Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Combined morning + evening digest
Morning Sources
- [Wired AI] CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’ - [Wired AI] AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator - [Wired AI] RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees - [TechCrunch AI] Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy - [TechCrunch AI] Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales startup to upend Salesforce - [TechCrunch AI] Build a pipeline and close deals with an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 - [TechCrunch AI] Meridian raises $17 million to remake the agentic spreadsheet - [TechCrunch AI] With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon - [TechCrunch AI] OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s ‘adult mode’ reportedly fired on discrimination claim - [TechCrunch AI] Okay, now exactly half of xAI’s founding team has left the company - [TechCrunch AI] Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies - [TechCrunch AI] An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics - [TechCrunch AI] This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI - [The Guardian Tech] The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers - [AI News] Barclays bets on AI to cut costs and boost returns - [AI News] How insurance leaders use agentic AI to cut operational costs - [AI News] Red Hat unifies AI and tactical edge deployment for UK MOD - [arXiv CS.LG] Enhanced Graph Transformer with Serialized Graph Tokens - [arXiv CS.LG] Spectral Disentanglement and Enhancement: A Dual-domain Contrastive Framework for Representation Learning - [arXiv CS.LG] Learning to Remember, Learn, and Forget in Attention-Based Models - [arXiv CS.LG] Patient foundation model for risk stratification in low-risk overweight patients - [arXiv CS.LG] Looping Back to Move Forward: Recursive Transformers for Efficient and Flexible Large Multimodal Models - [arXiv CS.LG] DMamba: Decomposition-enhanced Mamba for Time Series Forecasting - [arXiv CS.LG] From Adam to Adam-Like Lagrangians: Second-Order Nonlocal Dynamics - [arXiv CS.LG] Distributed Hybrid Parallelism for Large Language Models: Comparative Study and System Design Guide - [arXiv CS.LG] Benchmarking the Energy Savings with Speculative Decoding Strategies - [arXiv CS.LG] Importance inversion transfer identifies shared principles for cross-domain learning - [Ars Technica AI] Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk's xAI - [Google Research] Beyond one-on-one: Authoring, simulating, and testing dynamic human-AI group conversations
Evening Sources
- [Simon Willison] Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built - [Gary Marcus] The literal enshittification of The United States - [Gary Marcus] BREAKING: LLM “reasoning” continues to be deeply flawed - [MarkTechPost] NVIDIA Researchers Introduce KVTC Transform Coding Pipeline to Compress Key-Value Caches by 20x for Efficient LLM Serving - [MarkTechPost] Google AI Introduces Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI): An Agentic Multimodal Accessibility Framework Built on Gemini for Adaptive UI Design - [MarkTechPost] How to Design Complex Deep Learning Tensor Pipelines Using Einops with Vision, Attention, and Multimodal Examples - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] GLM 5 Released - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] GLM-5 Officially Released - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] MiniMax M2.5 Released - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] GLM 5.0 & MiniMax 2.5 Just Dropped, Are We Entering China's Agent War Era? - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] Just finished building this bad boy - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] Add Kimi-K2.5 support - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] MOSS-TTS has been released - [Reddit r/LocalLLaMA] DeepSeek has launched grayscale testing for its new model on both its official website and app. 1M content length! - [Reddit r/MachineLearning] [[R] I am looking for good research papers on compute optimization during model training, ways to reduce FLOPs, memory usage, and training time without hurting convergence.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1r1pr3c/riamlookingforgoodresearchpaperson/) - [Reddit r/MachineLearning] [[R] Update: Frontier LLMs' Willingness to Persuade on Harmful Topics—GPT & Claude Improved, Gemini Regressed](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1r216b4/rupdatefrontierllmswillingnesstopersuadeon/) - [Reddit r/MachineLearning] [[R] The Post-Transformer Era: State Space Models, Mamba, and What Comes After Attention](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1r19jnu/rtheposttransformererastatespacemodels/) - [Reddit r/MachineLearning] [[R] I probed 6 open-weight LLMs (7B-9B) for "personality" using hidden states — instruct fine-tuning is associated with measurable behavioral constraints](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1r1w34h/riprobed6openweightllms7b9bfor_personality/) - [Hacker News] Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life (2016) - [Hacker News] Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists - [Hacker News] Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine - [Hacker News] NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw's biggest security issues - [Hacker News] U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 - [Hacker News] Railway (PaaS) global outage - [Hacker News] Why Vampires Live Forever - [Hacker News] Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way - [Hacker News] GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform - [AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones] Claude Opus 4.6: The Biggest AI Jump I've Covered--It's Not Close. (Here's What You Need to Know) - [AI Samson] NEW AI Video Model: Better Than Kling 3?! Access Now! #shorts - [Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"] Takeoff - [Curious Refuge] You NEED to See the New AI Video Generators! - [Dwarkesh Patel] The Real Reason America Needs Robots - Elon Musk - [Linus Ekenstam] A free AI tool with ready-to-use UI components - [Matthew Berman] Openclaw is NUTS - [Matthew Berman] Elon Musk's going to the moon... - [MattVidPro AI] Seedance 2.0 FEELS like old Sora but BETTER. Fight Scenes Are Finally GOOD! - [Matt Wolfe] Research 10x Faster With This AI Tool - [Nate Herk | AI Automation] Turn Any Website Into LLM Ready Data INSTANTLY - [OpenAI] Updates to deep research in ChatGPT - [The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News] Why AI Leads to More Work, Not Less