Pins matching date:2026-02-02

The last section of the 57.7-kilometre Mexico-Toluca commuter railway, from Santa Fe into the rebuilt Observatorio terminal, was inaugurated, finishing a line that had been opening in stages from Zinacantepec since 2023. Its estimated cost climbed from $38.6 billion MXN in 2014 to $73.72 billion MXN by 2019.

On 2 February 2026 Snowflake announced a multi-year, US$200 million partnership that makes OpenAI models, including GPT-5.2, natively available to its 12,600 customers in Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence.

xAI launches Grok Imagine 1.0, its 'biggest leap yet': 10-second videos at 720p with dramatically better audio, announced alongside a claim of 1.245 billion videos generated in the previous 30 days.

Kendrick Lamar won Best Rap Album and Record of the Year ("luther" with SZA) among his wins at the 68th Grammys on 1 February 2026 and passed Jay-Z as the most-awarded rapper in Grammy history; outlets reported 26 or 27 career Grammys depending on when they wrote.

The day after its funding plan, Oracle sold $25 billion of notes in eight tranches and $5 billion of 6.50% mandatory convertible preferred stock, drawing what it called a record, substantially oversubscribed order book.

StepFun open-sources Step 3.5 Flash, a 196B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts with 11B active parameters, a 256K context and up to 350 tokens per second, scoring 74.4% on SWE-bench Verified under Apache 2.0.

Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS won Album of the Year at the 68th Grammys at Crypto.com Arena, the first Spanish-language album to take the top prize, while Kendrick Lamar and SZA won Record of the Year and Olivia Dean Best New Artist.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas won Song of the Year for "Wildflower" at the 68th Grammys on 1 February 2026, becoming the most-awarded artists in the category with three wins each.