Margaret-Anne Storey:
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt  —  The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder …

Muhammad Zuhair / Wccftech:
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue  —  HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.

Financial Times:
Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a “global AI commons” at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi  —  New Delhi to focus on wielding emerging technology for social ends at global summit  —  John Reed in New Delhi and Krishn Kaushik in Mumbai

Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools  —  The company behind Claude forges an alliance to put its AI tools in the hands of students at hundreds of community and state colleges

Business Insider:
Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit “relates to a recent procurement decision”  —  - Scale AI is suing the Department of Defense, filing its complaint on January 30.