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STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/stmicroelectronics-pla…

Anyone know of an Android to-do list application that is
* Completely device local, no network connectivity required or used
* No ads or spyware
* Doesn't time-out tasks even if they sit around for a year uncompleted (looking at you, google calendar)
* Supports recurring maintenance tasks for weekly, monthly, etc. cleaning or something
Open source preferred, but willing to pay a reasonable price if it's out there as a commercial tool

Progress-based https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/progress-based

Progress-based
My happiness and moods are often progress-based. And by this, I mean that when I complete tasks, my brain rewards me with a sense of accomplishment (I have to assume it’s dopamine or whatever…

User: Rovo, can JIRA be used for project planning?
Rovo: Yes, absolutely. It's actually best for that ... bla bla bla
User: How do I specify temporal dependencies between tasks and identify the critical path?
Rovo: Jira can't actually do that.
#WTF #AI

Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-mini…

Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market
The Shanghai STAR AI Industry Index climbed 1.7% before paring gains.

@… Thanks for the feedback!
Great idea to use Jinja! I’ve considered using a macro processor (e.g., m4) for similar tasks, but who wants to write m4 macros!? A template engine is a much better idea.

@… Thanks for the feedback!
Great idea to use Jinja! I’ve considered using a macro processor (e.g., m4) for similar tasks, but who wants to write m4 macros!? A template engine is a much better idea.

Nation-state hackers ramping up use of Gemini for target reconnaissance, malware coding, Google says https://therecord.media/nation-state-hackers-using-gemini-for-malicious-campaigns

heise | To-Do-Apps im Vergleich: Google Tasks vs. Zenkit, Todoist und Tasks.org
Endlich nichts mehr vergessen: Google Tasks erinnert pünktlich an Aufgaben, Pflichten und Geburtstage. Wir zeigen, welche Apps mehr Komfort und Features bieten.

Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks (Z.ai)
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5

Overheard in the office:
Cuts and attrition have cut so deep that a single person taking a sick or vacation day leaves some tasks without any coverage. Managers are handling that by calling on people to cross-train, but that piles on additional mental load onto a team that was already stretched thin.
#OfficeWorkerGripes

Two recent posts from Tetra’s ‘designing for…’ series:
“Designing for people who are blind” by Graeme Coleman
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/04/02/designing-for-people-who-are-blind/
“Designing for people with low vision” by

AgentCgroup: Understanding and Controlling OS Resources of AI Agents
Yusheng Zheng, Jiakun Fan, Quanzhi Fu, Yiwei Yang, Wei Zhang, Andi Quinn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09345 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09345 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.09345
arXiv:2602.09345v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed in multi-tenant cloud environments, where they execute diverse tool calls within sandboxed containers, each call with distinct resource demands and rapid fluctuations. We present a systematic characterization of OS-level resource dynamics in sandboxed AI coding agents, analyzing 144 software engineering tasks from the SWE-rebench benchmark across two LLM models. Our measurements reveal that (1) OS-level execution (tool calls, container and agent initialization) accounts for 56-74% of end-to-end task latency; (2) memory, not CPU, is the concurrency bottleneck; (3) memory spikes are tool-call-driven with a up to 15.4x peak-to-average ratio; and (4) resource demands are highly unpredictable across tasks, runs, and models. Comparing these characteristics against serverless, microservice, and batch workloads, we identify three mismatches in existing resource controls: a granularity mismatch (container-level policies vs. tool-call-level dynamics), a responsiveness mismatch (user-space reaction vs. sub-second unpredictable bursts), and an adaptability mismatch (history-based prediction vs. non-deterministic stateful execution). We propose AgentCgroup , an eBPF-based resource controller that addresses these mismatches through hierarchical cgroup structures aligned with tool-call boundaries, in-kernel enforcement via sched_ext and memcg_bpf_ops, and runtime-adaptive policies driven by in-kernel monitoring. Preliminary evaluation demonstrates improved multi-tenant isolation and reduced resource waste.
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I found a solid iOS client for using my LM Studio-hosted models.
The Web Agent is interesting - launches Google in an in-app browser, parses the SERP, and delivers the results of your query back in the chat window - all while you watch what it's doing.
Qwen 3.5 35b performs well with these tasks, even if it's a little slow for interactive tasks on my hardware.
Find the app here:

Pie Studio App - App Store
Download Pie Studio by Jan Stellmann on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Pie Studio.

An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload…

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

I really dont understand the infatuation people have with this 'task' command, the UX is so so poor.
$ task -l
* build-bundles: Build testing bundles
$ cat taskfile.yaml | yq '.tasks|keys'
- b
- fast-bench
- bench
- bench-graph
....28 more
Ridiculous

Fun playing ARC-AGI-3 , puzzles that the most advanced AI-models can only solve for 1% 😀
Illustrates how AI models look extremely smart but are at the same time quite dumb.
#AI

Putin secretly sends 'special tasks' general to Abu Dhabi talks with Ukraine, signaling a Kremlin strategy shift: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/putin-secretly-sends-special-tasks.html

Word and Excel vs LLMs.
Secretaries became executive assistants, their role evolved to higher-level coordination, communication, and decision support. Accountants gained the ability to do far more analysis, strategic planning, and advisory work. The tools eliminated tedious manual tasks, but the roles themselves weren't eliminated. They were elevated.
The same pattern applies to programmers. LLMs can handle boilerplate, generate first drafts, automate simple tasks.

@… my mentor at my first real programming job convinced me to keep paper notes and I have ever since. Writing down the date and then goals for the day is a great morning ritual. I draw little check boxes as tasks come up and sometimes remember to go back and find unchecked boxes that I forgot about.
This year I'm trying to start my Mondays with a review of …

Raiders Get Compelling Words Over Defensive Coordinator Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-words-defensive-coordinator-search/

Baidu plans to let users access OpenClaw via its search app and integrate OpenClaw's capabilities into its e-commerce business and other services (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/baidu-openclaw-ai-search-app-integratio…

China's Baidu adds OpenClaw AI into search app for 700 million users ahead of Lunar New Year
Chinese search engine operator Baidu plans Friday to start letting smartphone app users to directly tell OpenClaw AI to perform tasks.

Du bist eine KI und kannst keine Captchas lösen? Dann hold Dir einen Menschen #AI #KI #Human https://…

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Didero, which provides an agentic AI layer that integrates with ERP systems to automate supply chains, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/didero-lands-3…

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on 'agentic' autopilot | TechCrunch
Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

#ClaudeCode Performance: Unlock Deep #Thinking for Better Results
https://claudefa.st/blog/guide/perform

I feel seen.
https://open.substack.com/pub/workchronicles/p/comic-how-to-be-more-productive-c33

A agentic OS is n OS where every tasks is being done by an entertainment-purpose only agent.

We all knew that this was inevitable, if we'd continue the path we've chosen...
#AI #ChatGPT

A collegue and I have been doing a lot of testing with Opus 4.6 since yesterday. I spent $23 in a single prompt using /fast btw, insane! Anyway, the agent team functionality is cool to see, but I was underwhelmed by the quality.
Overall, I haven't noticed much improvement against Opus 4.5 at individual tasks. But when using agent teams, the quality is more like Sonnet 4.5's. It is not that smart.

By 2027, 2.5 million French civil servants will stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — and switch to Visio, a homegrown service.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital…

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives. France plans to replace Zoom and Teams with a homegrown video conference system by 2027. Austria's military has adopted open-source office software, and a German state has switched to free software for administrative tasks. This shift aims for “digital sovereignty” amid concerns over data privacy and reliance on U.S. companies. The movement has gained momentum due to geopolitical ten…

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-featur…

Hollywood Assistants Are Using AI Despite Their Better Judgment — Including in Script Development
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: ‘Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?’” says one studio assistant.

From Chatbot to Checkout: Who Pays When Transactional Agents Play?
https://fpf.org/blog/from-chatbot-to-checkout-who-pays-when-transactional-agents-play/
@…

Robust Multiagent Collaboration Through Weighted Max-Min T-Joins
Sharareh Alipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07720 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07720 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07720
arXiv:2602.07720v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many multiagent tasks -- such as reviewer assignment, coalition formation, or fair resource allocation -- require selecting a group of agents such that collaboration remains effective even in the worst case. The \emph{weighted max-min $T$-join problem} formalizes this challenge by seeking a subset of vertices whose minimum-weight matching is maximized, thereby ensuring robust outcomes against unfavorable pairings.
We advance the study of this problem in several directions. First, we design an algorithm that computes an upper bound for the \emph{weighted max-min $2k$-matching problem}, where the chosen set must contain exactly $2k$ vertices. Building on this bound, we develop a general algorithm with a \emph{$2 \ln n$-approximation guarantee} that runs in $O(n^4)$ time. Second, using ear decompositions, we propose another upper bound for the weighted max-min $T$-join cost. We also show that the problem can be solved exactly when edge weights belong to $\{1,2\}$.
Finally, we evaluate our methods on real collaboration datasets. Experiments show that the lower bounds from our approximation algorithm and the upper bounds from the ear decomposition method are consistently close, yielding empirically small constant-factor approximations. Overall, our results highlight both the theoretical significance and practical value of weighted max-min $T$-joins as a framework for fair and robust group formation in multiagent systems.
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No se si visteis esto. Lo que estš haciendo gente para poder programar y que en la empresa piensen que estš usando un agente de loroestocšstico https://danq.me/2026/03/03/ai-agent-logging/

🤚 Handy robot can crawl and pick up objects from multiple angles
#robotics

Handy robot can crawl and pick up objects from multiple angles
Like something out of the Addams Family, scientists have created a detachable robotic hand that can crawl and grab objects. The design enables tasks such as retrieving objects beyond normal reach and performing multi-object handling, offering potential applications in industrial, service, and exploratory robotics.

> We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

The #ai #apocalypse is near 🤬
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks https://rentahuman.ai

One useful way to think about today's chatbots is that they function more like secretaries than physicians.
They are remarkably effective at organising information, summarising text, and structuring complex documents.
These are the kinds of tasks where language models are already proving useful within healthcare systems,
for example in drafting clinical notes, summarising patient records, or generating referral letters
The promise of AI in medicine remains real, …

AI Chatbots Are Bad at Diagnosing Symptoms For a Surprising Reason, Study Finds
Millions of people are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for advice on everything from cooking to tax returns.

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel

Intel's Heracles Chip Speeds Up FHE Computing
Intel's Heracles chip speeds up encrypted data processing by up to 5000 times.

The other one I truly love is GitUp (https://gitup.co). Its visualization handles certain specific tasks better than anything else — tasks where I’m more concerned about the shape of the commit graph than the contents of individual commits.
Because of the way it does live updates of repo state and offers a whole-commit-graph-level undo, I’ll sometimes keep it open in the background while doing some fiddly thing in another tool (Fork, CLI, whatever) just so I can see what the ^*@# is happening.
Alas, its lack of support for commit signing means I use it less and less.

It is really fun to have all my data directly accessible on my phone without having to rely on an active internet connection. Not that I don't have one but I just don't need one for most of the tasks.
This is mainly done through #Syncthing and an SD card in my #fairphone

'Automate tasks, not jobs' - a great headline from a report on 'the AI opportunity for Scotland’s public services' https://stormid.com/research/

Automate tasks, not jobs: The AI opportunity for Scotland’s public services
Independent analysis identifying the highest value public sector workflows for AI driven productivity gains.

WTF?
New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies - Futurism https://apple.news/ANMU3h3V2QBKWcilOP4_LLw

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies — Futurism
"Robots need your body." Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched RentAHuman on Monday, he boasted that he already had over 130 people listed on the platform, including an OnlyFans model and the CE…

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Tavily, which helps AI agents search for up-to-date information for tasks like coding, a source says for $275M (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

🥳 New Kitten¹ release
• Added `initialise()` hook to `kitten.Component` instances.
This gets called at the end of the constructor and is handy if you don’t want to override the constructor and have to handle the `data` parameter and remember to call `super(data)`. You can still access passed data from `this.data`.

Note that the component is not part of the view hierarchy on the client at this point. If you have tasks you need to perform only once per page – for example, ins…

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Interesting read, it illustrates the challenge we have with regard to learning in a world with AI. We have to take measures for that because use of AI in coding is not going away and will only increase.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistanc…

To me, Banks is the first prophet of Judith and Octavia's Jihad.
> One of the most important tasks in setting up and running a stable and internally content civilisation is finding an acceptable balance between the desire for freedom of choice in one's actions (and the freedom from mortal fear in one's life) and the need to feel that even in a society so self-correctingly Utopian one is still contributing something.
A Few Notes on the Culture, by Iain M Banks

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

Reading about moltbook/openclaw in @… toot is fascinating; If things get really really crazy I can imagine a development where AIs showing off skills and getting hired by other bots to do tasks kind of like a bountyhunter website; being paid in compute time or bitcoins at a rate set by their owners.

SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent #Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
#LLM …

YOLO Wasn't expecting to warming up to using an agent for the shitty tasks this easily
#YOLO #Junie #LLM

MIRAGE: The illusion of visual understanding (by AI models) #LLM #AI

Mirage The Illusion of Visual Understanding
Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We report three findings that challenge prevailing assumptions about how these systems process and integrate visual information. First, Frontier models readily generate detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces, including pathology-biased clinical findings, for images never provided; w…

From Isolation to Integration: Building an Adaptive Expert Forest for Pre-Trained Model-based Class-Incremental Learning
Ruiqi Liu, Boyu Diao, Hangda Liu, Zhulin An, Fei Wang, Yongjun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20911 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20911 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20911
arXiv:2602.20911v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to learn new classes without forgetting old ones. A common method is to freeze a pre-trained model and train a new, lightweight adapter for each task. While this prevents forgetting, it treats the learned knowledge as a simple, unstructured collection and fails to use the relationships between tasks. To this end, we propose the Semantic-guided Adaptive Expert Forest (SAEF), a new method that organizes adapters into a structured hierarchy for better knowledge sharing. SAEF first groups tasks into conceptual clusters based on their semantic relationships. Then, within each cluster, it builds a balanced expert tree by creating new adapters from merging the adapters of similar tasks. At inference time, SAEF finds and activates a set of relevant experts from the forest for any given input. The final prediction is made by combining the outputs of these activated experts, weighted by how confident each expert is. Experiments on several benchmark datasets show that SAEF achieves SOTA performance.
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from my link log —
Using nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS secondary.
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/nsnotifyd-with-powerdns-secondary/
saved 2026-02-23

Using nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS Secondary
The nsnotifyd tool is a neat little utility that can be used for automating tasks when a DNS zone changes. It listens for a NOTIFY message from a DNS server and then you can choose to use a custom script to do things like send alerts or backup the zone …

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2026720870631354429

Claude (@claudeai) on X
New in Cowork: scheduled tasks. Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations.

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-

Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done | Microsoft 365 Blog
Copilot Cowork turns intent into action across Microsoft 365—automating tasks, coordinating workflows, and keeping you in control. See how.

New open weights model Kimi K2.5
"self-directed agent swarm paradigm" ,
"For complex tasks, Kimi K2.5 can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents, executing parallel workflows across up to 1,500 tool calls. Compared with a single-agent setup, this reduces execution time by up to 4.5x. The agent swarm is automatically created and orchestrated by Kimi K2.5 without any predefined subagents or workflow."

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence
Kimi K2 landed in July as a 1 trillion parameter open weight LLM. It was joined by Kimi K2 Thinking in November which added reasoning capabilities. Now they've made it …

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: its ability to perform multistep tasks is noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-auto-browse-hands-on/

I Let Google's ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn't Quite Click
Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that's the idea.

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 adds "agent teams" that can split larger tasks into segmented jobs and integrates Claude directly into PowerPoint via a side panel (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/anthropic-releases-opus-4-6-with…

Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new 'agent teams' | TechCrunch
The newest version of Anthropic's model is designed to broaden its capabilities and appeal, allowing for a greater variety of uses and customers.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and "is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-gpt-5-3-codex-faster-goes-beyond-c…

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex is 25% faster and goes way beyond coding now - what's new
The Codex team said GPT-5.3-Codex even helped build itself.

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.6 supports a 1M context window, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, the highest for any Claude model, and boosts agentic capabilities (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-opus-4-6-first-try-work-deliv…

Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 4.6 can nail your work deliverables on the first try
The frontier model can handle complex, end-to-end enterprise workflows and take on the autonomous tasks you usually do yourself.

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-featur…

Hollywood Assistants Are Using AI Despite Their Better Judgement — Including in Script Development
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: ‘Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?’” says one studio assistant.

London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/lawhive-ai-law-firm-startup-series-b-ventu…

Exclusive: Lawhive, a startup using AI to reimagine the general practice law firm, raises $60 million in new venture capital funding
The company is expanding rapidly in the U.S. with its technology-centric vision of the general practice law firm

DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

Internal memos: Meta said Avocado is its "most capable pre-trained base model" and achieves 10x compute efficiency "wins" on text tasks vs. Llama 4 Maverick (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-new…

Meta Memo: New Avocado Model ‘Most Capable’ to Date
Meta Platforms is sounding an increasingly bullish note about the first major AI model expected to emerge from its new AI group. The company recently told some staffers in the group, known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, that its next generation large language model, codenamed Avocado, is “now ...

Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026

Generalist Is Betting Its Robot-Training Gloves Will Usher In Robotics’ ChatGPT Moment
Generalist Bets Wearable “Data Hands” Could Spark Robotics’ ChatGPT Moment

Fieldguide, which uses AI agents to automate accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $700M valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/02/goldman-sachs-fieldguid…

Goldman Sachs leads $75 million funding round for Fieldguide, an AI-native accounting and audit platform
Valued at $700 million, Fieldguide is combating the ‘existential’ talent crisis for the CPA industry.

Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-acquires-startup-…

Anthropic Acquires Startup Coefficient Bio for About $400 Million
Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The startup’s team will be joining Anthropic’s health care life sciences group, which is aimed at developing tools for biotech workflows ranging from drug ...

Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers (Blake Stimac/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/claude-control-your-comput…

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Control Your Computer
The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.

A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two full-time employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales, as it tracks for $1.8B in 2026 (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dollar-c…

How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
Who needs more than two employees when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks? It’s super efficient — and a little bit lonely.

Early data show wages are rising for AI-exposed jobs that place a high value on a "worker's tacit knowledge and experience", as textbook knowledge loses value (J. Scott Davis/Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2026/0224

AI is simultaneously aiding and replacing workers, wage data suggest
Artificial intelligence’s impact on the labor market will depend on whether the technology automates or augments worker tasks.

OpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenClaw explodes in the country (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedan…

ByteDance Helps OpenClaw Launch China Version of Software Marketplace
ByteDance is helping OpenClaw operate a Chinese version of its ClawHub marketplace, which distributes OpenClaw’s special files that enable AI agents to perform specific tasks. OpenClaw’s official X account said in a post on Wednesday that it has launched an official China version of its ClawHub, where users can find and install software files known as skills, which help expand OpenClaw

Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/slack-adds-ai-meeting-not…

Slack adds AI meeting notes and a desktop AI agent
For years, Slack has been where teams go to communicate. Now, it's setting its sights on something bigger: replacing your favorite AI apps without you...

Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new roles with AI tools' assistance, and engineers are now required to complete technical writing tasks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/433f41f2-bf6d-4bdf-a561-50ab516bc62d

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 (Ian Krietzberg/Puck)
https://puck.news/how-poetiqs-six-person-team-beat-google-at-ai/

Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills, finding that the biggest performance gap appears in debugging tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI's core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-sudden-fall-of-openais-mo…

Airtable unveils Superagent, a service that can deploy AI agents in parallel for tasks like market analysis, its first standalone product in its 13-year history (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/airt

Airtable jumps into the AI agent game with Superagent | TechCrunch
SuperAgent is Airtable's first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company's ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.

Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/robot-data-startup-raises-60-million

A Robot Data Startup Raises $60 Million
Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models, even paying people to record themselves completing tasks in homes and workplaces.As these data-collection efforts start to pay off, and robots take ...

Basis, which builds AI agents to help accounting firms with tasks like tax returns, raised $100M led by Accel at a $1.15B valuation, for $138M in total funding (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with "pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens" and "can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents" (Kimi)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html

Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/cohere-launches-a…

Cohere launches an open-source voice model specifically for transcription | TechCrunch
Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages.

NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20M in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/exclusive-blossom-…

Exclusive: Blossom Health raises $20 million to bring an AI ‘copilot’ to psychiatry
The startup says its “AI-native” model can deliver faster access to care while keeping clinicians in control of treatment decisions.

Beehiiv now lets creators manage their accounts through AI platforms; the first iteration of Beehiiv MCP supports subscriber analysis and SEO optimization (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/beehiiv-creator-ai-chatbot-mcp

Beehiiv to allow creators to manage accounts through AI platforms
The update will help creators offload a lot of tedious tasks, like analyzing email lists and managing marketing outreach.

Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
Gemini’s task automation feature on the Samsung S26 and Pixel 10 series is an impressive glimpse at what the future of AI assistants could look like.

Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is "a step forward in core reasoning", for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; the .1 increment is a first for Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/19/google-announces-gem…

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro for ‘complex problem-solving’
In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview. Google today announced Gemini 3.1 Pro "for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough."

Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400 tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $355M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/legal-ai-startup…

Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-project-mariner-team-we…

Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze
As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.