Subj : Google doubles spending 💰, Alexa + OpenAI 🤖, agentic engineering 👨‍💻 To : All From : TLDR Date : Thu Feb 05 2026 11:26 am --Cq5FwTFu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alphabet has announced an ambitious capital spending plan that far surpas= ses predictions. 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As Rocks May Think (6 minut= e read)

LLM-based reasoning is both powerful an= d flexible. However, there is likely still room to make the recipe even sim= pler. There are also still more gains to be had by understanding all the pl= ays in which thinking behavior can be found. The extra reasoning data gener= ated over recent years may help further train models to reason better throu= gh previously unviable methods.
OpenClaw is What Apple Inte= lligence Should Have Been (3 minute read)

Mac Minis are selling out everywhere be= cause people are using them to run OpenClaw, an open source framework for l= ocal AI agents that has become a killer app for Mac hardware. The rush show= s that there is a clear demand for agents and automation, and Apple is gett= ing the hardware revenue from it. However, it's missing out on the platform= revenue - Apple could have created its own native agent, but this would li= kely have caused significant legal issues.
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The persistent belief that AI will dest= roy the software business could be more damaging than the actual impact the= technology will have on the industry.
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Vibe coding is great for building, but = it drastically cuts down the time it takes to come up with creative solutio= ns for technical problems, leading some developers to feel like something i= s missing.
Update: AI Overviews Reduce= Clicks by 58% (3 minute read)

It seems categorically true that AI Ove= rviews siphon away the majority of the clicks once available to top-ranking= pages.
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