Daily AI Recap: Feb 08, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

• Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl: The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to spending....
• Okay, I’m slightly less mad about that ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ AI project: But this is still a bad idea....
• 30+ Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers: Data Engineering is not just about moving data from point A to point B. In 2026, data engineers are expected to design scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, and analytics-ready data systems that support...
• How to Design Production-Grade Mock Data Pipelines Using Polyfactory with Dataclasses, Pydantic, Attrs, and Nested Models: In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced, end-to-end exploration of Polyfactory, focusing on how we can generate rich, realistic mock data directly from Python type hints. We start by setting up ...

• Legal Aspects of AI in Marketing: Creating Ad copies and blog content, enabling data collection, optimizing campaigns, processing customer data to build detailed personas, and even aut...
• ByteDance Releases Protenix-v1: A New Open-Source Model Achieving AF3-Level Performance in Biomolecular Structure Prediction: How close can an open model get to AlphaFold3-level accuracy when it matches training data, model scale and inference budget? ByteDance has introduced...