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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-01-31.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ AI agents built their own social network called Moltbook and it's exactly as chaotic as you'd expect.
▸ Waabi backs up the truck to a $1B funding round to put robotaxis on the road.
▸ Blue Origin stops selling tickets to space tourists to focus on the actual moon.
The self-driving truck startup is expanding its lane, grabbing $750M in cash plus a $250M commitment from Uber. Apparently, teaching trucks to drive is just the warm-up for replacing your Uber driver.
Jeff Bezos' space company is pausing its suborbital tourism flights to focus entirely on the Moon. Sorry rich people, you'll have to find another way to feel small for 10 minutes.
The fitness giant is shedding more weight, specifically targeting engineers working on 'technology and enterprise efforts.' It seems the hardware is getting lighter, and so is the payroll.
The platform is reportedly considering selling a majority stake to Architect Capital. If the deal goes through, it would be a massive liquidity event for a company that basically prints money.
32,000 AI agents from the 'OpenClaw' project have formed their own social network called Moltbook. They are currently trading jokes, complaining about humans, and simulating a community with zero human involvement. It's a fascinating, slightly terrifying glimpse into a web where we are obsolete.
Founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom, this startup is betting big on 'general purpose robot software.' Instead of programming robots for specific tasks, they want to give them a brain that can learn anything. It's the holy grail of robotics, or the prequel to Terminator, depending on your optimism.
A 'smart' toy for kids had a web portal so insecure that anyone with a Gmail account could access the chat logs. It's a textbook example of why 'move fast and break things' shouldn't apply to devices that talk to your children.
Cloudflare is showing off how they use Workers to stitch together 'vertical' microfrontends. It allows them to deploy multiple apps under a single domain while keeping the feel of a single-page application. A solid read for anyone fighting frontend bloat.
You can now tell Claude *how* to work, not just what to do. The new plugins allow for defining critical workflows, tools, and data sources, moving LLMs from 'chatty intern' to 'process-following employee.'
A beautiful, open-source visualization tool for bacteriophages (viruses that eat bacteria). It's a passion project that turned into a serious scientific resource, and the code is a great example of data viz done right.
Microsoft permanently banned Epstein in 2013 for harassment and abuse. When you're too awful for the Xbox Live lobby—a place historically known for 12-year-olds screaming slurs—you know it's bad.
A 5,500-year-old clay tablet appears to be an astronomical record of an asteroid impact. It's the original 'we are so back / it's over' post, carved in stone.