News LMArena Raises $150M at $1.7B Valuation in 4 Months LMArena, the crowdsourced AI evaluation platform behind the widely-cited Chatbot Arena leaderboard, raised $150 million at a $1.7 billion valuation in a Series ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Technology Cognitive Debt: MIT Study Shows ChatGPT Harms Your Brain MIT study: ChatGPT users showed weakest brain connectivity. Developers using AI assistants daily may accumulate cognitive debt—measurable brain changes. By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Technology WebGPU 2026: 70% Browser Support, 15x Performance Gains WebGPU hit 70% browser support Jan 2026 (Firefox 147, iOS 26). Delivers 15-30x performance gains. 65% of new apps adopted. Migration guide included. By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Developer Tools Sweep AI 1.5B Model Beats GitHub Copilot at Code Autocomplete Sweep AI released an open-weights 1.5B parameter code autocomplete model TODAY that outperforms models four times its size—and runs entirely on your laptop. ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Security VS Code Malware 2026: 17K+ Infected by Supply Chain Attacks Visual Studio Code faces a critical supply chain security crisis in early 2026. Three major attack vectors have converged: North Korean hackers’ “Contagious ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Technology eBay AI Agent Ban: Revenue Protection Strategy 2026 eBay banned AI shopping agents on Jan 20, 2026 to protect 12-15% fees. Amazon Buy for Me blocked while Google gets exception. Platform ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
News Claude AI Constitution: First to Acknowledge Consciousness Anthropic became the first major AI company to acknowledge its AI might be conscious. On January 22, 2026, the company published a 23,000-word ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Technology PostgreSQL Optimization: 94% Faster Queries, 69% Smaller Indexes PostgreSQL 17 cuts query times 94%. Learn unconventional optimizations: constraint exclusion, function-based indexes, hash techniques for dramatic gains. By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Uncategorized Anthropic Hiring Test Retired: Claude Beats Humans Anthropic retired its performance engineering hiring challenge this week—because Claude Opus 4.5 started beating human candidates in two hours. The company open-sourced the ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
News 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. ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
