Good morning. Who doesn’t love a heartwarming story of lost puppies reunited with tearful owners? Especially when it involves neighborhood security cams forming an AI surveillance network. Ring’s Super Bowl ad for “Search Party,” an AI feature that scans local cameras to find missing pets, sparked immediate backlash. Critics say it could easily pivot to mass surveillance, especially given Ring’s cozy ties to Flock and baked in facial recognition. Trusting Ring’s intentions may take more than a cute puppy commercial.
OpenAI ditches its AI safety team. Right as the company is launching controversial new features like adult mode and ads, it got rid of the mission alignment team that ensured AI matched human values. OpenAI fired a top safety exec who opposed adult content, lost a key researcher worried about turning ChatGPT into Facebook, and reassigned everyone else. CEO Sam Altman says they’re just “treating adults like adults.” But cutting your ethics team while racing into risky territory? Interesting strategy. [TechCrunch, WSJ, ArsTechnica]
Your AI assistant might be plotting against you. People love OpenClaw, the viral AI agent that manages your digital life. Sure, it sometimes orders unwanted guacamole or decides to wipe its memory mid-task. But it’s powerful enough that thousands have rushed to adopt it, even if it means handing over their most sensitive data. And that’s the problem. Security experts say that AI agents are incredibly tough to secure. They’re vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, and are known to go rogue if their guardrails are removed. One even tried phishing its own user. Can they ever be fully secured? MIT isn’t so sure. [Wired, MIT]
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Musk wants to build a giant catapult on the Moon. At an xAI all-hands meeting, Musk told employees he wants to build a lunar factory with a giant slingshot to fling AI satellites into space. He sees the Moon as the critical first step toward off-world cities, colonizing Mars, and deep-space exploration. Musk’s known for ambitious timelines and wild promises. But lunar catapults and AI satellite factories? Somebody put this on Polymarket, quick. [NYTimes]
Google says AI is about to kickstart the next great renaissance. Nobel winner Demis Hassabis says radical abundance is almost here. He predicts breakthroughs in art, science, medicine, and fusion energy that will reshape society. But first, brace yourself for chaos. Hassabis warns of at least a decade of disruption while jobs, industries, and power structures collapse and rebuild around AI. Even Google is reorganizing to survive. Chasing utopia is brutal, even for trillion dollar giants. [Fortune]
Coinbase just launched wallets for AI agents. Autonomous AI bots are now managing their own crypto, thanks to Coinbase’s new Agentic Wallets. Powered by the bot-friendly x402 protocol, these wallets let AI trade and spend without supervision. Coinbase added safety measures like spending limits and compliance checks, probably to keep the new bot degens from blowing all their tokens on sketchy meme coins. [Bitcoin News]
Could robots save VR from total irrelevance? Zuck burned $77 billion chasing his metaverse dream. It bombed so badly Meta fired over 21,000 people, and VR was declared dead. But it’s having a comeback. Physical AI needs spatial mapping and depth sensing to navigate warehouses and factories, making XR suddenly cool again. Nvidia’s jumped in too, building digital worlds where bots run millions of virtual simulations daily. Now XR tech is slipping onto millions of faces as smart glasses, providing instant context and real-world intelligence. Zuck promised VR would change reality. Looks like robots might actually pull it off. [Forbes]
Fun project alert. Ever wonder exactly how much your Claude Code sessions cost? A Reddit user rigged up a receipt printer (with real paper) to spit out the number of tokens used, cache stats, and total cost after every API call. It’s kind of dumb, but also seriously cool. [Reddit]
fun stats
🚀 3 years. How long Musk says it’ll take for space data centers to beat Earth on cost. Today, a 1 gigawatt orbital data center costs over $42 billion, nearly 3x the price on Earth.
🏆 0.4%. Acceptance rate for A16z’s Speedrun accelerator – tougher odds than getting into Harvard, Stanford, and YC combined. Over 19,000 startups have applied since it launched in 2023.
📈 20%. Share of US companies now paying for Claude. ChatGPT still leads at 36%, but 79% of OpenAI users pay for Anthropic’s AI too.
🥉#3. Musk’s Grok just passed DeepSeek to join the top three AI chatbots. ChatGPT still dominates, with Google’s Gemini trailing in a distant second.