Opus 4.6 🤖, OpenAI Frontiers 💼, inside SpaceX xAI merger 💰

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2026-02-06 TLDR is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI ($200k-$300k, Fully Remote) As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new 'agent teams' (2 minute read) Anthropic's latest version of Opus features Agent Teams, teams of agents that can split larger tasks into segmented jobs. It also comes with a one-million-token context window, allowing for the processing of larger documents. The segmenting of agent responsibilities allows them to coordinate work in parallel to complete tasks faster. Agent Teams is currently available in a research preview for API users and subscribers. OpenAI Unveils Frontier, a Product for Building 'AI Co-Workers' (3 minute read) OpenAI Frontier is a new AI platform for building, deploying, and overseeing AI agents. It makes it easier for businesses to combine sources of data that agents need to perform tasks. The agents act as co-workers that can collaborate with humans and can be used alongside agents developed by other labs. Frontier is currently available to a limited set of customers. OpenAI has yet to disclose prices for the feature. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Inside Elon Musk's $1.25 Trillion AI and Space Megamerger (8 minute read) SpaceX and xAI signed a merger agreement at the end of last month. Merging the two companies is a level of risk-taking and ambition that is novel even for Elon Musk. It is a bet on Musk's plan for the convergence of AI and space - a wager on unproven technology deployed at a vast scale. SpaceX representatives have confirmed that the company plans to go public this summer. China is running the EV playbook on humanoid robots — and it's working (5 minute read) Nearly 90% of all humanoid robots sold globally last year were Chinese. The humanoid robot industry is still in its infancy, but China's progress will potentially lock it into a commanding position. Its early advantage is due to a combination of policy support, public investment, a mature supply chain, and advancements made in AI software and hardware. The global market for humanoid robots in 2035 is estimated to grow to $38 billion. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex (12 minute read) GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI's most capable agentic coding model to date. It advances both the frontier coding performance of GPT-5.2-Codex and the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2 while being 25% faster. The model can take on long-running tasks that involve research, tool use, and complex execution. Developers can steer and interact with the model while it's working without losing context. My AI Adoption Journey (14 minute read) Mitchell Hashimoto, a developer who co-founded HashiCorp, has reached a point where he is having success with modern AI tooling. His approach uses a proper, measured view grounded in reality. This post shares Hashimoto's approach to navigating these new tools and gives a glimpse into how he approaches new tools in general, regardless of AI. Hashimoto is a software craftsman who just wants to build stuff for the love of the game, so it doesn't matter to him whether AI is here to stay. 🎁 Miscellaneous Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android "very soon" (2 minute read) Google is expanding AirDrop support to the rest of the Android ecosystem this year. Currently, only Google Pixel 10 devices can initiate an AirDrop session with Apple devices. AirDrop support allows Android devices to send files to Apple devices without downloading third-party apps. Google tends to time its Android ecosystem updates with Pixel Drops, and the next one of those is expected in March. Death of Software. Nah (13 minute read) Wall Street tends to run in herds, and the past couple of weeks have seen the herd collectively conclude that software is somehow dead. This is nonsense. There will be more software than ever before. AI-enabled or AI-centric software is simply moving up the stack of what a product is. Domain experience will become more important than it is today because every domain will become vastly more sophisticated than it is now. ⚡ Quick Links Tim Cook teases new product categories and services enabled by AI (2 minute read) Apple glasses are rumored to be unveiled this year, and the new Apple Health+ service is expected to arrive in iOS 27 with AI at the center. Teleporting into the future and robbing yourself of retirement projects (5 minute read) AI enables developers to start doing the projects they've been putting off for the future. NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon (2 minute read) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has told his team to challenge NASA's bloated requirements to ensure they are still needed today. Amazon's $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in AI Race (7 minute read) Investors are worried that the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on AI data centers will take years to pay off. SpaceX Seeks Early Index Entry as It Prepares Massive IPO (4 minute read) SpaceX advisers have reached out to major index providers to discuss whether SpaceX could join key indexes sooner than normal. Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space" (134 minute read) Elon Musk plans to leverage xAI's ability to create and scale hardware to enable space-based data centers that will run on basically unlimited power from solar energy. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! 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