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The people actually building the most powerful AI systems on Earth stood on the same stage in New Delhi this week. What they said should keep you up at night — not because they agree, but because they don’t. At the AI Impact Summit 2026, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, and Dario Amodei each laid out their vision for what’s coming. The timelines range from two years to a decade. The disagreement itself is the story. ...

One hundred billion dollars. That’s not a national budget — it’s what a single Indian conglomerate just committed to building AI data centers. Adani Group dropped the bombshell at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, pledging to expand its data center capacity to 5 GW of hyperscale, AI-ready facilities by 2035. Liquid cooling, renewable energy, the works. If it happens, it would be the world’s largest integrated data center platform. ...

When the Federal Reserve starts war-gaming artificial intelligence, pay attention. Not because central bankers are known for tech hot takes — but because when the people who control interest rates start modeling AI scenarios, the economic establishment has officially stopped treating this as hype. On February 17, Fed Governor Michael S. Barr stepped in front of the New York Association for Business Economics and delivered what might be the most important AI speech to come out of Washington this year. No vague platitudes about “responsible innovation.” Instead, three distinct futures for how AI reshapes work — and one of them should keep you up at night. ...

Anthropic just cannibalized its own flagship model — and that’s exactly the point. Claude Sonnet 4.6, released today, delivers near-Opus performance at $3/$15 per million tokens. That’s one-fifth the cost of the model it’s chasing. In benchmark after benchmark, the mid-tier model is breathing down its big brother’s neck. In some cases, it’s already ahead. This isn’t a minor version bump. It’s a price-performance earthquake. Two Models, Twelve Days, One Message Anthropic dropped Opus 4.6 on February 5th with “Agent Teams” — the ability to spin up multiple AI agents that coordinate in parallel. Think less “chatbot” and more “autonomous project team.” A million-token context window. PowerPoint integration. The works. ...

Stop watching Silicon Valley for a second. The most important AI event this week is happening in New Delhi — and the chaos tells you everything about where India actually stands in the global AI race. Every AI CEO on Earth Just Flew to Delhi Sam Altman. Sundar Pichai. Dario Amodei. Demis Hassabis. Yann LeCun. Brad Smith. Over 100 countries. Twenty heads of state. 3,250 speakers. 250,000 expected visitors across five days at Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam. ...

Spotify’s CEO told Wall Street this week that his best engineers haven’t written a single line of code since December. They just prompt AI and review what comes out. This isn’t a startup flex. This is a company with 600 million monthly users telling investors that code-writing is officially a machine’s job. And the implications go way beyond Spotify. The Supervisor Era Is Here Gustav Söderström didn’t hedge. His most senior engineers “only generate code and supervise it.” They’ve gone from architects to inspectors — and he’s thrilled about it. ...