OpenAI does not like to be left out. The week after Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview'an AI model that has put governments around the world on edge because of its potential ability to hack into banks, energy grids, and military systems'OpenAI shared a program that is uncannily similar. And just like Anthropic did with its model, OpenAI has, for cybersecurity purposes, restricted access to this new bot, called GPT-5.4-Cyber, to a small group of trusted users. This sequence has become something of a pattern: First Anthropic will make an announcement, and then OpenAI will follow suit. Last year, Anthropic launched Claude Code, an AI coding tool. A couple of months later, OpenAI came out with its own version, Codex. When Claude Code had a breakout moment in January, OpenAI responded with two major updates to Codex alongside a press blitz for the product. And earlier this month, OpenAI released a version of Codex that allows it to use other apps on your desktop'similar to an existing Anthropic tool called Claude Cowork....

After the revised OpenAI/Microsoft agreement was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy noted in a tweet that it was a 'very interesting announcement.' That agreement solved OpenAI's problem of allowing AWS to offer its products, an issue that crystalized after it signed an up-to-$50-billion deal with Amazon. Amazon announced on Tuesday that AWS's Bedrock service now has OpenAI's latest models, its code-writing service Codex, and a new product for creating OpenAI-powered AI agents. Bedrock is Amazon's AI app building and model-choosing service. The Microsoft/OpenAI relationship has reportedly been deteriorating for some time, with each of them finding comfort in the arms of their partner's biggest rival. OpenAI has turned to AWS and Oracle. Microsoft to Anthropic; the Redmond-based software giant is also working on a new agent offering powered by Claude. StrictlyVC kicks off the year in SF. Register now for unfiltered fireside chats and VC insights with leaders from Uber, Replit, Eclipse, and more. Plus, high-value connections that actually move the needle. Tickets are limited....

'This was a fun project that I put together on the weekend that I knew would be a really good fit for AI and where we're going,' she told TechCrunch, adding that she wanted to give it 'to the masses.' Tank OS is geared toward power users looking to run OpenClaw on their own computers and toward IT pros managing fleets of corporate OpenClaw agents. It makes OpenClaw safer and easier to maintain en masse. Countless people, companies, and startups are already inventing better ways to work with OpenClaw ' the open source project that installs an AI agent on a local computer. There is also a growing number of startups building competing claw alternatives that they say are safer (like NanoClaw). What makes O'Malley's project notable is that she is an OpenClaw maintainer. That means she's among the select software engineers working with creator Peter Steinberger to decide which features and bugs get worked on. In her case, she focuses on making OpenClaw work better in enterprise use cases, and with Red Hat's various flavors of the Linux operating system. (While Steinberger was hired by OpenAI, he still leads the independent open source OpenClaw project.)...

Good morning & happy Tuesday! Today, we're diving deep into Google, which just won the Agentic Commerce race (why Stripe ditched their own protocol to join UCP, what Google gains here, & what to expect next + bonus deep dive into how Google is building the Android of Commerce & AmEx, and why it skipped the agent protocol wars altogether), OpenAI that's now building an AI-first phone (why it's not about killing the iPhone here but all about building the last App Store + bonus deep dive into OpenAI's OS strategy & the quest to become the ultimate AI Super App), and Instacart's co-founder Apoorva Mehta who built an AI hedge fund (inside look into Abundance, what it indicates & what to expect next + bonus deep dive into Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Fund, the most successful investor on Wall Street right now & pitch deck teardown of AI Family Office inside). Let's jump straight into the fascinating stuff '' Last week, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, and Stripe joined the Universal Commerce Protocol's Tech Council, the open standard governing how AI agents discover, cart, and purchase products on behalf of consumers. They join the founding members Google, Shopify, Etsy, Target, and Wayfair....