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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more — The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation …
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| Ron Schmelzer / Forbes: |
Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot — What began as a side project that quietly drew more than 100,000 GitHub stars has turned into one of the most viral experiments in AI.
More: OpenClaw, Rest of World, CNET, Fast Company, forkable, and WinBuzzer
X: @corsaren, @steipete, @openclaw, @bskdany, @hosseeb, @dorialexander, @moltbook, and @michael_chomsky. Bluesky: @rustybrick.com. Forums: Hacker News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI, announced in September 2025, has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down likelihood original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration
More: The Information and Bloomberg
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/BetterOffline, and r/wallstreetbets
| Fabiola Arámburo / Reuters: |
Report: Jensen Huang has privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in recent weeks, two of whom went to Meta and one to DeepMind; a top Siri executive left for DeepMind — Apple Inc. has lost at least four more of its artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks in addition to a top Siri executive …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, MacTech.com, MacRumors, Stocktwits, The Mac Observer, and MacDailyNews
X: @walden and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| @tbpn: |
Gurman: internal development at Apple “runs on Anthropic at this point” and Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude but Anthropic “wanted a ton of money” — Bloomberg's @markgurman says that even though Apple partnered with Google Gemini for Siri, they actually run their business on Anthropic. “Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple's doing internally in terms of product development and [video]
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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Shares of gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity closed down 24.2% and Take-Two 7.9% — Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on Friday after Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) rolled …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M — Bluesky released its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results …
More: Bluesky. Bluesky: @simonehochgreb, @dumbmike, @mmasnick, @ivanthek, @aaron.bsky.team, and @bsky.app. Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills: the biggest performance decline for developers occurred in debugging tasks — Read the paper — Research shows AI helps people do parts of their job faster. In an observational study of Claude.ai data, we found AI can speed up some tasks by 80%.
More: Ars Technica, arXiv.org, CIO.com, and The Deep View
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LinkedIn: Ben McKeown, Ivan Klaric, and Eduardo Ariñ
Bluesky: @elfsternberg and @spavel
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/DevelEire, r/theprimeagen, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork — Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code …
More: Claude, The Verge, The Decoder, The New Stack, and The Deep View
X: @claudeai, @claudeai, @edsim, @morqon, @claudeai, @_simonsmith, and @bcherny. LinkedIn: Jared Sires
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface — The first AI-planned drive on another planet. — EXPLORING NEW PLANETS means that you're always operating in the past.
More: Engadget, JPLraw on YouTube, NASA, TechEBlog, and NASA
X: @_arohan_, @yuchenj_uw, @sammcallister, @tszzl, @bcherny, @aileaksandnews, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @nasaadmin, and @sashadem. Forums: r/singularity
| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B+ in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation — Partner offers — Quick Take — The stablecoin issuer now holds $193 billion in assets backing the $186 billion USDT in circulation, primarily in U.S. Treasuries.
More: Tether, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, and BTC Times
| Danny Park / The Block: |
Binance says it will convert $1B in stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November — Quick Take — Binance announced that it will turn its $1 billion SAFU fund into bitcoin over the next 30 days to support the industry through uncertainty.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt — Deal with Architect Capital would value the adult social-media platform at $3.5 billion — OnlyFans, the British online platform popular … | Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX generated about $8B in EBITDA on $15B to $16B of revenue last year; Starlink accounted for about 50% to 80% of the total revenue — SpaceX generated about $8 billion in profit on $15 billion to $16 billion of revenue last year, two people familiar with the company's results said … | Ian Krietzberg / Puck: |
Poetiq, which leverages existing LLMs to create “expert agents” for specific tasks, and spent just $40K to achieve high ARC-AGI-2 scores, raised a $45.8M seed — Poetiq, a less-than-one-year-old A.I. startup just crushed the ARC A.G.I. benchmark, beating Anthropic and Google with only six people and $40,000.
More: Ventureburn. X: @garrytan, @harjtaggar, @codewithimanshu, @ycombinator, @bosmeny, @itfische, @abarrallen, @poetiq_ai, and @itfische. LinkedIn: Ian Krietzberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the clash between Coinbase and Wall Street over the Clarity Act and whether crypto exchanges can offer stablecoin “rewards” — Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong is clashing with Jamie Dimon and other bank stewards over the future of finance
More: The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Verge, Bitcoin Magazine, Yahoo Finance, crypto.news, Benzinga, and CoinGape
X: @buccocapital, @patrickc, and @aosipovich
LinkedIn: Amrith Ramkumar and Dylan Tokar
| Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators — Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.
X: @lorenasgonzalez, @lanheechen, and @sf_mills
| Komal Salecha / Reuters: |
Indian e-commerce platform Meesho reports Q3 net loss of Rs. 4.91B, or $53.4M, up from Rs. 374.3M a year ago, in its first earnings report since its IPO — Indian e-commerce firm Meesho's (MEES.NS) quarterly loss widened sharply in its first earnings report since its blockbuster market debut in December last year, as costs rose.
More: Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, and Entrackr
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised $125M+ in 2025, including from a16z and Greg Brockman, to try to shape the US midterms and federal AI regulation — Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised more than $125 million to try to shape the 2026 midterms and the future of federal AI regulation.| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Sources: Granola, which makes an AI-based note-taking app, aims to raise $100M+ led by Index Ventures at a $1B+ valuation, up from a $250M valuation in May 2025 — The London-based AI startup aims to raise a new round of at least $100 million led by Index Ventures, making the popular note-taking app the latest AI unicorn.| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: China has given DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips but imposes regulatory conditions, which are still being finalized — China has given its top AI startup DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H200 artificial intelligence chips with regulatory conditions …
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