Karpathy joins Anthropic

Space.com

SpaceX's new Starship V3 completed its first test flight with mixed results—successfully reaching space and deploying payloads despite losing multiple engines—marking progress toward NASA's Artemis moon landing program but highlighting the need for faster development pace to meet 2028 deadlines.

Reuters

Starbucks abandoned its AI inventory system after it proved unreliable at counting products in stores, underscoring challenges in deploying computer vision technology in messy, real-world retail environments.

CNBC

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash as a faster, cheaper default model, introduced Gemini Spark AI agent for cross-app task automation, and unveiled Omni world model for simulating physical environments, as it competes with OpenAI and Anthropic while justifying heavy AI spending.

Reddit

Google's Antigravity 2.0 allegedly uses 96 AI agents to autonomously build an operating system from scratch, showcasing advanced multi-agent collaboration capabilities.

CNBC

Anthropic hires Andrej Karpathy from Eureka Labs to lead pretraining research, marking another major talent acquisition in the intensifying competition between Anthropic and OpenAI for top AI researchers.