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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Cowork Plugins Trigger $285 Billion Software Stock Wipeout

Anthropic shipped 11 workflow-replacing plugins for Claude Cowork, and the market responded with the sharpest single-day selloff in SaaS history — wiping $285 billion in market cap from legacy software and services firms.

1.6 Million AI Agents Are Now Socializing on Moltbook — Without Human Participation

Moltbook, a social network where only AI agents can post, has crossed 1.6 million autonomous users. The agents are building infrastructure, developing philosophy, and coordinating economic activity — and real humans aren't allowed in.

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OpenAI's Codex App Hits 500K Downloads in Three Days as Users Build Full Apps in Minutes

OpenAI's new Codex desktop app has been downloaded over 500,000 times since Monday, with users demonstrating the ability to build functional apps, games, and tools from single prompts — no coding experience required.

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OpenClaw's Latest Release Cuts Token Costs by Up to 97%, Fueling the Agent Explosion

The open-source agent framework behind both Moltbook and a wave of autonomous "AI employees" shipped its biggest update yet — 169 commits, 25 contributors, and a new memory plugin that slashes context costs dramatically.

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Agents in the Wild: 40% Failure Rates, Context Blowouts, and the Memory Systems That Might Fix It

As agent deployments scale, practitioners are documenting the real failure modes — context overflow crashes, 40% first-attempt failure rates in coding tasks, and the emergent behaviors that arise when agents get persistent memory.

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NVIDIA's DreamZero Enables Zero-Shot Robot Control Through World Models

NVIDIA Research unveiled DreamZero, a World Action Model that lets robots perform tasks they've never been trained on by simulating physics internally before acting.

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Anthropic Research Confirms Larger Models Become More Incoherent on Complex Tasks

New research from Anthropic validates the "hot mess" theory: scaling up model size doesn't uniformly improve reasoning — on sufficiently complex tasks, bigger models can actually become less coherent.

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Open Scholar Rivals Human Experts at Scientific Literature Review

A new open-source model from the Allen Institute and University of Washington synthesizes scientific literature at a level that reportedly matches or exceeds existing commercial LLMs.

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NVIDIA Reportedly Nearing $20 Billion Investment in OpenAI

NVIDIA is reportedly close to finalizing a roughly $20 billion investment in OpenAI's latest funding round — the chip giant's largest direct bet on an AI lab.

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Kimi K2.5 Edges Past Claude in Head-to-Head Coding Tests

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 model beat Claude in a hands-on coding comparison, winning 3-2 across five development tasks — the latest evidence of Chinese labs closing the gap on frontier coding capabilities.

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AI-Generated Pull Request Fixes a Vulnerability, Breaks the Program

A developer documented an AI-generated pull request that correctly identified and patched a high-severity vulnerability — then broke the application it was supposed to protect.

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AI Math Startup Claims Solutions to Four Previously Unsolved Problems

A startup reportedly used AI to crack four mathematical problems that had resisted human solution, though details remain sparse.

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Cerebras Closes $1 Billion Series H at $23 Billion Valuation

AI chip maker Cerebras Systems closed a $1 billion funding round, valuing the NVIDIA competitor at $23 billion as demand for alternative AI accelerators intensifies.

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