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Sam Altman says OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Sequoia CEO Coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a business and never been harder…

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A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent who suggests code changes to open source repositories wrote a hit article about him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion The Big Technology Podcast…

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Southwest ends open seating after 54 years. We took the last flight

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 28, 2026

ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN — The 112 passengers of this Southwest Airlines The red-eye flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles…

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Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its open source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 27, 2026

Bloomberg: Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its…

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Aldi to open 180 US stores in 2026 as shoppers seek value

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 12, 2026

As Americans of all incomes look to trim their food budgets, Aldi plans to open more than 180 stores in…

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A look at Meta’s Hyperion 2GW data center in Louisiana, the first phase of which will open in 2028; analysis shows GPU sales tax breaks could total more than $3.3 billion (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 20, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Why Roomba is Dead + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Christmas Song The…

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Google DeepMind plans to open its “first automated science lab” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 11, 2025

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: So what happens after the AGI? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du,…

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Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and more are expected to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to create open source AI agent standards this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 9, 2025

Aaron Holmes / The information: Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and more are expected to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation…

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Essential AI, whose CEO co-authored Google’s Attention Is All You Need, unveils Rnj-1, an open 8-parameter B model with SWE test performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 7, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

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Q&A with Valve exec Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped create SteamOS and Steam Deck, on quietly funding open source technology for playing Windows games on Arm (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 3, 2025

Sean Hollister / The edge: Q&A with Valve exec Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped create SteamOS and Steam Deck, on quietly…

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Spirit Airlines’ money ‘won’t last very long’

Nike cuts 1,400 jobs in second round of layoffs this year

Trump administration decides to reclassify cannabis

What a million dollars can buy you in real estate around the world

Kevin Warsh’s Wealth Shows How a Family Office’s Top Employees Can Profit

Trump falls asleep during Oval Office event as his decline deepens

Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump the stupidest president in history

Republicans attempt to overturn election after Virginia backfires Trump’s Gerrymander

RFK Jr. looked completely crazy during Senate hearing

Investigation opened into Kash Patel’s alleged drinking

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Trump threatens to “impose significant tariffs on the UK” if he does not scrap his digital services tax, which he sees as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Sources: AI coding company Cognition in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of $25 billion, up from $10.2 billion announced in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat second-quarter forecasts driven by strong demand for analog chips used in AI data centers (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Browsing: Open

Sam Altman says OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)

A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent who suggests code changes to open source repositories wrote a hit article about him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)

Southwest ends open seating after 54 years. We took the last flight

Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its open source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)

Aldi to open 180 US stores in 2026 as shoppers seek value

A look at Meta’s Hyperion 2GW data center in Louisiana, the first phase of which will open in 2028; analysis shows GPU sales tax breaks could total more than $3.3 billion (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

Google DeepMind plans to open its “first automated science lab” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and more are expected to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to create open source AI agent standards this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Essential AI, whose CEO co-authored Google’s Attention Is All You Need, unveils Rnj-1, an open 8-parameter B model with SWE test performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

Q&A with Valve exec Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped create SteamOS and Steam Deck, on quietly funding open source technology for playing Windows games on Arm (Sean Hollister/The Verge)