The 10 most important AI stories of February 2, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the company’s proposed $100 billion investment in OpenAI was “never a commitment” and that the company would consider any funding rounds “one at a time.”
CEO of Anthropic posted a lengthy essay on the woes of AI. This included AI brainwashing and AI that becomes psychotic. I take a close look. An AI Insider scoop.
Nvidia Corp. supports “every developer” that uses its software, Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said, after a US lawmaker accused the chip giant of offering technical support that helped China’s DeepSeek improve its artificial intelligence model. (Source: Bloomberg)
Connie Loizos /TechCrunch:Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+— From the street, the only indication I've found Physical Intelligence's headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that's …
An online experiment has Elon Musk believing that we are reaching the 'singularity'. Is that really true?
Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s autonomous driving unit, is aiming to raise about $16 billion in a financing round that would value the unit at nearly $110 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Elon Musk and his aerospace company have requested to build a network that's 100 times the number of satellites that are currently in orbit. On Friday, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a million satellites meant to create an "orbital data center."
The Maia 200 deployment demonstrates that custom silicon has matured from experimental capability to production infrastructure at hyperscale.
New Delhi's latest move comes as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft expand data center investments in India.
Coco Feng /South China Morning Post:Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses— Domestic A-share companies in the sector are forecast to achieve substantial growth in their 2025 results, according to Donghai Securities
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