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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 and @siddhant_k_code
LinkedIn: Kelsey Hightower, Florian Gamper, and Siddhant Khare
Bluesky: @clarityhacker, @banthonio.com, @taumuyi, @maireadeire, and @gyttjansfolk
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| 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: NPR, New York Post, and Robotics & Automation News
X: @kantrowitz, @thelincoln, @adam_tooze, @pmddomingos, @naveengrao, and @gkcs_
| 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.
More: Business Standard, Appleosophy, Engadget, Android Authority, Digit, Cult of Mac, iThinkDifferent, Forbes, PhoneArena, MacRumors, MacRumors, MacRumors, Thurrott, Moneycontrol, GSMArena.com, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, iClarified, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, The Verge, The Apple Post, TechSpot, and CNET
X: @vadimyuryev, @markgurman, @mattcassinelli, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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: @brandyljensen and @shakeelhashim
Bluesky: @ggreadsandwrites, @tgwood505, @bownie, @djl, @duncanweldon, @parismarx.com, @edzitron.com, and @sarahweinman.com
Mastodon: @dtgeek@mastodon.social and @berniethewordsmith …
Forums: r/books, r/WritingWithAI, and r/RomanceBooks
| 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
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More: Moneycontrol, Claude, Digit, WinBuzzer, The Mac Observer, The Decoder, The GitHub Blog, and Steve Yegge
X: @claudeai, @photomatt, @alexpalcuie, @udiwertheimer, @edzitron, @cerebras, @dylan522p, @mikeyk, @deanwball, @github, @zoink, @claudeai, @alexalbert__, @adocomplete, @yuchenj_uw, @cursor_ai, @claudeai, @zephyr_z9, @cursor_ai, @github, @lovable, @_catwu, @windsurf, @deanwball, @bcherny, @jeffwsurf, @bcherny, and @figma. LinkedIn: Christian Ryan
| 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 & …
| 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
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut — Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. has been notifying hundreds of employees that their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews …
More: NewsBTC, Capital Brief, crypto.news, The Block, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and Reuters. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| 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 …
More: Adweek and Just Jared
| 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 … | 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.| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Q&A with mathematicians behind the “First Proof” experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research — Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to measure just how poorly they perform.| 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
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who General Catalyst promoted to president in January, on investing in European tech and defense startups, and more — Jeannette zu Fürstenberg invests in the continent's most geopolitically important startups—and throws legendary soirees in her family's castle.| Bloomberg: |
Blackstone and Coatue grant a $10B loan to Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus for data center expansion, among Australia's largest private credit deals — Australian AI startup Firmus Technologies Pty. secured a $10 billion loan from a group including Blackstone Inc.-led funds …
More: Reuters, thechronicle, Pulse 2.0, Australian Financial Review, and Capital Brief. LinkedIn: Firmus Technologies
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