Daily Digest - 2026-02-07

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Today: Trump is pushing to end war in Ukraine by June, Zelenskyy says · Cost of UK pet insurance falls despite higher vet fees and infl… · AI: openai/openai-node: v6.18.0.

Top 10 — News

  1. Trump is pushing to end war in Ukraine by June, Zelenskyy says
    Business & economy | Financial Times - World | 2026-02-07 09:23 UTC
    Three-way peace talks are expected to take place in Miami within a week
  2. US and India reach interim trade deal
    Business & economy | Financial Times - Markets | 2026-02-07 07:26 UTC
    Agreement follows détente between Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
  3. Cost of UK pet insurance falls despite higher vet fees and inflation
    Business & economy | The Guardian - Business | 2026-02-07 08:00 UTC
    Competition is driving down prices, albeit slowly, with the median lifetime cover put at £247 for dogs and £180 for cats a year Vet fees co…
  4. UK threatens to seize Russia-linked shadow fleet tanker in escalatory move
    Business & economy | The Guardian - Business | 2026-02-07 07:00 UTC
    Capture of rogue ship could open a new front against Moscow at a time when Russia’s oil revenues are tumbling The UK is threatening to seiz…
  5. Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
    Tech industry | Ars Technica | 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
    The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.
  6. Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras
    Tech industry | TechCrunch | 2026-02-07 05:23 UTC
    Benchmark Capital has been an investor in the Nvidia rival since 2016.
  7. Cairn is a climbing journey about perseverance and obsession
    Tech industry | The Verge | 2026-02-07 14:00 UTC
    I'm an awful rock climber.
  8. The best way to watch the Olympics
    Tech industry | The Verge | 2026-02-07 13:00 UTC
    Hi, friends!
  9. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims AI no longer hallucinates, apparently hallucinating himself
    AI frontier | The Decoder (AI) | 2026-02-07 12:58 UTC
    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims in a CNBC interview that AI no longer hallucinates.
  10. OpenAI’s UAE deal with G42 shows AI models are cultural products as much as technical tools
AI frontier | The Decoder (AI) | 2026-02-07 09:26 UTC
OpenAI is working with G42 on a custom ChatGPT for the UAE that speaks the local dialect, reflects political views, and includes content re…

AI tools & model updates

  1. openai/openai-node: v6.18.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node | 2026-02-05 16:27 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  2. openai/openai-python: v2.17.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python | 2026-02-05 16:26 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  3. Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.12.3
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI | 2026-02-05 07:04 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  4. Introducing OpenAI Frontier
    AI tools & model releases | OpenAI Blog (releases-only) | 2026-02-05 06:00 UTC
    OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and…
  5. anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: foundry-sdk: v0.2.3
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript | 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  6. anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: bedrock-sdk: v0.26.3
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript | 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  7. anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.78.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python | 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  8. How to Build License-Compliant Synthetic Data Pipelines for AI Model Distillation
    AI tools & model releases | NVIDIA Developer Blog | 2026-02-05 18:00 UTC
    Specialized AI models are built to perform specific tasks or solve particular problems.
  9. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles
    AI tools & model releases | AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) | 2026-02-06 17:00 UTC
    Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles, enabling you to reuse authentication state across multiple browser sessions…
  10. 3 Ways NVFP4 Accelerates AI Training and Inference
AI tools & model releases | NVIDIA Developer Blog | 2026-02-06 16:00 UTC
The latest AI models continue to grow in size and complexity, demanding increasing amounts of compute performance for training and inferenc…
Full list — News (50)
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 09:23 UTC
Three-way peace talks are expected to take place in Miami within a week
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-07 07:26 UTC
Agreement follows détente between Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 11:15 UTC
US president says Tehran seems to ‘want to make a deal very badly’
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-07 11:00 UTC
Senators push proposals to lift deposit insurance limit, aiming to avoid another Silicon Valley Bank debacle
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 11:00 UTC
French ideas are often in the ascendant in EU policy-making just as the country’s government grows weaker
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-07 08:21 UTC
Funds suffer £11.1bn in outflows in 2025 despite FTSE 100 surging 21.5 per cent — its biggest gain since 2009
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Record exports to the US for Sunday’s clash belies threats to labourers and farmers from cartels
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
The football league is perhaps the only institution capable of uniting much of the country, as this weekend’s Super Bowl will show
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain.
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Charging €2 to look creates a physical and psychological barrier between Rome and one of its best-loved monuments
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Changes to inheritance tax and non-dom rules have spurred interest in retiring abroad — but there are new hurdles, too
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Jonathan Recanati shares what drives him as he takes on his ‘biggest risk’ yet — expanding to the US
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
US, EU and China compete for South American nation’s vast deposits of the critical minerals as trade tensions loom
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
If the normal pathways to financial security are vanishing, why not let your child follow their passions?
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Rightwing leader’s latest bill overhauls the country’s rigid employment market
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-07 10:30 UTC
Increasing AI scrutiny is dividing the group into winners and losers
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-07 07:00 UTC
Vivid redesign and social media buzz lure Chinese buyers back after a prolonged slump
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-07 05:00 UTC
Rising tide might no longer support all sector stocks, let alone speculative dross like crypto
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 08:00 UTC
Competition is driving down prices, albeit slowly, with the median lifetime cover put at £247 for dogs and £180 for cats a year Vet fees co…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 07:00 UTC
Capture of rogue ship could open a new front against Moscow at a time when Russia’s oil revenues are tumbling The UK is threatening to seiz…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 13:34 UTC
Exclusive: Disclosures show figures cited by council leader rested on unfunded ideas listed briefly in budget papers Reform UK’s flagship c…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
The documents confirm what many have long assumed: elites live by their own special rules and codes of immunity The millions of Jeffrey Eps…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
Mergers and acquisitions will shrink number of operators from more than 100 to five or six, says Be.EV co-founder British electric charger…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset E…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
Deregulation alone can’t make homes affordable when rising inequality, not zoning, is what is driving prices up Donald Trump has an interes…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
Peaceful demonstrations force a delay in measures aimed at improving revenue collection but which many fear will be fatal for small traders…
Tech industry · The Guardian - Technology · 2026-02-07 14:00 UTC
SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI creates business worth $1.25tn but whether premise behind deal will work is questioned The acquisition of xAI b…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 11:00 UTC
I understand the appeal of avoiding all human contact.
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 11:00 UTC
Ombudsman found bank wrongly rejected 34% of complaints last year, with NatWest and HSBC close behind Monzo has wrongly denied refunds to t…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 08:00 UTC
Exclusive: Daisy Cooper says ex-minister could have ‘abused trading laws’ when sharing state information with Jeffrey Epstein The Liberal D…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 07:00 UTC
Prices paid for large estates not being disclosed on official register, land reform advocates say Land reform campaigners are alarmed at th…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-07 07:00 UTC
Almost 1m UK households are hooked up to heat networks.
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.
Tech industry · The Guardian - Technology · 2026-02-07 10:00 UTC
Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough Victims of deepfake i…
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-07 05:23 UTC
Benchmark Capital has been an investor in the Nvidia rival since 2016.
Tech industry · The Verge · 2026-02-07 14:00 UTC
I'm an awful rock climber.
Tech industry · The Verge · 2026-02-07 13:00 UTC
Hi, friends!
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-07 12:58 UTC
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims in a CNBC interview that AI no longer hallucinates.
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-07 09:26 UTC
OpenAI is working with G42 on a custom ChatGPT for the UAE that speaks the local dialect, reflects political views, and includes content re…
AI frontier · WIRED - AI · 2026-02-07 11:30 UTC
Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.
Tech industry · IEEE Spectrum · 2026-02-07 14:00 UTC
Most 3D design software requires visual dragging and rotating—posing a challenge for blind and low-vision users.
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-07 12:15 UTC
Vercel set out to find the best way for AI coding agents to access up-to-date framework knowledge.
AI frontier · WIRED - AI · 2026-02-07 12:00 UTC
From drones with “first-person” visualization to real-time 360-degree replays and Olympics GPT, get ready to immerse yourself in the Winter…
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-07 08:52 UTC
Researchers at Peking University and Google built a system that turns method descriptions into scientific diagrams automatically.
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-07 13:34 UTC
Article URL: https://github.com/suitenumerique Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923736 Points: 65 # Comments: 33
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-07 13:07 UTC
Article URL: https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923543 P…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-07 12:53 UTC
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923463 Points: 24 # Comments: 2
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-07 12:18 UTC
Article URL: https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923254 Points: 44 # Comments: 8
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-07 07:37 UTC
Article URL: https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922049 Points: 110 # Comments…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node · 2026-02-05 16:27 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python · 2026-02-05 16:26 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI · 2026-02-05 07:04 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · OpenAI Blog (releases-only) · 2026-02-05 06:00 UTC
OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript · 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript · 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript · 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python · 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript · 2026-02-05 17:51 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · NVIDIA Developer Blog · 2026-02-05 18:00 UTC
Specialized AI models are built to perform specific tasks or solve particular problems.
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-07 10:14 UTC
AI-generated fake videos are spreading rapidly across Japanese social media during the lower house election campaign.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-07 02:36 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-06 18:35 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-06 17:00 UTC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles, enabling you to reuse authentication state across multiple browser sessions…
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-06 16:00 UTC
AWS Config now supports 30 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon EKS, Amazon Q, and AWS IoT.
AI tools & model releases · NVIDIA Developer Blog · 2026-02-06 16:00 UTC
The latest AI models continue to grow in size and complexity, demanding increasing amounts of compute performance for training and inferenc…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain · 2026-02-06 12:39 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · OpenAI Blog (releases-only) · 2026-02-06 10:00 UTC
OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cul…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - microsoft/onnxruntime · 2026-02-06 00:00 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-05 19:56 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-05 19:30 UTC
Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region.
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-05 18:00 UTC
Today, Amazon WorkSpaces announces the availability of 12 new Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f WorkSpaces bundles built on the Amazon EC2 G6 famil…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - huggingface/transformers · 2026-02-05 15:44 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain · 2026-02-05 14:22 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · NVIDIA Developer Blog · 2026-02-05 14:00 UTC
Painkiller RTX sets a new standard for how small teams can balance massive visual ambition with limited resources by integrating generative…
AI tools & model releases · OpenAI Blog (releases-only) · 2026-02-05 11:00 UTC
An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through clos…
AI tools & model releases · OpenAI Blog (releases-only) · 2026-02-05 10:00 UTC
OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening…
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-05 09:59 UTC
Starting today, Amazon Bedrock supports Claude Opus 4.6.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-05 06:22 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-05 03:12 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).