Apple wearables 👓, Tesla's first Cybercab 🚕, state of coding agents 🧑‍💻

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Book a 30-minute demo to get started and use promo code MIGRATE2K 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple Ramps Up Work on Glasses, Pendant, and Camera AirPods for AI Era (9 minute read) Apple is accelerating development on smart glasses, a pendant that can be pinned to a shirt or worn as a necklace, and AirPods with expanded AI capabilities. All three devices are being built around the Siri digital assistant. They will rely on visual context to carry out actions. Apple is also developing a range of AI devices for the home, including a smart display built, an updated HomePod speaker, and a compact indoor sensor for home security and automation. Tesla Begins Cybercab Production. Now Comes The Hard Part (4 minute read) Tesla's first purpose-built driverless vehicle has rolled off the Gigafactory Texas production line. The CyberCab is a two-seater coupe that comes without a steering wheel or pedals, fully relying on the company's Full-Self Driving software for control. Robotaxis are central to Tesla's plans and could unlock trillions of dollars in value. The CyberCab uses a production technique that is extremely hard, so the early production rate is expected to be 'agonizingly slow', but it will eventually scale up to produce up to five million robotaxis a year. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus (6 minute read) A team at the University of California Berkeley and collaborators have modified CRISPR-Cas9 to replicate and spread to other cells. The scientists added genetic instructions for cells to make a virus-like transporter that can encapsulate the CRISPR machinery, and once manufactured in treated cells, the CRISPR cargo ships to neighboring cells. The upgraded editor is roughly three times more effective at gene editing lab-grown cells compared to standard CRISPR. It increases the safety profile of gene-editing treatments and potentially expands the technology to tissues and organs that are more challenging to genetically alter than the liver. The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience (28 minute read) The implications of understanding the brain's steering circuits go beyond AI. Many psychiatric conditions can be seen as failures of internal teaching. Answering how sophisticated, within-lifetime teaching actually works inside mammalian brains could link psychiatry, developmental neuroscience, and new ideas for AI alignment into a research program. Brains are architectures of internal teachers. We should try to find these teachers and learn from them. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 (12 minute read) Claude Sonnet 4.6 features a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. It has a 1 million token context window. The model has very strong safety behaviors, with no signs of major concerns around high-stakes forms of misalignment. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available now on all Claude plans, Claude Cowork, Claude Code, Anthropics API, and all major cloud platforms. Coding Agents in Feb 2026 (13 minute read) Different coding agents are good at different tasks - the best way to decide which to use is to choose based on time and whether it needs to run autonomously or collaboratively. Model performance and speed is governed both by the pure performance of the model and also how well it can manage multiple context windows and delegate to sub-agents or teams of agents. This article discusses several coding agents and how best to use each of them. Ideas, architecture, and project sequencing are becoming the limiting factors for building great products. 🎁 Miscellaneous Reality's Moat (13 minute read) Vertical AI is a fertile ground for moats. These products share operational knowledge packaged as services. Customers stay because of their own experience of relying on the product under stress. Trust leads the customer to bring harder problems, harder problems generate deeper operational knowledge, and this deeper knowledge earns more trust. Any newcomer trying to enter the market starts at the bottom. Warner Bros. rejects Paramount again but asks for "best and final offer" (4 minute read) Warner Bros. Discovery is giving Paramount one more week to make its best and final offer despite officially still being committed to Netflix. The company has recommended shareholders vote for the Netflix merger. Netflix has provided Warner Bros. with a limited waiver that permits Warner Bros. to engage in discussions with Paramount until February 23. Netflix is set to pay $27.75 per share for an acquisition that includes HBO Max, WB Studios, and other assets. Paramount has offered $31 per share, but it wants to buy the entire company. ⚡ Quick Links Cut your dev loop from hours to seconds (Sponsor) mirrord lets you run local code against real cloud services. Get instant feedback, reduce cloud costs, and ship with confidence. monday.com cut dev cycle time by 70%. See how it works Chess Engines Do Weird Stuff (3 minute read) lc0-style chess engines have been trained with RL since AlphaZero, but it turns out this isn't necessary. Palantir moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami (2 minute read) Florida, which offers a friendlier tax environment, has welcomed a wave of billionaires in recent years. Can We Close the Loop in 2026? (3 minute read) Agents won't be collaborators we can trust until they understand themselves, verify their work, and remember what they learned reliably. Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins initial approval of national bank trust charter (3 minute read) Bridge National Trust Bank is now able to issue stablecoins, custody digital assets, and manage reserves under direct federal oversight. The SaaSpocalypse Is a Credit Event, Not a Tech Story (4 minute read) The SaaSpocalypse is stress-testing a $500 billion debt structure that private equity built on top of the SaaS business model during the most leveraged decade in financial history. The Post-Post-Apocalypse (12 minute read) AI has lowered the bar to becoming a B2B SaaS founder, creating a new AI middle class. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/7c97ce4b/ Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. 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