- TechCrunch: Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again (Feb. 11, 2026)
Apple’s AI-powered Siri revamp, powered by Google Gemini, has been delayed again. Its features, expected in March, May, or iOS 27 in September, will roll out slowly. - WSJ: Musk Announces xAI Reorganization, Staff Departures (Feb. 11, 2026)
After merging xAI into SpaceX, Elon Musk reorganized xAI, prompting departures including two co‑founders. - Simon Willison: Skills in OpenAI API (Feb. 11, 2026)
OpenAI now supports Skills in the API, including inline base64-encoded zip skills via the shell tool. - NY Times: OpenAI’s Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine (Feb. 11, 2026)
OpenAI is scrambling to monetize ChatGPT, adding ads, boosting enterprise sales, and proposing value sharing. - NY Times: Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon (Feb. 10, 2026)
Elon Musk wants a lunar factory to build A.I. satellites, a mass-driver catapult to launch them, and a moon city as a step to Mars. He’s merging xAI with SpaceX. - Simon Willison: Claude: Speed up responses with fast mode (Feb. 7, 2026)
Anthropic launched a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6, faster, pricier, and temporarily discounted. It costs 6× normal rates, with 2.5× speed and larger context, up to 1,000,000 tokens. - WSJ: Amazon Shares Sink as Company Boosts AI Spending by Nearly 60% (Feb. 5, 2026)
Amazon plans $200 billion in 2026 capital spending, boosting AI, data centers, and potential OpenAI investment. The stock dropped ~9% even as the company announced revenue growth and layoffs/ - WSJ: Inside Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion SpaceX-xAI Merger (Feb. 5, 2026)
SpaceX and xAI merged into a $1.25 trillion firm, valuing SpaceX at $1 trillion, xAI at $250 billion. The tie-up aims to build AI data centers in orbit using Starlink, Starship, and solar power. - Matt Shumer: Something Big Is Happening (Feb. 10, 2026)
AI progress has suddenly and rapidly accelerated — the author compares the current surprise to early COVID and warns this is happening now, not years away. - Mia Heidenstedt: How to effectively write quality code with AI (Feb. 6, 2026)
Humans must set vision, keep clear documentation, and mark high-risk code. Write separate tests, use debug tools, enforce linting, reduce complexity, and break work into small steps. - Dean Ball: On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part I) (Feb. 5, 2026)
Frontier AI labs will automate most research and engineering, scaling automated workforces to hundreds of thousands. This could accelerate AI progress, change its dynamics, and needs careful policy, not panic. - Martin Alderson: Wall Street just lost $285 billion because of 13 markdown files (Feb. 4, 2026)
A tiny markdown folder triggered massive tech losses, showing AI agents can replace many SaaS tasks. But still it’s unlikely corporations jettison SaaS tools en masse.