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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

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