this week in ai felt like a year, so many fuck-ups but so much progress:

- Openai raised $122 billion (largest ever private raise) then acquired tbpn
- oracle fired 30,000 people (18% of workforce), stock is up on the news.
- anthropic launched an ai software engineer (computer use claude code) but then…
- fucked up by leaking their entire source code, restricting openclaw users from using claude AND capping usage limits ☠️
- xai launched grok imagine “quality” a major leap in image-gen + updated their API to welcome AI agents on X
- qwen (chinese) dropped 2 models that turn napkin drawings into apps + 3X faster than opus 4.6
- google dropped 4 open-weight models allowing you to run frontier ai on your iphone
- Meta ai glasses can now track calories of food you’re eating
- someone took google’s turboquant algo and reduced memory consumption across multiple gpus without losing intelligence of the model
- Apple is buying up all the ai memory chips to price out competitors. also launched carplay with chatgpt
- microsoft launched a new #1 ai research tool powered by claude