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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more — The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation …
More: 404 Media, Decrypt, The Verge, and Astral Codex Ten
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Bluesky: @stradicat and @tante.cc
Forums: Hacker News, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Ron Schmelzer / Forbes: |
Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot — What began as a side project that quietly drew more than 100,000 GitHub stars has turned into one of the most viral experiments in AI.
More: OpenClaw, Rest of World, forkable, and WinBuzzer
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in recent weeks, two of whom went to Meta and one to DeepMind; a top Siri executive left for DeepMind — Apple Inc. has lost at least four more of its artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks in addition to a top Siri executive … | @tbpn: |
Gurman: internal development at Apple “runs on Anthropic at this point” and Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude but Anthropic “wanted a ton of money” — Bloomberg's @markgurman says that even though Apple partnered with Google Gemini for Siri, they actually run their business on Anthropic. “Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple's doing internally in terms of product development and [video]
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, MarketWatch, and The Mac Observer
X: @rustybrick, @tbpn, @tbpn, @tbpn, @tbpn, @vnchocotaco, @saradietschy, and @firstadopter. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M — Bluesky released its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results …
More: Bluesky. Bluesky: @simonehochgreb and @ivanthek. Mastodon: @[email protected]. Forums: Hacker News
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork — Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code …
More: Claude, The New Stack, The Decoder, and The Deep View
X: @edsim, @morqon, @bcherny, @_simonsmith, @claudeai, @claudeai, and @claudeai. LinkedIn: Jared Sires
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface — The first AI-planned drive on another planet. — EXPLORING NEW PLANETS means that you're always operating in the past.
More: Engadget, JPLraw on YouTube, and NASA
| Danny Park / The Block: |
Binance says it will convert $1B in stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November — Partner offers — Quick Take — Binance announced that it will turn its $1 billion SAFU fund into bitcoin over the next 30 days … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Shares of major gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity is down ~21% and Take-Two ~10% — Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on Friday after Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) rolled …
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| Ian Krietzberg / Puck: |
Poetiq, which leverages existing LLMs to create “expert agents” for specific tasks, and spent just $40K to achieve high ARC-AGI-2 scores, raised a $45.8M seed — Poetiq, a less-than-one-year-old A.I. startup just crushed the ARC A.G.I. benchmark, beating Anthropic and Google with only six people and $40,000.
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| Reuters: |
Apple expects Q2 revenue to grow 13% to 16% YoY, vs. 10% est.; it's currently constrained by iPhone processor supply and expects memory costs to rise after Q2 — Apple (AAPL.O) on Thursday forecast higher-than-expected revenue growth of up to 16% for the March quarter …
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| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: China has given DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips but imposes regulatory conditions, which are still being finalized — China has given its top AI startup DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H200 artificial intelligence chips with regulatory conditions …
More: Engadget, Taipei Times, Blockonomi, DigiTimes, Tech in Asia, Gamereactor UK, and TRT World. Forums: r/NVDA_Stock
| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Sources: Granola, which makes an AI-based note-taking app, aims to raise $100M+ led by Index Ventures at a $1B+ valuation, up from a $250M valuation in May 2025 — The London-based AI startup aims to raise a new round of at least $100 million led by Index Ventures, making the popular note-taking app the latest AI unicorn.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt — Deal with Architect Capital would value the adult social-media platform at $3.5 billion — OnlyFans, the British online platform popular … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made using Google DeepMind's AI tools and human voice actors — Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky used AI to travel back in time 250 years ago to the American Revolution. But he tapped real-life human actors …
More: Gizmodo, Dexerto, NME, TVBEurope, The Hollywood Reporter, and Kotaku
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Bluesky: @snarkysteff, @dlbowman76.com, @dogunderwater, @jose-eduardo, @trailerjones, @drl, @ghostesq, @seanferrick, @emilystjams, @ohhhaeee, @ethangach, and @culturecrave.co
Forums: r/TrueAnon, r/TheBigPicture, and r/movies
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI plans to retire several models from ChatGPT on February 13, including GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, and o4-mini, saying only 0.1% of users still choose GPT-4o — OpenAI announced it will retire several models from its ChatGPT chatbot next month, including its GPT‑4o model that is beloved by some users.
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Forums: r/ControlProblem, r/RSAI, r/cogsuckers, and r/OpenAI
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised $125M+ in 2025, including from a16z and Greg Brockman, to try to shape the US midterms and federal AI regulation — Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised more than $125 million to try to shape the 2026 midterms and the future of federal AI regulation.| Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: |
The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M+ tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024 — The mixer processed hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin that prosecutors say were tied to illicit activity on the dark web.| Reuters: |
Sources: the Pentagon is clashing with Anthropic over safeguards limiting the use of its tech to target weapons autonomously and conduct domestic surveillance — The Pentagon and artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic are at odds over potentially eliminating safeguards that might allow …
More: Wall Street Journal, Reddit, The Decoder, eWeek, The American Bazaar, Blockonomi, and PC Gamer
Bluesky: @druce.ai, @indyrefugee, and @valkyrie.hacker.gf. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @AliceStollmeyer …
Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/Anthropic, r/technews, r/ClaudeAI, r/worldnews, r/singularity, r/technology, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Oura CEO Tom Hale says the company has no plans to abandon its subscription model, even as rivals experiment with cheaper hardware and no recurring fees — Oura Health Oy, the popular smart ring maker, has no plans to abandon its subscription-based business model even as rivals experiment with cheaper hardware and no recurring fees.
More: The Verge, Android Authority, and Tom's Guide
| Anastasia Santoreneos / Forbes Australia: |
Checkbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal intake, raised a $23M Series A led by Touring Capital; Checkbox has 100+ clients, including SAP and PepsiCo — Checkbox, an Australian-founded AI startup that wants to build an AI ‘front door’ for in-house legal teams, will use the cash to build out its automated workflows.| Reuters: |
Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera, which focuses on AI inference SoCs for on-device and edge computing, aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO — Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Axera Semiconductor is aiming to raise HK$2.96 billion ($379.2 million) …
More: eWeek and Tech in Asia
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