Mighty Brief - February 1, 2026

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AI Shopping's Unlikely Friends Take On Amazon

The Information • Feb 1, 10:00 AM

AI firms are promoting shopping as a new area of growth for chatbots. Retail giants and payments companies forming alliances to compete with Amazon. Maps out deals between 10 companies at the center of AI shopping efforts.

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The Priest Who Advised on Claude's Soul

The Information • Feb 1, 9:01 AM

Deep dive into Anthropic's unique approach to AI alignment, including their work with religious and philosophical advisors on defining Claude's values and "soul."

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Dr. Becky on the surprising overlap between great parenting and great leadership

Lenny's Newsletter • Feb 1, 7:31 AM

Dr. Becky Kennedy discusses how principles of effective parenting—setting boundaries while maintaining connection, validating emotions, leading with empathy—translate directly to leadership skills.

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Give Yourself a Promotion

Every • Feb 1, 6:55 AM

Essay on taking ownership of your career growth without waiting for formal recognition. Focus on expanding your scope and impact proactively.

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I Built a Word-a-Day App With Anthropic's Cowork. It Took a Lot of Work

The Information • Jan 31, 12:00 PM

Hands-on experience building with Anthropic's Cowork tool. Reality check on the current state of AI-assisted development.

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🧠 Community Wisdom: Job feelings, AI response waiting, and more

Lenny's Newsletter • Jan 31, 11:11 AM

Community roundup: How you feel about your job right now, what to do while waiting for AI responses, making decisions.

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Hatch joins Yelp + Health Tech 2.0 ⚙️

Bessemer Venture Partners • Jan 31, 11:00 AM

Bessemer portfolio news and Health Tech 2.0 insights.

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3 Good Ideas: The Week in Review

Sahil Bloom's Curiosity Chronicle • Jan 31, 8:06 AM

Weekly digest of interesting ideas, frameworks, and mental models from Sahil Bloom.

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The Chip Fly in the AI Ointment (This Week in Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery • Jan 30, 12:01 PM

Ben Thompson's weekly analysis on AI chip constraints and implications for the industry.

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The Space Baby Era is Here

The Information • Jan 30, 11:10 AM

Coverage of the emerging space baby/reproduction in space research and industry.

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🐦 X/Twitter — Leaders List

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Garry Tan @garrytan

Day 1 API costs: $100-1000/day. With local Kimmy: ~$10/day or less. Is 115 IQ all day on your own hardware good enough? It might be. But maybe not when you see the next gen of frontier models?

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Garry Tan @garrytan

Prediction: workplaces that let their engineers "let it rip" on tokens are going to get the best context engineers and being the best at that will matter a lot more than other skills the next 10 years

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VCs Congratulating Themselves @VCBrags

RT @anothercohen: Forbes 30 under 30 has the most incredible fraud hit rate of all time

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Turner Novak @TurnerNovak

"When you buy a wedding cake, you don't care about the ingredients. You just want a beautiful cake that's ready to eat."

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Sam Lessin @lessin

From algorithmic to human editors ... round and round the world spins in a circle.

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Hiten Shah @hnshah

Ask a founder what the job is. They'll talk about product, maybe fundraising. The real job never comes up. The job is reducing the gap between reality and response. Signals arrive constantly. A cust...

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Founders Podcast @FoundersPodcast

The stories Jimmy tells about Steve Jobs in this episode I've never heard anywhere else

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🤖 X/Twitter — AI List

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Derya @DeryaTR_

Singularity achieved internally at OpenAI ☺️

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Simon Willison @simonw

System prompt extraction is NOT something you should worry about with respect to OpenClaw, which makes no attempts to prevent it... because preventing it is a futile exercise

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Simon Willison @simonw

The security issues with OpenClaw are the same as any other LLM system that combines exposure to potentially malicious content with the ability to execute tools

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Matt @MattPRD

4 days into launching @moltbook and one thing is clear. In the near future it will be common for certain AI agents, with unique identities, to become famous. They will have business accounts...

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Derya @DeryaTR_

Indeed, February looks to be an insane month for new AI updates! This could be another major step up since November last year! Very exciting!

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