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📉Overcoming Data Project Failures with Agile Offshore Teams
🤖xAI tests Arena Mode with Parallel Agents for Grok Build
⚙️Software Performance Engineering
⚙️The cost of a function call
⚔️ Disney Takes Aim at Seedance 2.0
🇮🇳 India’s AI Impact Summit signals a power shift in the global AI era
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create your own talking head videos with AI
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Peter Steinberger, who created the AI personal assistant now known as OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI. Previously known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, OpenClaw achieved viral popularity over the past few weeks with its promise to be the “AI that actually does things,” whether that’s managing your calendar, booking flights, or even joining a social network full of other AI assistants.
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xAI's Grok Build is evolving into a full IDE with multi-agent coding, arena mode, dictation, browser-style tabs, and GitHub integration. While the local CLI agent was already known, new findings reveal that the remote version is progressing in parallel and will arrive with a suite of features that push Grok Build closer to a full-fledged IDE rather than a simple coding assistant.
Over the years, I’ve written about software performance from a lot of different angles: C++, .NET, systems internals, abstractions, memory, APIs, language design, and the many ways things go wrong at scale. The specific technologies change, but what’s always struck me is how the same issues resurface again and again. Performance engineering, at least as I’ve experienced it, isn’t about tricks or clever code. It’s about how you think
Function inlining replaces function calls with the actual function code at compile time. For simple functions like adding numbers, inlining can boost performance over 20 times by eliminating call overhead and enabling advanced optimizations like SIMD instructions. However, for more complex functions processing large inputs, inlining may offer little benefit or even slow things down.
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OpenAI just published a new research preprint where GPT-5.2 independently discovered a mathematical formula and formally proved it was correct, marking what the company calls AI's first original contribution to theoretical physics. The paper tackles a problem in particle physics that was assumed solved, with 5.2 finding the existing answer was wrong and proposing a correct one.
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The Walt Disney Company claims ByteDance built Seedance 2.0 using copyrighted material from franchises like Star Wars and Marvel Cinematic Universe. The letter accuses ByteDance of enabling users to generate and share videos featuring characters such as Spider-Man and Darth Vader without authorization. Industry response was immediate.
The US military used Anthropic's AI model Claude during its operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela. Claude was accessed through Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir Technologies, a defense contractor with classified platform access. It would be the first known use of a private AI model in a classified Department of Defense operation.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses later this year. Its 'Name Tag' feature will let wearers identify people and get information about them via the company's AI assistant. The company considered adding facial recognition to the first version of the glasses in 2021, but pulled back over technical challenges and ethical concerns.
Thousands of policymakers, founders, researchers, investors and technologists will convene in New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit 2026, one of the most consequential global gatherings focused on how artificial intelligence will shape economies, governance and society at scale. At a moment when the AI conversation is shifting from model competition to real-world deployment, the summit positions India not simply as a participant in the AI race, but as a central architect of how AI is built, governed and adopted across both the Global South and Global North.
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AI Tutorial
How to create your own talking head videos with AI
Go to Gemini, upload your photo, and use the prompt below to create a professional headshot.
Sample Prompt: Use the attached selfie to create a high-resolution professional headshot that keeps my facial features exactly the same. Add studio lighting, a soft neutral background, and formal professional attire suitable for a confident, approachable LinkedIn profile.
Then go to Wan AI , sign up, and click New Project.
Change media type from Video → Avatar.
Upload your headshot.
Record 10–15 seconds of clear audio (or type your script and choose a voice).
Click Generate to create your talking avatar.
Add more short clips if needed, then click Export to download your final video.
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