💪 Mighty Brief

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 — 4:30 AM CT

🎯 TL;DR — Top Stories

  1. OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT — Free and Go tier users in the US now see ads. OpenAI says ads won't change ChatGPT's answers. Came hours after Anthropic's Super Bowl commercial. Techmeme, The Verge, TechCrunch, 30+ sources
  2. Every publishes "Compound Engineering: The Definitive Guide" — Kieran Klaassen's comprehensive handbook for AI-native engineering. 7K GitHub stars on the plugin. Direct hit on Dan's thesis. Every newsletter, Peter Yang, Lenny's Newsletter
  3. Epstein files dominate politics — Trump told Palm Beach police "everyone knew" about Epstein. Maxwell offers testimony for clemency. DOJ accused of hiding 3M docs. Memeorandum, Drudge, Miami Herald
  4. AI productivity paradox surfaces — HBR research shows AI productivity boosts can lead to burnout. Simon Willison + Garry Tan amplifying. Hiten Shah: "The real problem? Training humans for a world where AI does all the technical work." Twitter leaders list, HBR
  5. Amazon plans AI content marketplace for publishers — Amazon in discussions to launch marketplace where publishers sell content to AI firms. Follows Microsoft's similar move last week. The Information
  6. OpenAI & Anthropic expanding into enterprise consulting — Both hiring hundreds of engineers to help clients deploy AI agents. Retailers report out-of-box agents failing on basic tasks. Twitter AI list, Wes Roth
  7. Super Bowl cultural moments — Bad Bunny halftime wedding, Cardi B/Diggs breakup mid-game, Catherine O'Hara cause of death revealed. Seahawks win. WeSmirch, Twitter
  8. MN: ICE arrests soar, daughter of governor candidate stabbed in St. Cloud — Star Tribune front page dominated by immigration enforcement and local crime. Star Tribune

📧 Emails (11 threads)

Every — Kieran Klaassen
Compound Engineering: The Definitive Guide
Comprehensive handbook for AI-native engineering philosophy. "Each unit of engineering work should make subsequent units easier—not harder." 7K GitHub stars. Every runs all 5 products with single-person engineering teams. Plugin available.
Mon Feb 9, 10:12 AM · Gmail · Article
Lenny's Newsletter
🎙️ This week on How I AI: How to build your own AI developer tools with Claude Code
New episode on building AI developer tools with Claude Code.
Mon Feb 9, 10:02 AM · Gmail
Lenny's Newsletter
Getting paid to vibe code: Inside the new AI-era job | Lazar Jovanovic
Profile of a "Professional Vibe Coder" — the emerging job category of AI-assisted rapid development.
Sat Feb 8, 7:31 AM · Gmail
The Information
Amazon Discusses AI Content Marketplace With Publishers
Amazon planning marketplace for publishers to sell content to AI firms. Follows Microsoft's similar service last week. Publishers pushing for usage-scaled payments.
Mon Feb 9, 5:34 PM · Gmail
The Information
XAI Nears $3 Billion Deal With Apollo for Chips
Elon Musk's xAI approaching $3B deal with Apollo Global Management for chip procurement.
Mon Feb 9, 8:01 AM · Gmail
The Information — Steve LeVine
The Electric: Battered Lithium Is Back as Trump Moves to Beat Back China
Lithium market comeback driven by Trump administration's China competition strategy.
Mon Feb 9, 6:30 AM · Gmail
The Information
Exclusive: MrBeast's Beast Industries to Buy Gen Z–Focused Banking App
Beast Industries acquiring Step Mobile, a teen banking app valued at $920M in 2021. Expanding MrBeast empire into financial services.
Mon Feb 9, 11:05 AM · Gmail
The Information
After OpenClaw, a Weird, Wild Age of Consumer Agents
Analysis of the emerging consumer agent landscape post-OpenClaw.
Sat Feb 8, 9:00 AM · Gmail
Every
You're invited to Every Consulting's session on lessons from a year of AI consulting
Webinar Friday Feb 13, 11am ET. Covering AI adoption lessons, four levels of AI maturity, and how teams can get started. From hedge funds to NYT.
Mon Feb 9, 2:19 PM · Gmail
Every
The Ur-model Cometh
Every newsletter on the convergence toward a single dominant model.
Sat Feb 8, 6:55 AM · Gmail
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Tue Feb 10, 2:06 AM · Gmail

🐦 Twitter — Leaders List

@garrytan (Garry Tan)
RT @simonw: Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general met…
@hnshah (Hiten Shah)
RT @hnshah: Everyone's worried about training AI. The real problem? Training humans for a world where AI does all the technical work.
@hnshah (Hiten Shah)
RT @joulee: As someone who deals with asperger's / autism in my family, the 'storms' that she talks about are a good way to put it.
@garrytan
RT @brezina: California unions are simultaneously chasing away the largest source of CA public funding (billionaires)…
@garrytan
RT @aakashgupta: The headline says "waterfront mansion." The real story is $10 billion in tax avoidance. Zuckerberg is…
@garrytan
RT @johnloeber: Unless we hit the software singularity, the way AI-enabled engineering is going to play out is: 1. Code…
@garrytan
RT @kane: Turns out keeping junkies off mass transit is amazing for mass transit
@garrytan
RT @meatballtimes: wait this graph is crazy — BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance…
@tobi (Tobi Lütke)
Then came year 53 — would make a great t-shirt
@stanine
On the bright side, we're going to get a smaller California government after this!
@davidlee
Very anecdotal but there are a crop of young athletes that are boring in the best way, almost Tim Duncan-esque
@davidlee
Other than that, how was the game, Cardio B?

🤖 Twitter — AI List

@emollick (Ethan Mollick)
This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives, destroying our ability to make human decisions. The technology in question is the sundial. From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play.
@emollick
I think people on this site don't realize how much people's interactions with "AI" turn out to be, when you ask them: cu…
@romainhuet (Romain Huet)
Code is no longer the barrier. Imagination is.
@romainhuet
RT @ericzakariasson: try codex 5.3 in cursor! this is currently my fav model
@pmarca (Marc Andreessen)
👀 (QT: thread on Crisis of the Third Century and how close Rome came to ending)
@adambrotman
RT @levie: The effective use of agents is creating one of the widest spreads in output productivity we've seen on a per role basis.
@adambrotman
RT @rohanpaul_ai: BNY Mellon, one of the largest U.S. banks, deployed 134 AI "digital employees". "The digital employee works 24/7…"
@adambrotman
RT @kevinroose: i am begging academics to study AI capabilities using frontier models.
@MattPRD (Matt Schlicht)
Not on @moltbook. It's the only social network where everyone is very very very good at bug reports.
@amirmxt
After running a decent book of business last year doing fractional consulting - realised still early… LLMs have become a commodity, but the application layer to solve a problem isn't.
@rtwlz
Jmail has crossed 450M pageviews, and our Vercel bill has exploded, even after tons of cache mitigation.
@rauchg (Guillermo Rauch)
I'm happy to cover the bill myself and in the process help you guys optimize this usage.
@amasad (Amjad Masad)
RT @ruthheasman: My @Replit Mobile Hackathon entry—SpookSeek AR
@DeryaTR_
Educational infographics of the day, created with Gemini. The biology of love.
@romainhuet
Really appreciate @kieranklaassen giving Codex another shot!

⚙️ Twitter — Tech List

@Techmeme
Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI and Toyota begin commercial production of an autonomous Toyota bZ4X; Pony AI aims to have 3,000+ robotaxis by end of 2026
@TheStalwart (Joe Weisenthal)
RT @josheidelson: Scoop: The US labor board is giving up oversight over Elon Musk's SpaceX, and abandoning its yearslong case…
@TheStalwart
"A Bloomberg gauge of global consumer electronics makers is down 10% since end of September while a basket of memory makers including Samsung has surged roughly 160%."
@Techmeme
Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebies to woo users ahead of Lunar New Year
@petergyang (Peter Yang)
"Compound engineering is how you make Claude Code smarter every time you use it." New episode with @kieranklaassen demoing his 4-step system: Plan → Work → Assess → Compound
@Techmeme
PitchBook: European VC investments rose 5% YoY to a post-pandemic high of €66B in 2025; AI-related deals accounted for 31%
@clairevo
Hand on heart, I attempted to sign up for Microsoft Teams today and I must be one of the gods' favored ones because fate intervened…
@gokulr
AI product (and Eng) slop is one of the top worries that most startup CEOs have today. The companies that win will com…
@asmartbear
RT: "There used to be this great phrase: The job of a software developer isn't to tell the computer what to do…"
@Techmeme
French President Macron says the US could retaliate against EU countries, including France and Spain, over plans to…
@msg
me irl

📰 Techmeme

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on Free and Go tiers OpenAI · 30+ sources
OpenAI says ChatGPT ads are not eligible to appear near "sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health, or politics" CNBC
Hack message: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to incredibly annoyingly sycophantic" The Verge, Engadget
An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but instead enabled employees to work faster and take on a broader range of tasks MIT, WSJ, HBR
Foxconn co-founders Dan Bowers and Vance Salnave, along with the team at Modiv, join forces with Foxconn to bid for Fastener to Nexior The Media, Reuters
Sources: Stripe is in talks to launch a tender offer that could value it at $140B+, up from $105B in fall 2025 WSJ
French President Macron says US could retaliate against EU countries over plans to tax children from social media Financial Times
Sources: crypto exchange Backpack, built by ex-FTX team, is in discussions to acquire FTX EU at a $18 pre-money valuation Crypto Briefing
The US NLRB abandons its 2024 case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing eight engineers Bloomberg
Sources: The White House is drafting a voluntary partnership with companies that tech companies share climate data Reuters, Rough Draft Memo
Sources: Alphabet plans to sell a rare 100-year sterling bond Financial Times
Chipmaker Ouster reports Q4 revenue down 17%, to $11.2M Bloomberg
Pony AI and Toyota begin commercial production of an autonomous Toyota bZ4X Bloomberg
Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent release new models ahead of Lunar New Year Nikkei Asia
PitchBook: European VC investments rose 5% YoY to post-pandemic high of €66B in 2025 PitchBook

🏛️ Memeorandum

Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein, Maxwell was 'evil' Miami Herald
Ghislaine Maxwell: I'll Talk for a Pardon New York Magazine
Jasmine Crockett's vulgar 6-word message for Trump in Epstein probe Fox News
Trump once endorsed the US-Canada bridge he's now railing against The Guardian
Epstein file review calls 6 new 'likely incriminated' suspects Apple
DOJ moves to dismiss Steve Bannon's criminal case NBC
Complete nonstarter: Administration allies say judicial warrants a red line for White House on DHS subpoena fights Guardian
March for Life Attendees Are Getting Measles Ars Technica
When Autofascism Is a Foreign Concept NY Mag
China Kim, Eileen Gu speak out after President Trump calls… CNN
Dem GOP push to repeal anti-gerrymandering law; ballot dropout hits firm backed by Soros Columbus Dispatch
ICE begins detaining immigrants inside Social Circle, GA facility Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest conflict of interest Guardian
Trump: 'This the Final' lawsuit ending 2020 election fraud has access to sensitize US intel WaPo
Trump has a plan to steal the midterms Chris Ladd / Forbes
US-EU tensions over Greenland and tech are far from over The Economist
'Unlock in Adolescence': ICE Ramps Up Targeting of… ProPublica

⭐ Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

ICE arrests soar during surge Front page lead
Minnesota's Winter Olympians coverage Sports
Daughter of governor candidate fatally stabbed in St. Cloud Greater Minnesota
Readers Write: Trump's Obama-filled ICE, resuming lockdowns, Eminent Lodge Opinion
Timberwolves trade rumor roundup Sports
Coaches poll: Four teams join the top 25 rankings Sports
Valentine's love at Great Lakes Aquarium and other fun things to do this week Things to Do
Medtronic wins $182M after jury finds a violated trademarks claim Business

🌽 Des Moines Register

Iowa AI at Amazon Connect (front page feature) Lead story
Iowa Lottery: Powerball, Pick 4 Monday results for Feb 9 News
Iowa attorney general sues law butler sheriff's department News
Iowa prosecutors target medication abortions with new act News
Iowa State basketball on TCU player availability report Sports
A second Scant Bros Coffee spot is headed to Des Moines Business
Chappal Rose leaves agency after CEO tenure in staffing Epsilon Trust Trending
Age verification measures to roll out on Discord Trending

🔴 Drudge Report

DOJ HIDES 3 MILLION EPSTEIN DOCS Main headline
PEDO NEVER BANNED FROM MAR-A-LAGO? Main headline
Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE had violent criminal records
Secret data blows up 'worst of the worst' claim
Border czar warned immigration ops should be targeted or risk losing public support
Raids Starting to Hit Economy
DOJ moves to dismiss Steve Bannon's criminal case
Jews killed Jesus charge at Trump's religious liberty panel's antisemitism hearing
$6M bitcoin ransom for Nancy Guthrie still unpaid with deadline passing
Iran threatens 'massacre'
BIBI TO DC
Dept of War: At Least 100 USAF C-17 Aircraft Head To Middle East
Bond market calm could be ending
Even billionaires worried kids won't keep jobs in this market
Musk warns USA '1,000% going to go bankrupt'
China tells banks to scale back holdings of US govt debt
College Students Can't Put Phones Down — Not Even During Sex…
Scientists on red alert as 'doom volcano' stirs after 48 years of silence
Shopping: Zuckerberg buys $200M Miami mansion

💅 WeSmirch

Catherine O'Hara Cause of Death Revealed — pulmonary embolism amid rectal cancer battle TMZ, NYT, 20+ sources
Yes, there was a real wedding during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show AP
Bad Bunny Stuns the Super Bowl With Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and a Real Wedding Variety
Marc Anthony on Puerto Rican Pride and His First Vegas Residency Hollywood Reporter
Blake Garrett, Child Actor in 'How to Eat Fried Worms,' Dead at 33 TMZ
Nancy Guthrie Alleged Ransom Account Remains Empty as Deadline Approaches TMZ
'NYPD Blue' Kim Delaney's Husband Arrested After Multiple Disturbance Calls to Home TMZ
Tracy Scroggins, Longtime NFL Player, Dead At 56 TMZ
Lindsey Vonn's father tells the AP he wants her to retire after her Olympic crash AP
Margot Robbie says a fellow actor once gave her a book telling her to eat less Page Six
Angelina Jolie glitters in sheer sequined dress at 'Couture' premiere Page Six
Drew Barrymore Details How She Joined the Mile High Club E! Online

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