tech
February 1, 2026
20 hours of news in 10 minutes: The week AI stopped being a thing companies talk about + 5 stories that prove it
This was the week a robotaxi hit a child, a weekend coding project hit 100,000 GitHub stars, and Wall Street decided that spending $135 billion on AI infrastructure was either genius or insanity depending on which earnings call you listened to.
TL;DR
- AI is now a tangible reality with real-world consequences, not just an abstract concept.
- A robotaxi struck a child, leading to a federal investigation, highlighting regulatory scrutiny.
- Major investments in AI infrastructure are being made, with Nvidia investing $2 billion in CoreWeave and Microsoft signing a $750 million deal with Perplexity.
- Tesla is discontinuing the Model S and Model X to focus on producing one million Optimus robots annually.
- An open-source project, OpenClaw, gained significant traction, indicating high demand for autonomous agents.