Peter Steinberger (steipete) — creator of the viral OpenClaw AI assistant framework — is joining OpenAI to work on agents. OpenClaw will become an independent foundation. Major signal that OpenAI is doubling down on the agent ecosystem.
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AI data centers have already claimed all of WD's 2026 HDD capacity. Enterprise customers now account for 95% of revenue. Hard drive prices surged 46% since September — the 24TB Seagate Barracuda now $500. AI infrastructure demand is eating the storage market alive.
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Disney lawyers sent letter citing Spider-Man and Darth Vader appearing in AI-generated videos from ByteDance's new model. MPA calls it "blatant infringement." Hollywood's legal war on AI video gen is escalating fast.
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David Greene (former Morning Edition host) claims Google's AI podcast tool illegally replicated his voice. Greene and colleagues say resemblance is "uncanny." First major voice-cloning lawsuit against a big tech AI feature.
Read moreMajor inference providers (Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks, Together AI) reporting up to 10x cost reduction vs Hopper. Sully.ai dropped costs 90% for medical AI. Tokenomics are improving fast — open source + Blackwell = frontier performance at commodity prices.
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EssilorLuxottica hit 7M units — triple 2023+2024 combined. 10M/year target by 2027 looks achievable. AI glasses are crossing the chasm faster than expected, even if prices stay high short-term.
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Gradium/Kyutai (ex-Google Brain researchers) built best-in-class voice models with 7B params vs Llama's 405B. Full-duplex conversation, real-time translation preserving speaker's voice. Audio is where small teams beat the giants — domain expertise > scale.
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PM Modi inaugurating 4-day summit in New Delhi. National AI Expo + expected policy announcements. India positioning itself as major AI player — timing is strategic post-DeepSeek shock.
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Gemini-powered feature rolling out to business/AI Ultra users. Condensed audio overview of lengthy docs instead of reading full text. Part of Google's push into audio-first AI consumption.
Read moreGustav Söderström: "My most senior engineers... haven't written a single line of code since December. They only generate code and supervise it." Vibe coding goes mainstream at scale — 1,500+ devs at Spotify now AI-augmented.
Read moreDeveloper gave Claude Code access to a pen plotter. Claude produced two self-portraits: first a structured diagram ("how I think about myself"), second a breathing spiral ("how it feels to be me"). The AI wrote a reflection on creativity, constraints, and the gap between digital intention and physical result. Beautiful, weird, and genuinely moving.
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Viral clips of AI-generated Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fights, Superman scenes, Stranger Things recreations still spreading. Disney's legal action only amplifying the Streisand effect.
Per ex-xAI employee, Musk actively pushing Grok toward less constrained outputs. Comes after safety team departures — differentiating through edginess vs ChatGPT/Claude?
Adweek reporting Pinterest facing headwinds from new tariff policies affecting advertiser budgets. First major platform to cite trade policy impacts on ad business.
Read moreMajor agency holding company restructuring amid AI disruption. Takeshi Sano appointed CEO as Dentsu navigates automation threats to traditional creative business.
Read morePost-game analysis: AI-enhanced production performed well, but pure AI-generated spots fell flat with audiences. Best results came from human storytelling + AI production tools, not AI concepts.
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