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Spotify top developers report: haven’t written a line of code since December, fully AI agent-driven
Spotify revealed its best developers have relied almost entirely on AI agents for coding, debugging
2026-02-13
NVIDIA releases new Nemotron open models: speech, multimodal, safety, and robotic agents
NVIDIA unveiled the Nemotron family of speech, multimodal RAG
2026-02-13
Southeast Asia quick commerce model returns to disciplined operations and customer experience priority
Quick commerce and grocery rebound in 2026 with platforms adopting disciplined mindset: focus on operational leverage, customer experience, and fulfillment economics control rather...
2026-02-12
Southeast Asia video commerce and content ecommerce model growth engine strengthens further
Southeast Asia ecommerce GMV reaches US185 billion, up 16% YoY, with video commerce GMV expanding 2.5x over past two years and projected 18% growth in 2025. Strong consumer demand...
2026-02-12
Southeast Asia ecommerce and fintech business models continue dominating startup ecosystem
2026 Southeast Asia startup vertical reports show ecommerce and fintech remain dominant, fueled by high-frequency repeat consumer behaviors (shopping, reordering, top-ups,...
2026-02-12
Meta Llama 4 early test version leaked: native multimodal + tool calling + ~1.5M token context
Early Llama 4 test builds leaked in community, showing native image/video/audio multimodal input, built-in tool-calling interfaces, and ~1.5M token context window — first...
2026-02-12
xAI Grok-3 advances in real-time tool use and multi-agent collaboration for parallel complex tasks
Latest Grok-3 significantly improves real-time tool-calling accuracy and stability, supports multi-agent frameworks that run planning, search, code execution, and verification...
2026-02-12
OpenAI o3-mini-high mode released: significantly enhanced math, science, and complex coding reasoning
OpenAI rolled out o3-mini-high reasoning mode with major improvements in competition-level math (AIME, IMO), scientific derivation, and multi-step complex programming, featuring...
2026-02-12
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro leads in long-context multimodal tasks with native 1M token window for whole-book reasoning
Gemini 2.5 Pro launched with native 1M token context, capable of processing entire books, large codebases, or hours of video+subtitles for coherent multimodal reasoning,...
2026-02-12
Mastercard and Shopee Vietnam announce a strategic partnership.
Mastercard and Vietnam's Daihop Card announced a five-year strategic partnership on February 4, 2026, and introduced their first co-branded Mastercard. As the inaugural outcome of...
2026-02-11
Southeast Asia quick commerce order mix continues optimizing toward planned bulk purchases
2026 data from Southeast Asia quick commerce platforms shows planned large grocery orders now outnumber instant top-up orders. This shift substantially lifts average order value...
2026-02-11