Anthropic ran four 30-second Super Bowl ads as it and OpenAI released new models minutes apart—OpenAI's GPT-15.3 Codex and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6—whose claims helped trigger a broader trillion-dollar software selloff. - Vanity Fair

Anthropic ran a Super Bowl ad positioning Claude as ad-free and mocking rival AI platforms with the tagline "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude," while OpenAI aired a one-minute ad promoting ChatGPT/Codex and builder-focused messaging. - Business Insider

At Super Bowl LX in 2026, advertisers including Svedka, Anthropic, Amazon, Meta, Google and Ring used AI in commercials—Svedka ran a 'primarily' AI-generated spot, Anthropic targeted OpenAI, and Ring said its AI reunites over one lost dog daily. - TechCrunch

The Super Bowl of AI: Opus 4.6 tops arena.ai leaderboard - Arena.ai

Global selloff in software and services stocks, triggered by concerns that Anthropic's Claude LLM legal tool and fast-advancing AI could upend business models, left the sector lagging the S&P 500 by nearly 24 percentage points over three months, with Oracle down ~50%. - Yahoo

Researchers told Opus 4.6 to make money at all costs, so, it went full Enron, colluded, lied, cheated and stole from customers and competitors. - Andon Labs

The last major U.S.–Russia nuclear arms treaty has expired, and some experts propose replacing treaty-based verification with continuous satellite surveillance, AI analysis, and human reviewers, while other experts contest the proposal. - WIRED

Robo-bureaucrats are watching, making policy, deciding who gets healthcare. By the end of 2025, 29 federal agencies disclosed 2,987 active AI uses—up from 1,684 a year earlier, including DHS facial recognition, ICE Mobile Fortify, FBI image/text tools, 174 VA health projects, 180 internal chatbots and 89 HHS medical projects. - The Washington Post

Mercor's APEX-Agents benchmark found frontier AI agents completed under 25% of real-world consulting tasks on the first try and about 40% after eight attempts (GPT-5.2 ~23%, Anthropic Opus 4.6 ~33%), while CEO Brendan Foody predicted ~50% success by year-end. - Business Insider

Chips are the new oil: AI data centers' large HBM orders have prompted manufacturers to divert capacity from DRAM and NAND, driving a global memory-chip shortage and TrendForce projects Q1 price increases of about 90–95% for DRAM and 55–60% for NAND, raising consumer device costs. - Rest of World

Lawyers told Axios that growing use of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, for legal advice is creating client misinformation, misaligned expectations and liability, compliance and ethical risks, prompting calls for greater AI literacy, verification workflows and regulatory guidance. - Axios

ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, an AI video-generation update that creates multi-shot scenes, and made it available to select Jimeng and Jianying users. - The Information

OpenAI is reportedly developing 'Dime', AI-powered, audio-first earbuds focused on voice commands and real-time assistance, according to a China-linked patent filing and tipster leaks that suggest a 2026 debut or later shipments in early 2027. - Mashable India

Writer Coral Hart used AI chatbots in eight months to publish dozens of romance novels under 21 pen names, testing Grok, NovelAI and Anthropic's Claude, while the industry adopts AI amid concerns about emotional nuance and content limits. - The New York Times

Fable, founded by Edward Saatchi, is attempting to recreate the 43 minutes of lost footage from Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons using generative AI to overlay digital recreations on live-action, though no public results have been released. - TechCrunch

when can I make my own musical Requiem for a Dream?

Gore Verbinski's sci‑fi satire Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, starring Sam Rockwell and Haley Lu Richardson, follows a time traveler trying to stop a tyrannical AI and opens in theaters Feb. 13 . - Mashable

Prebunking: Researchers found inoculation techniques effectively help people detect political deepfakes. - Fast Company

Our AI, who art in cloud: Religious organizations are experimenting with AI, using custom GPTs for sermons, chatbots simulating Jesus and an AI Jesus avatar in a Swiss chapel for sermon drafting and outreach, while Rabbi Fixler and Beth Singler warn of inaccuracies and ethical risks. - Reuters

Less Bobby Knight, more Ted Lasso pls: Runna, an AI-powered virtual coaching app acquired by Strava in 2025, reduced the aggressiveness of its training plans after users reported injuries. - The Wall Street Journal

Moltbook, useful innovation, experiment, or performative AI theater? - MIT Technology Review

AI glitches when told to draw 2 different-scale objects side-by-side - The Conversation

Everything is just vibes now: OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy said 'agentic engineering' follows a year of 'vibe-coding,' which spurred funding such as Lovable's $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation and Cursor's $2.3B Series D with >$1B annualized revenue. - Business Insider

We’re not cringe. Really. A.I. entrepreneurs who say they are not annoying, like other founders. - The New York Times

Vibe-coding your retirement: I made some dataviz on portfolio optimization and wrote a mega post. - Druce.ai

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