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Techmeme - 2026-02-05T14:40:44-05:00

Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's "deeply distraught" with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-05T14:40:03-05:00

Y Combinator adds Canada back to its accepted countries list, and says it had removed the country because its top Canadian companies reincorporated in the US (Alex Riehl/BetaKit) - 2026-02-05T13:55:04-05:00

Anthropic says it found Opus 4.6 "brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to" and "thinks more deeply and more carefully" (Anthropic) - 2026-02-05T13:15:01-05:00

OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI) - 2026-02-05T13:11:40-05:00

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 found 500+ previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting during its testing (Sam Sabin/Axios) - 2026-02-05T13:10:04-05:00

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and "is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) - 2026-02-05T13:07:01-05:00

Anthropic introduces "agent teams" in Claude Code as a research preview to launch multiple agents that work in parallel, and a Claude in PowerPoint plugin (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-05T13:00:39-05:00

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 supports a 1M context window in beta, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, the highest for any Claude model, and boosts agentic capabilities (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) - 2026-02-05T12:56:00-05:00

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can scrutinize company data, regulatory filings, and market info; Anthropic now has 300K+ business users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-05T12:51:28-05:00

Q&A with Elon Musk on launching 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (Cheeky Pint) - 2026-02-05T12:45:00-05:00

Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after "strong early traction", without sharing specific numbers (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-05T12:35:02-05:00

The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 (Jason Rainbow/SpaceNews) - 2026-02-05T12:20:00-05:00

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (Iain Martin/Forbes) - 2026-02-05T12:05:20-05:00

US tech stocks fall sharply in intraday trading: the Nasdaq drops 1.8%+, S&P 500 1.5%+, GOOG 3%+, QCOM 7%+, and AMZN 3%+, amid a selloff in software stocks (Financial Times) - 2026-02-05T11:55:01-05:00

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (New York Times) - 2026-02-05T11:45:05-05:00