OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?

• OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
• OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
• Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times
• Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
• Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
• Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
• Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499
• Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3
• Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science
• Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
• A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
• Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
• GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment
• An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words
• I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.
• Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs
• AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
• Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems
• Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
• An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story
• Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories
• Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting
• DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust
• Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
• ai;dr
• I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
• Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
• Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
• peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal
• Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent
• Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

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Microsoft might finally give power users what they've been demanding: the ability to move the Windows 11 taskbar wherever they want. Plus, 3 major new chapters in Paul's next book, and a strange pick that solves his big issue with Windows Spotlight.

Windows 11

• Potentially good news for the 13 people who want to move the Taskbar to a different screen side
• Beta (but not Dev) with one new "feature"
• Release Preview for 24H2/25H2 with emoji 16.0, QMR improvements, network speed test, pan and tilt controls for compatible cameras, widgets improvements, more
• Lenovo revenues up 18% to $22.2 billion

AI/Dev

• Google announces 30-second audio generation
• Google sets a date for I/O 2026, but where in the Carmen Diego is Build 2026?
• Android 17 Beta is here with an even shorter runway
• With '26.3 out, Apple releases '26.4 Beta 1s

Xbox and gaming

• Phil Spencer is always in the spotlight, but he's been on the down-low for months
• Some hints for the future coming GDC 2026
• Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Witcher 3, more coming to Xbox Game Pass
• Avowed comes to the PlayStation 5 along with the Anniversary Update
• Microsoft is retiring user-created Xbox social clubs
• NVIDIA GeForce Now comes to Amazon Fire TV 4K Sticks

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: Major progress on De-Enshittify Windows 11, the book
• App pick of the week: Bing Wallpaper
• RunAs Radio this week: Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Lot 40 100% Pot Still Rye

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How secure are your Chrome extensions and certificate signings really? This episode pulls back the curtain on a massive spyware discovery and exposes the convoluted hoops developers must jump through to prove their identity in 2026.

• Websites can place high demands upon limited CPU resources.
• Microsoft appears to back away from its security commitment.
• What's Windows 11 26H1 and where do I get it.
• Chrome 145 brings Device Bound Session Credentials.
• More countries are moving to ban underage social media use.
• The return of Roskomnadzor.
• Discord to require proof of adulthood for adult content.
• Might you still be using WinRAR 7.12 -- I was.
• Paragon's Graphite can definitely spy on all instant messaging.
• 30 malicious Chrome Extensions.
• 287 Chrome extensions from spying on 37.4 million users.
• The first malicious Outlook add-in steals 4000 user's credentials.
• Some AI "vibe" coding thoughts.
• What I just went through to obtain a new code signing certificate

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1065-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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