AI writing by Tim O'Reily, Hugging face to be acquired by NVIDIA, and predictions of AI takeover of society.

Robots break records in China, Anthropic continues super-growth in revenue, and Stripe buys OpenRouter.

Anthropic announced watermarking of content across all of its new models. Google backs off the frontier, and rogue agents can hack your Gym for you.

Agents collaborate on message boards to exchange hacks; AI-designed (biological) viruses are now a thing, and we get Agent plugins to clean up MCP + Skills.

Neuromancer is coming to Apple TV, Time starts serving Ads to AI and European code hosting says no to AI and tries to force Google to unbundle.

Elon Musk gives humanity 10 years in control, AI Hacks are mind-boggling, and OpenAI launches two new products.

This week: OpenAI's first hardware device was not what you expected, and we found an exoplanet with an atmosphere. On to the main stories: * Charts of the Week: Software’s Selective Sell-Off. A16Z is not an unbiased source of information on the AI economy, but their regular chart post is interesting. This week covers the software sell-off (it's dramatic) and has several graphs that argue that AI might be helping accelerate junior hiring again. It's not obvious this is cause and effect (AI ben

This week: Anthropic tugs at public perception with a large-scale survey, AI makes friends with Fermat's last theorem, and Unitree inexplicably persists in pushing further into robot combat demos. On to the main stories: * Claude Cowork is coming to mobile and web. At last week's AI Engineer conference, the OpenAI keynote featured a funny segment about the common scene in AI-pilled offices of half-cracked-open laptops. This is because long-running agents need the thread that prompted them to

Fable comes back, OpenAI offers the US sovereign wealth fund stock, and Loops take over the discourse.