2026.01.15

Astro announced the first beta of Astro 6 on January 13, highlighting a rebuilt astro dev workflow and platform-focused upgrades. The release also stabilizes live content collections and CSP support introduced in Astro 5.10 and 5.9.

Today, AutoScout24 outlined how it standardized internal AI agent development using Amazon Bedrock. The design targets repetitive developer-support work that the company says consumed up to 30% of AI platform engineers’ time.

Google announced on Jan 14, 2026 that the Google Trends Explore page now uses Gemini to automatically surface and compare related searches. The desktop rollout adds a new side panel, suggested Gemini prompts, and doubles the rising queries shown per timeline.

NVIDIA published a tutorial today on training a command-line agent for the LangGraph Platform CLI using synthetic data generation and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. The walkthrough centers on the Nemotron-Nano-9B-V2 base model and a confirm-before-execute interface.

Shopify began enforcing stricter Liquid parsing for all themes on Jan 13, 2026, with automatic rewrites for incompatible files. Theme Store and App Store submissions already require strict-parsable Liquid for new themes and theme app extensions.

Yesterday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Cerebras to add 750MW of ultra low-latency AI compute to its platform. OpenAI says the capacity will roll out in phases and come online in multiple tranches through 2028.