MCP Joins Linux Foundation: AI Rivals Unite on Open Standard
Anthropic donated Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025, uniting rivals OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and ...
QuestDB’s 40-Line JVM Fix Delivers 400x Performance Boost
QuestDB engineers just fixed a Java performance bug that had been slowing down thread monitoring ...
DeepSeek MHC Hits 16% Better AI With 7% Overhead
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek kicked off 2026 on January 1 with a technical paper proposing ...
Chrome Brings Back JPEG XL After 2022 “Obsolete” Kill
Google reversed its 2022 JPEG XL removal after Safari shipped it and developers built a ...
Harmattan AI Hits $1.4B Valuation: Defense Unicorn in 20 Months
French defense AI startup Harmattan AI closed a $200 million Series B led by Dassault ...
Apple Picks Gemini After Siri 33% Failure Rate Forces $1B Bet
Apple and Google announced a multi-year partnership on Sunday, January 12, 2026, making Google Gemini the foundation for next-generation Siri and Apple Intelligence ...
Indonesia Malaysia Ban Grok Over 15,000 Deepfakes
Indonesia and Malaysia became the first countries in the world to ban an AI chatbot ...
Google Founders Leave California: Silicon Valley Exodus
Sergey Brin and Larry Page moved $518B wealth out of California in December 2025, avoiding ...
Wearable E-Waste Crisis: PCBs Are 70% Of Problem
Cornell University and University of Chicago researchers dropped a bombshell last week: wearable health devices ...
Remix/React Router Merger: Why Choosing Wrong Brand Failed
The Remix team merged into React Router v7 in November 2024, abandoning their stronger brand. ...