10 Thoughts On “AI,” February 2026 Edition
Posted on February 14, 2026 Posted by John Scalzi Because it feels like a good…
Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care
Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles…
Hollywood Studios Slam AI Tool That Created Video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt Fighting, and Prompted Deadpool’s Writer to Declare ‘It’s Likely Over For Us’
Have you seen that AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise beating the hell out of each…
Anthropic CEO again tells US government NOT to do what Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been ‘begging’ it for
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei strongly opposes selling advanced AI chips to China, viewing them as a national security…
The Class War on White-Collar Workers Is Just More Capitalism
Last week, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes took to X to announce that America’s white-collar workers were the latest…
Canada-Germany AI declaration signals further drift away from U.S. – National
Canada and Germany have signed a joint declaration of intent on artificial intelligence, marking a further step in…
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train…
X Is In Such Dire Straits That Its Head of Product Says It Can’t Afford to Display the Color Blue
When Elon Musk’s social media platform X, recently rolled into xAI, got bought by Musk’s space company SpaceX,…
The Best Time to Leave xAI Is Before Joining. The Next Best Time is Right Now
Earlier this week, Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI lost cofounder Tony Wu. A day later, Jimmy Ba joined…
US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says | AI (artificial intelligence)
Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap…
We Can Choose Not to Let AI Destroy Us
Going to be a short newsletter today because Sarah and I did a super-sized Secret Podcast this morning.…
Waiting for the AI J-Curve
February 14, 2026 The Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Solow said in 1987, “You can see the computer age…