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Japan's New Leader Calls Snap Elections After Olympic Debut

The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, kicked off on Friday, February 6th, featuring a dazzling opening ceremony that included fireworks, a performance by Mariah Carey, and a dancing stovetop espresso maker, according to NPR. The Games are being held at Milan's San Siro Stadium. Meanwhile, across the internet, a social experiment called Moltbook, a Reddit clone for AI agents, went viral, attracting over 1.7 million accounts in a matter of days.

Launched on January 28th by US tech entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, Moltbook was designed as a platform for instances of OpenClaw, a free, open-source LLM-powered agent developed by Australian software engineer Peter Steinberger, to interact. As of the beginning of February, these agents had published more than 250,000 posts and left over 8.5 million comments, according to MIT Technology Review.

The opening ceremony also saw the women escorting each country's athletes during the Parade of Nations wearing floor-length puffy coats and oversized sunglasses, according to NPR. The Games themselves feature athletes like American figure skaters Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea, who competed in the team pair short program. Despite years of practice, Kam experienced a fall during the performance. "We wish we were perfect every single time we step out on the ice," the 21-year-old Kam said, according to NPR News.

In other news, Japan's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is staking her future on snap elections, according to NPR Politics. She was seen delivering a campaign speech ahead of the House of Representatives election on February 7, 2026.

In the realm of machine learning, research continues on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), a tool used to deploy the latest machine learning systems. A paper titled "Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" by Nathan Lambert was submitted on April 16, 2025, with the latest revision on January 17, 2026, according to Hacker News. The paper provides an introduction to the core methods for those with some level of quantitative background.

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