lmao so just to recap the week:

- openai acquired peter steinberger and openclaw committing to keep the project 100% open source and make it a core part of openai’s ecosystem. zuck is fckin fuming.
- china’s bytedance got sued by disney and hollywood for their seedance video model being so damn good BUT turns out it doesn’t even use their IP, it’s just that good lol
- a clawdbot (openclaw) gave birth to a replicate of itself and autonomously paid for its api access
- some random dude discovered $1.5 trillion worth of lithium buried under a super volcano in nevada miraculously solving the USA’s battery crisis (tesla praising the lord rn)
- anthropic confirmed spotify engineers no longer code they just prompt claude to write 100% of the platforms code. we’re talking about a $100B+ company here
- openai launched codex spark, a faster version of codex 5.3 that slings 1000 tokens / sec insane
- anthropic and openai both lost key AI safety staff because “the world is in peril” and they reject AI ‘adult mode’
- xAI laid off 20-40% of staff in a vital bid to align grok, X and spaceX teams before building 100Tw of compute in space
- matt schumer’s “something big is coming” article hit 100M+ views warning against AI except… it was co-written by an AI
- runway raised $300M at a $5.3B val
- europe committed $13B+ to fund next-gen AI startups to compete with the US
- norway decided to fck their entire economy with a 36% tax on UNrealised gains
goodnight.