Peter Steinberger (Twitter, Hacker News):
When I started exploring AI, my goal was to have fun and inspire people. And here we are, the lobster is taking over the world. My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use. That’ll need a much broader change, a lot more thought on how to do it safely, and access to the very latest models and research.
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What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.
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It’s always been important to me that OpenClaw stays open source and given the freedom to flourish. Ultimately, I felt OpenAI was the best place to continue pushing on my vision and expand its reach.
Sam Altman:
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.
OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it’s important to us to support open source as part of that.
Steinberger discusses OpenClaw and acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta in an interview with Lex Fridman. See also: Marcus Schuler.
Previously:
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UK Competition and Markets Authority:
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on a package of commitments from Apple and Google intended to deliver immediate improvements in certainty, transparency and fairness for thousands of UK businesses dependent on app stores to serve their customers. Additional commitments from Apple will deliver a step change in how developers can request interoperable access to the iOS and iPadOS mobile operating systems, giving greater certainty over how they can deliver innovative new products. The commitments will be underpinned by robust monitoring and reporting by the CMA to ensure compliance.
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- App review: Making sure Apple and Google review apps to be distributed on their app stores in a fair, objective and transparent way and do not discriminate against apps which compete with their own, or give preferential treatment to their own apps.
- App ranking: Making sure Apple and Google rank apps in their app stores in a fair, objective and transparent way and do not discriminate against apps which compete with their own, or give preferential treatment to their own apps.
- Data collection: Making sure Apple and Google safeguard the app data they gather from developers in the course of app review and do not use this data unfairly.
- Interoperability: Enabling developers to more easily request interoperable access to features and functionality within Apple’s mobile operating systems[…]
Via Carly Page:
The watchdog says it will track metrics, including review timelines, appeal rates, and the handling of interoperability requests to ensure the commitments translate into real changes.
Did anything ever come from the EU interoperability requests? Or are the changes we’ve seen just a result of the DMA itself?
William Gallagher:
The CMA describes its announcement as being proposed commitments. It says that views are welcome by 17:00 GMT on March 3, 2026, although it rather buries how you submit those views in a blog and accompanying set of supporting documentation.
Depending on the views submitted, the CMA says that its proposed commitments will take effect from April 1, 2026.
Previously, the UK’s CMA has claimed that Apple stifles competition between browsers on the iPhone. However, it has so far chosen not to create regulations to force any changes.
Tim Hardwick:
The CMA says it will closely monitor implementation and won’t hesitate to impose formal requirements if the companies fail to follow through. Further measures are expected in the coming months that could include potential changes to how Apple’s digital Wallet app operates.
Ben Lovejoy:
Apple told Bloomberg that the changes provide great opportunities for developers.
“The commitments announced today allow Apple to continue advancing important privacy and security innovations for users and great opportunities for developers,” an Apple spokesperson said.
Previously:
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