Subj : ChatGPT growth leaks 📈, rise of Reddit search 🔍, Opus 4.6 vs Codex 5.3 👨‍💻 To : All From : TLDR Date : Tue Feb 10 2026 11:23 am --x4XSDTfY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sam Altman told employees on Friday that ChatGPT is back to exceeding 10%= monthly growth. 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The next AirPods Pro will be able to se= e its surroundings to provide hand gesture recognition and create an enhanc= ed spatial audio experience with the Apple Vision Pro headset. They will be= released at the same $249 price as the current model. Apple tends to wait = around three years to make major changes to AirPods, so it is unclear wheth= er the company plans to release a new high-end version of the AirPods Pro 3= or a full-fledged AirPods Pro 4. All AirPods announcements so far have bee= n made at Apple's annual iPhone event in September.
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China recently released a plan that lay= s out its priorities for 2026 through 2030 that contains plenty of ambitiou= s goals for the space sector. The country plans to harvest water from space= in the not-too-distant future, with the next five years focused on tech de= mos on things like robot drills and in-orbit processing. China's plans ment= ion building gigawatt-level space digital infrastructure. It also has the b= eginnings of a new space tourism industry.
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Amanda Askell is the resident philosoph= er at Anthropic. She spends her days learning reasoning patterns and talkin= g to the model to build its personality and address misfires. Her role's ai= m is to endow Claude with a sense of morality. She's training Claude to det= ect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique per= sonality traits.
Reddit says 80 million peop= le now use its search weekly (3 minute read)

80 million people are now using Reddit = search every week after Reddit merged its core search with its AI-powered R= eddit Answers. People are now starting and completing searches on the platf= orm without ever touching Google. Reddit is now the most-cited source in AI= -generated answers. The company sees AI summaries as an opportunity to move= users into Reddit communities, where they can read discussions, ask follow= -up questions, and participate.
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