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• 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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