🧠 Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think is now the smartest AI 🧠
Google's reasoning mode now tackles messy scientific problems and converts sketches to 3D files.

Google has rolled out a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, its specialized reasoning mode now available to Ultra subscribers and select API users. Developed in collaboration with researchers to handle open-ended scientific and engineering problems involving incomplete data, the upgraded model achieves gold medal-level results on the 2025 International Physics and Chemistry Olympiads, setting new industry benchmarks. A notable new capability allows users to turn hand-drawn sketches into 3D-printable files. This capability jump positions Google competitively against OpenAI and Anthropic in the advanced reasoning space, where scientific accuracy increasingly determines enterprise adoption.

🔐 xAI loses co-founders over AI safety concerns 🔐
Key departures signal growing unease about AI development speed and safety oversight.

Several high-profile departures from Elon Musk's xAI have raised alarm bells across the AI safety community. Tony Wu, who led Grok's reasoning efforts and reported directly to Musk, and Jimmy Ba have both left within days of each other. Ba's departure came with a stark warning that 2026 will be "the busiest and most consequential year for the future of our species." Other co-founders including Igor Babuschkin, Kyle Kosic, and Christian Szegedy have also departed. The exodus coincides with a senior safety leader at Anthropic resigning over escalating risks—this matters because it suggests internal concerns about AI development pace may be spreading across multiple labs simultaneously.

💻 Vibe coding creator Karpathy: now call it Agent Engineering 💻
The Tesla AI veteran reframes how developers should think about AI-assisted coding.

Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director who coined the term "Vibe Coding" last year, now argues the practice has evolved into something fundamentally different: Agent Engineering. In a viral post, Karpathy explains that while Vibe Coding described casually prompting AI to generate code, Agent Engineering requires structured orchestration of AI agents with clear specifications, tool access, and verification loops. The distinction matters as AI coding tools mature—developers must shift from improvised prompting to systematic agent design. This reframing could reshape how companies train teams and architect AI-assisted development workflows.

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🌐 Crypto.com CEO pays record $70M for AI.com domain 🌐

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek purchased AI.com for $70 million—the largest domain sale in history—and launched it as a consumer AI agent platform. The platform promises personal agents capable of trading stocks, managing calendars, sending messages, and automating workflows without technical setup. Built on OpenClaw, AI.com aims to become the default entry point for consumer AI, valuable positioning if agent adoption accelerates. An $8 million Super Bowl 2026 ad promoted the launch during Sunday's big game. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters the previous record of $49.7 million for CarInsurance.com.

🎬 ByteDance previews Seedance 2.0 video model, boosting China AI stocks 🎬

ByteDance has launched a pre-release version of Seedance 2.0 on its Jimeng AI platform, triggering a rally in Chinese AI and entertainment stocks. The model supports text, image, video, and audio inputs to generate what ByteDance calls "cinematic content" with 2K resolution and speeds 30% faster than its predecessor. A standout feature is multi-lens storytelling, where a single prompt expands into multiple connected scenes with consistent characters, lighting, and tone throughout. Swiss consultancy CTOL described Seedance 2.0 as the "most advanced AI video generation model available," surpassing OpenAI's Sora 2 and Google's Veo 3.1 in practical testing. The launch pushed COL Group to its daily 20% price limit while Shanghai Film and Perfect World rose about 10%.