cURL Ends Bug Bounty Program to Stop AI Slop (Jan 2026)
After two years fighting an “AI slop tsunami,” cURL creator Daniel Stenberg shut down the project’s bug bounty program on January 21, 2026. ...
Developer Productivity 2026: AI and Platform Engineering Shift
Gartner analysts predict that developer effectiveness in 2026 will be “assessed based on creativity and ...
Humans& Raises $480M Seed Round at $4.48B Valuation
Humans&, a three-month-old AI startup founded by veterans from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google, just ...
Nova Launcher Adds Ads Day One: Instabridge 2026
Swedish company Instabridge acquired Nova Launcher on January 20, 2026, and within 24 hours users ...
Threads vs X: Mobile User Win Masks Web Traffic Reality
Meta’s Threads platform surpassed X (formerly Twitter) in mobile daily active users for the first ...
OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras Deal: AI Infrastructure Crisis
OpenAI signed a $10+ billion deal with Cerebras Systems on January 14, 2026, committing to 750 megawatts of AI inference computing capacity through ...
IBM Quantum 2026: When Quantum Beats Classical Computing
IBM stakes reputation on 2026 quantum advantage claim. Nighthawk processor delivers 50x speedup while Qiskit ...
AI Verification Bottleneck: 96% of Devs Distrust Code
Sonar’s 2026 State of Code Developer Survey, polling 1,149 professional software developers globally in January ...
Meta’s $2B Manus Deal Faces China Regulatory Wall
Meta’s $2-3 billion acquisition of Manus—a Singapore-based AI startup with Chinese roots—hit a regulatory wall ...
DeepSeek V4 Targets 80.9% SWE-Bench Record in February 2026
DeepSeek is launching V4 in mid-February 2026, and insider sources claim it will beat both ...