Feb. 16, 2026
OpenAI Grabs OpenClaw’s Creator
OpenClaw’s creator is joining OpenAI, but the OpenClaw project lives on. The AI-caused memory shortage might delay the next Playstation. Is the Pentagon about to cut ties with Anthropic? And Vitalik Buterin is growing concerned with the prediction markets.
- OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI (The Verge)
- Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point. (Implicator.AI)
- Rampant AI Demand for Memory Is Fueling a Growing Chip Crisis (Bloomberg)
- ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat (BBC)
- Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute (Axios)
- The hidden infrastructure crisis in mortgage and real estate finance that only tokenization can solve (Crypto.news)
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