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Tech Giants Make Moves in AI, Grubhub Cuts Fees, and NASA Prepares for Artemis II
Several significant developments emerged on Monday, impacting the technology, food delivery, and space exploration sectors. OpenAI launched a new MacOS app for agentic coding, while Snowflake announced a major AI partnership with OpenAI. Mozilla revealed upcoming user controls for AI features in Firefox, and Grubhub unveiled a new policy eliminating delivery and service fees on large orders. Meanwhile, NASA conducted a crucial test in preparation for the Artemis II mission to the Moon.
Snowflake, a cloud data company, entered into a multi-year, $200 million AI deal with OpenAI, according to TechCrunch. This agreement will grant Snowflake's 12,600 customers access to OpenAI models across major cloud providers. Snowflake employees will also gain access to OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise. The companies plan to collaborate on building new AI agents and other AI products. "By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables organizations to build and deploy AI on top of their most valuable asset using the secure, governed platform they already trust," said Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy in a press release.
OpenAI also launched a new MacOS app for its Codex tool, integrating agentic programming principles. This move signifies OpenAI's effort to catch up with the trend of agentic software development, where AI agents independently work on coding tasks, as seen in apps like Claude Code and Cowork, according to TechCrunch.
In other tech news, Mozilla announced that Firefox will soon allow users to block all generative AI features. Starting with Firefox 148, rolling out on February 24, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings, TechCrunch reported. Users will have the option to block all current and future AI features or manage them individually, including features like Translations.
Grubhub announced it would eliminate all delivery and service fees for restaurant orders exceeding $50, according to TechCrunch. The company unveiled this initiative alongside its Super Bowl 2026 commercial, which stars actor George Clooney. Grubhub says this is a permanent offering aimed at putting more money back in customers’ pockets amid challenging economic times. "Grubhub will eat the fees," Clooney dramatically states in the commercial.
Meanwhile, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA prepared for the Artemis II mission by conducting a simulated countdown, Ars Technica reported. The launch team loaded 755,000 gallons of super-cold propellants into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. This fuel loading served as a final rehearsal for engineers before NASA sends four astronauts on a nearly 10-day voyage around the far side of the Moon and back to Earth. The Artemis II mission will send humans farther from Earth than ever before and will be the first launch of astronauts on NASA's SLS rocket.
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