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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-02-18.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Mark Zuckerberg heads to court in LA to testify on social media addiction
▸ • Meta signs a massive deal to buy millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera chips
▸ • Perplexity pivots away from ads to win back user trust (and maybe revenue)
Drew Baglino left Tesla and immediately found $140M in the couch cushions to build a giga-scale factory for his new grid-tech startup. Apparently, 'ex-Tesla exec' is still the magic password for VCs.
The Indian AI lab just dropped a suite of models (30B and 105B parameters) plus speech tools, betting that open source isn't dead yet. It's a bold move in a world increasingly dominated by closed gardens.
Zuck's empire struck a multiyear deal to deploy millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs. It's the first large-scale deployment of Nvidia's CPU-only architecture, proving Meta is still the whale at the hardware poker table.
Meta's CEO is testifying in a Los Angeles courtroom regarding social media addiction. It's rare to see tech CEOs in the wild without a PR shield, so grab the popcorn.
In a pivot that screams 'please trust us,' Perplexity is distancing itself from the ad model to avoid the 'upsell' stigma. It's a risky bet that users will pay for purity while competitors race to the bottom of the ad-supported barrel.
Anna's Archive posted a cheeky but technical look at `llms.txt`, the emerging standard for telling scrapers what's what. It's a fascinating meta-commentary on how the web is restructuring itself to be machine-readable first, human-readable second.
How do you build a cheap electric truck? Apparently, you hire F1 engineers and run it like a software bounty program. Ford's new strategy involves 3D-printed Lego-like parts and an obsession with efficiency that would make a lean startup blush.
The heroes porting Linux to Apple Silicon just dropped a progress report. Support is getting shockingly good, proving that with enough reverse-engineering spite, anything is possible.
A new open-source tool that wraps DuckDB into a Metabase-like interface. It's lightweight, fast, and perfect for when you need to visualize data without spinning up a heavy JVM instance.
Christoph Pojer dives into the current state of frontend build tools, benchmarking the 'fastest' options for both humans and AI agents. If your build takes longer than a coffee sip, you're doing it wrong.
A court barred OpenAI from using the name 'Cameo' for its Sora feature, so they renamed it to 'Characters.' Lawyers: 1, AI: 0.
A small clinical trial suggests DMT is effective for depression, especially if you have a 'mystical experience.' Science is finally catching up to what your hippie friend has been saying for years.