering $115-135 billion in AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly doubling its previous year’s investment, to support its Superintelligence Labs and develop ‘personal superintelligence’ agents. This massive expenditure comes as Meta’s Reality Labs division reported $19.2 billion in operational losses for FY25, bringing total losses to $83.6 billion since 2020. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, announced a strategic pivot for Reality Labs towards AI-integrated wearables, expecting FY25 to be peak losses, according to Meta’s official statements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=JHGPGk0MW&amp;id=ALCffHVkc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Google Cloud brings conversational analytics to BigQuery</strong>: Google Cloud has launched Conversational Analytics in BigQuery (preview), an AI-powered agent integrated into BigQuery Studio that enables natural language data analysis, eliminating the need for SQL knowledge by leveraging Gemini models to generate, execute, and visualize queries. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2YKMeABdR" 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 <a href="http://Q.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Q.ai</a>’s expertise in whispered speech recognition and audio enhancement, which is expected to benefit AirPods and Vision Pro products. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PknWg8Xks" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Microsoft’s hybrid AI chip strategy for data centers</strong>: Microsoft has deployed its Maia 200 AI inference chip in data centers, claiming superior performance over competitors, but CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the company will continue purchasing AI 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>Kubernetes RCE flaw identified in <code>nodes/proxy GET</code> permissions</strong>: Edera Advisory has found a critical design flaw in Kubernetes allowing remote code execution (RCE) in any container on a node via commonly used <code>nodes/proxy GET</code> permissions, a risk scheduled for removal in Kubernetes 1.36 but posing a threat to many current production clusters. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/phMyeDnVg" 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, officially on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, enabling high-performance game streaming with RTX capabilities via a Flatpak distribution. <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, now including Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and OVHcloud, alongside a new Plugin SDK for custom extensions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bqzmDPKsL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New CSS features enhance UI development</strong>: Modern CSS now includes powerful features like conditional logic with IF functions, anchor positioning, and scroll-driven animations, reducing reliance on JavaScript for common UI patterns and improving performance and accessibility. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/wTa2TFZUo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Container security: developers prefer hardened images, but organizations prioritize performance</strong>: A BellSoft survey found nearly a quarter of developers experienced container security incidents, with human error being the top cause. Developers want pre-hardened images, but organizations are apparently too busy chasing performance metrics to prioritize security. So, we’re all just going to keep having security incidents until someone decides security is, you know, actually important. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/I55IVTrKU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Xbox gaming division continues its impressive decline</strong>: Microsoft’s gaming division reported a 9% revenue drop and a 32% decline in Xbox console sales, marking the sixth consecutive year of falling console sales. This follows price increases and multiple layoffs, yet Microsoft expects continued declines. Clearly, the strategy of making things more expensive and firing people is really paying off for the Xbox team. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/uKbAAElcM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GDC report: AI harms industry, layoffs up, but organizers are ‘optimistic’</strong>: The 2026 GDC report shows game industry layoffs are up, 52% of professionals believe generative AI harms the industry, and support for unionization is soaring. Yet, GDC organizers are ‘tracking in line with expectations’ for attendance, despite international developers expressing reluctance to attend. Nothing to see here, folks, just a perfectly healthy industry with ‘optimistic’ organizers ignoring all the red flags. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=REyf1LA3H&amp;id=dX5Rur1jC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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