Daily Digest - 2026-02-26

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Today: First Solar shares slide as tariff and demand woes bite · Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue · AI: Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.15.0.

Top 10 — News

  1. First Solar shares slide as tariff and demand woes bite
    Business & economy | Financial Times - Markets | 2026-02-25 22:01 UTC
    Manufacturing also hit by longstanding import taxes on critical components such as aluminium
  2. Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue
    Tech industry | BBC News - Technology | 2026-02-25 23:22 UTC
    Demand for Nvidia chips rose even as the company sets out to create AI products of its own.
  3. Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit
    Tech industry | Ars Technica | 2026-02-25 22:09 UTC
    Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge.
  4. Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia
    Tech industry | TechCrunch | 2026-02-25 19:30 UTC
    The former boss of a U.S.
  5. Roundtables: Why 2026 Is the Year for Sodium-Ion Batteries
    Tech industry | MIT Technology Review | 2026-02-25 21:15 UTC
    Listen to the session or watch below Sodium-based batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion, and the technology is fin…
  6. Qantas unveils major changes to frequent flyer program and a bumper $1.46bn profit
    Business & economy | The Guardian - Business | 2026-02-26 01:13 UTC
    Airline to allow members to roll over status credits, which unlock lounge access, priority boarding and baggage allowances Follow our Austr…
  7. Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI
    AI frontier | WIRED - AI | 2026-02-25 19:59 UTC
    The software engineer is famous for his online stunts.
  8. [AINews] WTF Happened in December 2025?
    AI frontier | Latent Space (AI newsletter) | 2026-02-26 00:08 UTC
    A quiet day lets us express a growing, uneasy feeling that coding has changed forever — much much more than “normal” hype.
  9. Perplexity Computer bundles rival AI models into one agentic workflow system for $200 a month
    AI frontier | The Decoder (AI) | 2026-02-25 19:50 UTC
    Perplexity bundles AI models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and OpenAI in an agentic system that is designed to carry out complex workflows in…
  10. Making MCP cheaper via CLI
Tech industry | Hacker News (front page) | 2026-02-25 20:29 UTC
Article URL: https://kanyilmaz.me/2026/02/23/cli-vs-mcp.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157398 Points: 125 # Comm…

AI tools & model updates

  1. Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.15.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI | 2026-02-24 20:56 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  2. openai/openai-python: v2.24.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python | 2026-02-24 20:01 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  3. openai/openai-node: v6.25.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node | 2026-02-24 19:53 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  4. anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.84.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python | 2026-02-25 05:22 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  5. langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.3.4
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain | 2026-02-24 13:54 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  6. Google relaunches its AI creative studio Flow with new features and integrations
    AI tools & model releases | The Decoder (AI) | 2026-02-25 18:46 UTC
    Google is turning its AI creative studio Flow into an all-in-one tool for images and videos, with free image generators and new editing fea…
  7. Amazon Location Service introduces LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance
    AI tools & model releases | AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) | 2026-02-25 16:26 UTC
    Today, Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as a Kiro power , Claude Code plugin , and agent skill in the open Agent Skills fo…
  8. BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.12-stable.1
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm | 2026-02-24 20:44 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-25 22:01 UTC
Manufacturing also hit by longstanding import taxes on critical components such as aluminium
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-25 22:13 UTC
World’s largest derivatives exchanges blames ‘technical’ issues for its latest outage
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-25 21:59 UTC
Chips giant beats Wall Street’s expectations and predicts strong growth
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-25 18:17 UTC
The three big manufacturers are increasingly selling chips for AI rather than household gadgets
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-26 00:01 UTC
Tehran is seeking to tempt Donald Trump with investments in its oil and gas reserves as it seeks to stave off an attack
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-26 00:08 UTC
Shares in company that sells software as a service fall after it projects revenue below Wall Street’s expectations
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-25 21:38 UTC
Restrictions eased for island nation’s private companies but deals involving military or government remain prohibited
Business & economy · Financial Times - Markets · 2026-02-25 18:25 UTC
Last year’s $28.8tn increase was largely fuelled by government investment, according to the Institute of International Finance
Tech industry · BBC News - Technology · 2026-02-25 23:22 UTC
Demand for Nvidia chips rose even as the company sets out to create AI products of its own.
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-25 22:09 UTC
Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 19:30 UTC
The former boss of a U.S.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 23:49 UTC
Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a…
Tech industry · MIT Technology Review · 2026-02-25 21:15 UTC
Listen to the session or watch below Sodium-based batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion, and the technology is fin…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-26 01:13 UTC
Airline to allow members to roll over status credits, which unlock lounge access, priority boarding and baggage allowances Follow our Austr…
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-25 19:29 UTC
Latest data hints that benefits seen so far could be underestimates.
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-25 23:23 UTC
Proposed settlement would pay users of glyphosate-based weedkiller who have non-Hodgkin lymphoma $10,000 to $165,000 A group of 14 law firm…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-25 21:43 UTC
French utility to acquire owner of electricity cables and power lines across London, south-east and east of England A French utility has ag…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-25 18:58 UTC
Sharon Graham tells chancellor she should ‘back British industry’ by increasing military spending The head of Britain’s largest trade union…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-25 18:51 UTC
There is no point in offering hostages to fortune, but the lack of detail suggests turning around drinks group could be a long job Diageo’s…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-25 18:31 UTC
Molson Coors says site, as well as national call centre in Wales, ‘no longer financially sustainable’ The Cornish brewery that makes Doom B…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-25 18:11 UTC
Peter Kyle signs cooperation deal on competition and says it is not a case of being nostalgic for pre-Brexit past The British public are “n…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-25 18:04 UTC
Retailer said ‘fundamental shift in economic conditions’ made it hard for financial partner Aberdeen to raise funds The John Lewis Partners…
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 23:04 UTC
"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 19:23 UTC
The new privacy tech uses different types of pixels to let you block certain apps and notifications from being viewed by others.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 19:08 UTC
Kalshi fined the MrBeast editor, Artem Kaptur, over $20,000.
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-25 21:41 UTC
Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-25 20:53 UTC
Court to search devices itself instead of letting government have full access.
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-25 18:27 UTC
It's not very efficient, and the synthetic gearshifts aren't great, but I liked it?
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-25 18:21 UTC
RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-26 00:00 UTC
Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 20:42 UTC
Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 20:26 UTC
Under the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 20:22 UTC
Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about to…
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 20:00 UTC
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 19:54 UTC
Snapchat is the latest social media platform to launch awards for creators, joining TikTok and Instagram.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 19:36 UTC
A tax accountant saw Elon Musk fans bidding up a Kalshi prediction market and saw a sure bet to make easy money.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 19:10 UTC
The wearable incentivizes healthy behavior with points that can be redeemed for health products.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 19:03 UTC
Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies — including bans on new construction.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-25 18:33 UTC
Waymo this week will begin mapping and collecting data in Chicago and Charlotte.
AI frontier · WIRED - AI · 2026-02-25 19:59 UTC
The software engineer is famous for his online stunts.
AI frontier · Latent Space (AI newsletter) · 2026-02-26 00:08 UTC
A quiet day lets us express a growing, uneasy feeling that coding has changed forever — much much more than “normal” hype.
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-25 19:50 UTC
Perplexity bundles AI models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and OpenAI in an agentic system that is designed to carry out complex workflows in…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-25 20:29 UTC
Article URL: https://kanyilmaz.me/2026/02/23/cli-vs-mcp.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157398 Points: 125 # Comm…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-26 01:25 UTC
Article URL: https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/02/24/jane-street-hit-with-terra-40b-insider-trading-suit/ Comments URL: https://news.y…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-26 00:37 UTC
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance Comments URL: https://news.ycombin…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-25 23:09 UTC
Article URL: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32492/origin-of-the-rule-that-swap-size-should-be-2x-of-the-physical-memory…
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Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-25 23:02 UTC
Article URL: https://info.cern.ch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159302 Points: 88 # Comments: 16
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-25 20:16 UTC
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157224 Points: 30…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-25 18:41 UTC
Article URL: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/devirtualization-and-static-polymorphism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-25 18:28 UTC
This started as a hard requirement for my TUI-based editor application, it ended up going in a few different directions.
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-24 17:29 UTC
Meta and AMD have agreed on a multi-year partnership covering up to six gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with a focus on inference.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI · 2026-02-24 20:56 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python · 2026-02-24 20:01 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node · 2026-02-24 19:53 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · NVIDIA Developer Blog · 2026-02-25 17:00 UTC
LLM context lengths are exploding, and architectures are moving toward complex attention schemes like Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) and…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python · 2026-02-25 05:22 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain · 2026-02-24 13:54 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · WIRED - AI · 2026-02-25 19:00 UTC
An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-25 18:46 UTC
Google is turning its AI creative studio Flow into an all-in-one tool for images and videos, with free image generators and new editing fea…
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-25 18:06 UTC
Large reasoning models frequently think well past the correct answer: cross-checking, reformulating, and confirming what they already got r…
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-25 17:35 UTC
Adobe Firefly can now automatically create a rough cut from raw footage.
AI tools & model releases · Simon Willison (LLM/tools) · 2026-02-25 17:33 UTC
Claude Code Remote Control New Claude Code feature dropped yesterday: you can now run a "remote control" session on your computer and then…
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-25 17:00 UTC
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain · 2026-02-25 16:27 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-25 16:26 UTC
Today, Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as a Kiro power , Claude Code plugin , and agent skill in the open Agent Skills fo…
AI tools & model releases · PyTorch Blog · 2026-02-25 00:45 UTC
Overview This blog walks through two crucial DeepSpeed updates: (1) a PyTorch-identical backward API that enables efficient training of mul…
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-24 23:02 UTC
Amazon Bedrock now enables server-side tool execution through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway integration with the Responses API.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-24 21:30 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-24 20:44 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-24 20:44 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-24 20:36 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-24 19:36 UTC
Mercury 2 from Inception is the first diffusion-based reasoning model.
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-24 19:05 UTC
Today, AWS announces AWS Observability as a Kiro power, enabling developers and operators to investigate infrastructure and application hea…
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-24 18:54 UTC
AI systems should sometimes give tasks to humans they could easily handle themselves, just so people don't forget how to do their jobs.
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-24 18:26 UTC
Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling you to export snapshot data in Apache Parquet form…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-24 17:29 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-24 17:00 UTC
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and South…
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-24 16:00 UTC
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-24 10:31 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-24 10:25 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).