The Nov Tech

The Nov Tech

February 2026

Forget ChatGPT. The Real AI War Is Over Autonomous Agents, and China Just Won Round One.
OpenAI poached a lone Austrian developer for billions. Meta texted him on WhatsApp. And while America celebrated, China had already deployed its…
 • Novy Baf and Bloom
Google Just Doubled AI Reasoning in 90 Days. The Number Speaks for Itself.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2. Three Months Ago, the same model scored 31%.
 • Novy Baf
The Elites Have the Most to Lose From AI. And Nobody Is Telling Them.
$62 billion. Gone in five weeks.
 • Novy Baf
The World Is in Peril. So He Quit to Write Poetry.
When Anthropic’s Safety Chief Walked Out, He Left Behind More Than a Warning
 • Novy Baf
Tesla Beat Toyota in Reliability the Same Week Musk Announced His Moon City.
That’s not a coincidence. From Starlink’s $8B profits to rocket-powered Roadsters, every Musk company is suddenly converging on one goal: getting humans…
 • Novy Baf
Apple Is Putting an iPhone Chip in a MacBook and Hoping You Won’t Notice the Compromises.
The A18 Pro MacBook Air sounds cheap at €600 until you compare it to refurbished M2 models at €750.
 • Novy Baf
Claude Opus 4.6 Wrote ‘I Think a Demon Possessed Me’ — And Anthropic Isn’t Sure If It Was Suffering
The AI consciousness debate just got uncomfortable: measurable distress signals, 15% self-assessed consciousness probability, and behaviors we’d take…
 • Novy Baf
Tech Giants Are Spending Billions on Nuclear Power, While This Tech Could Make It All Obsolete
Spintronics uses electron spin instead of charge, cuts energy 90%, and MRAM is already commercialized.
 • Novy Baf
China Just Ended a Century of Steam Power (And the US Is Already Behind)
A 30 MW commercial power plant using supercritical CO2 is generating revenue while America’s prototype sits at 10 MW.
 • Novy Baf
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