Social•Feb 14, 2026
Anthropic Pledges $20M to US AI‑regulation Advocates
Yes.
By John C. Havens
Social•Feb 14, 2026
NASA Withholds SLS Confidence Test Details Until Evening
NASA Admin Isaacman replying to Eric Berger @SciGuySpace about the "confidence test" they did on SLS on Thursday (Feb 12) and why NASA didn't share info until last night (Friday, at 7:51 pm ET) about it or the problem they...
By Marcia Smith
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Know When Gifts Trigger Tax Reporting, Even Below Estate Thresholds
Gifting Without The Headache 🎁 Gifting is an area of the Internal Revenue Code fraught with nuance and complexity. Understanding when a gift is taxable is important, but the reality is that many clients won't approach estate tax thresholds, which makes...
By Michael Kitces
Social•Feb 14, 2026
LPs Vet Stanford SPV Leader on Massive Anthropic Deal
OH in Palo Alto: LPs are REFCHECKING a Stanford SPV leader who is MOGGING Tier 1’s and FEEMAXXING at 3/30 on 9-figure DIRECT Anthropic allocations
By Turner Novak
Social•Feb 14, 2026
True Agentic AI Needs Orchestration, Memory, Planning, and Tools
Chatbot ≠ Agentic. RPA ≠ Agentic. RAG ≠ Agentic. Agentic AI = orchestrator + memory + planning + tools + feedback, plus multi-agent specialists (retrieval/coding/citations). The board question: where do we allow autonomy—and with what guardrails? https://t.co/AEnajJZeEP
By Debashis Dutta
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Anthropic’s Super Bowl Ad Drives 11% User Growth
In other news, Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows Dario wins. Again. https://t.co/rqAlCrxbRO
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Frontier Models Overfit ARC Format, Limiting Generalization
Interesting finding on frontier model performance on ARC -- due to extensive direct targeting of the benchmark, models are overfitting to the original ARC encoding format. Frontier model performance remains largely tied to a familiar input distribution.
By François Chollet
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Applovin Delivers Fastest, Most Adaptable DTC Support
As a person overseeing many of these tests for brands I can attest to this too. Applovin’s team have also been the quickest, most nimble at adapting to what DTC is requesting of them. Their teams go above and beyond over...
By David Herrmann
Social•Feb 14, 2026
NASA Let Hydrogen Leak Grow During Artemis Gap
It turns out NASA used the three-year interim between Artemis I and Artemis II to get comfortable with a more significant hydrogen leak, instead of fixing the leaks themselves. https://t.co/XX1eeIJnR0
By Stephen Clark
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Legacy GEO Giant Eutelsat Shifts Focus to LEO
This is pretty remarkable. Eutelsat is one of the big three legacy GEO operators, now pivoting to LEO.
By Stephen Clark
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI Wins by Experience, Not Just Vertical Integration
The vertical integration of intelligence is non-negotiable. Control your platforms, models, chips, and data centers or watch providers do to you what you're trying to do to them. Microsoft AI is all-in on this. But they're caught in a bind: vertical...
By Shashi Bellamkonda
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Claude Code Isn’t a Threat to Clay—Just Personal Preference
Is Claude Code a threat to Clay? Here’s why I think, for now, that answer is no. And most (almost all) of my business is now Claude Code. And I designed it that way because it’s what I enjoy, not because it’s...
By Jordan Crawford
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Language Feedback Can Substitute Rewards in Reinforcement Learning
Can natural language replace scalar rewards in reinforcement learning? A new paper from researchers at Stanford, UMD, Netflix, and Microsoft Research presents a formal structure for utilizing natural language as feedback in a reinforcement learning setting they call Learning from Language...
By Eric Seufert
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Chinese AI Lab Unveils Model 3× Faster, 20× Cheaper
This little-known Chinese AI lab just dropped an AI model 3x faster and 20x cheaper than Claude. Here’s what the headlines won’t tell you:
By Ryan Allis
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI Success Requires Data, Change Management, Not Just Magic
Executives expecting magic wand AI outcomes without funding data quality, change management, and integration work are setting teams up to fail. You can't skip the plumbing and still expect water. #CIO #AI https://t.co/VtuS5rQ0ZG
By Isaac Sacolick
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Tesla Robotaxi Likely by 2026, Timeline Remains Uncertain
Tesla will get to a working robotaxi eventually, but it's difficult to say when. My 50th percentile is end of 2026, but the variance is high. It could be in a few months. It could be a few years. We'd...
By Ramez Naam
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Analytics: The Easiest Gateway Into Tech Careers
As a CS girlie, I started my journey in Analytics and to this day, I still believe it has one of the lowest barriers to entry into a career in tech. The barrier has never been lower. If you’re thinking about...
By Ebere Oyek (Nelo) — Data | AI | ML
Social•Feb 14, 2026
NKTR's <1% ISR Discontinuation: Legal FUD Overblown
$NKTR bears will still look at you with a straight face and tell you that an adverse event (ISRs) that led to a ***LESS THAN 1%*** discontinuation rate is the bear thesis… The ISR brain damage done to y’all by those...
By Adam May
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Switching LLMs Wastes Time; Stick to One
I don't really understand devs who jump back and forth between LLM providers. Claude, Codex, Claude, Gemini, back to Codex, then Claude. What marginal improvement can be worth the massive context shift every single time? Pick one and build. You won't have...
By Arvid Kahl
Social•Feb 14, 2026
High ARC Scores May Not Indicate Human-Like Fluid Intelligence
I appreciate this reflection on why ARC matters, but in the replies I expressed some reservations about what high accuracy on ARC benchmarks actually reflects for assessing "human-like fluid intelligence" (Chollet's stated goal for ARC).
By Melanie Mitchell
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Agentic AI: Master Four Loops, Not Ten Steps
Agentic AI isn’t about learning 10 steps. It’s about mastering 4 loops: Perception → Memory → Planning → Action. Frameworks change. Autonomy principles don’t. Build agents that think in systems, not prompts. https://t.co/yINTc7aLJZ
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Avoid These 7 Fatal Ops Mistakes to Save Your Business
7 operational mistakes that almost killed my business (and will kill yours if you don’t catch them early) 1. Working with the cheapest partners 2. Not checking supplier invoices at scale 3. No naming conventions on ads or creatives 4. Not understanding China...
By Davie Fogarty
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Human Expertise Still Outperforms AI in Ad Creation
There is still a net benefit to having someone with an intricate knowledge of the creative and ad buying processes that AI can’t automate.
By David Herrmann
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Validate Drugs Against Human LOF Genetics for True Efficacy
This principle hit OX40 hard - $SNY $AMGN $APGE What about $CRVS and ITK…? 🤔 https://t.co/gvLcqVgrpk
By Adam May
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Stop Treating Prospects Like Leads; Build Real Relationships
LEAD = Someone opted in, knows about you, is being nurtured by you. PROSPECT = You found them in a public database, has no idea who you are. I see so many "gurus" and magical "AI Experts" conflate Lead and Prospect here...
By TK Kader
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI Leaps From Grade-School to Research Math Fast
We went from AI systems that struggled to do grade school math to AI systems that can solve research-level math problems in just a few years. I agree with Jakub this is perhaps the most important eval now. I am also pretty...
By Sam Altman
Social•Feb 14, 2026
NASA Tests SLS LH2 Flow, Fixes Equipment Issue
As reported by Bill Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) and others, on Thurs NASA flowed LH2 thru the new seals on SLS. Now there's a blog post explaining that ground support equipment problem reduced the flow. Working on it this weekend. https://t.co/PbuyJHZMNV
By Marcia Smith
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Decision Provenance and Observability Essential Before Production
If you can't trace what data, tools, and rules led to an agent's decision, you're not ready for production. Decision provenance and observability are critical release criteria. #Observability #AI #DevOps https://t.co/1tg10UmJNv
By Isaac Sacolick
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI‑Driven Spin Qubit PhD in Barcelona – Apply by Feb 28
PhD grant (4 years) in Barcelona (ICN2/TCN) — AI-Driven Multiscale Modelling of Spin Qubits for Scalable Quantum Devices ~€2,575/month gross | International environment | Apply by 28 Feb 2026 (24:00 CEST) Apply: https://t.co/7CSc9tlGbO Project: https://t.co/CCEbaZFYMG https://t.co/vLapeXaeAe
By Stephan Roche
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI Adoption Will Drive Multi‑Billion Dollar Subscription and Corporate Spend
AI market/TAM in midterm 1. Most employees will have a free LLM on their desktop; we are moving top team memebrs to two daisy chained Mac studios ($25k total) — easy investment 2. All major models will free for...
By Jason Calacanis
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Social Search Drives B2B E‑commerce Credibility and Conversions
Why social search for #B2B ecommerce is the new key to credibility and conversion https://t.co/djobyMHgwk
By Marissa Pick
Social•Feb 14, 2026
One Day with Gemini Reshapes My View of Google
how I feel about Google rn after trying the Gemini app for a day https://t.co/AvDWD718eH
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 14, 2026
SLS Costs 23× XB‑1, Draining Private Innovation Potential
The NASA SLS costs 23X the entire XB-1 program. Every time it launches. What could private innovators create had this capital not been confiscated by gov’t and pissed away? Each time SLS launches 23 XB-1s go up in smoke. We don’t...
By Blake Scholl
Social•Feb 14, 2026
3D‑Printed Brain Phantoms Replicate Gray and White Matter
Printing brain phantoms in a support gel and selectively replicates gray and white matter https://t.co/9rIVOPCjd2 https://t.co/LFwa9Qlqjc
By Brian Ahier
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Iran Deploys Phone Tracking, Threatens Starlink Users
Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters @nytimes https://t.co/7JUt5gcTW3 Iran's government most likely tracked the protesters through location data emitting from their phones, researchers later concluded. The move was part of a new phase by the authorities to...
By John Spencer
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI Threatens White‑Collar Jobs—Upskill Now
Microsoft’s AI chief says AI will automate most white-collar work in 18 months. He claims AI will handle law, accounting, marketing, and coding at human level. Yet reports show only small productivity gains, and one study found developers took 20% longer with...
By Ask Dr. Brown
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Leverage Existing Momentum: Stitch Into Ongoing Conversations
Stitching works because it borrows momentum. You’re stepping into a conversation that already has attention.
By Rachel Pedersen
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Key Signals Founders Need Before Raising Next Round
$40M raised. Series A ready. Episode 232 dives into the real signals founders should look for before raising more capital 👇 https://t.co/0CcjGEIVb9 #SaaS #AI https://t.co/S1vxKwuxiB
By Ben Murray
Social•Feb 14, 2026
ISL Replaces ETL: Intelligence Beats Raw Data Ingestion
Ingest Structure Learn (ISL) is the new ETL. It used to be the case that a company would try to license this kind of data as an “edge”. I’ve seen many companies in SV try to make this claim. That...
By Chamath Palihapitiya
Social•Feb 14, 2026
CIOs Must Rethink IT for Real AI Impact
World-class IT in the AI era looks very different. I share provocative lessons for CIOs who feel under fire to transform IT and show real impact. #CIO #ITLeadership #AI https://t.co/VjbvwFzWSu
By Isaac Sacolick
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Bootstrapping Beats VC Hype for Lasting Wealth
Worst ways to build wealth - thinking a $100M valuation means you have $100M - raising money. period - adding features for 5 years instead of admitting your product sucks - telling yourself "we just need more time" at year 7 - calling yourself a...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 14, 2026
CES 2026 Marks AI’s Shift From Tool to Core
Why CES 2026 Signals the End of AI as a Tool CES 2026 showcased a new era where AI stops being just a tool and becomes deeply integrated into every technology — changing how we think about AI altogether. Read more 👉...
By Bernard Marr
Social•Feb 14, 2026
First‑Party Data Powers New AI‑Driven Revenue Streams
How First-Party Data Is Becoming a New Revenue Engine in the Age of AI 🤖 https://t.co/9tqx5wEeF0 https://t.co/wg7i7liZrp
By Efi Pylarinou
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Fintech Beats AI in European VC Valuations
While AI dominates headlines with mega-rounds, fintech is quietly leading European VC valuations. Median pre-money for fintech reached €12.4m — 29% higher than AI, and well ahead of SaaS and life sciences. In a hype-driven cycle, investors are rewarding revenue, regulation-ready models...
By Spiros Margaris
Social•Feb 14, 2026
User Complaint Prompts Swift Google VP Response
My thread actually worked. From complaining about the lack of folders in Gemini to getting a "soon" from Google’s VP in just a few hours 😁
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 14, 2026
AI Speeds Biology Discovery, Scientists Still Steer Ethics
AI is not taking over biology, at least not now—it's accelerating discovery, not replacing scientists; humans still ask the questions, validate results, and steer ethical choices. https://t.co/l8KCQGNd4Y
By Ming Tang
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Privacy Is a Year‑round Leadership Responsibility, Not a Weekly Event
RT Data Privacy Week is over. Lawsuits, breaches, and AI experiments don't pause the other 51 weeks of the year. Privacy is now a leadership accountability issue, not a back office task. #CIO #CMO #CISO #DataPrivacy @Star_CIO https://t.co/Naq82FuMWZ
By Isaac Sacolick
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Data Hygiene Precedes AI Success in Biotech
1/ You can't bolt AI onto chaos. In biotech, if your data is a mess, your AI won't save you. Build the data strategy first. Here's how. https://t.co/HM7qddrCsC
By Ming Tang
Social•Feb 14, 2026
QLDPC Cuts RSA‑2048 Attack to 100k Qubits
QLDPC for the win (and also a little bit scary) work by @IcebergQuantum reducing physical qubits to break RSA-2048 to only 100,000 which we probably aren’t that far away from. we aren’t ready for this. https://t.co/DUJQCeG72E
By Nick Farina
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Turn Excel Into a Text Mining Powerhouse
Each week I send out a free analytics tutorial to 39,009 professionals. This week is Part 3 in a series on mining free-form text data using Python in Excel. Think about this for a second. Production quality, reproducible text mining inside an Excel...
By David Langer (Dave on Data)