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Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source — Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our
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| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC” — Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes. He was finishing code. — Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors — Tesla's plan to start supporting CarPlay in its vehicles has been held back by the need for changes in iOS 26's Maps app.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts — MS Hwang is a research director at Counterpoint, specializing in memory semiconductor research.
More: DigiTimes
| Muhammad Zuhair / Wccftech: |
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue — HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin, who backed Polymarket, says he's “starting to worry” that prediction markets “seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit” — Quick Take — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that prediction markets are “over-converging” …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor — NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.
More: TechCrunch, Newser, and Digital Trends
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Forums: Hacker News and r/NPR
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP — Disney also sent a legal demand to Chinese internet company — Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: sports bets on Kalshi generate an estimated ~$1.3B in annualized revenue, underscoring the threat prediction markets pose to traditional operators — DraftKings and Flutter shares slide as investors fret about threat posed by apps such as Kalshi — Sports wagers on Kalshi …
More: Front Office Sports and New York Post
| Jake Angelo / Fortune: |
A look at Anti Fund, a small VC firm cofounded by YouTuber Jake Paul that has gained access to hot rounds in startups like OpenAI, Anduril, Polymarket, and Ramp — Jake Paul crossed paths with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at President Donald Trump's second inauguration ceremony last year … | Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: |
Sensor Tower: dating app downloads in Saudi Arabia have risen annually for five years, hitting 3.5M in 2025, as liberalization enables more casual relationships — Liberalization has opened the door to more casual relationships, but society is still catching up| Bloomberg: |
Credit derivatives trading on specific tech companies continues to rise, amid concerns that they may be borrowing too much to fuel AI development — Debt investors are worried that the biggest tech companies will keep borrowing until it hurts in the battle to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence.
More: Motley Fool
| Bloomberg: |
A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence — Four years ago, as Yan Junjie pitched his vision for artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group Inc. to China's largest internet companies …
X: @alysha_lobo
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a “grid-to-GPU” power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M — Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers.
More: Entrackr, DealStreetAsia, The Economic Times, and Tech in Asia
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