OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 with 1M context and 33% fewer hallucinations. Cursor launches event-driven AI agents. Trump orders US agencies off Anthropic. State, Treasury, and HHS all switch. Oracle plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data centers. Aqua Trivy VS Code extension hijacked in supply chain attack. Developer news Mar 2-8, 2026.
OpenAI closes $110B round at $840B valuation. Anthropic refuses Pentagon demands on AI safeguards — Claude hits #1 on App Store. Figma integrates OpenAI Codex for design-to-code. Go 1.26 ships with Green Tea GC on by default. Hacker uses Claude to steal 150GB from Mexican government. Developer news Feb 23-Mar 1, 2026.
India secures $250 billion in AI investments at New Delhi summit. TypeScript 7 ships native compiler for faster builds. Big Tech cuts buybacks to fund AI infrastructure. New npm worm steals dev secrets. Ireland investigates X's Grok. Developer news Feb 16-22, 2026.
Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation. Seedance 2.0 goes viral — Disney sends cease-and-desist. Google launches CodeWiki and offers employee exit packages. GPT-5.3 Codex and Gemini 3 Deep Think drop on the same day. Interop 2026 aligns browsers on 20 features. Developer news Feb 9-15, 2026.
SpaceX acquires xAI in $1.25 trillion deal. Big Tech announces $600 billion in AI spending, rattling markets. Anthropic buys Super Bowl ads to challenge OpenAI. GitHub opens Agent HQ to Claude and Codex. Docker launches AI Agent. Weekly developer news Feb 2-8, 2026.
OpenAI launches Prism for scientific research. Amazon cuts thousands of jobs. Google adds auto-browse to Chrome with Gemini. MCP Apps becomes official. OpenAI retires older models. Weekly developer news Jan 26 - Feb 1, 2026.
Apple confirms Gemini-powered Siri chatbot for late 2026. ClickHouse reaches $15 billion valuation. Next.js explains Turbopack's speed. Malaysia unblocks Grok AI. Memory chip prices surge. UK court greenlights data center challenge. Weekly developer news Jan 19-25, 2026.
Microsoft fixes 114 vulnerabilities including zero-days. Cloudflare acquires Astro. LambdaTest rebrands to TestMu AI. GitHub restructures for AI. OpenAI acquires Torch. Weekly developer news Jan 12-18, 2026.
VS Code extensions stealing developer credentials. C# crowned TIOBE Language of the Year. Postman acquires Fern for API docs. Developer salaries hit $235K as shortage worsens 40%. Red Hat and Nvidia partner on enterprise AI.
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SoftBank finalizing massive OpenAI investment. Disney licenses characters for Sora. TikTok US joint venture moves forward. NIST invests $20M in AI research centers. OpenAI launches 'Your Year with ChatGPT.' Year-end developer stats are in.
Cursor buys Graphite. Coursera and Udemy merge in $2.5B deal. Privacy extensions caught selling 8M users' AI conversations. GitHub walks back self-hosted runner fees. Let's Encrypt shortens cert lifetimes. US launches Genesis Mission.
IBM acquires Confluent. Linux Foundation brings together Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block for AI agents. Security researchers find 30+ vulnerabilities in AI coding tools. Infragistics open sources 50+ UI components. Azul acquires Payara.
Anthropic buys Bun as Claude Code hits $1B. Cloudflare's second outage in 17 days. Critical React Server Components CVE. Cursor valued at $2.3B. OpenAI-Accenture $3B deal. AWS and Google team up.
AWS operates 900+ data centers globally. Microsoft ships GPT-5 Chat in Copilot Studio. Meta in talks to buy Google's TPU chips. Canon hit by Oracle ransomware. Alibaba's AI app hits 10M downloads. White House launches Genesis Mission for AI.
Cloudflare takes down ChatGPT and X for 6 hours. Jeff Bezos launches Project Prometheus with $6.2B funding. X rolls out encrypted DMs. AMD targets Nvidia's AI dominance. Google drops AI-powered IDE.
Microsoft invests $10 billion in Portugal AI infrastructure, .NET 10 LTS drops with major performance gains, TypeScript becomes GitHub's most-used language, and React Native security flaw hits 2 million projects
Microsoft drops $9.7 billion on AI infrastructure, Samsung and Nvidia team up for 50,000 GPU megafactory, Deepnote goes open source, and AI security concerns grow
Nvidia reaches $5 trillion valuation, OpenAI prepares for trillion-dollar IPO and launches Aardvark security agent, Anthropic expands to Seoul
Major AWS US-EAST-1 outage disrupts internet services, Anthropic partners with Google Cloud for 1M TPUs, OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser, Google quantum breakthrough
OpenAI partners with AMD for 6GW of GPUs challenging NVIDIA, launches app ecosystem at $500B valuation, and UK faces developer shortage
Microsoft kills Windows 10, OpenAI's Sora 2 launches amid controversy, Nobel Prize honors quantum pioneers, Ubuntu replaces sudo with Rust
California enforces AI hiring law, Anthropic launches Claude developer tools, GitHub brings AI to terminal, and EA sells for $55 billion
Nvidia's $100B AI bet, H-1B visa chaos, Anthropic copyright battle, and PostgreSQL 18's major upgrade
Meta demo failures, Java 25 LTS release, and the ongoing NPM supply chain attack
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