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Welcome to February 10, 2026

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Alphabet is lining up banks for a rare 100-year bond to fund datacenter construction — mortgaging the next century to build the intelligence of this one. OpenAI begins testing ads for free users the same week.

The White House pushes a compact to keep the expansion from bankrupting households or draining water supplies, while demanding 40% of Taiwan’s chip production relocate to the US.

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