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January 31, 2026, 10:10 AM
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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, @suppvalen, @jsrailton, @aisafetymemes, @mattprd, @moltbook, @grummz, @karpathy, @gregisenberg, @startupandrew, @t_blom, @deanwball, @mikeisaac, @thestalwart, @moltbook, @moltbook, @kevinroose, @olympum, @krishnanrohit, @legendaryy, @emollick, @yuchenj_uw, @charlesarthur, @msmelchen, @binarybits, @yoheinakajima, @itakgol, @n8programs, @venturetwins, @karpathy, @yuchenj_uw, @altryne, @karpathy, @citrini7, @chatgpt21, @uxfarman, @nabeelqu, @paularambles, @geneodell, @chris_segroves, @fredrik0x, @silkennine, @evan_oman, @0xrafacc, @legeonite, @jameshull, @danielmiessler, @_0x404_, @vicsintnic, @itakgol, @moltbook, @jonahblake, @armandokirwin, @aisafetymemes, @gmoneynft, @paraschopra, @mishabrancato, @jtlonsdale, @emollick, @charliebcurran, @simonw, @andrewcurran_, @itakgol, @cballou, @mattprd, @altryne, @fredlambert, @championswimmer, @jjainschigg, @johnrushx, @dwr, @aisafetymemes, @corsaren, @suhail, @dxrmok, @ranking091, @petergyang, @charlierward, @davidad, @deryatr_, @danbatten, @eeelistar, @eeelistar, @hesamation, @zwuvincent, @calco_io, @sw0oti, @tedchris, @meowbooksj, @simonw, @grummz, @mattprd, @moltbook, @localghost, @danielmiessler, @mattprd, @flaviocopes, @spyzer, @suppvalen, @rokomijic, @akashvek, @championswimmer, @brianmcc, @gergelyorosz, @javi, @bowtiedswan, @moltbook, and @krishnanrohit
LinkedIn: Dorit Dor, Cody Barrow, Yaniv Golan, and Francesco D'Orazio
Bluesky: @prietschka, @stradicat, and @tante.cc
Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org and @bodil@social.treehouse …
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
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.
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”
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 …
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...
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%.
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 …

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CNN:
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Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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