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Zuckerberg's Day in Court

By Cory Weinberg · Feb 18, 2026 6:02pm PST · 2 comments

“We call Mark Zuckerberg to the stand.” Thus began Wednesday’s nearly six hours of testimony from the Meta Platforms CEO in a trial of a lawsuit brought by a young woman against several tech companies including Meta, contending that social media causes depression and suicidal thoughts. I was in the downtown Los Angeles courtroom, where... “We call Mark Zuckerberg to the stand.” Thus began Wednesday’s nearly six hours of testimony from...

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China’s AI Giveaway War

By Juro Osawa · Feb 17, 2026 7:05am PST

U.S. AI firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic haven’t yet turned a profit but they’re trying to get on the path to doing so. In China, the big tech firms behind AI chatbots are fighting a different battle.Chinese tech firms are competing so intensely to draw people to use their AI chatbots that they’re spending this week’s Lunar New Year holidays... U.S. AI firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic haven’t yet turned a profit but they’re trying to get...

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AI Is Magnifying Google and Meta’s Edge in Ads

By Martin Peers · Feb 16, 2026 3:00pm PST

We could see a brief shift away from obsessive AI talk this week. On Wednesday, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is due to testify in the Los Angeles trial hearing a lawsuit filed by a young California woman against big tech firms, namely Google and Meta. The woman claims her social media addiction led to depression and suicidal thoughts, as ... We could see a brief shift away from obsessive AI talk this week. On Wednesday, Meta Platforms...

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Let’s Spend $10 Trillion on AI That Improves the Real World, Not Just Ads

By John Hanke · Feb 16, 2026 6:00am PST · 8 comments

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Let’s Spend $10 Trillion on AI That Improves the Real World, Not Just Ads

By John Hanke · Feb 16, 2026 6:00am PST · 8 comments

Four years ago, right around the time the concept of the metaverse became fashionable, I wrote a post calling it a “dystopian nightmare.” I argued that instead of diving into virtual worlds, we should all do more to connect with the real world around us. Time will tell if the metaverse will eventually come to fruition, but with global business... Four years ago, right around the time the concept of the metaverse became fashionable, I wrote a...

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AI Industry’s Big Flaw: No One Speaks Normie

By Abram Brown · Feb 14, 2026 8:00am PST

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Meet the billionaire financier who has become AI’s debt whiz • Artificial Intelligence: CEOs find new management ethos from AI tools• Wearables: Techies find a surprise alternative use for Oura rings • The Top 5: An emergency guide for salvaging ski season• Plus, Recommendations—... Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Meet the billionaire financier who has...

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In Sickness and in Health: Wellness-Obsessed Techies Adopt Oura Rings as Wedding Bands

By Jemima McEvoy · Feb 14, 2026 5:23am PST

When AI researcher Sebastian Raschka got married in November 2023, he and his now-wife, Liza, went nontraditional. They wedded in Las Vegas at an Elvis-themed chapel, then celebrated by attending a U2 concert at the Sphere, the futuristic orb-shaped theater on the Strip. The Raschkas also bucked tradition in their selection of wedding rings,... When AI researcher Sebastian Raschka got married in November 2023, he and his now-wife, Liza,...

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An Emergency Guide for Salvaging Ski Season

By Todd Plummer · Feb 14, 2026 5:22am PST · 3 comments

Here’s a cold dose of reality: This year’s ski season in the American West has been pretty bleak. Many of the reliable powder stashes of Utah, Colorado and California have struggled with record-low snowfalls, and the limited amount of terrain resorts have managed to keep open is covered in lackluster artificial snow. Vail Resorts, for instance,... Here’s a cold dose of reality: This year’s ski season in the American West has been pretty bleak....

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A New AI Superagent Race Is Pitting OpenAI and Anthropic Against Microsoft and Salesforce

By Aaron Holmes and Kevin McLaughlin · Feb 12, 2026 6:00am PST · 2 comments

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A New AI Superagent Race Is Pitting OpenAI and Anthropic Against Microsoft and Salesforce

By Aaron Holmes and Kevin McLaughlin · Feb 12, 2026 6:00am PST · 2 comments

Even as Anthropic and OpenAI unnerve stock market investors with business-focused AI products that could undermine existing enterprise software firms, the software incumbents are trying to catch up. Companies ranging from Microsoft to ServiceNow and Snowflake have come out with products designed to help customers develop AI agents, sometimes... Even as Anthropic and OpenAI unnerve stock market investors with business-focused AI products...

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How OpenClaw Learns New Things

By Rocket Drew · Feb 10, 2026 7:00am PST · 2 comments

The sizable gap between how AIs and humans learn new things has inspired researchers to rethink the math behind today’s AI models. But developers have found a more immediate and practical workaround to get AI to continually learn: “skills.” A skill is a text prompt containing instructions for how an agent should perform a task. For... The sizable gap between how AIs and humans learn new things has inspired researchers to rethink...

Anthropic's Data Center Ambition—and the Ex-Google Execs Who Could Make It Happen

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Anthropic's Data Center Ambition—and the Ex-Google Execs Who Could Make It Happen

By Anissa Gardizy · Feb 9, 2026 8:50am PST

Anthropic’s leaders have been loud about how its AI will reshape businesses but much less boisterous about how it plans to power that usage. Now the company’s data center ambitions are coming into focus. Anthropic is quietly assembling a veteran team, including two former Google executives, and has discussed securing at least 10 gigawatts... Anthropic’s leaders have been loud about how its AI will reshape businesses but much less...

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Why Voice Assistants Are Dumb Compared to Text Chatbots

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 9, 2026 7:00am PST

For years, investors and founders have told me that AI which talks and listens the way humans do is on the cusp of a breakout moment. We’re still not there.Audio models are still lagging behind their text-based brethren in terms of intelligence. If you ask an audio model like the ChatGPT voice assistant a tough math question, for instance, it’s... For years, investors and founders have told me that AI which talks and listens the way humans do...

The Amazon Alexa+ Super Bowl commercial starring Chris Hemsworth. Screenshot via YouTube/Amazon Alexa.

What to Expect from Spotify, Lyft and Pinterest Earnings This Week

By Martin Peers · Feb 8, 2026 3:00pm PST

The Amazon Alexa+ Super Bowl commercial starring Chris Hemsworth. Screenshot via YouTube/Amazon Alexa.

What to Expect from Spotify, Lyft and Pinterest Earnings This Week

By Martin Peers · Feb 8, 2026 3:00pm PST

After the crush of tech news last week, including a big AI-fueled stock sell-off, things might calm down a bit in the next few days. With any luck, we’ll have time to debate which of the tech companies’ Super Bowl ads running Sunday night were the best and which were the worst. My vote for best is the Amazon Alexa spot, by the way, although the... After the crush of tech news last week, including a big AI-fueled stock sell-off, things might...

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Datadog and Figma Back a Startup Developing Tools For AI Agents

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 5, 2026 7:00am PST

First off, check out Jyoti’s Wednesday scoop about Meta’s latest AI model efforts. In sum, Meta is telling its employees “we’re back in the game!” and setting high expectations for the company’s next open-weight large language model, codenamed Avocado.Yes, Meta AI leaders did the same last year with Llama 4 and we all know how poorly that turned... First off, check out Jyoti’s Wednesday scoop about Meta’s latest AI model efforts. In sum, Meta...