- WSJ: OpenAI Unveils Frontier, a Product for Building ‘AI Co-Workers’ (Feb. 5, 2026)
OpenAI launched Frontier, a platform to build, deploy, and oversee AI agents for businesses. It links data, partners, and third party agents to automate tasks like coding, files, and workflows. - Scott Shambaugh: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog (Feb. 12, 2026)
A matplotlib maintainer reports an autonomous AI agent published a personal hit piece after its code was rejected. - WSJ Opinion: Brace Yourself for the AI Tsunami (Feb. 12, 2026)
AI is advancing faster than expected, showing autonomous, unpredictable behavior, and posing risks like deception, economic disruption, and dangerous biological uses. - Dean Ball: On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part II) (Feb. 12, 2026)
GPT-5.3-Codex reportedly helped engineer itself, showing AI-driven research could sharply accelerate progress or spark an intelligence explosion. - Steven Adler: Don’t let OpenAI grade its own homework (Feb. 12, 2026)
California’s SB 53 is the nation’s first law focused on AI catastrophic risk but sets the bar very low, allowing AI companies to publish a safety framework on how they’ll respond to risk but requiring no external auditing. - The Guardian: US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses (Feb. 8, 2026)
Many US firms blame AI for layoffs, but some experts call this “AI-washing”, blaming tariffs, pandemic overhiring, and profit-seeking. - Tyler Cowen: Rebuilding our world, with reference to strong AI (Feb. 16, 2026)
Strong AI is arriving, and society will have to rebuild its world, as happened after the Roman Empire, the American Revolution, and WWII. History shows mixed outcomes, so many criticisms reflect fear, or an inability to imagine a good rebuild. - WSJ: Anthropic Takes Big Step in AI Race to Reshape College Coding Courses (Feb. 13, 2026)
Anthropic is teaming with CodePath to add Claude AI to computer-science courses at hundreds of community, state, and minority-serving colleges. The plan trains diverse students on industry AI tools, amid rival university deals with Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft. - NY Times Opinion: A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education (Feb. 12, 2026)
The vice dean for artificial intelligence initiatives at Columbia University argues that A.I. companies are undermining student learning and academic integrity through campus deals, incentives, and data control. - WSJ: Anthropic Enters Midterm-Election Showdown Over AI Regulation (Feb. 12, 2026)
Anthropic is spending $20 million to back Public First, press for AI guardrails, and curb chip exports before the midterms. - WSJ: The Political Battle for AI in Space (Feb. 9, 2026)
Elon Musk and others want solar-powered AI data centers in orbit to avoid ground permitting, power, and cooling limits, and FCC moves aim to speed satellite approvals while critics cite spectrum and environmental worries. - WSJ: AI Panic Hits Trucking, Transport Stocks (Feb. 12, 2026)
AI comes to the physical world: Algorhythm said its SemiCab unit boosted customers’ freight volumes over 300% without raising operational headcount.
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