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Monday, February 2, 2026 — 5:30 AM CST

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How a Big Agent Bet Reshaped AWS

The Information — Feb 1, 7:01 PM
AWS CEO Matt Garman overhauling AI product leadership to speed development. Hired former Microsoft exec for agent-building tools, brought back former AWS exec from Stripe for another agent effort. Updated org chart of 37 AWS executives.

AI Shopping's Unlikely Friends Take On Amazon

The Information — Feb 1, 4:00 PM
AI firms promoting shopping as growth area. Web of partnerships among 10 companies aiming to take down Amazon. Unusual degree of cooperation that may shift as AI shopping takes off.

The Priest Who Advised on Claude's Soul

The Information — Feb 1, 3:01 PM
Rev. Brendan McGuire of St. Simon Catholic Parish (Los Altos) has been spiritual counselor to Silicon Valley elite for 30 years. AI boom brought increased requests from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic for moral guidance as they "play God."

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

Lenny's Newsletter — Feb 1, 1:31 PM
Clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy on why repair > perfection, "connect before you correct," the MGI framework, boundaries vs requests, and being a "sturdy" leader. All human systems operate on the same principles.

Give Yourself a Promotion

Every — Feb 1, 12:55 PM
Think Week dispatch from Panama. Theme: hand off parts of your job to AI agents. Four principles: 1) Start small 2) You're now three people (worker + PM + boss) 3) Spot translation layers 4) When stuck, ask the AI.

Hatch joins Yelp + Health Tech 2.0

Bessemer Venture Partners — Jan 31, 11:00 AM
BVP Atlas update on health tech and recent deals.

3 Good Ideas: The Week in Review

Sahil Bloom — Jan 31, 8:06 AM
Weekly roundup of ideas and insights from Sahil Bloom's Curiosity Chronicle.

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 with Anthropic's Cowork tool — building a simple app still required significant effort.

🧠 Community Wisdom: How you feel about your job right now...

Lenny's Newsletter — Jan 31, 11:11 AM
Community discussion on job satisfaction, what to do while waiting for AI responses, and more.

🐦 Twitter — Leaders

Paul Graham @paulg
I just saw Marty Supreme. That must be the most non-stop movie I've ever seen. They made every frame count.
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Jason Lemkin @jasonlk
"We went from 8 humans in sales to 1.25. We do about the same. Why? The agents don't mind chasing small deals. They never quit." @tbpn
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David Senra @FoundersPodcast
"Founders is church for those that are intense. The main audience that will enjoy it are those that are passionate about their life and want to create."
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Nikita Bier @nikitabier
Ugh, my drafts are so good right now
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Tobi Lutke @tobi
Imagine [QT: Javier Milei's Argentina results — inflation 300%→30%, poverty 52%→31%, budget deficit 15%→0%]
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Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr
#GRAMMY awards whiffed on their chance to honor Brian Wilson.
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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...
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Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan
RT: when you realize that matrix called the bad guys "agents" and 25 years later we literally invented them
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🤖 Twitter — AI

Ethan Mollick @emollick
Took an old photo of a WWI battlecruiser, gave it to Genie 3, and prompted it to let me play as a torpedo boat at the Battle of Jutland. Considering this is a research preview, astonishing how fast this has come. An AI dynamically generating the world with no game engine...
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Ethan Mollick @emollick
The many eulogies for AI capability growth after the release of GPT-5 seem especially short-sighted right now. Letting people nervous about AI feel they can safely ignore AI development because it was pure hype that would never have any real impact is not a good thing for anyone
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Ethan Mollick @emollick
This is a good thread, and a useful one... but you should not assume that the Claude Code team has discovered the actual best ways to use Claude Code. A lesson of the past three years is that figuring out the best way to use AI is an exploratory process that is open to many!
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Amjad Masad @amasad
"Ship faster than slacking" [QT about using Replit to prototype instead of debating specs]
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Amjad Masad @amasad
Apparently this person runs a VC firm. Imagine getting a 23andme test for "due diligence."
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Matt Schlicht @MattPRD
❤️ you @dharmesh, master of the expensive domains [QT: dharmesh started a professional network for agents]
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roon @tszzl
you know who else lived on a private island compound with a pet monkey named bubbles and received various elite guests
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Mike Rundle @flyosity
Lotta Apple fans are pissed at this change, but I think the reasoning is pretty simple: Spotify uses an extremely recognizable vibrant shade of green for their logo and the way Icon Composer applies Liquid Glass to icons is sorta ugly and muddies the color
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