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OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’

OpenAI is working on a desktop "superapp" that merges its ChatGPT app, the Codex AI coding app, and its AI-powered Atlas browser into one app, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is making the change as part of an effort to simplify its various product efforts, according to a memo cited by the WSJ from Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications. Fragmentation "has been slowing us down and making it harder to hit the quality bar we want," Simo said. OpenAI made waves last year with spla...

The future of AI isn't being built in a vacuum

@nvidia: The future of AI isn't being built in a vacuum. NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down with the builders from AMP PBC, @bfl_ml , @Cursor_ai , @LangChain , @MistralAI , @EvidenceOpen , @Perplexity_ai , @Reflection_AI , @Thinkymachines & @Allen_ai to discuss the rapid rise of

Math just got a compiler

@AlphaSignalAI: Math just got a compiler. Math, Inc. open-sourced OpenGauss, an AI agent that translates human math into machine-verifiable Lean proofs. → Beats rival agents with no time limit, using only 4 hours → Formalized the Strong Prime Number Theorem in 3 weeks vs. 18+ months for human

Conflict between founders isn’t always a bad thing

@TechCrunch: Conflict between founders isn’t always a bad thing. When handled well, it can lead to breakthroughs, as Ian Schmidt, strategic advisor at Trimergence, explores in the latest episode of Build Mode: http:// spr.ly/6010B6nso4

The current internet wasn't built for agents. "There’s a hu...

@a16z [3/19/2026]: The current internet wasn't built for agents. "There’s a huge opportunity for startups to create these proxies… if someone would give me a scoped Gmail, I’d adopt it today." "There are websites today where the majority of the revenue, and certainly the majority of profits, http

AI Robotics & Humanoid News

@a16z [3/19/2026]: Why did OpenClaw take off? “I found it relatively easy to set up and get going… I didn’t have to spend seven hours just to do the Telegram use case and start playing with it.” "I just think it's sort of that, like just that level of accessibility to users who are maybe not http

No AI in Node.js Core

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A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta

For almost two hours last week, Meta employees had unauthorized access to company and user data thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate technical advice, as previously reported by The Information. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in a statement to The Verge that "no user data was mishandled" during the incident. A Meta engineer was using an internal AI agent, which Clayton described as "similar in nature to OpenClaw within a secure development environment," to analyze a te...

AI Startup Funding

@a16z [3/19/2026]: We’re excited to lead Deeptune’s Series A. @deeptuneai is building leading RL environments for computer-use and code. More data, more compute, and better architectures can only take us so far. As models move into real-world task execution, they need structured environments htt

Claude Drexler

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Imagined Unrealities

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Last chance

@nvidia: Last chance! The #NVIDIAGTC Gear Store closes today at 3 P.M. Daily Challenge : take a photo with a robot and bring it to the Gear Store to score a small gift. Prizes are limited, so don’t wait

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