Social•Feb 20, 2026
AI Meets Energy: Threat or Smart Decentralized Grid?
AI + energy: the monster child of Origin and Facebook? Or a smart, decentralised grid? #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/McuXZpgKBG https://t.co/ocHZceR4p4
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
ProEnergy and OpenSolar Launch Distributor Inventory Platform
ProEnergy Supply, OpenSolar partner on distributor inventory platform #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/nIVR6ZGZhz
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Four AI Flaws Outpace Defenses, Exploited Rapidly
These 4 critical AI vulnerabilities are being exploited faster than defenders can respond | ZDNET https://t.co/e0SyjsSpBv
By Chuck Brooks
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Elegant Ideas, Not Massive GPUs, Drive Breakthroughs
Folk don’t realise that the biggest breakthroughs won’t be millions of GPUs doing complex stuff but millions of tokens figuring out beautiful, elegant stuff Science & more is marred by model building and complexity because we rewarded it over elegance &...
By Emad Mostaque
Social•Feb 19, 2026
T‑Mobile CTO Unveils 6G Vision with Physical AI
Enjoyed the conversation with T-Mobile CTO John Saw about 6G and AI in the network, including kinetic tokens a new and interesting term for physical AI. https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/research-notes/t-mobile-cto-touts-physical-ai-explains-6g-ai-ran-efforts-with-nvidia/
By Anshel Sag
Social•Feb 19, 2026
State Launches $50M CopperString Community Benefits Fund
Transmission “legacy:” State launches $50m CopperString community benefits fund #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/weTwWmtyUm https://t.co/D29AYgcZJx
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Separate Revenue Streams for Accurate SaaS MRR
Is your MRR a mystery? Many companies I help struggle with revenue accuracy. Are one-time services muddying your recurring revenue? Co-mingled revenue streams aren't just confusing; they're a "big SaaS sin" impacting valuation and strategic planning and metrics. Clean up your P&L...
By Ben Murray
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Anthropic Bans OpenClaw as OpenAI Hires Its Founder
Anthropic just dropped the ban hammer on OpenClaw... I've never seen a faster vibe shift between OpenAI and Anthropic. One hires the founder of OpenClaw, the other shuts it down. Full breakdown of what happened: https://t.co/tyGxE0EUbO
By Matthew Berman
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Assessing the Future Viability of Virtual Power Plants
Will Virtual Power Plants Ever Really Be a Thing? #energysky -- via Heatmap News https://t.co/dcAFkIKHrx https://t.co/KJjvjkI94m
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Align Channels, Team Strength, Capacity, Budget for Maximum ROI
When I’m crafting a marketing strategy, these are the areas I’m considering to make sure my client gets the best ROI: 1️⃣ High-Impact Channels → Drives potential return (more impact = more ROI) 2️⃣ Team Strengths → Increases efficiency and quality...
By Mallory Musante
Social•Feb 19, 2026
PV Yield Measurements Achieve 0.15% Uncertainty
Fraunhofer ISE, PTB report just 0.15% uncertainty in PV module yield measurements #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/ciKzGySvHh https://t.co/EC74qdInx6
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI Will Render Traditional Apps Obsolete Within 18 Months
The SaaS market, the App Store, even enterprise suites, as a set of discrete “apps” that we choose from is an increasingly outdated concept. Soon, it will be a profoundly irrelevant concept. AI will relentlessly dissolve apps into capabilities. Sure, 20-30% of them...
By Dion Hinchcliffe
Social•Feb 19, 2026
New Study Debunks Tracking as Win‑Win for All
Big. A major new law & tech paper takes on the economics of behavioral advertising - the kind that tracks users across multiple businesses and contexts, not just on sites they choose to visit. It challenges industry’s favorite claim: that tracking...
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Engineers Must Read Starliner Anomaly Report Summary
If you’re an engineer you need to at least read the executive summary of the Starliner Anomaly Investigation Report
By The Space Mechanic
Social•Feb 19, 2026
TELUS Health Benefits Administration Profile Receives In‑Depth Review
.@DeeAnnaW_NH's @NHInsight #BenefitsAdministration profile on TELUS Health is a comprehensive assessment of the company’s offerings and capabilities: https://t.co/QTZQPc1ueC #BenefitsAdmin #Benefits #HR #Digital #Wellbeing #AI https://t.co/BDtr4NOZQd
By DeeAnna Warrington
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Base Power Enters Regulated Utility Energy Storage Market
Base Power takes first step into distributed energy storage market for regulated utilities #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/a4LRie1NmE
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
China Debunks Trump's Claim with Airborne Wind Turbine
Hilarious — Trump claims China has no wind energy, meanwhile, news just came out China has successful tested a new airborne wind turbine that is essentially held up by a helium blimp. Oh yeah, btw, China is the world’s number...
By Renewable Energy Club (Jonathan Rasmusson)
Social•Feb 19, 2026
NASA Chooses Transparency Over Sweeping Starliner Issues
The easy thing to do—the expected thing, really—would have been for NASA to sweep this report under the rug, declare Starliner-CFT a great learning experience, and say everything is going well. NASA did not do the easy thing. https://t.co/yNN1rRnLYi
By Eric Berger
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Retail Banking Strategies Lag Behind Execution in 2026
The 2026 Retail Banking Trends research reveals a clear gap between strategy and execution across digital, payments, AI, and partnerships. Watch the full video: https://t.co/qrsFZDRVT6 https://t.co/pesk3Lrhfe
By Jim Marous
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Unified Dashboard Revives Dead Brands, Eliminates Data Gaps
Are legacy methods hindering your 'Dead Brands' revival? Fragmented data creates visibility gaps. SAP Business One offers one dashboard for real-time intelligence. Book a meeting with David Strausser. https://t.co/ZsEwnG4p2n https://t.co/j2FzRIidUf
By David Strausser
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Gartner's AI Coding Tool List Is Outdated—Choose Wisely
Never forget that as per Garnter, in August, the best AI coding tools on were: 1. GitHub Copilot 2. AWS Kiro + Q 3. Windsurf 4. GitLab (??) 5. Gemini ... 6. Cursor No mention of Claude Code or Codex (they were all out by then) I pity the...
By Gergely Orosz
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Galleri Test Misses Primary Goal, Shows Secondary Promise
A key study of $GRAL's Galleri test in the UK failed to reach its primary endpoint, but showed benefits on a secondary endpoint. Tell me what you all think. https://t.co/CDrvokqPop
By Matthew Herper
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI Agents Trigger Enterprise Platform Reset by 2026
My latest research: The Great CIO Platform Reset: Why Agentic AI Is Forcing a 2026 Reckoning https://t.co/5nUzVNyJb8 Bottom line: AI agents are reshaping enterprise platform strategy.
By Dion Hinchcliffe
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Clear Error Messages Let Users Self‑resolve Issues
Deployed a new app to prod today. Users ran into an error trying to complete a workflow. The error message told them what the error was, why they got it, and how to fix it. They were able to...
By Mark Davis
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Self‑Driving Cars Restore Mobility to Millions with Disabilities
The positive externalities that @waymo and autonomous vehicle provide: • 15M adults over age 80 in U.S. • 7M people with low vision/vision loss • 3M people with active epilepsy • 1M with loss of driving privileges Tens of million regain agency. https://t.co/defb5IWGPR
By Vala Afshar
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Agents Now Monitor Vercel Usage, Suggest Optimizations, Simulate Costs
This is big. Agents can now monitor @vercel cloud infrastructure consumption, suggest optimizations, and run cost simulations in preview or production environments
By Guillermo Rauch
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Digitalist Papers: Modern Roadmap for AI Governance
240 years ago, our society was in the throes of a massive technological and political transformation. The Federalist Papers helped chart a new course. The Digitalist Papers ( https://lnkd.in/gc93GQfW ) is our effort to provide an analysis and roadmap for today's...
By Erik Brynjolfsson
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Founders Mistake Product Flaws for Growth Issues
lesson from 20+ years working in startups: most founders don’t have a growth problem. they have a product problem disguised as a growth problem
By Andrew Chen
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Winter Storms Expose Solar and Wind’s Reliability Limits
When winter storms arrive, solar and wind frequently generate less than 10% of their supposed "capacity." If we tried to truly rely on solar and wind to the point of shutting down more fossil fuel plants, Americans would have routine blackouts. Do...
By Alex Epstein
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Tease, Don’t Tell: Subject Lines Spark Curiosity
Most subject lines announce. The best ones tease. "Our New Spring Collection" tells me what's inside before I open it. There's nothing left to be curious about. "We almost didn't release these" makes me need to know why. One gives away the answer....
By Chase Dimond
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Artemis II Teams Stay Below Hydrogen Leak Safety Limit
This is encouraging: "Teams reached this step without exceeding the ground safety limit of the hydrogen leak concentration, as was observed during the first Artemis II wet dress rehearsal."
By Stephen Clark
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Claude Code's Blueprint Revealed: Deep Design Dive
Wow. The internal blueprint for Claude Code is now public 🤯 @bcherny, creator of Claude Code, just broke the silence. → 50-minute breakdown of the build process → Deep dive into core design decisions → Zero-fluff look at past mistakes + future plans https://t.co/I1mmXLBCDz
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Bespoke Software Lets You Build Personal Health Dashboards
Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like. Example from this morning - I've become a bit loosy goosy with my cardio recently so I decided to do a more srs, regimented experiment to try...
By Andrej Karpathy
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Ethiopia’s 2024 Petrol Ban Saves $5B, Fuels
Ethiopia didn’t ban petrol cars in 2024 to hug trees: Importing oil was bleeding them dry - costing over $5b/ year in precious foreign exchange From close to zero before the 2024 ban, EV sales now make up over 60% of...
By Assaad Razzouk
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Anthropic Expands Societal Impacts Team Amid Growing Model Influence
We’re aggressively scaling up the Societal Impacts (SI) team at Anthropic as our models are beginning to have non-trivial impacts on the world.
By Jack Clark
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AEMC May Be Right on Fixed Network Costs
Could the AEMC be “kinda right” about fixed network costs? Late submission lobs curveball into debate #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/M5UcGqLiiu https://t.co/EAQf6ckk0b
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI Data Centers Drain Power of 100k Homes
According to a report from the International Energy Agency, an average AI datacenter consumes as much electricity as 100,000 households. AI = HIGHER ELECTRICITY PRICES = AN AFFORDABILITY PROBLEM. https://t.co/65QNfr2y4U
By Steve Hanke
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Kickstart Your Data Career with Our Free Guide
Aspiring Data Processionals Excel, SQL and PBI are great tools to build projects with. If you're completely confused, start with my Guide 👇🏾 https://tekdlin.com/data-analytics-guide/
By Ebere Oyek (Nelo) — Data | AI | ML
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Examining Vaccine Development Amid America's Science‑Anti‑Science Divide
Many thanks to Freedom Together Foundation medical research consortium for hosting my remarks this week @RockefellerUniv discussing our vaccine development program and my work on the history of medical science vs anti-science in America https://t.co/etbLqiezEA
By Peter Hotez
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Europe's Energy Storage GWh Investments Surge This Week
Gigawatt-hours of investments, tolls, optimisation and platform financing across Europe this week #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/ypYzZ8xa8y
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
NASA Admits Starliner Missteps, Reclassifies Mishap, Vows Leadership Overhaul
News conf upshot: NASA acknowledges poor decision making thruout Starliner prog and esp while crew was on orbit. Now correctly classified as Type A mishap. NASA still committed to Starliner, but will be leadership and other changes at NASA. Rpt...
By Marcia Smith
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Two Red Flags? Shift Leads to Nurture Pipeline
Founders: Pipeline qualification red flags: 🚩 Problem impact is 'hard to measure' 🚩 Multiple unnamed stakeholders 🚩 DIY solution currently in place 🚩 No urgency indicators in conversation 🚩 Budget is 'being determined' Two red flags = move them to nurture.
By Pete Kazanjy
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Turn IT From Gatekeeper to ROI Enabler
If your business units are bypassing IT to build their own AI "solutions," you don’t have a shadow IT problem—you have a value delivery problem. Stop being the "No" department and start being the "ROI" department. Watch @mkrigsman, @tcrawford, and @nyike:...
By Tim Crawford
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Starliner Crew Flight Test Findings Detailed in 312‑page Report
Here's the full, 312-page report of findings from the Program Investigation Team regarding the Starliner crew flight test. https://t.co/rd3RyEQ4YZ
By Eric Berger
Social•Feb 19, 2026
A Decade of Solar Growth Celebrated by SEIA President
Solar Energy Industries Association president reflects on decade of progress #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/tbHnPi0r3A https://t.co/0nNhikDzH0
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Soft Robotics and Assistive Tech: Merging for Societal Benefit
A new Science #Robotics Focus article discusses how soft robotics and assistive technologies are intertwined and explores how innovations in these fields could benefit society at large. https://t.co/2CVjJj480Z https://t.co/xaUpYivsJg
By Science Robotics
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Sovereign Stacks: Balancing Scale, Regulation, and Control
#CIOChat Q3: Data residency, sovereignty mandates, and geopolitical risk are rapidly reshaping architectural decisions right now. Are we entering a “sovereign stack” era? How are you balancing hyperscaler scale with regulatory exposure and enterprise control? https://t.co/VK5lLC7gA0
By Dion Hinchcliffe
Social•Feb 19, 2026
New ADE Paradigm Signals 2026 Coding Revolution
this might be the single best timed called shot in the history of AIE. I now think about this talk almost ~daily and have direct line of sight to the nonstop onslaught of new post-IDE form factors for agentic engineering. @RealGeneKim...
By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Coopetition: Partner with Rivals to Grow the Pie
Helping competitors sounds wrong. Many businesses guard every move, yet rivals who share leads, split costs, and collaborate often win more deals. Coopetition drives shared R&D, opens new markets, and creates referrals when demand spikes. You keep your edge while growing the pie. Who...
By Ask Dr. Brown
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Real‑World Data Powers Autonomous Vehicles, Says Nexar CEO
Nexar CEO Zach Greenberger joins Alex, Kirsten and Ed to explain why AVs need real world data, how Nexar built one of the world’s largest driving datasets, the Uber Labs announcement, and much, much more. Also, the hosts critique each other’s...
By Alex Roy