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🤖 Google brings Gemini task automation to Android phones
Google is rolling out AI task automation in Android. On Pixel 10 and upcoming Samsung Galaxy S26 devices, Gemini will be able to open apps and perform actions on behalf of the user.
A user can ask Gemini to order an Uber to the airport. Gemini launches the app in a virtual window, selects the ride details and prepares the booking, with final confirmation left to the user. If choices are needed, it asks. At launch, Uber and Grubhub are supported.
The feature will become part of Android 17. Gemini 3 powers the system, navigating app interfaces through reasoning and simulated clicks, with optional developer frameworks to streamline integration.
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🤖 Perplexity launches “Computer” multi-agent system in $200 Max plan
Perplexity introduced Perplexity Computer, a multi-agent system designed to handle long, compound tasks. It is available only in the $200 per month Max plan and currently works on desktop web.
Users submit a prompt, and Computer splits it into subtasks. Different agents collect data, draft reports or presentations, and call APIs from connected services like Gmail, GitHub and Notion.
Opus 4.6 appears to act as the main orchestrator, assigning specific tasks to models from OpenAI, xAI or Google when needed. Multi-model coordination is positioned as the core feature.
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🎵 Spotify and Liquid Death launch urn with built-in speaker
Spotify teamed up with Liquid Death to release the Eternal Playlist Urn, a funeral urn with a wireless speaker built into the lid. The product is sold in limited quantities in the U.S.
Alongside it, Spotify introduced an “eternal playlist” generator. Users answer a few themed questions, and the system combines responses with their listening history to create a personalized mix that can sync directly with the urn.
The collaboration turns music identity into a physical afterlife product.
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📱 Nothing teases Phone (4a) design ahead of March 5 launch
Nothing has revealed the design of its upcoming Phone (4a). The official presentation is scheduled for March 5.
Unlike the flagship Phone (3) with its rear Glyph Matrix display, the new model features a Glyph Bar, a compact vertical LED strip on the back.
Nothing keeps focusing on distinctive hardware design as its core differentiator.
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🤖 Anthropic signs multi-year deal with Intuit to embed Claude across finance tools
Anthropic has partnered with Intuit to bring Claude and its Agent SDK into Intuit’s platform, enabling mid market businesses to build custom AI agents for compliant financial workflows. The rollout is set to begin in spring 2026.
Claude will power industry specific agents inside Intuit products, connecting company data such as payroll, expenses and cash flow to automate analysis and operational decisions. Intuit’s tax and accounting tools will also be integrated directly into Claude.ai, Claude for Enterprise and Cowork.
Anthropic is pushing Claude deeper into core business infrastructure, moving beyond chat into embedded financial systems.
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🤖 ChatGPT code references $100 Pro Lite subscription tier
Mentions of a new “Pro Lite” plan priced at $100 per month were found in ChatGPT’s code. No details about features or limits have been disclosed.
The pricing suggests a mid tier between the $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan.
It appears aimed at users who need more than Plus but do not require the full Pro package.
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We are so cooked
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We've came so far from Will Smith eating spaghetti AI.
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🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Code Security and upgrades Desktop
Anthropic released Claude Code Security, an agent that scans full repositories and finds complex context-level vulnerabilities.
It uncovered 500+ issues in production open source projects, some decades old.
The agent reasons across the codebase instead of relying on fixed SAST rules.
Claude Code Desktop now runs Server Previews, fixes console errors, reviews before push, monitors PRs, and supports auto-merge.
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⬇️ The quiet creator of WinRAR
Eugene Roshal built WinRAR and largely stayed out of the spotlight.
RAR stands for Roshal Archive.
He avoided Silicon Valley, skipped media attention, and kept his personal life private.
WinRAR became one of the most installed software tools in the world. The 40-day trial became a running joke since it never truly locked users out.
Estimated net worth ranges between $100M and $250M.
While others chased headlines, he built a compression algorithm that powered millions of PCs.
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🗺Market Map shows how crowded the AI agent stack has become
A new market map lays out today’s AI agent landscape. Around LLMs, entire layers have formed.
Engines, environments, agent frameworks, memory, code review. The stack keeps expanding beyond the model itself.
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🎵 Google launches Lyria 3 with music generation from text, images, and video
Google introduced Lyria 3, a new music generation model. It creates tracks up to 30 seconds long and is already available in the Gemini app and on desktop, with a wider rollout coming soon.
Lyria 3 is multimodal. Users can generate music from a text prompt, or upload a photo or video and get a track that matches the mood and context of that content.
Google says every composition includes an invisible watermark. Distribution gets easier. Attribution becomes part of the product.
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🤖 Chinese robots go from simple dances to flips in 1 year
A new video shows how far Chinese humanoid robots have progressed over the past year.
In early 2025, most demos focused on basic dance routines and controlled movements.
Now, the same class of robots is performing jump flips and more dynamic maneuvers.
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💻 CEO of Shopify is shipping more code than ever
🔸 2024: 94 commits
🔸 2025: 833 commits
🔸 2026: 957 commits (in first 45 days of the year)
Claude is turning CEOs back to builder mode.
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🤖 Kimi integrates OpenClaw to let users spin up custom agents
OpenClaw is now integrated into Kimi. Users can create their own agents in a few clicks and run them inside Kimi’s web interface.
Agents can execute actions across connected tools and build long task chains.
🔸 Through ClawHub, users can combine more than 5,000 skills
🔸 Each agent gets up to 40GB of cloud storage for files
🔸 Search can be configured to run
continuously and fetch fresh information
🔸 External OpenClaw setups can also be linked and controlled from Kimi
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🗡️ Ultrasonic knife enters the consumer kitchen at $400
Seattle Ultrasonics’ C-200 is now on the mass market, and Engadget reviewed it after a month of use. The knife costs $400, or $500 with the recommended magnetic wireless charger.
Inside the handle is a piezo element that makes the blade vibrate 33,000 times per second.
🔸 The effect reduces cutting effort by up to 50%.
🔸 The blade is triple layered AUS-10 steel with a 13° edge per side.
🔸 The knife weighs 328 g and runs about 20 minutes per charge.
Reviewers report cleaner cuts on dense foods like pork belly and tuna, with less sticking to the blade. It can overheat after 15+ minutes of continuous use and shut off briefly.
Ultrasound has moved from lab tech into premium kitchen hardware.
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📱 Tecno revives modular phone concept with magnetic add-ons
Tecno unveiled a modular smartphone concept it plans to showcase at MWC 2026. The base device is 4.9 mm thin and works on its own, with modules attaching magnetically to the back.
Unlike Google’s Project Ara, the modules do not replace internal components. They connect via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and mmWave, acting as smart accessories. Even with a 4.5 mm power bank attached, total thickness stays close to a typical flagship.
The rear panel has eight modular zones, with around ten modules shown so far, including an action camera, a telephoto lens that uses the phone display as a viewfinder, and a module for off-grid communication.
Tecno calls it a long term design project, with no release date or pricing announced.
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🤖 Anthropic adds remote control to Claude Code
Anthropic introduced a remote control feature for Claude Code, now available in research preview for Max users. Pro support is planned next.
Users start a session on desktop, run claude remote-control in the terminal, then connect via link or QR code from the Claude app or browser on mobile.
From there, they can monitor progress, edit prompts, track changes and interrupt runs.
Claude Code is moving toward multi device workflows, letting developers manage sessions beyond the terminal.
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🤖 Notion launches custom AI agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic
Notion has introduced Custom Agents, autonomous AI agents built for teams. They run on the latest models from OpenAI and Anthropic and connect through multiple data connectors.
Users can assign a task, set a trigger or schedule, and the agent executes it automatically. Agents can route bugs, answer internal questions, update documentation or draft weekly updates without manual prompting.
Notion is shifting from chat based AI to persistent agents that operate inside team workflows.
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📊 Only ~2.5M people use AI for coding out of 8.1B
A viral chart maps global AI usage. Each dot equals about 3.2M people.
🔸 ~6.8B have never used AI
🔸 ~1.3B use free chatbots
🔸 ~15–25M pay $20 per month
🔸 ~2.5M use AI for coding
The group using AI to write code is a rounding error at global scale.
If you are already building with it, you are operating in a very small cohort.
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🚫 Google blocks Gemini access via OpenClaw after OpenAI acquisition
Less than a week after OpenAI acquired OpenClaw, Google started cutting off access to Gemini and Antigravity subscriptions connected through OpenClaw OAuth. Affected users report account bans without warning.
Google says the issue is ToS violations linked to token use inside a third party product. Many users had connected Gemini models to OpenClaw through OAuth, which works as a proxy layer sending requests to Google services.
After Google flagged malicious use of Antigravity backend services and banned related accounts, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger said he may remove Gemini OAuth support entirely and called Google’s response “draconian.”
AI week has begun 🍿
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⚠️ Amazon engineers followed AI advice and disrupted AWS for 13 hours
In December, Amazon’s AI assistant Kiro suggested deleting and recreating an environment. Engineers approved the action. Something went wrong, and AWS services experienced disruptions for 13 hours.
Amazon says the incident was caused by human error. The engineer who granted Kiro permission had overly broad access rights.
The company introduced additional staff training and tightened security controls.
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🔍 Chrome adds built-in Split View for two tabs in one window
Google rolled out Split View in Chrome. Users can now place two tabs side by side inside a single window, without extensions.
The feature is aimed at people who switch between tabs constantly. Teachers use it to review assignments. Developers keep documentation visible while coding. Some take notes while watching YouTube.
It simplifies basic multitasking inside the browser.
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💡 Microsoft builds glass data storage with 10,000-year lifespan
Microsoft developed a glass-based data storage system using laser-written 3D pixels inside transparent glass. The company says it is the first to offer a full end-to-end system for writing, storing, and reading this format.
Data is written with a femtosecond laser that alters the glass structure through ultra-short pulses. The changes do not damage the material and can only be detected optically. Reading requires a microscope, while convolutional neural networks help reduce errors caused by noisy light signals.
Tests suggest the medium can preserve data for up to 10,000 years, compared to 40–50 years for typical storage without maintenance. Density reaches about 4.8 TB on a ~12 cm² disk.
Storage consumes virtually no energy once written.
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🚕 Waymo robotaxis stop running in heavy rain and snow
Waymo robotaxis rely on LiDAR for perception. In heavy rain, snow, or dust, the sensor struggles due to reflection and scattering.
As a result, the vehicles are taken offline during strong precipitation.
Autonomous driving still has weather limits.
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🖌 Claude Code can now generate full designs directly in Figma
Claude Code is now integrated with Figma, allowing it to generate complete, editable designs inside Figma.
The reverse flow already existed through Figma MCP, turning designs into code. This update completes the loop. Code written in the IDE can be translated into structured Figma layers, adjusted visually, then pushed back into code.
Development no longer has to follow a strict idea → design → code sequence. A product can start in code, move into design for review, then return to code with changes applied.
It turns coding agents into design-aware collaborators.
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🍏Apple prepares 3 AI wearables built around visual Siri
Mark Gurman reports that Apple is accelerating work on three wearable devices centered on Siri with visual context.
🔸 The first is smart glasses, code-named N50, positioned as a rival to Ray-Ban Meta. They would include two cameras, one for photos and video, another for computer vision similar to Vision Pro. There is no display. Interaction runs through speakers, microphones, and Siri. Production is targeted for December, with a potential 2027 release.
🔸 The second is a pendant device, roughly AirTag-sized, worn as a clip or necklace. It includes a camera and microphone and relies on the iPhone for processing. Unlike Humane AI Pin, it would function as an iPhone accessory rather than a standalone product. The project remains early stage and could launch in 2027.
🔸 The third is AirPods with a low-resolution camera designed to provide visual context for AI. Rumors have circulated since 2024, with a possible release this year.
At a recent internal meeting, Tim Cook said Apple is working on new product categories enabled by AI.
Apple’s next hardware cycle may revolve around giving Siri eyes.
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Programmers were asked to make the worst volume control for a contest
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🤖 The man who taught AI to see
If you have ever scanned a bank card with your phone camera or watched an app extract data from a receipt, you used technology shaped by Yann LeCun.
In the 1980s, computer vision was stuck. Systems tried to process entire images at once, consumed heavy compute, and produced weak results. LeCun took a different path inspired by biology. He designed neural networks that break images into small patterns like edges and curves, then assemble meaning from those pieces.
In 1989, he introduced a handwritten digit recognition system. By the 1990s, his algorithms were processing roughly 10% of bank checks in the US. It was one of the first cases where neural networks delivered measurable profit to large companies.
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