Tech, defense and Alex Karp's views

OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?

• OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
• OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
• Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times
• Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
• Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
• Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
• Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499
• Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3
• Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science
• Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
• A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
• Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
• GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment
• An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words
• I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.
• Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs
• AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
• Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems
• Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
• An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story
• Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories
• Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting
• DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust
• Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
• ai;dr
• I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
• Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
• Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
• peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal
• Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent
• Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

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