When AI Breaks Things

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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When your AI bot breaks your operations, even when you’re AWS. More on OpenAI’s hardware plans. Hey, remember Perplexity? What’s up with them? Is Uber roadkill in the self-driving car horserace? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot (FT) Ex-Googlers Charged With Stealing Phone Processor Secrets (Bloomberg) OpenAI Plans to Price Smart Speaker at $200 to $300, as AI Device Team Takes Shape (The Information) Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online (MIT Technology Review) Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift (Wired) Uber, Latest Victim of Disruption Panic, Still Has Role in Robotaxis (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestion: Who needs a laptop when you have a folding phone? (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Welcome to the tech brew right home for Friday, February 20th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:38.9	When your AI bot breaks your operations, even when your AWS.
0:43.1	More on OpenAI's hardware plans.
0:45.3	And hey, remember perplexity, what's up with them?
0:48.1	Is Uber Roadkill in the self-driving car horse race and, of course, the weekend long-read suggestions?
0:53.8	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
1:03.2	Sources say Amazon's AI tools have caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour
1:08.6	disruption in December, after Kiro AI deleted and recreated an
1:13.4	environment, quoting the FT. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system
1:19.4	used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make
1:25.1	certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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