{"id":29610,"date":"2026-02-20T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29610"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:52:58","slug":"frupdate-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/frupdate-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Frupdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mattshumer_\/status\/2021256989876109403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MUST-READ X\/Twitter thread on the state of AI as of February 2026<\/a> (long but worth it)<\/p>\n<p>That may be the most important and timely link I have posted in 22 years of doing this blog. I&#8217;m therefore tempted to just write &#8220;back tomorrow&#8221; and call it a day so you won&#8217;t be distracted by other info.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta mention one other thing, though: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/20\/politics\/epstein-prince-andrew-arrest-wexner-trump-justice-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested for improper conduct during his years as a trade envoy.<\/a> The former Prince Andrew, Duke of York is his country&#8217;s first senior royal to be arrested in modern times.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed out the past 3 nights in a row carrying a heavy backpack around. EXHAUSTED. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUST-READ X\/Twitter thread on the state of AI as of February 2026 (long but worth it) That may be the most important and timely link I have posted in 22 years of doing this blog. I&#8217;m therefore tempted to just write &#8220;back tomorrow&#8221; and call it a day so you won&#8217;t be distracted by other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/frupdate-33\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frupdate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29613,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29610\/revisions\/29613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->