#Weekly685

  • OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
  • “…Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers…” (FT)
  • Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals
  • Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
  • Elon Musk’s xAI plans to supply computing power to coding startup Cursor…Cursor will train its AI model Composer 2.5 using tens of thousands of xAI GPUs, sources said.
  • Cursor In Talks to Raise $2 Billion at Over $50 Billion Value
  • AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
  • ‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
  • Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
  • 4 Ways Your AI Coding Agent Exfiltrates Secrets
  • OpenAI’s Codex Desktop can run your computer now – and has its own browser
  • Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion to Build Its Efforts in Space
  • NASA restarts work to support Europe’s uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
  • With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses
  • “…The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh..The Mac Mini made up only about 3% of Apple’s Mac unit sales in the U.S. last year, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. But in the past six months or so, it has become the must-have host for private, “always-on” artificial-intelligence agents, such as OpenClaw.” (WSJ)
  • Months-old start-up Recursive Superintelligence raises $500mn for self-teaching AI (FT)
  • China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
  • Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

#Weekly684

  • Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile devices
  • Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket
  • Global Smartphone Shipments Fall 6% YoY in Q1 2026 Amid Memory Crunch
  • The agency plans to have AI “co-workers” built into all of its analytic platforms within the next few years
  • Interior design at 25,000 mph
  • A Meta employee created a dashboard so coworkers can compete to be the company’s No. 1 AI token user
  • Introducing Muse Spark: MSL’s First Model, Purpose-Built to Prioritize People
  • OpenAI projects $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030
  • Anthropic holds Mythos model due to hacking risks
  • TSMC revenue surges 35% on AI chip demand
  • Artemis II astronauts splash down off California’s coast
  • Waymo is offering to help cities fix their potholes
  • Google Chrome is finally adopting vertical tabs
  • Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips
  • 12 Agentic Harness Patterns from Claude Code

#Weekly683

  • Artemis II mission begins
  • Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure
  • DeepSeek’s V4 model will run on Huawei chips
  • Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
  • A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
  • Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
  • New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
  • OpenAI acquires TBPN
  • AI fakes emotion, but the consequences are real
  • Chinese chip firms hit record high revenue driven by the AI boom
  • ServiceNow CEO Builds New Business Model Around AI
  • State of AI-Assisted Coding in 2026

#Weekly682

  • Sony plans to raise PlayStation 5 prices globally, starting April 2; PS5 and PS5 Digital will rise by $100 to $650 and $600; PS5 Pro will rise by $150 to $900
  • Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities
  • OpenAI upgrades Codex to automate your workflows
  • OpenAI Codex in 2026: 2M Users
  • Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX’s initial public offering to individual investors — at least three times the usual retail slice
  • Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens
  • Apple hires ex-Google executive to head AI marketing amid push to improve Siri
  • NYSE-parent Intercontinental Exchange invests $600 million in Polymarket
  • OpenAI ads pilot tops $100 million in annualized revenue in under 2 months
  • Agentic Engineering Patterns
  • Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps
  • “How to be a 10x engineer
  • Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions

#Weekly681

  • OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,500 by end of 2026, with most hires in product development, engineering, and sales (FT)
  • Inside China’s robotics revolution.”…In 2025, China announced a £100bn fund for strategic technologies including quantum computing, clean energy and robotics…there are now roughly 140 Chinese firms hoping to build humanoids…”
  • Anthropic Ships Its OpenClaw Rival, Connecting Claude Code to Telegram and Discord
  • “…We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests…” — OpenAI applications CEO Fidji Simo tells staff the company is orienting aggressively toward enterprise productivity ahead of a potential Q4 IPO
  • Exclusive: Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop
  • Uber will launch autonomous rides powered by Nvidia Drive AV across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, starting with Los Angeles and San Francisco
  • OpenAI to merge Atlas browser, ChatGPT, and Codex into a single desktop super app
  • Work from home and drive more slowly to save energy, global body urges
  • Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run
  • Researchers uncover iPhone spyware capable of penetrating millions of devices
  • Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
  • Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game
  • Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
  • Why CEOs should care about the quantum ‘space race
  • Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
  • SXSW Videos
  • Jeff Bezos wants to change manufacturing with AI
  • Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first [time](Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, according to customer data from Ramp.)
  • Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated
  • The AI startup is moving away from Instant Checkout and is now working with retailers to create dedicated apps within ChatGPT
  • Figma’s stock drops 12% in two days after Google releases vibe design product

#Weekly680

  • You can now ask Google Maps ‘complex, real-world questions’ — and Gemini will answer
  • Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
  • Microsoft’s New AI Health Tool Can Read Your Medical Records and Give Advice (WSJ)
  • Atlassian slashes 10% of workforce to ‘self-fund’ investments in AI and enterprise sales
  • Amazon is determined to use AI for everything
  • Gemini’s task automation is here and it’s wild
  • Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots
  • Meta buys ‘social media network for AI’ Moltbook
  • MCP is dead. Long live the CLI
  • How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream
  • Oracle cloud infrastructure revenue surges 84% YoY as AI infrastructure revenue jumps 243%, with order backlog hitting $553 billion and FY27 revenue guidance raised to $90 billion (Bloomberg)
  • Perplexity pitches a more secure OpenClaw
  • The Hottest Job in Tech Isn’t Very Glamorous (WSJ)

Weekly#679

  • SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs…SpaceX prepares to go public at a reported $1.75tn valuation (FT)
  • Google makes Gmail, Drive, and Docs ‘agent-ready’ for OpenClaw like agents with CLI
  • SoftBank Seeks Record Loan of Up to $40 Billion for OpenAI Stake
  • Mozilla fixes 22 security flaws flagged by Anthropic’s AI
  • OpenAI unveils Codex Security to automate code security reviews
  • Why Front-End Performance Issues Are Commonly Back-End Issues
  • Meet your new phone away from phone
  • United Airlines can permanently ban passengers who don’t wear headphones
  • Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
  • Anthropic API Proxy for Gemini & OpenAI Models
  • llmfit, One command to find what runs on your hardware
  • Microsoft Confirms “Project Helix,” a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games
  • Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking
  • Why The Best AI Engineers Are Former Managers
  • Power and Progress: The Mini-Comic
  • Cybersecurity Economics for Emerging Markets
  • “…This means strong software engineering skills, especially around technical architecture, are more important than ever…”

Weekly#678

  • OpenAI announces $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank…Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia invested $30 billion and SoftBank invested $30 billion in the round, OpenAI said Friday…more than 900M weekly active users, and we now have more than 50 million consumer subscribers.
  • Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents, repo
  • Why Retries Are More Dangerous Than Failures
  • New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
  • Smartphone market set for biggest-ever decline in 2026 on memory price surge, IDC says
  • Norway’s $2 trillion oil fund, the largest of its kind, generated an annual profit of about $248 billion last year, with strong gains in global equities driving a 15.1% return.
  • CLAUDE.md Masterclass
  • Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents
  • Incorporating AI impacts in BLS employment projections: occupational case studies…BLS projects employment of software developers to increase 17.9 percent between 2023 and 2033, much faster than the average for all occupations (4.0 percent)
  • Block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls
  • Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation
  • Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use ‘Dara AI’ before talking to the big boss himself
  • A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
  • Citrini Research: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
  • One of the humblest and most ubiquitous file formats is stumping the world’s most advanced models
  • Run OpenClaw Securely in Docker Sandboxes

Weekly#677

  • Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
  • Introducing Markdown for Agents
  • An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services…”…Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter…”
  • The new AI-driven SDLC
  • OpenAI Plans to Price Smart Speaker at $200 to $300, as AI Device Team Takes Shape
  • Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro for ‘complex problem-solving
  • Open Notebook: A Secure Alternative to Google NotebookLM
  • The conflation of betting markets and news began with political coverage
  • AI software vendors say potential customers are taking longer to evaluate purchases, and shopping less eagerly than they were a year ago (WSJ)
  • Pentagon-Anthropic battle pushes other AI labs into major dilemma
  • Using Jet Engines to Power Data Centers (WSJ)
  • The Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude
  • When Every Company Can Use the Same AI Models, Context Becomes a Competitive Advantage (HBR) “...What do we mean by “context”? Context is demonstrated execution: the workflows teams actually follow across systems, the signals they respond to, the order in which roles get involved, the exceptions that trigger action, and the judgment calls that repeat across real work. These patterns are visible only in execution, not in stated process…
  • “...Thus, the idea is that just making code is not enough. For example, India based companies have had the ability to create and market enterprise class software for decades … at scale. And there is certainly enough talent that has been exposed to business logic and domain expertise while working at India-based subdivisions of the biggest legacy players. Yet over the decades, even with this insight and a massive low-cost skilled workforce, no regional vendors have successfully emerged to challenge the legacy US vendors, in our view. Factors such as having enterprise class sales teams, technology cross-licensing agreements, proprietary and patented IP, industry specific domain expertise, aligned workflows with industry practice, being first-to-market, having brand awareness, scale, or effective go-to-market strategies are just the tip of the iceberg when looking into the key attributes needed to compete effectively in the software sector and … just making code is not enough

Weekly#676

  • AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It (HBR)
  • Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups
  • Amazon engineers grate against internal limits on Claude Code
  • X Subscriptions Hit $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Exec Says
  • Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
  • OpenAI’s new Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex – but there’s a catch
  • China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test
  • Apple acquires all rights to ‘Severance,’ will produce future seasons in-house
  • …And it is allowing us to move with much higher speed. As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute, from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app. And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production. All before they even arrived at the office. We call the system internally Honk, and we have been told by key AI partners that our work here is industry leading
    In terms of transformation of internal processes, I did briefly share in my prepared remarks this tool called Honk. Where you can, using Claude Code, literally on the bus or the train, just ask Claude to add a feature or a bug to, for example, the iOS code base. It will push a QR code back to you so that you can actually try the app with that feature. If you like it, you can merge it to production without even getting off the bus. This is speeding us up tremendously. Now we foresee this not being the end of the line in terms of AI development, just the beginning.
  • Anthropic subscription surge cuts into OpenAI’s lead
  • Self-Evolving Agents
  • Charts of the Week: Customer Service Reckoning
  • U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025
  • The software complexity of nations