IM 858: The Itinerant Salt Miner from Buffalo - Silicon Valley's Military Dilemma

Feb 19, 2026

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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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