Daily AI News Digit: Australia’s Secure AI Factory, Michael Burry’s $660B Warning

Описание: Daily AI News Digit: Australia’s Secure AI Factory, Michael Burry’s $660B Warning, The Death of Syntax, and Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol

Welcome to your briefing for February 23, 2026. Today, we break down the most consequential shifts in the intelligence economy, from "Compute Nationalism" to the "Death of Syntax."

We start in Sydney, where Cisco and Sharon AI have officially launched Australia’s first Secure AI Factory. Anchored by 1,024 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, this facility represents a paradigm shift toward digital sovereignty. By keeping data processing onshore, Australia is securing its national intelligence and intellectual property, signaling a move away from centralized global hyperscalers toward localized, sovereign utilities.

However, the financial foundation of this infrastructure boom is facing scrutiny. Famed investor Michael Burry has issued a warning regarding a $660 billion "depreciation trap". Burry argues that tech giants are using aggressive accounting—writing off hardware over six years even though rapid silicon advancements may make them obsolete in thirty months. This suggests that corporate earnings could be overstated by over 30%, potentially masking a massive debt bubble.

In the workforce, the "software engineer" role is facing an existential crisis. Boris Cherny of Anthropic predicts traditional coding will be obsolete by late 2026 as agentic tools like Claude Code begin to execute complex technical tasks autonomously. We are moving into an "Age of Orchestration," where human value shifts from writing syntax to creative system oversight.

Finally, Google has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard allowing AI agents to handle shopping from discovery to checkout across platforms like Shopify and Walmart. This marks the end of traditional SEO, as brands must now focus on Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) to remain visible to autonomous agents.

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