AI News for Feb 3, 2026

Welcome to 'The Automated Daily', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: -Token-level capability removal in LLMs -Robot brains and robotics foundation models -Data centers, GPUs, and financing -Chat as the new interface -Agent ecosystems and security risks -Gemini upgrades and model interoperability -Enterprise agent platforms for engineers -Speech recognition and forced alignment -Benchmarking models with poker and Werewolf -Jobs, skills, and AI adoption data - https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21571 - https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/physical-intelligence-stripe-veteran-lachy-grooms-latest-bet-is-building-silicon-valleys-buzziest-robot-brains/ - https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/these-rural-americans-are-trying-to-hold-back-the-tide-of-ai-66945306 - https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/chat-is-going-to-eat-the-world - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/ - https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-will-make-it-easier-to-import-chatgpt-conversations-to-gemini/ - https://rentahuman.ai/ - https://contextual.ai/blog/introducing-agent-composer - https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21337 - https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-tests-claude-sonnet-4-5-on-gemini-for-business/ - https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/coreweaves-30-billion-bet-on-gpu - https://www.interconnects.ai/p/thoughts-on-the-hiring-market-in - https://go.contextual.ai/webinar-introducing-agent-composer.html - https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/kaggle-game-arena-updates/ - https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/02/firefox-ai-toggle/ - https://www.turingpost.com/p/olive - https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-policy-for-robot-control - https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-does-ai-impact-skill-formation/ - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tkA9J8RxoEckH7Pop/if-the-superintelligence-were-near-fallacy - https://contextual.ai/blog/introducing-agent-composer - https://go.contextual.ai/webinar-introducing-agent-composer.html - https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf - https://static.germantechjobs.de/market-reports/European-Transparent-IT-Job-Market-Report-2025.pdf - https://debliu.substack.com/p/10-charts-that-explain-the-ai-era - https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/synthetic-pretraining - https://contextual.ai/blog/introducing-agent-composer Subscribe to edition specific feeds: - Space news * Apple Podcast English Spanish (coming soon) French (coming soon) * Spotify English Spanish (coming soon) French (coming soon) * RSS English Spanish (coming soon) French (coming soon) - Top news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish French * RSS English Spanish French - Tech news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish Spanish * RSS English Spanish French - Hacker news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish French * RSS English Spanish French - AI news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish French * RSS English Spanish French Visit our website at https://theautomateddaily.com/ Send feedback to [email protected] Youtube LinkedIn X (Twitter)