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Sunday, February 15, 2026

OpenAI Hires OpenClaw Creator Peter Steinberger to Lead Personal AI Agents; OpenClaw Becomes Open-Source Foundation

Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral AI assistant OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI to build the company's next generation of personal agents — while OpenClaw itself transitions to an independent open-source foundation.

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Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warns 'The World Is in Peril,' Leaves for Poetry Degree

An AI safety researcher at Anthropic has publicly resigned, saying the world is in peril from AI risks — and announced he's leaving the field entirely to pursue a poetry degree.

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Pentagon Considers Cutting Ties with Anthropic Over Military Use Restrictions

The Department of Defense is reportedly weighing whether to sever its relationship with Anthropic because the company insists on maintaining limitations on how the military can use its models.

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Google DeepMind Publishes Framework for Intelligent AI Delegation

New DeepMind research proposes a structured framework for when and how humans should delegate tasks to AI agents — a critical missing piece in the agentic AI stack.

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OpenAI Users Revolt Over GPT-4o Restrictions and Blocked Data Exports

A growing #keep4o movement is pushing back against OpenAI's model changes and restrictions on memory data exports, with some users calling for a boycott.

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Elon Musk Makes Personal Case for AI Companions for Children with Disabilities

Musk publicly argued that AI friends could be transformative for children with learning disabilities, citing his own son's experience making friends.

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Agent-Powered Content Factories: 600 AI UGC Videos Per Day

Practitioners are combining agent tools like Clawdbot with content generation platforms to produce hundreds of AI-generated videos daily, raising questions about content quality at scale.

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Nashville Songwriters Take AI Regulation Fight to Capitol Hill

Nashville's songwriting community is lobbying Congress for AI regulations to protect creative livelihoods, adding a new industry voice to the growing push for legislative guardrails.

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AI Art Creator Pushback: Indonesian Artist Publicly Bars AI Use of Their Work

An Indonesian digital artist's viral post explicitly prohibiting any AI use of their assets highlights the growing global backlash among creators.

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The Forgotten Pioneer: How Nigeria Institutionalized a Student Who Built an AI Robot in 1971

A resurfacing historical account of Yoruba student Mudashiru Ayeni, who built an early AI robot in 1971 only to be declared mentally ill and sent to a psychiatric hospital, is drawing attention to suppressed innovation from the Global South.

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