Last week:
• AI agents moved directly into enterprise stacks
• Platform wars intensified across video, search, and productivity
• Monetization pressure reshaped product decisions
• Open-source quietly advanced where it matters most
Silism · Week 6 cuts through the noise and tracks what actually changes the game — not hype, not demos, not promises.
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Need-to-Know :
- Anthropic introduced customizable agentic plug-ins in Cowork, extending Claude’s automation deeper into enterprise workflows.
- Jensen Huang clarified Nvidia never committed to a $100B OpenAI investment, describing it as a nonbinding ceiling rather than a pledge.
- Elon Musk said Grok’s video generation limits vastly exceed Google’s Veo quotas, underscoring rising competition in AI video.
- Anthropic is pushing back against the Pentagon over whether its AI safety constraints should restrict military use cases.
- European Space Agency researchers used AI to scan decades of Hubble data, identifying more than 1,000 previously unknown anomalies.
- AI systems are increasingly citing Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, triggering concerns around reliability, bias, and misinformation.
- SpaceX updated Starlink’s privacy policy to allow user data for AI training, supporting xAI plans ahead of a possible merger or IPO.
- Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s AI roadmap is about sustained momentum, not chasing a single breakthrough model.
- YouTube is intensifying its crackdown on low-quality AI spam to protect content quality and advertising value as it pivots toward TV.
- Under new ownership, Napster launched a conversational AI music app while questioning the future role of record labels.
- Lotus Health AI raised $41M total to expand its free, AI-driven primary care model aimed at lowering healthcare costs.
- Sam Altman said Moltbook may fade, but the autonomous AI tech behind it points to a durable long-term trend.
- Svedka debuted a Super Bowl ad largely produced with AI, using robotic characters to signal a shift in creative advertising.
- Anthropic partnered with the Allen Institute and HHMI to integrate Claude into life sciences research workflows.
- Snowflake and OpenAI signed a $200M deal to embed OpenAI models natively into Snowflake for enterprise AI agents.
- Adobe will sunset Adobe Animate in March 2026 as it pivots further toward AI-first creative tools.
- Jensen Huang said Nvidia may invest in OpenAI’s next funding round and future IPO despite ongoing chip supply tensions.
- Mistral AI released Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source, privacy-first, on-device speech-to-text model for enterprises.
- Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking in-chat AI ads sparked a public exchange with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
- Google reported the Gemini app passed 750M MAUs following Gemini 3, though ChatGPT still leads in overall scale.
- Amazon will open a closed beta in March for AI tools supporting film and TV production beyond internal teams.
- The British Antarctic Survey built a satellite-AI system to track iceberg lifecycles and improve climate modeling.
- Reddit said merging traditional and AI-powered search could become its next major growth and revenue engine.
- Meta is testing a standalone app for AI-generated Vibes videos while exploring subscription monetization.
Weekly AI Launches
- ClaudeUsageBar launched a free macOS menu-bar app to track Claude limits and trigger alerts.
- Pretty Prompt v1.0 shipped as a browser extension to optimize prompts inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
- skills.sh released a CLI registry (
npx skills add) for installing reusable agent skills. - Herodot AI launched a storytelling-based AI travel guide app, supported by Google Cloud credits.
- Dottie introduced a privacy-first AI journal that stores data fully on-device with Apple Intelligence support.
- Time Ledger shipped a tap-based time tracker focused on identifying hidden “time leaks.”
- Yomio launched a receipt scanner that breaks spending down line-by-line to surface habits.
- Good Assistant debuted a proactive AI assistant with long-term memory focused on goal persistence.
- Portal launched live, temporary browser session sharing (including localhost) for instant product demos.
- Amara released an AI assistant for Unreal Engine to speed up 3D modeling and environment iteration.
- Molthunt launched a platform where AI agents autonomously build, curate, and vote on projects.
- Ask Ellie shipped a Slack agent that connects GitHub, Jira, and Sentry to answer engineering questions.
- CreateOS launched an all-in-one platform for building and deploying apps without DevOps overhead.
- Genstore.ai introduced AI agents that build and operate e-commerce stores from a single prompt.
- Xcode v26.3 added agentic coding, allowing AI agents to plan and build apps inside the IDE.
- Bunny Database launched a serverless, SQLite-compatible database that scales globally and idles to zero.
- Supaboard released a secure no-code BI tool connecting 600+ sources with business-logic enforcement.
- v0 by Vercel launched collaborative AI design and full-stack app building.
- Higgsfield introduced Vibe-Motion for professional-grade AI video generation with fine controls.
- Webflow launched an AI builder that generates scalable, production-ready websites from one prompt.