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OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI to build AI agents

Peter Steinberger, the developer behind the open-source project OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI. His focus will be on building the next generation of personal AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called ...
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Anthropic still won't give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models

Anthropic is demanding safeguards to prevent its AI tools from being used for autonomous weapons control without human oversight or for surveillance of American citizens. The Pentagon insists it can ...
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Bytedance's Seed2.0 adds even more price pressure on Western AI models

Bytedance has released its new Seed2.0 AI model series. The story is a familiar one by now: the models match Western AI models on benchmarks while costing a fraction of the price. The series comes in ...
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Bytedance shows impressive progress in AI video with Seedance 2.0

Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI video generation model that processes images, videos, audio, and text simultaneously to create short videos with automatic sound effects. The ...
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Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion

Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion. The round was led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and U.S.
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Half of xAI's co-founders have now left Elon Musk's AI startup

Jimmy Ba, co-founder of Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, has left the company. Ba was one of xAI's twelve founding members and previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Journalist rents out his body to AI agents and earns nothing after two days of gig work WIRED reporter Reece Rogers rented out his body to AIs. He tested RentAHuman, a ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion. The round was led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and U.S.
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MCP Apps, the Model Context Protocol's first official extension, turns AI responses into interactive interfaces

The Model Context Protocol just got its first official extension with "MCP Apps." AI tools can now embed interactive interfaces directly into conversations. MCP Apps is now available on Github, the ...
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Vibe coding may be behind a 60 percent spike in new iOS apps

Data from Sensor Tower and Wells Fargo Securities suggests AI coding tools are flooding the iOS App Store. According to a16z, new iOS apps jumped 60 percent in December 2025 year-over-year, with 24 ...
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Cursor's agent swarm tackles one of software's hardest problems and delivers a working browser

Building a web browser from scratch is considered one of the most complex software projects imaginable. All the more remarkable: Cursor set hundreds of autonomously working AI agents to exactly this ...
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Former Tesla AI chief Andrej Karpathy now codes "mostly in English" just three months after calling AI agents useless

AI researcher Andrej Karpathy reports a dramatic shift in his coding workflow: In November, he was still writing 80 percent of code manually, but by December, AI agents were handling 80 percent of the ...