WhatsApp PayLater rolled out quietly this morning. Long-press a payment request, choose split shares, and Meta’s on-device AI suggests portions from chat context. The bill syncs to monthly statements, card numbers stay hidden—my roommate already owes me coffee today.

Anthropic upgraded Claude 5.2 with persistent memory chains that stitch subtasks together offline. On my RTX 5090 laptop it planned a three-course dinner, ordered groceries via API, drafted thank-you notes, and fan stayed quiet throughout the run.

Valve’s 50-second Half-Life 3 teaser finally dropped: Alyx wields a cobbled Portal gun, bending bullets through white panels while headcrabs fly. In-engine Source 3 footage ran at 144 FPS on Steam Deck 2 dev kits; release window simply reads “When It’s Done,” but the internet already melted.

Drop any image into Canva ColorPilot AI suggests five WCAG-safe palettes, complete with gradient ramps and UI token names. My beach snapshot birthed a sun-kissed design system exported straight to Figma variables—no more wrestling with hex pickers at midnight.

Qualcomm showed Snapdragon XR3 reference goggles weighing 280 g yet driving dual 6 K 120 Hz micro-OLEDs. A new Adreno XR GPU hits 5.2 TFLOPs while the Hexagon NPU handles hand-tracking at 200 FPS, all on a 12-W envelope—goodbye tether cables, hello day-long mixed-reality marathons.

Deno 2.0 stable bundles a zero-dependency Postgres/MySQL driver plus connection pool baked into the runtime. Migrating a REST API dumped 12 MB of npm baggage and trimmed cold-start by 35 %. deno sql connect now feels as native as fetch—bare-metal TypeScript just got sweeter.

Discord’s Hologram Calls, first teased at GDC, are now live for Nitro: your phone’s front camera projects a life-size depth portrait through Vision-Pro-style passthrough on the recipient’s headset. I chatted with a guildmate hovering over my desk; latency stayed under 40 ms on 5 G.

Mistral quietly dropped Mixtral-7x10B this morning; the sparse-expert model solves GSM8K and code-math benchmarks 8 % over GPT-5 while running entirely on a single RTX 5090 laptop. Local inference chewed a 20-step algebra chain in three seconds, no internet needed—tutor apps and edge copilots just found a new brain.

CD Projekt surprised fans overnight with a 70-second The Witcher 4 Trailer: Geralt’s protégé duels wyverns as storms whip particles that alter spell arcs and crossbow trajectories in real time. In-engine footage hit 120 fps on Series X—holiday 2026 release window splashed at the end.

Figma ShadowSmith AI watches layer stacks, then auto-casts perspective-correct soft shadows that adapt as you drag elements. I mocked a card UI; depth cues updated live without manual tinkering—dribble-ready mockups in record time.