The 10 most important AI stories of February 6, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, a major upgrade designed for end-to-end enterprise autonomy. It supports a 1M context window, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, and can autonomously build complex software like a C compiler.
OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform for managing AI agents like human employees, and GPT-5.3-Codex, which runs 25% faster and extends beyond coding to general professional computer tasks.
Amazon announced a colossal $200 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026, focused heavily on AI data centers, chips, and infrastructure, far exceeding Wall Street estimates.
Alphabet plans to more than double its capital expenditure to between $175B and $185B in 2026 to reset the bar for AI infrastructure spending following strong Q4 earnings.
AI chipmaker Cerebras raised $1 billion in Series H funding at a $23 billion valuation, leveraging its '20x faster' chips and a $10 billion OpenAI contract to take on Nvidia.
Autonomous vehicle startup Waabi raised $1 billion, including $250M from Uber, to deploy 25,000 robotaxis. Waabi uses a single AI system trained primarily in simulation for both trucks and cars.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lashed out at Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, calling it 'clearly dishonest' and 'authoritarian' as the rivalry over ad-free AI models intensifies.
Google's Gemini app reached a massive milestone of 750M monthly active users, signaling rapid adoption as it competes directly with ChatGPT and Meta AI.
AI startup Fundamental secured a $1.2B valuation and a partnership with AWS to sell a foundation model designed to interpret petabytes of structured enterprise data.
Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.7 billion specifically for its AI infrastructure team, part of a larger $15B fund, to double down on winners like OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Cursor.
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