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Ex-Waymo engineers secure major Series B to deploy operator-less construction equipment amid an industry labor crisis.

Reno-based Positron AI has raised $230 million at a $1B+ valuation, claiming its Atlas chip matches Nvidia's H100 inference performance at one-third the power while its next-gen Asimov silicon promises six times the memory of Nvidia's Rubin.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission is confirmed for February 11 after FAA clears Falcon 9 following a second-stage anomaly, while a historic policy change will let astronauts carry personal smartphones into orbit for the first time.

The European Commission must decide by February 10 whether to approve Google's largest-ever acquisition or open a deeper probe, in a case that could reshape cloud security competition worldwide.

The IEA's Electricity 2026 report projects renewables and nuclear will reach 50% of the global power mix by 2030, but warns that 2,500 GW of projects are stranded in grid connection queues.

French cybercrime investigators raided X's Paris office and summoned Elon Musk for questioning, as the EU, UK, Canada, Brazil, and at least four other jurisdictions pursue parallel enforcement actions over Grok's generation of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes.

Aviation automation startup Skyryse raises $300M Series C at $1.15B valuation to certify SkyOS, a fly-by-wire system replacing complex mechanical controls with a single joystick and touchscreens.

Both models launched on the same day but target different developer needs — Codex prioritizes speed and agentic reliability, while Opus leads on reasoning depth and multi-agent coordination.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex, its fastest agentic coding model yet, but delays API access after classifying it as 'High' cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework.

Anthropic releases its most capable model yet, featuring a 1M-token context window, parallel agent coordination, and security research that uncovered over 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities in open-source software.

Go 1.26 RC3 shipped February 4 with the Green Tea GC as default, an experimental SIMD package, post-quantum TLS, and enhanced generics.

Linux 6.19 brings Rust into 'actual driver development' phase with I2C support and Nova GPU driver progress