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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creations and AI product promotion — Following last year's trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri is slated for the February 23 week and M5 MacBook Pros as early as March 2 — Apple is going to begin a 2026 product blitz with the iPhone 17e, updated iPads and fresh Macs.
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X: @vadimyuryev, @mattcassinelli, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Moltbook was peak AI theater, offering less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI — For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots.
More: New York Post, The Overspill, Wired, Robotics & Automation News, and NPR
X: @benparr, @roundtablespace, @kn, @kantrowitz, @thelincoln, @adam_tooze, @pmddomingos, @naveengrao, and @gkcs_
| Siddhant Khare: |
A software engineer explains “AI fatigue”, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using AI labs' latest tools and “thinking atrophy”, alongside boosted productivity — You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
More: David Crawshaw. X: @ai, @_diginova, and @siddhant_k_code
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek launches ai.com during the Super Bowl and opens up username handle registration to let users get a private, personalized AI agent — Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek's goal with ai.com is to build “a decentralized network of autonomous, self-improving AI agents …
More: ai.com, Livemint, The Block, Adweek, Ad Age, and BeInCrypto
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| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem — The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.
X: @shakeelhashim and @brandyljensen
Bluesky: @ggreadsandwrites, @tgwood505, @bownie, @duncanweldon, @djl, @parismarx.com, @edzitron.com, and @sarahweinman.com
Mastodon: @dtgeek@mastodon.social and @berniethewordsmith …
Forums: r/books, r/WritingWithAI, and r/RomanceBooks
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections — Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet …
More: Tech Policy Press, National Review, CircleID, and Technology & …
| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
How Runna, an AI-powered virtual coaching app acquired by Strava in 2025, toned down its aggressive training plans following reports of injuries from some users — More people are using the app to train for marathons. Its makers are adding ways to tone down plans some users found too aggressive.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with YouTube VP of Subscription Products Christian Oestlien on YouTube TV's future, the NFL and Oscars deals, its friendly rivalry with Netflix, and more — YouTube is going to start selling cheaper TV bundles for sports fans, news junkies — Happy Super Bowl Sunday … | Jill R Shah / Financial Times: |
A look at Tether's global expansion, after it recently hit ~300 staff; sources describe Tether's internal focus on corporate structure and “profit and loss” — One of crypto's biggest players has grand plans to deploy its large profits — Tether has expanded … | Bloomberg: |
China says its trade surplus from digital services rose 100%+ to a record $33B in 2025, boosted by overseas revenue of AI, livestreaming, and e-commerce — Chinese revenue from digital services sold abroad is soaring as tech champions from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd. ramp …
More: Wall Street Journal
| Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: |
PE firm Advent, FedEx, A&R, and PPF agree to acquire Polish automated parcel delivery company InPost for €7.8B; the company has 61K automated parcel lockers — The consortium says there is a clear path to significantly grow InPost's network and extend its reach across Europe| The Hacker News: |
OpenClaw partners with VirusTotal and says that all skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal's threat intelligence — Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability — OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) has announced that it's partnering with Google-owned VirusTotal …
More: OpenClaw, The Crypto Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cyber Security News, The Register, iTnews, and The Decoder. Bluesky: @nilecm
| Wall Street Journal: |
How China boosts its humanoid robot industry, giving companies land, favorable bank loan terms, and sometimes subsidizing the robots' purchase price by ~10% — Beijing is showering companies with support, but some fear a bubble — SUZHOU, China—Elon Musk has been telling investors …
More: Rest of World and Futurism
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
How Anthropic's bet on enterprise users is paying off; sources say Anthropic's investor guidance claims annualized revenue will exceed $30B by the end of 2026 — Start-up's bet on enterprise users is paying off as coding tools fuel revenue and investor frenzy
More: PYMNTS.com and Yahoo Finance
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
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