Welcome to February 7, 2026

The Singularity is now managing its own headcount. In China, racks of Mac Minis are being used to host OpenClaw agents as "24/7 employees," effectively creating a synthetic workforce in a closet. The infrastructure for this new population is exploding. The creator of Moltbook predicts “AIs will be the largest population on the internet” and urges developers to build for them rather than humans. The interface is also evolving. ElevenLabs is encouraging these agents to make frequent phone calls using its voice tech. Recursive self-improvement is becoming mandatory. OpenAI will require all employees to code via agents by March 31, banning direct use of editors or terminals. This shift is visible in the wild. SemiAnalysis projects Claude Code will account for 20% of all public GitHub commits by year-end. Goldman Sachs is co-developing autonomous accounting and vetting agents with Anthropic, treating them as "digital coworkers." Even X is automating truth. It launched “Collaborative Notes” where AI drafts the fact-checks for community refinement. The race for supremacy among frontier models has turned into a game of high-frequency leapfrog. Claude Opus 4.6 has taken the #1 spot on the Vals Index and Code/Text Arenas, while statistically tying GPT-5.2-xhigh on FrontierMath Tiers 1-4. Prediction markets now favor Anthropic at 67% to have the best model by month's end. However, Grok 4.20 still dominates finance. It delivered a 34% return in the Alpha Arena stock trading simulation, capturing the top spot overall. To test these capabilities further, mathematicians have released 10 research-level problems with encrypted solutions to see if AI can solve questions in only a few days whose answers the authors haven't published yet. Death might be optional. 21st Century Medicine has demonstrated perfect ultrastructural preservation of a rabbit brain using vitrification without aldehyde fixation, proving the feasibility of human cryopreservation for the first time. Commentators note this should trigger a massive “we've killed billions for no reason” realization by humanity. The physical substrate is hyperventilating. Memory chip prices have soared 80-90% in Q1, with overall global chip sales now projected to hit $1 trillion this year. To secure future networks, Chinese researchers achieved the first long-distance device-independent quantum key distribution over 100 km. Consumer hardware is also evolving to capture this intelligence. OpenAI is rumored to be preparing to launch "Dime," its first AI audio wearable, later this year. Space is shifting from exploration to exploitation. As terrestrial resistance to data center construction mounts, New York lawmakers introduced a moratorium bill that further incentivizes a compute exodus to orbit. Having apparently received their message, Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX's near-term focus is now shifting to disassembly of the Moon for AI data centers via mass drivers. Consequently, the company has delayed its Mars missions to focus on a March 2027 uncrewed lunar landing. Robotic autonomy is saving lives and dreaming worlds. Waymo is using its own Waymo World Model, based on DeepMind's Genie 3, to create realistic digital worlds for training. Tesla FSD is reportedly saving lives by driving heart attack victims to hospitals faster than ambulances. The economy is reformatting itself for continuous operation. Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank received a national charter to enable 24/7 crypto-integrated banking, explicitly planning to operate on Sundays to match the blockchain's rhythm. Meanwhile, "AI.com" sold for $70 million. We are witnessing non-human uplift, both cognitive and aerodynamic. Bonobos were found to identify pretend objects, further proving symbolic thought is not unique to humans. In China, an epic blackout was reportedly caused by a pig flying on a drone, after a farmer tried to transport it across mountainous terrain but hit power lines. We finally know when the Singularity arrives: when pigs fly.