FEBRUARY 13, 2026
TODAY: It's Friday the 13th, and if you thought Jason was scary, just wait until you hear from some of the AI "godfathers" and their disturbing predictions for the next year and a half.
Also, in keeping with the morbid overtones of this grand holiday, Meta just patented technology that will allow you to keep posting cat videos from beyond the grave.
All that ahead, plus more news, prompts, and a tool that lets your business easily calculate Total Addressable Market (TAM). Happy Friday, Valentine's, and Weekend, everybody!
- PromptCraft: Prompts to Stop LLM's from Overthinking, Diagnose Complex Problems, and Cut Filler Words from GPT Responses
- THE HEADLINES: Anthropic pledges $20 million to candidates who favor AI safety; Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave; OpenAI works on ChatGPT Skills, upgrades Deep Research
- Tool Spotlight: Hunter: AI Tool That Lets You Easily Calculate Your TAM
TRY THESE! Prompts to Stop LLM's from Overthinking, Diagnose Complex Problems, and Cut Filler Words from GPT Responses
- “You’re overthinking this” as an AI simplification prompt: Author finds that telling ChatGPT “you’re overthinking this,” “simpler,” or “what’s the boring solution?” often triggers much shorter, more practical fixes, especially for debugging or optimization tasks where initial answers are over-engineered.
- One diagnostic prompt that changed how I use AI: Explains that prompt engineering is really structured thinking; shares a favorite prompt where AI first asks ten sharp diagnostic questions about a business problem, then delivers root-cause analysis, ranked solutions, and a 30-day execution plan.
- “Negative Space” prompt for research gap-finding: Proposes a meta-prompt that compresses system instructions into a dense, token-efficient format and focuses AI on surfacing missing evidence, blind spots, and unexamined assumptions in a body of research rather than just summarizing what’s present.
HIGHLIGHTS: Anthropic pledges $20 million to candidates who favor AI safety; Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave; OpenAI works on ChatGPT Skills, upgrades Deep Research
- Anthropic pledges $20 million to candidates who favor AI safety
- The Guy Who Wrote the Viral AI Post Wasn’t Trying to Scare You
- UK Supreme Court Issues Milestone Judgment for AI and Software Patentability
- The godfather of AI predicts mass unemployment is on its way. This CEO warns even a 10% reduction ‘will feel like a depression’
- Higgsfield AI Gets Its X Account Suspended as Backlash Against the Company Comes Out
- Military AI Adoption Is Outpacing Global Cooperation
- AI is allowing our customers to create commercials faster with lower costs: MNTN CEO Mark Douglas
- Microsoft eyes AI ‘self-sufficiency’ after OpenAI deal rejig: report
- Google Offers Voluntary Exit Packages To Employees Not ‘Embracing’ AI
- Lenovo delivers exceptional quarter, marks era of accelerated AI-driven growth and profitability
- Is AI-Generated Content Discoverable? What Companies Need to Know in 2026
- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
- Anthropic AI safety researcher quits, says the ‘world is in peril’
- DC Becomes First Major U.S. City to Require Responsible AI Training for Government Workforce
- Real Estate Services Stocks Sink in Latest ‘AI Scare Trade’
- ByteDance’s new AI video model goes viral as China looks for second DeepSeek moment
- China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals
- Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave
- GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Distillation, Experimentation, and (Continued) Integration of AI for Adversarial Use
- Why Amazon’s AI spending triggered the stock’s worst slide in over a year
- Why Did The Investigation of Lucy Letby Use AI? What to Know About the Digitally Anonymized Sources
- I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups
- Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ feature lets you tell the algorithm what you want to see
- Coinbase launches AI agent wallets for autonomous blockchain transactions
- Blackstone boosts stake in AI startup Anthropic to about $1 billion, source says (Reuters)
- AI’s threat to white-collar jobs just got more real (Vox)
- AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
- Olympic Figure Skaters Get Heat for Using AI-Generated Music
- AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions (The Atlantic)
- I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me
- Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by University of Sydney-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding
- Meta’s New Data Center in Lebanon, Indiana Marks a Milestone AI Investment
- Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales startup to upend Salesforce
- Intuit launches new AI-powered construction edition for Intuit Enterprise Suite
- A juvenile was charged in an AI-generated image case in Radnor Township. Now, parents are demanding answers.
- CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’ (WIRED)
- AI brings Supreme Court decisions to life
- Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI
- How allies of AI are ramping up their political donations for the midterms
- Pentagon pushing AI companies to expand on classified networks, sources say (Reuters)
- OpenAI works on ChatGPT Skills, upgrades Deep Research (TestingCatalog)
Hunter: AI Tool That Lets You Easily Calculate Your TAM
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If you’re doing B2B go-to-market and want a fast, reality-based sense of how many companies fit your ICP, this is a clean starting point that connects strategy to outreach.
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