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Spotify’s Top Developers Haven’t Written Code Since December, CEO Says – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-developers-not-writing-code-ai-2026-2
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the new leader in GDPval-AA, slightly ahead of Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 on agentic performance of real-world knowledge work tasks less than two weeks after its launch In our pre-release testing with @AnthropicAI, Sonnet 4.6 reached an ELO of 1633 using the”” https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2023821893846135212
To get an idea of the near-term future of work with AI, take a look at the official Claude Cowork plugins, which give the AI specialized knowledge for various hard tasks A natural successor for GPTs, but built for agents (& therefore much more scalable & customizable for firms)”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2023113346162336137
OpenAI may be a household name, but Anthropic could soon be earning more revenue. Since each company hit $1B in annualized revenues, Anthropic has grown substantially faster (10× vs 3.4× per year) and could overtake OpenAI by mid-2026 if recent trends continue.”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2024536468618956868
World Labs Announces New Funding | World Labs https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/funding-2026
Introducing ElevenLabs for Government https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-elevenlabs-for-government
Here are the 17 US-based AI companies that have raised $100M or more in 2026 | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/here-are-the-17-us-based-ai-companies-that-have-raised-100m-or-more-in-2026/
We are pleased to announce the close of Thrive X. Exceeding $10 billion, Thrive X comprises $1 billion designated for early-stage investments and $9 billion designated for growth-stage investments. We do not view this as a milestone, but as a commitment to the long work ahead.”” https://x.com/JoshuaKushner/status/2023732796649271619
AI Makes Degrees Obsolete Former Google AI leader Jad Tarifi warns that long degrees like law, medicine, and even PhDs may become outdated before students graduate, as AI rapidly reaches PhD-level performance. With 70% (!) of AI PhDs now heading into private sector jobs (up”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2023446044873560178
Announcing Spreadsheet Arena | Meridian | Meridian https://www.meridian.ai/blog/all/spreadsheet-arena
Meta Builds AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA | NVIDIA Newsroom https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/meta-builds-ai-infrastructure-with-nvidia
Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI data center chips https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/meta-nvidia-deal-ai-data-center-chips.html
OpenAI Funding on Track to Top $100 Billion in Latest Round – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/openai-funding-on-track-to-top-100-billion-with-latest-round
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our”” https://x.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801
Wowww…….big news Charles Porch who has been VP of global partnerships for IG is going to OpenAI.”” https://x.com/yashar/status/2024187504682029171
Saudi Arabia’s Humain Invests $3 Billion Into Musk’s xAI https://finance.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-humain-invests-3-123558006.html
The crazy part is that the AI Labs have generally been right. Like, the stuff they hyped in 2023 turned out to be real and working today. That doesn’t mean that the stuff they are predicting for 2028 will also be real, but it is probably worth noting those predictions & watching.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2023257496069046563
Dean W. Ball on X: “I continue to think the notion of mass unemployment from AI is overrated. There may be shocks in some fields–big ones perhaps!–but anyone who thinks AI means the imminent demise of knowledge work has just not done enough concrete thinking about the mechanics of knowledge work.” / X
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Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation
World Models vs Game Engines — Who Wins? Gaming stocks had a bloodbath after Google’s Genie 3. Unity down. Roblox down. Nintendo down. Unity down 35%. Unity’s CEO posted a whole thread. Tim Sweeney weighed in. They’re both saying the same thing — world models won’t replace”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2022431813969260783
Congrats on the launch @simile_ai ! (and I am excited to be involved as a small angel.) Simile is working on a really interesting, imo under-explored dimension of LLMs. Usually, the LLMs you talk to have a single, specific, crafted personality. But in principle, the native,”” https://x.com/karpathy/status/2022041235188580788
Ex-DeepMind’s David Silver eyes $1B fundraise for Ineffable Intelligence — TFN https://techfundingnews.com/ex-deepmind-ai-researcher-eyes-1b-fundraise-for-london-based-ineffable-intelligence/
lol Western Digital has officially sold out its entire 2026 hard drive capacity – and it’s only February. CEO Irving Tan revealed that most supply is locked in by the company’s top seven enterprise customers, with some AI giants already securing deals through 2027 and 2028,”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2023374704006828513
Our friends from FriendliAI are offering up to $50K in switch credits for teams rethinking their inference stack. @friendliai is an inference platform designed to reduce production LLM costs without rebuilding your stack. Its Orca Engine uses iteration-level scheduling to”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2023065536549306821
Shifting structures in a software world dominated by AI. Some first-order reflections (TL;DR at the end): Reducing software supply chains, the return of software monoliths – When rewriting code and understanding large foreign codebases becomes cheap, the incentive to rely on”” https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/2023387043967959138
The future of AI is hybrid And it’s not about architectural hybrids. Big players already use it – Microsoft, Google, Apple, Samsung – all have their own strategies. Hybrid AI is about where intelligence runs and how workloads are split across two compute layers: ▪️ Local,”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2022461043994484893
If you haven’t hit the little plus button on your favorite chatbot recently, it is a complete hodgepodge mess that nobody not on X would understand: Canvas and Web search and Learning and confusing icons. I am not even calling out any of the Big Three directly, its all of them.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2023478306960814573
One of the things to watch out for as AI advances is the verifiably becomes something only a vanishingly small number of people can do (below is a mathematician on AI proofs) We need to start thinking harder about that problem (multiple AIs working together? something else?)”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2022794509977866704
The Simulation Company “” https://x.com/simile_ai/status/2022011618176237657?s=20
Why I’m Worried About Job Loss + Thoughts on Comparative Advantage — LessWrong https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YPJHkciv6ysgsSiJC/why-i-m-worried-about-job-loss-thoughts-on-comparative
Europe is funding new AI labs. No equity. Up to €125M. Munich is the first room. On March 4 the Next Frontier AI roadshow starts in Munich. The idea is simple: gather people who actually want to build new foundations for AI and put them together early enough that real teams”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2022352128438624427
Something Medium is Happening?”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2023739917486948536
Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/mistral-ai-buys-koyeb-in-first-acquisition-to-back-its-cloud-ambitions/
Microsoft’s AI Chief Targets AI Self-Sufficiency and OpenAI Independence https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/13/microsoft-mustafa-suleyman-ai-self-sufficiency-openai-mai-models-xcxwbn/
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