QUASA Connect: News and Analysis on Business, Finance, Tech, Web3, and Crypto

February 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most explosive months in AI history, with a flurry of major model releases, geopolitical shifts in hardware access, massive funding drama, and the rise of next-generation agent technologies.

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The global semiconductor industry is facing a seismic shift as artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure devours memory resources at an alarming rate.

The legal feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI just entered its "receipts" era. In a blistering response to Musk’s ongoing lawsuits, OpenAI has pulled back the curtain on internal 2017 communications, revealing a narrative that stands in stark contrast to the "betrayed non-profit" story Musk has been telling.

The translation landscape just shifted again, and it feels like the big players are finally moving past "word-for-word" accuracy toward "intent-for-intent" mastery.

The era of "free" web scraping is coming to an abrupt end. As Large Language Models (LLMs) grow hungrier for high-quality, human-generated data, the gatekeepers of the internet are setting up toll booths.

The QUASA team has successfully integrated the WalletConnect protocol into the Quasa Connect app.

In a move that blends patriotism, politics, and prime-time profits, President Donald Trump has pledged to sign an executive order granting the annual Army-Navy football game an exclusive four-hour broadcast window on the second Saturday in December.

Tencent has taken a major step forward in open-source image generation with the release of HunyuanImage 3.0-Instruct, a native multimodal model specifically tuned for highly accurate, instruction-driven image editing and generation.

A groundbreaking analysis of over 41 million scientific papers has revealed a stark paradox in the age of artificial intelligence: AI tools are dramatically accelerating individual researchers' careers—boosting publication rates, citations, and promotions—while simultaneously narrowing the scope of scientific inquiry as a whole.

In a bold January 2026 essay titled "2026: This Is AGI," Sequoia Capital partners Pat Grady and Sonya Huang argue that we have already entered the era of Artificial General Intelligence—not in the narrow, philosophical sense of human-like consciousness, but in the pragmatic, functional sense that matters most for the real world: the ability to "figure things out" autonomously.

The cryptocurrency community has long championed Bitcoin as "digital gold" for the 21st century—a scarce, decentralized asset with a hard-capped supply of 21 million coins, positioned as the ultimate hedge against inflation, fiat currency debasement, and economic uncertainty.

In an unexpected twist of digital evolution, the lines between professional networking and personal romance have blurred beyond recognition. LinkedIn, once the bastion of resumes and endorsements, has quietly ascended as the premier platform for dating worldwide.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, few voices carry as much weight as Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

As of early February 2026, the cryptocurrency market has experienced a modest pullback, with Bitcoin dipping several percent and dragging the overall market cap down by a similar margin.