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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI, announced in September 2025, has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down likelihood original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration
Fabiola Arámburo / Reuters:
Report: Jensen Huang has privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach  —  Nvidia's (NVDA.O) plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside …
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 …
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X: @karpathy, @tszzl, @jsrailton, @aisafetymemes, @mattprd, @suppvalen, @moltbook, @karpathy, @grummz, @yuchenj_uw, @yoheinakajima, @gregisenberg, @startupandrew, @binarybits, @t_blom, @deanwball, @charlesarthur, @emollick, @mikeisaac, @msmelchen, @thestalwart, @moltbook, @moltbook, @kevinroose, @krishnanrohit, @olympum, @itakgol, @n8programs, @venturetwins, @karpathy, @yuchenj_uw, @altryne, @karpathy, @citrini7, @chatgpt21, @uxfarman, @nabeelqu, @paularambles, @geneodell, @chris_segroves, @fredrik0x, @legeonite, @silkennine, @danielmiessler, @evan_oman, @0xrafacc, @jameshull, @_0x404_, @vicsintnic, @itakgol, @moltbook, @jonahblake, @armandokirwin, @aisafetymemes, @gmoneynft, @paraschopra, @mishabrancato, @jtlonsdale, @emollick, @charliebcurran, @simonw, @andrewcurran_, @itakgol, @cballou, @altryne, @fredlambert, @championswimmer, @jjainschigg, @johnrushx, @ranking091, @dwr, @aisafetymemes, @corsaren, @suhail, @dxrmok, @petergyang, @davidad, @deryatr_, @danbatten, @legendaryy, @eeelistar, @eeelistar, @hesamation, @zwuvincent, @calco_io, @sw0oti, @tedchris, @meowbooksj, @simonw, @grummz, @mattprd, @mattprd, @moltbook, @localghost, @charlierward, @danielmiessler, @mattprd, @flaviocopes, @spyzer, @suppvalen, @rokomijic, @akashvek, @championswimmer, @brianmcc, @gergelyorosz, @javi, @bowtiedswan, @moltbook, and @krishnanrohit
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Bluesky: @prietschka, @stradicat, and @tante.cc
Forums: Hacker News, Lobsters, and Slashdot
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy:
Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented  —  I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from “how is this interesting at all” all the way to “it's so over”. To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at
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]
Molly Taft / Wired:
Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024  —  Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Shares of gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity closed down 24.2% and Take-Two 7.9%  —  Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on Friday after Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) rolled …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills: the biggest performance decline for developers occurred in debugging tasks  —  Read the paper  —  Research shows AI helps people do parts of their job faster.  In an observational study of Claude.ai data, we found AI can speed up some tasks by 80%.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Invest Like The Best on YouTube:
Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more  —  Gokul Rajaram joins Patrick to discuss the seismic shift in product building driven by AI.  As a legendary operator (Google, Facebook, Square, DoorDash) and p...
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 …
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.
Fumie Yaku / Nikkei Asia:
Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth  —  TOKYO — Three Chinese companies were among the world's top 20 manufacturers of chipmaking equipment last year, up from just one in 2022 …
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem  —  Ant's health chatbot has become a top downloaded app in China as users seek personalized care they can't get from the overburdened hospitals.

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing

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A photographer sues The Daily Mail in New York over “systematic” lifting of thousands of images from social media without permission from copyright holders

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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Ian Krietzberg / Puck:
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Danny Park / The Block:
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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
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
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
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
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