February 01, 2026

Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was "nonsense." Read More

OnlyFans considering selling majority stake to Architect Capital: This isn't the first time in recent memory that OnlyFans has been in talks to sell off its business. Read More

OpenClaw's AI assistants are now building their own social network: The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new shell — again. After briefly rebranding as Moltbot, it has now picked OpenClaw as its new name. Read More

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Informant told FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a 'personal hacker': The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States. Read More

SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers: SpaceX's filing claims these satellites will be "a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization — one that can harness the Sun's full power." Read More

SpaceX's IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime: To unpack what SpaceX's IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in today's pre-IPO giants, we spoke with Greg Martin, managing director at Rainmaker Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in secondary share transactions for late-stage private companies. Read More

Waymo reportedly raising a $16B funding round: Waymo is reportedly finalizing a new funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110 billion. Read More

Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork: The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes." Read More

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A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains: If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn't show it. He's working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know. Read More

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