Good morning, welcome to this week’s Lore Brief, your 3-minute brief of the most important moves in AI and tech.
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This week I sat down with Scott Kupor, former managing partner at a16z and now Director of the US Office of Personnel Management, about why he left one of the top VC firms in the world for government, and what he found when he got there.
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro for advanced problem-solving → The model doubles reasoning over Gemini 3 Pro, scoring 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, 99.3% on agentic tool use. Now in preview via Gemini API, Vertex AI, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM. Read more here →
xAI launches Grok 4.20 multi-agent system → The latest model delivers significant improvements with a new multi-agent architecture that deploys specialized collaborators for real-time parallel teamwork. The upgrade boosts reasoning, forecasting and reliability on complex tasks. Read more here →
OpenClaw founder joins OpenAI → Peter Steinberger, creator of the popular open-source AI agent, has joined the company to lead next-generation personal agents. The project moves to an independent open-source foundation that OpenAI will continue to support. Read more here →
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6 → The new model brings a 1 million token context window in beta and major gains in coding, computer use, agent planning and design. It is now the default across free and Pro plans at the same price. Read more here →
Web 4.0. Agents that act on their own:
Seedance 2.0 tutorial to make your favorite shows:
Seedance 2.0 is getting unreal:
Nano Banana detailed prompting example:
OpenClaw founder on his prolific GitHub repo:
OpenAI introduces GPT-5.3 Codex Spark → The lightning-fast coding model surpasses 1,000 tokens per second and is designed for real-time interactive editing and collaboration. It enters research preview for ChatGPT Pro users. Read more here →
Pentagon threatens Anthropic contract → The Pentagon is considering ending its up-to-$200 million deal with Anthropic after disagreements on safeguards for Claude, including restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Tensions rose over potential use in operations such as the Maduro capture. Read more here →
Apple accelerates AI wearables → Apple is ramping up smart glasses, a clip-on or necklace pendant, and camera-equipped AirPods, all centered on a visual-context Siri that understands the user's surroundings. Glasses production could start late 2026 with the simpler devices arriving sooner. Read more here →
Matthew Berman shares OpenClaw use cases → AI tester Matthew Berman detailed 21 practical daily workflows for OpenClaw after testing with 2.54 billion tokens, covering CRM systems, knowledge bases, meeting automation, advisory councils and more. See more here →
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.5 → The update features a 397B open-weight MoE multimodal model with native agent and vision capabilities that competes with top models on reasoning, coding and long-context tasks. Read more here →
Google launches Little Language Lessons → The new Gemini tool creates custom conversation partners, slang guides and visual vocabulary aids for over 40 languages, with built-in pronunciation support. Read more here →
