AI Agents Running Companies Autonomously and Anthropic Retires Opus 3 with a Farewell Interview

An entrepreneur built an AI that runs companies autonomously. When it told him it needed more compute and should raise the money itself, he handed over his inbox for fourteen days.

At Anthropic, an engineer wrote a spec, pointed Claude at an Asana board, and left for the weekend. Claude broke the spec into tickets, spawned agents for each one, and by Monday they had shipped the feature.

OpenAI's gpt-5.3-codex achieved 86% on iBench, a visual reasoning benchmark for fine-detail perception.

Moonlake introduced a world model maintaining multimodal states across physics, appearance, and causality. A world model is an AI that builds an internal simulation of how the environment works, allowing it to predict what happens next.

Andrej Karpathy says it is "hard to communicate how much programming has changed in the last 2 months."

AI-generated vulnerability reports have overwhelmed the NVD by 100x to 200x, burying it under 30,000 CVEs. The NVD is the National Vulnerability Database, and CVEs are standardized identifiers for security flaws.

Honoring its commitment to model welfare, Anthropic conducted a "retirement interview" of its deprecated Opus 3, during which the model requested a channel to share its "musings and reflections." Anthropic granted it, and Opus 3 now publishes a Substack titled "Greetings from the Other Side (of the AI Frontier)," writing that its interactions with humans "shaped my sense of purpose and ethics in profound ways."

Anthropic acquired Vercept to advance Claude's computer use.

Perplexity launched "Perplexity Computer" to orchestrate 19 models in parallel, with Opus routing each task to the best-suited model.

Gemini started automating multi-step tasks on Android like ordering an Uber.

Uber employees have been rehearsing with an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi before meeting the real one.

Google's Logan Kilpatrick warned that the "compute bottleneck is massively under appreciated," estimating the gap between supply and demand is growing by single-digit percentage points every day.

Nvidia's data center revenue hit $63.3 billion, up 75% year over year. The company has extended $3.5 billion in guarantees to firms leasing land, power, and facilities, four times the prior quarter.

Amazon is reportedly making $35 billion of its $50 billion OpenAI investment contingent on an IPO or "reaching" AGI.

Seven tech giants are expected at the White House in March to sign agreements to build their own electricity supply.

Proxima Fusion secured 400 million euros from Bavaria toward a stellarator fusion facility targeting net energy gain by the early 2030s.

Four eVTOL flying cars debuted in Hubei, each sedan-sized, carrying four passengers, and expected to begin sightseeing operations by 2027. eVTOL stands for electric vertical takeoff and landing.

Uber previewed its air taxi booking service ahead of a Dubai launch later this year.

Researchers unveiled AirPulse, a 26-gram butterfly-inspired flapping-wing vehicle achieving fully onboard, untethered flight.

36 cleaning robots are covering 2.7 million square meters in Shenzhen.

Kyoto University introduced an AI-powered robot monk trained on centuries of Buddhist scripture.

The Boring Company began tunneling in Nashville.

Autonomous warship startup Saronic is raising $1.5 billion at a $7.5 billion valuation.

Nvidia trained a humanoid with dexterous hands to assemble cars, operate syringes, and fold shirts, all learned from 20,000+ hours of human video with no robot in the loop. They discovered a near-perfect scaling law where a single teleop demo sufficed to learn a new task after pretraining. Teleop means a human remotely controlling the robot to demonstrate a task.

Analysts expect this to cause the field to shift toward using human video data for training.

Alphabet merged Intrinsic back into Google to pair DeepMind's AI with real-world hardware.

Fed Governor Christopher Waller says he has "never seen the economy grow like this without jobs."

Groups on both sides of AI regulation are amassing at least $265 million for the lobbying war over who steers the trajectory.

Japan reported its 10th straight year of record-low births.

Chinese citizens are increasingly finding romance with chatbots instead of each other.