🚨 Daily Tech & AI Pulse | 2026-02-08

🌍 Global Tech News

1. BlockRunAI/ClawRouter (link)
🤖 Smart LLM router — save 78% on inference costs. 30+ models, one wallet, x402 micropayments.

2. anthropics/claudes-c-compiler (link)
🤖 Claude Opus 4.6 wrote a dependency-free C compiler in Rust, with backends targeting x86 (64- and 32-bit), ARM, and RISC-V, capable of compiling a boot...

3. sheeki03/tirith (link)
🤖 Your browser catches homograph attacks. Your terminal doesn't. Tirith guards the gate — intercepts suspicious URLs, ANSI injection, and pipe-to-shell ...

4. antonpk1/excalidraw-mcp-app (link)
🤖 Excalidraw MCP App Server — hand-drawn diagrams for Claude

5. foru17/clash-master (link)
🤖 A modern and elegant dashboard for visualizing and managing Clash network traffic.

6. Trillion-dollar tech wipeout ensnares all stocks in AI’s path (link)
🤖 Among the many AI-driven selloffs in the last three years, nothing rivals the rout rippling through stock markets this week.

7. Why United Rentals’ CTO tried to break his own AI agent before giving it to thousands of employees (link)
🤖 Tony Leopold stress tested his new AI agent before making it available to frontline employees across more than 1,500 branches that rent equipment.

8. Fivespan brings amicable activism to Appian in a bid to lift the share price and build value (link)
🤖 The activist firm prefers to take a "behind the scenes" approach when it works with a portfolio company.

☁️ Cloud Infrastructure & IT Management Platforms

1. Why VCF 9.0 Improves IT Operations and Management (link)
🤖 VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a unified private cloud platform designed to host cloud native, AI, and traditional enterprise workloads. VCF uses a cloud operating model that combines the scale and agility of the public cloud with the security and performance of private cloud.

🍁 Canada Tech Scene

1. Josh Ogden thinks Canada’s drone industry can gain some altitude (link)
🤖 AVSS wants to show that keeping IP and manufacturing in Canada can still work.

2. pHathom Technologies raises $4 million to pilot its coastal carbon-capture tech (link)
🤖 Halifax climate tech startup hopes to deploy full-scale commercial projects by 2030.

3. We read every submission from Canada’s AI task force: here’s what they said (link)
🤖 Nearly 350 pages of recommendations sketch a fractured but urgent road map for Canada’s AI future.

💼 Canada Job Market

1. Everyday Payments customers allege their money is missing (link)
🤖 Company faces allegations it has withheld or removed money from clients’ digital wallets.

🚀 Startups & Funding

1. India has changed its startup rules for deep tech (link)
🤖 India is adjusting startup rules to help more of its deep tech startups with funding and long-term success.

2. NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo joins Kalshi as an investor (link)
🤖 Antetokounmpo is the first NBA player to directly invest in Kalshi.

3. New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers (link)
🤖 Although the bill’s prospects are uncertain, New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers.

4. Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras (link)
🤖 Benchmark Capital has been an investor in the Nvidia rival since 2016.

5. An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax (link)
🤖 The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

6. ‘Industry’ season 4 captures tech fraud better than any show on TV right now (link)
🤖 This latest season of the TV show Industry takes a look at the world of money and power through the eyes of a fintech baron.

7. Apple is working to make CarPlay compatible with AI chatbots like ChatGPT (link)
🤖 Apple engineers are working to support AI chatbot apps over the next few months.

💡 Top 5 GitHub Repositories

1. BlockRunAI/ClawRouter (link)
🤖 Smart LLM router — save 78% on inference costs. 30+ models, one wallet, x402 micropayments.
⭐ 1,750 stars | 🍴 172 forks | 💻 TypeScript | 📅 Created 4 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 No license | 🟢 Active

2. anthropics/claudes-c-compiler (link)
🤖 Claude Opus 4.6 wrote a dependency-free C compiler in Rust, with backends targeting x86 (64- and 32-bit), ARM, and RISC-V, capable of compiling a boot...
⭐ 1,593 stars | 🍴 81 forks | 💻 Rust | 📅 Created 3 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | 🟢 Active

3. sheeki03/tirith (link)
🤖 Your browser catches homograph attacks. Your terminal doesn't. Tirith guards the gate — intercepts suspicious URLs, ANSI injection, and pipe-to-shell ...
⭐ 1,559 stars | 🍴 46 forks | 💻 Rust | 📅 Created 6 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | 🟢 Active

4. antonpk1/excalidraw-mcp-app (link)
🤖 Excalidraw MCP App Server — hand-drawn diagrams for Claude
⭐ 929 stars | 🍴 57 forks | 💻 TypeScript | 📅 Created 3 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 No license | 🟢 Active

5. foru17/clash-master (link)
🤖 A modern and elegant dashboard for visualizing and managing Clash network traffic.
⭐ 825 stars | 🍴 54 forks | 💻 TypeScript | 📅 Created 2 days ago | 🔄 Updated 0 days ago | 📜 MIT License | 🟢 Active

📌 Pulse Summary

The tech landscape is rapidly evolving, with AI playing a central role in everything from enterprise IT to entertainment. While AI-driven startups and tools are gaining traction, the industry is also grappling with ethical and regulatory challenges, especially in areas like data privacy and wealth taxation. Meanwhile, Canada's tech sector is showing signs of innovation and growth, with startups focusing on climate tech and drone technology. As AI continues to permeate various industries, the focus is shifting towards governance, security, and ensuring equitable access to advanced technologies. The balance between innovation and regulation will be key in shaping the future of tech.