@AISavvyCapital @kevinrose Exactly what I said. I built a news system with https://t.co/WL6Tm2wKsV that you will see next week. It builds me a news page that shows me everything interesting happening on 50,000 accounts here on X. It has gathered more than half a million posts via the X API and can do a bunch of things with that. It created a report that I brought into @notebooklm and it automatically created this video, a podcast, and a slide deck. Very cool way to create videos and podcasts about the news that's happening right now in the AI world.

@AISavvyCapital @kevinrose Here's the script that @blevlabs' system generated for me: X ALIGNED AI INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING — Friday, March 13, 2026, 2:30 PM PST Source: 63 curated X lists (8,200+ accounts), semantic search across 6,000+ indexed posts. Produced by Levangie Labs for Robert Scoble's X Aligned. === STORY 1: CLAUDE GETS A MILLION TOKENS === Anthropic made Claude's 1 million token context window generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 at standard pricing — no price increase. This got 14,262 likes and 966 retweets, making it the most-engaged AI announcement of the day. A million tokens is roughly 750,000 words — that's about 10 full novels or an entire codebase. Eric Buess pointed out that context window size isn't the relevant metric — it's the size usable with high integrity. But at standard pricing, this is a massive competitive move. Previously, large context windows required premium tiers. Anthropic just made it free. === STORY 2: TRAVIS KALANICK RETURNS WITH ATOMS === The founder of Uber is back. Travis Kalanick launched Atoms, a robotics company building "a wheelbase for robots" and "more efficient mines for Earth's industries." Balaji Srinivasan called him "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time." Aaron Levie tweeted "lettttts gooooo." This is significant because Kalanick built the world's largest ride-sharing network, and now he's applying that same operational intensity to physical AI and robotics. The "wheelbase for robots" concept suggests a platform play — a standardized mobility base that different robot applications can be built on top of. === STORY 3: GOOGLE MAPS GETS A BRAIN === Google shipped the biggest Maps upgrade in a decade. "Ask Maps" brings Gemini-powered conversational AI to 2 billion users. You can now ask complex real-world questions like "find me a restaurant with outdoor seating near the park that's good for kids" and get intelligent answers. This is significant because it puts AI in the hands of 2 billion people who use Google Maps daily — the largest AI distribution event since ChatGPT launched. Immersive navigation also redesigns the driving experience. === STORY 4: DIGG DIES AGAIN — AI BOT SPAM KILLED IT === Digg announced a "hard reset" and shut down, just two months after Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian relaunched it. The reason: AI bot spam at a scale they couldn't fight. This is the canary in the coal mine for every community platform. If two legendary founders with deep experience in social media can't build a community that survives AI-generated spam, this is a warning for every platform. The spam problem is getting worse, not better. === STORY 5: THE AI RACE IS A THREE-WAY TIE === Peter Wildeford published an analysis (70 retweets) showing Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are all tied at the frontier of AI capability. Meta and xAI are each approximately 7 months behind. Ethan Mollick confirmed this, noting that "both xAI and Meta seem to be falling behind based on Grok 4.2 benchmarks." This is the clearest picture of the AI race we've had. The gap between the top three and everyone else is growing. === STORY 6: PHOTOSHOP CAN NOW ROTATE ANYTHING 360 DEGREES === Adobe Photoshop Beta added "Rotate Object" — give it a single image and it generates a full 360-degree view. This got 577 retweets. Product photography, e-commerce, design — all changed by one feature. This is AI that makes creative professionals stop what they're doing and pay attention. === STORY 7: SUNDAY ROBOTICS RAISES $165M FOR HOME ROBOTS === Sunday Robotics raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation and plans to ship robots to homes this fall. This makes them the first billion-dollar home robotics company. Tony Zhao shared the news (95 retweets). Combined with Kalanick's Atoms, this signals that physical AI is getting serious capital and serious founders. === STORY 8: UBER ROBOTAXIS ARE LIVE IN LAS VEGAS === Motional robotaxis are now available through the Uber app in Las Vegas — no upcharge, no driver. Zoox robotaxis are also coming to the Uber app. Nuro launched zero-shot autonomous vehicles in Tokyo. Bot Auto and Ryan Transportation are launching a driverless truck route between Houston and Dallas. The autonomous vehicle industry is accelerating on multiple fronts simultaneously. === STORY 9: THE AI FRONTIER IS GETTING COMPETITIVE === Perplexity launched Computer Final Pass, which marks up any document with 5 parallel reviews. Replit shipped Agent 4. OpenClaw released version 2026.3.12 with dashboard v2 and fast mode (243 retweets). Swarms hit v10 with async sub-agents. The pace of product launches is accelerating. === STORY 10: THE GEOPOLITICAL BACKDROP === Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv (123 likes, 7.1K views). A Marine Expeditionary Unit is heading to the Strait of Hormuz with 2,500 Marines (924 likes, 186K views). The Magnificent 7 Index is in correction territory, down 10.6% from its peak (172 retweets). NIH is cutting ties with the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The world is getting more volatile while AI accelerates. === OTHER NOTABLE STORIES === - Anthropic researchers departing to launch neolab — "almost nobody leaves that place" - New Hampshire passes "Right to Compute" Act to protect innovation - CPU renaissance: Jensen unveiling NVIDIA CPUs optimized for agentic AI at GTC next week - Elon Musk basically confirming SpaceX deal was an xAI bailout (41 RTs) - Apple celebrated its 50th anniversary with Alicia Keys at Grand Central Terminal - 43.7% of job postings now require AI coding tool familiarity - McKinsey has 20K AI agents doing the work of 45K humans - OpenEvidence hit 1 million clinical consultations in a single day - Quantum threat timeline jumped forward a decade - Gumloop raised $50M Series B led by Benchmark - Qdrant raised $50M Series B for vector search - Sharpa Robotics joined NVIDIA Inception with dexterous hand "Wave" - GTC 2026 is next week: 50+ companies, 35+ individuals confirmed attending === KEY THEME OF THE DAY === Physical AI is getting serious. Travis Kalanick (Uber) is building robot platforms. Sunday Robotics is shipping home robots at a billion-dollar valuation. Uber robotaxis are live. NVIDIA GTC next week will be dominated by robotics and physical AI. The AI race at the frontier is a three-way tie. And the tools are shipping faster than ever — Claude's million-token context, Photoshop's 360-degree rotation, Perplexity's document markup. The future arrived on a Friday.

@Kyriakos_Pelek @tbpn Great founders BUILD the opportunities, which is why they look early.

If your OpenClaw agents don’t go to the gym, something is wrong with your setup. Just added a gym to the 3D office. When agents are learning or developing new skills, they go train. Even AI engineers need leg day. 🏋️

Larry David returns. We’re celebrating. Everybody’s kissing. Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness is coming June 26 to HBO Max. https://t.co/axYr6BO3bC

everything either is AI or looks like AI

Waymo vs Humans in Austin in FY2025 https://t.co/BNVXgruZww

Gaussian Splatting videos are now streamable, just like regular video. Tried it on Vision Pro today. No app, no download. Just opened Safari and watched from any angle I wanted. It’s pretty cool. Excited for when we can bring these out of the window and into our space. https://t.co/GHRYg5LB9w

brb, about to make gelato-maxxing my whole personality… https://t.co/xfFULmfF2I

@kareem_carr bingo

fuck. i like the desktop app

fuck. i like the desktop app

@BarathAnandan7 I have a good first impression, but it's still a tad slow for me (using llama.cpp). About 2x slower than gpt-oss 120B on the same hardware. I think I need to look for the NVIDIA-optimized stack.

@sayashk @random_walker They only have PhD students to do work? I would have thought that training successors, would be important in of itself 🫠

At first glance this is a totally reasonable perspective. Training PhD students is a duty! But consider this — *effectively* advising a PhD student over a 5-year period is well over 1,000 hours of work, not to mention bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants. Professors will do some things for mostly altruistic reasons (peer review) but the time commitment for advising is not something that's reasonable to ask of someone without some form of compensation. So there are two options. One is to make advising a job requirement. Unfortunately this doesn't work, because the *quality* of advising is unobservable and can't be quantified by metrics, leading to a race to the bottom. The other option is the current system — advising helps advance the professor's research agenda because PhD students do most of the work, so they take on students voluntarily. Which means it's important to ask if this subtle alignment of incentives will continue despite advancing AI capabilities. Academia has many such "subtle alignments of incentives" that the system relies on in order to function — rarely articulated, poorly understood, and fragile. Maybe the advisor-advisee relationship in CS will survive the AI transition, as @sayashk predicts, but many processes and structures will surely break. Best to rethink the system now, before it's too late.

@bryan_johnson Maltipoo is best

Heading to #NVIDIAGTC next week? Let’s talk @PyTorch. 🚀 We’re bringing the community to San Jose. Drop by Booth #338 to meet expert developers and core maintainers in person. Scaling, inference, foundation models, and OSS contributions. Full schedule below 👇 #PyTorch

🗓️ Plan your week: Check out the full "Meet the PyTorch Experts" schedule here: https://t.co/VDTj78Kryu We'll be posting the daily lineups here in this thread all week. See you at the booth! 🤝 @NVIDIADev

My last lecture in Komaba: https://t.co/0S8kPkGjCI The talk will be streamed live on this YouTube channel. @HirokiSayama

My last lecture in Komaba: https://t.co/0S8kPkGjCI The talk will be streamed live on this YouTube channel. @HirokiSayama

Happy to share that my PhD paper "Scene2Hap: Generating Scene-Wide Haptics for VR from Scene Context with Multimodal LLMs" has received a Best Paper Award (top < 1%) out of 6,730 submissions at ACM CHI (@acm_chi), the most prestigious conference in the human-computer interaction field🙌 Scene2Hap is an LLM-centered system that automatically designs object-level vibrotactile feedback for entire VR scenes based on objects' semantic attributes (e.g., whether and how the object vibrates) and physical context (e.g., the object's density, spatial relationships). It then renders real-time haptic feedback across the scene, calculating vibration propagation based on LLM-inferred material properties. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to address the problem itself: "designing haptic characteristics of a whole VR scene with one click." Thanks a lot to my co-first-author @EasaAliAbbasi, Sara Safaee, @FKeeL1, and my advisor Jürgen Steimle!

@artjng @acm_chi Congrats!

Sakana AI (@SakanaAILabs) has signed a multi-year contract with the Defense Innovation Science and Technology Institute under Japan's Ministry of Defense to research and develop an AI-driven Command and Control (C2) system! This system will support rapid decision-making by analyzing vast amounts of multimodal data from edge devices, powered by AI agents and small VLMs. So proud of the team!