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On 6 Feb 2026 SpaceX told investors it has abandoned its 2026 Mars timetable and will instead attempt to land an uncrewed Starship on the Moon by March 2027, realigning its roadmap with NASA’s Artemis needs.
On 6 Feb 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, the first public model that can ingest up to one million tokens and spin up coordinated “agent teams,” moving autonomous AI from single-chat sessions toward collaborative, production-grade knowledge work.
On 2 Feb 2026, Elon Musk folded his cash-hungry AI startup xAI into SpaceX via an all-stock deal, welding the two private giants into a single entity valued at roughly $1.25 trillion before a planned public listing later this year.
Apple quietly shut down its standalone AI health-coach project this week and will instead drip-feed its features into the iOS Health app over the next year.
On 3 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain will table legislation next week banning under-16s from social networks and criminalising platform executives who ignore illegal content, drawing an immediate rebuke from Elon Musk.
Elon Musk folded debt-laden xAI into SpaceX in an all-stock transaction completed 3 Feb 2026, positioning the enlarged group for a record IPO later this year.
A spike in liquid-hydrogen leakage during the 2 Feb 2026 wet-dress rehearsal forced NASA to abandon the test at T-5:15 and slip the first crewed lunar mission since 1972 out of its February window to no earlier than March.
On 4 Feb 2026, Nintendo’s Tokyo-listed shares sank about 10-11 % when Q3 earnings undershot forecasts and management gave no upgrade to Switch 2 sales guidance amid rising memory chip prices and a thin software slate.
Elon Musk folded his AI firm xAI into SpaceX in an all-stock deal, positioning the $1 trillion rocket company to build solar-powered AI data-centre constellations and seek a public listing later in 2026.
Beijing’s new national safety standard requires every passenger vehicle sold after 1 Jan 2027 to replace flush, power-actuated door handles with interior and exterior mechanical releases, giving already-approved models a grace period until 1 Jan 2029.
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