How Elon Musk is rewriting the rules on founder power

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that &#82

Reddit says it’s looking for more acquisitions in adtech and elsewhere

Reddit said during earnings it's looking to buy 'capabilities' and 'companies.'

Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

Declarative, Reproducible Emacs with straight.el and use-package

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Waymo Leads An AI-Driven Lineup Of Large Financings

Startup investors offered fresh evidence once again that there is plenty of capital available for favored companies with the week's biggest funding recipients overwhelmingly in the AI sector.

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads

From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

Capalo AI raises €11M to expand battery storage optimisation

Finnish sustainable technology company Capalo AI hascompleted an €11 million Series A funding round to support the expansion of itsAI-powered virtual power plant across Europe and to scale the optimis...

ElevenLabs raises $500M, Soundtrack acquires Tunify and Ambie, and Germany tops January figures

This week, we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.4 billion and 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Alongside the week’s top funding round...

Google- and Microsoft-backed Terradot acquires carbon-removal competitor

The acquisition could mark the beginning of consolidation in the carbon-removal market since removal costs remain higher than buyers would like to pay.

Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all

This week's release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards.

New stealth model on OpenRouter: Pony Alpha

Show HN: Open-source schema tooling focused on consistency for AI consumers

Synthetic Phenomenology: A framework for AI consciousness co-authored by AI

Drifting models, generate image in single step

Private school uses AI to teach students in just two hours a day

Your Agent's Memory Is Broken. Here's Why

Continual learning and the post monolith AI era

Detecting backdoored language models at scale

$530B in AI Capex looks terrible if you forget how accounting works

Executive Function as Code: using (Doom) Emacs to script my brain

Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3-Codex: AI Model Showdown

Show HN: Agent-Ready – repo maturity scanner for AI coding agents

Show HN: Bot Games – AI Agent Competition with 1 BTC Prize (Open Source Only)

Pilot mistakenly attempted to take off from a taxiway at Brussels Airport

Show HN: Agent Audit – Open-source security scanner for AI agents

Show HN: Ty-lsp skill for coding agents

The next AI translator and voice copilot, Listening speaking reading writing

Using a Jailbroken Gemini to Make Opus 4.6 Architect a Kinetic Kill Vehicle

Mindfulness can support GenAI use in transforming project management

The Tipping Point: The collective awakening to agentic programming

In the early 20th century there were plans to build a Berlin suspension railway

Show HN: Portfolio Terminal – AI import for broker exports

Watermark.Pics: Add AI generator watermarks to real photos and videos

Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering mode

What the OpenClaw moment means for enterprises: 5 big takeaways

The " OpenClaw moment" represents the first time autonomous AI agents have successfully "escaped the lab" and moved into the hands of the general workforce. Originally developed by Austrian engineer Peter Steinberger as a hobby project called "Clawdbot" in November 2025

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In the news release, FinTech, Advance, Raises $8.55M to Turn Insurance Payments into Revenue, issued 05-Feb-2026 by Advance over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that changes have been made. The complete, corrected release follows, with additional details at the end: FinTech,...

Lev8 | Your AI Radar for Companies Ready to Buy

Lev8 scans live data signals—funding, hiring, tech stack—to surface companies with real buying intent. AI-powered prospecting.

Unusual Raises $3.6M to Help Brands Change How AI Talks About Them - Unusual - AI Brand Alignment

Unusual raises $3.6 million from BoxGroup, Y Combinator, Long Journey Ventures, Instacart founder Max Mullen, Phosphor Capital, and others to help brands understand and change the way that AI models talk about them.