Daily Reading List – February 2, 2026 (#712)

This week’s off to a hot start at work, and in the industry as a whole. It’s also earnings season across tech, so we can see who is making what type of real progress with AI.

[blog] Beyond Just Looking: Gemini 3 Now Has Agentic Vision. This is a bigger deal than we realize. Instead of “best guess” image processing, our model now does an agentic loop to truly understand an image.

[article] The Five Skills I Actually Use Every Day as an AI PM (and How You Can Too). Here’s a great challenge to PMs. If you’re not doing these types of activities, you’re going to quickly see people encroaching on your domain.

[blog] High-performance inference meets serverless compute with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 on Cloud Run. Truly impressive. Which other serverless stack is offering up to 44 vCPUs and 170+ GiB of RAM per instance and letting you run 70B parameter models on demand?

[blog] Summarizing Too Big for Context with MapReduce and LLMs. Smart approach from Wei here. If you’ve got a ton of input data, you can do a Map-Reduce-style exercise to distill the information.

[article] AWS’s inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen. It’s lucrative to be the backbone, but mindshare disappears.

[blog] The Rise of Coding Agent Orchestrators. Agent harnesses and orchestrators are going to have a big year. As will the management layers around them.

[blog] A Javelit Frontend for the Deep Research Agent. Ok, now I know what Javalit is, and why it’s great for building data apps without messing with the frontend.

[blog] Kubernetes Rolling Updates for Reliable Deployments. Solid post about how good Kubernetes has gotten at supporting rolling updates for your workloads.

[blog] LiteRT: The Universal Framework for On-Device AI. I don’t understand this space very well, but I read this to learn more. Getting cross-platform acceleration for AI workloads from a single framework is a good deal.

[article] Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his AI company, xAI. The man goes big and plays to win, that’s for sure. The renewed investments in space are pretty exciting.

[article] Waymo raises $16B to scale robotaxi fleet internationally. Let’s go! Great to see this fantastic engineering get deployed more widely.

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