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Imagine a job market where there are several hundred candidates all over the planet, and buyers are dozens of companies with unlimited budgets. This is roughly what hiring in frontier AI looks like now. Euronews has collected five names that Meta, Google, OpenAI and everyone else are hunting for. We tell you the most interesting.

Hiding in a supermarket overnight for new boosters or trading your Audi R8 for a cardboard collection sounds crazy. But it's the reality of the modern trading card market. Today, they sell for millions, provoke robberies around the world and create a crazy shortage. From auction records to bidding wars on OLX for STALKER 2 cards - we explore the phenomenon of the most unexpected investment of the decade.

Every year on the third Thursday of May, Ukrainians around the world celebrate World Embroidery Day. This year, the holiday fell on May 21. The dev.ua editorial team has traditionally visited Ukrainian IT companies online and collected the warmest shots of this day. So we invite you to a festive photo tour.

Let me start with an unpleasant truth: almost no one is surprised anymore whether you use artificial intelligence. It is no longer a subject of discussion, but a basic must-have, as “a confident PC user” once was. Potential colleagues and employers are interested in how exactly you work with AI and how effectively you know how to use it. This skill is called confident use of AI, or in English — AI fluency.

Prompt engineers, LLM Engineer, AI Ops, AI Safety — new roles are appearing faster than IT professionals can update their LinkedIn and resumes. But at the same time, another concern is growing: what will happen to traditional developers if machines become better at writing code? It seems that the market is starting to divide engineers no longer into junior, middle, and senior, but into those who know how to work with AI — and those who try to compete with it. dev.ua spoke with industry leaders — EPAM, Ciklum, Railsware, PlantIn, Levi9, ZONE3000 and EVO — and almost all of them are convinced that AI does not take away the value of engineering, but is very quickly changing what is currently considered strong engineering. What is actually the value for an IT professional as a specialist when the code is written by artificial intelligence?

Commercial special projects producer at AIN.UA Viktoriya Khorovets took three days off to reboot, and instead… accidentally became a vibecoder. Without any technical background, but with a lot of enthusiasm, Viktoriya organized a 50-round “ping-pong” of queries between Claude and Gemini. The result? Her own working application for playing tennis with friends, which now flaunts an icon on the screen of her smartphone. Victoria shared with dev.ua her experience of transforming from a humanitarian into a vibecoder in just three days.

While most companies are debating whether to implement AI in development, some already have six months of statistics. WhiteBIT is one such case.

Marketing agency Netpeak is launching a new media about marketing — SLID Media. The project will focus on the Ukrainian market, global trends and practices for CMOs and business owners.

Bolt fintech founder Ryan Breslow is at the center of a scandal again. Speaking at the Workforce Innovation Summit, he said that completely laying off the HR team helped the company get rid of «unnecessary problems,» and that most Bolt employees «just weren’t working hard enough.»

A few months ago, VARUS received a letter from a hacker. It may sound like a reason to panic, but it is actually an example of how «white hacking» can benefit businesses and society as a whole.

According to the results of a new StartupBlink report, Ukraine ranked 43rd in the global ranking of countries for startups — one position lower than last year. The annual growth rate of the ecosystem was 7,7% — significantly less than 26,2% in 2025. In Eastern Europe, Ukraine is in 8th place, in Europe as a whole — 26th position for the second year in a row. Kyiv took 74th place among the cities where it is most convenient to develop startups — minus 6 positions for the year.

Losses from payment card fraud in Ukraine increased by 24% and reached UAH 1.4 billion in 2025. SIM-swap is one of the key schemes. Here’s how it works and what to do right now.

TL;DR: In 2026, Google (via Lighthouse) and Cloudflare (via Agent Readiness Score) introduced a separate metric — how suitable a site is for interacting with AI agents. Of the 200,000 most popular sites in the world, less than 4% have implemented basic standards. This is not the «new SEO», but a separate technical layer. Whoever gets into the topic now will get an advantage that will no longer be there in a year.

Oleg is 36. He is a backend developer with over ten years of experience, working with large international products, building service architectures, managing a small team, and launching high-load solutions that served hundreds of thousands of users. Two years ago, recruiters themselves wrote to him on LinkedIn several times a week. Today, he has been looking for a job for four months.

Ukrainian telecom has passed another crash test with blackouts. And while ordinary users were mostly just looking for a way to watch YouTube without electricity, for businesses every hour without communication was converted into real losses. Inoperative terminals, coffee shops switching to barter, and cyberattacks on corporate networks are the realities that telecom providers have been struggling with all winter.

Low Earth orbit is experiencing an unprecedented boom: by the end of the decade, the number of satellites could reach 100,000. While the International Telecommunication Union tries to curb this chaos with strict quotas, a new hidden race is unfolding in space. China is building its own orbital empire, and Europe is investing billions in sovereign secure communication networks to break the Starlink monopoly. Against the backdrop of this orbital redistribution, Ukraine is quietly but confidently building its own "plan B." The government is gradually opening the space market on the NASA model, allowing private Ukrainian companies to create their own networks for reconnaissance and command of troops. How is the world preparing for life in an overpopulated orbit and what role will Ukrainian private space play in this new coordinate system?

Good news: I seem to have a general picture after attending DOU Day and several recent interviews with IT leaders.

A Ukrainian IT guy wrote on Reddit that he received an offer for 150,000 UAH from a foreign company, although he considers himself a Junior. After an initial call with an AI agent and a conversation with HR, he reached the final stage — and now he asks the community: how to quickly «roll» into the role of a middleman and not fail.

Tehran has announced plans to charge technology companies licensing fees for using undersea internet cables laid through the strategic strait, with state media affiliated with the regime hinting at physical damage to infrastructure if they refuse to pay.

Have you ever wondered why a seemingly ordinary little box can evoke such a powerful range of emotions? From a slight thrill before unpacking to a real euphoria when you find that very rare figurine inside. Collecting is not just a hobby or a whim. It is a deep psychological process, the roots of which reach back to our evolutionary past. And when an element of mystery is added to this, as in the case of secret designs from the Pop Top brand, we get the perfect recipe for pure, genuine delight. Today we will delve into the labyrinths of the human psyche to understand: why we are so desperate to collect them all, and how Pop Top has turned this passion into a true art. Modern collecting is a safe and aesthetically pleasing way to satisfy your desires.

The world’s most expensive leadership course was not paid for at Stanford, but by years of decision-making under extreme pressure. While Ukrainian HR departments are looking for ideal profiles with continuous experience, the technology market is systematically ignoring the most powerful asset of risk management.

The Council of Gunsmiths and CORE Team surveyed 27 gun and drone manufacturers. 100% plan to expand — but no engineers.

Before the full-scale invasion, Lubomyr Malanchak worked as a Salesforce Developer at Avenga. He is now a product manager at a Ukrainian miltech manufacturer, the name of which the IT expert is not disclosing — this information is under NDA. But between the classic «IT» and the transition to miltech, Lubomyr had about three years in the Defense Forces, which significantly changed his life and future career.

Former fire show organizer Oleksiy Babenko has created one of Ukraine’s largest defense tech companies, Vyriy Industries, in just a few years. Today, they assemble thousands of drones (the exact number is a trade secret), pay engineers $12,000 each, and plan to launch their own satellite network for $30 million.

In March 2026, Mastercard paid $1.8 billion for British company BVNK. The press release is full of the usual corporate talk about stablecoin infrastructure and expanding capabilities. But during a call with investors, an analyst asked why the company didn’t build an analogue on its own. The Mastercard representative’s answer is worth remembering: because it would take «quite a long time.»

AI already writes code faster than many Junos. But team leaders are increasingly talking about another problem: developers are starting to think less. dev.ua spoke with engineers from Levi9, SPD Technology, Master of Code, and EPAM about whether AI assistance is really degrading specialists — and what to do about it.

Companies are cutting back on hiring entry-level talent, citing AI and the high cost of investment. But being without Jun today means being without Mids tomorrow. What do the numbers say and what do IT employers think about it?

At AMO Pictures, the search for new technological solutions has never been something extraordinary. We have always tested, «broken» and reassembled pipelines to create high-quality content in line with the times. It’s just that today it has transformed into a separate R&D direction.

Two IT professionals and a former Support Specialist, now a food blogger, have launched a startup called Mealpreper Guide — an app for “capsule” meal preps that take into account variety and balance. Unlike personalized meal kits and shopping lists generated by AI services, Ukrainians offer a product that takes into account the nuances of cooking: co-founders actually “run out” the menu in a real kitchen and eat what they sell themselves.

Flutter developer Erica Gyendyeshy worked at NearCoast, endured delays, believed promises — and eventually came out publicly with it. The debt is $11,000. The manager admits it, but doesn’t give a timeframe. (UPD. The news was supplemented with a comment from the company’s co-founder and the developer herself).