Daily AI Recap: Feb 05, 2026

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Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity: Reddit says its search business, including AI answers, is an "enormous" opportunity....
AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high: AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption....
Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?: In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money!...
Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models: EnCompass executes AI agent programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts, finding the best set of outputs generated by an LLM. It could help coders work with AI agents more efficiently....
Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers: We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan....
How to Build Production-Grade Data Validation Pipelines Using Pandera, Typed Schemas, and Composable DataFrame Contracts: Schemas, and Composable DataFrame ContractsIn this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build robust, production-grade data validation pipelines using Pandera with typed DataFrame models. We start by simul...
Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ videos: Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others....
Case study: Takeda: Building AI in healthcare is hard enough without fighting your own data systems. In Austin, Takeda is tackling that problem head-on, creating a platform designed for scale, compliance, and real-world ...
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How Google Cloud is helping Team USA elevate their tricks with AI: A woman outdoors in the snow looks at a tablet. A half pipe is behind her....
The 10 Best AI SDR Tools of 2026: Features, Pricing, and Real‑World Performance: Discover the 10 best AI SDR tools of 2026 with a full comparison of features, pricing, user ratings, pros, cons, and expert insights. Learn which AI sales platforms deliver the strongest automation, p...
ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI: ElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push conversational systems into wearables, new hardware, and everyday interactions....
Watch our new Gemini ad ahead of football’s biggest weekend: A toddler in a blue and yellow striped shirt sits on a kitchen counter eating a red apple. Text in the corner reads: 'New Home, Google Gemini SB Commercial’...
Agent Evaluation: How to Test and Measure Agentic AI Performance: AI agents that use tools, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks aren't prototypes anymore....
Mitiga Reports Growth in Real-Time Cloud Detection: The Zero-Impact Cloud Security leader advances its AI-native security platform, expands channel and technology alliances, and reports strong sales growth and market momentum heading into 2026 Mitiga, ...
GeForce NOW Celebrates Six Years of Streaming With 24 Games in February: Break out the cake and green sprinkles — GeForce NOW is turning six. Since launch, members have streamed over 1 billion hours, and the party’s just getting started. Throughout February, members can lo...
Why Is My Code So Slow? A Guide to Py-Spy Python Profiling: Stop guessing and start diagnosing performance issues using Py-Spy The post Why Is My Code So Slow? A Guide to Py-Spy Python Profiling appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Anthropic’s Superbowl Ads Mocking OpenAI Have Sam Altman Going on a Rant: We have seen big corporate rivalries in products across the gamut. Mac and Windows went at it for long. Then it was Pepsi and Coca-Cola, Burger King and McDonald’s, BMW and Mercedes, and the list goes...
How to Access and Use Qwen3-Coder-Next?: Recent developments on AI models have been specifically focused on one task – coding agents. Following the line, Alibaba’s Qwen is now out with a new model, one that promises industry-leading results,...
Murata Releases Guide to Power Stability in AI Data Centers: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 6981) (ISIN: JP3914400001) has launched a new technology guide entitled: ‘Optimizing Power Delivery Networks for AI Servers in Next-Generation Data Centers.’ Ava...
The Rule Everyone Misses: How to Stop Confusing loc and iloc in Pandas: A simple mental model to remember when each one works (with examples that finally click). The post The Rule Everyone Misses: How to Stop Confusing loc and iloc in Pandas appeared first on Towards Data...
GPT-5 lowers the cost of cell-free protein synthesis: An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation....
FireMon and Illumio Unveil Industry’s First Zero Trust Control Plane: Moves Zero Trust beyond application visibility into continuous, governed control of segmentation across network, cloud, and host environments FireMon, the leading network security and firewall policy ...
Venkat Rangarajan Joins DirectDefense as Vice President of Sales: Veteran cybersecurity sales leader brings 25+ years of experience scaling high-growth security organizations DirectDefense, a leading information security services company, today announced that Venkat...
40 RAG Interview Questions and Answers: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, has become the backbone of most serious AI systems in the real world. The reason is simple: large language models are great at reasoning and writing, but terrib...
Active Epistemic Control for Query-Efficient Verified Planning: arXiv:2602.03974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning in interactive environments is challenging under partial observability: task-critical preconditions (e.g., object locations or container state...
Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads: He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival "dishonest" and "authoritarian."...

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Navigating health questions with ChatGPT: A family shares how ChatGPT helped them prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son alongside expert guidance from his doctors....
NVIDIA AI Release VibeTensor: An AI Generated Deep Learning Runtime Built End to End by Coding Agents Programmatically: NVIDIA has released VIBETENSOR, an open-source research system software stack for deep learning. VIBETENSOR is generated by LLM-powered coding agents ...
Understanding the Impact of Differentially Private Training on Memorization of Long-Tailed Data: arXiv:2602.03872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research shows that modern deep learning models achieve high predictive accuracy partly by mem...
Reversible Deep Learning for 13C NMR in Chemoinformatics: On Structures and Spectra: arXiv:2602.03875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a reversible deep learning model for 13C NMR that uses a single conditional invertible n...
GOPO: Policy Optimization using Ranked Rewards: arXiv:2602.03876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) trains a reward model on pairwise preferen...
NeuroPareto: Calibrated Acquisition for Costly Many-Goal Search in Vast Parameter Spaces: arXiv:2602.03901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The pursuit of optimal trade-offs in high-dimensional search spaces under stringent computational con...

Daily AI Recap: February 5, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 05, 2026

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