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AI news you can't miss this week
Altman, Amodei, and humanity's future: first AI documentary drops its trailer, Gemini 3.1 Pro more than doubles reasoning benchmarks, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, Manus Agents turns Telegram into a 24/7 AI workspace, Gemini turns photos into songs with Lyria.

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WEEKLY AI RECAP
February 16th - 20th 2026
🎬 Altman, Amodei, and humanity's future: first AI documentary drops its trailer 🎬
Oscar-winning filmmakers sit down with AI's biggest names for a raw look at the future.
The trailer just dropped for "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist", a documentary by filmmaker Daniel Roher that explores AI's impact through the lens of new fatherhood. The film features candid conversations with Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario and Daniela Amodei, alongside other researchers and industry figures. Produced by the Oscar-winning team behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny, it examines both the risks and potential benefits of AI—capturing leaders who are simultaneously hopeful and terrified about what they're building. Arriving as public debate over AI safety reaches a peak, it hits theaters March 27—making it the first major documentary to tackle the AI era head-on.
‼️ Gemini 3.1 Pro more than doubles reasoning benchmarks ‼️
Google's new flagship model more than doubles Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning score on ARC-AGI-2.
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Pro, achieving a 77.1% score on ARC-AGI-2—more than doubling Gemini 3 Pro's 31.1% result on the same benchmark. The rollout spans Google's entire ecosystem: Gemini API, AI Studio, Vertex AI, Android Studio, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM. Google positions the upgrade for complex workflows like data synthesis, code-based animations, and interactive 3D experiences. This kind of capability jump reshapes competitive pressure in enterprise AI adoption. Pricing remains unchanged from Gemini 3 Pro, maintaining the same 1M token context window, which signals Google's intent to drive volume over margin.
🦞 OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI 🦞
Top open-source talent joins OpenAI, reshaping the personal agent race.
Peter Steinberger, the developer behind the viral open-source personal AI assistant OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot), has officially joined OpenAI to work on its next generation of personal agents. The project had amassed over 175,000 GitHub stars in just months by automating routine tasks like booking travel, managing email, and handling daily workflows. Steinberger reportedly turned down offers from Meta, calling OpenAI "the fastest way to bring this to everyone." Critically, OpenClaw will remain open source under an independent foundation, with OpenAI sponsoring development and granting access to its cutting-edge models. The hire intensifies competitive pressure in the personal AI agent space as OpenAI absorbs top community talent to build its consumer agent pipeline.
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✉️ Manus Agents turns Telegram into a 24/7 AI workspace ✉️
Manus has launched Manus Agents, delivering its full AI agent capabilities directly into Telegram chat threads. Available across all user plans, the feature lets users run multi-step tasks—research, summaries, data processing, PDF and report generation—without leaving their messaging app. The system supports voice, images, and files, and lets users choose between faster or deeper reasoning models with long-term memory. Support for WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE, Slack, Discord, and native desktop apps is coming next. Notably, the Telegram bot was briefly suspended without explanation shortly after launch, highlighting the growing tension between AI agents and platform gatekeeping—a distribution risk that could shape how agentic AI actually reaches users at scale.
🎵 Gemini turns photos into songs with Lyria 3 🎵
Google has integrated Lyria 3, its most capable music generation model, directly into the Gemini app in beta — marking the company's first broadly available consumer AI music product. While earlier models like MusicLM stayed as research demos and the original Lyria was limited to YouTube's Dream Track experiment with a small group of creators, Lyria 3 is open to anyone. Users can generate 30-second tracks from text, image, or video prompts, with the model handling genre, tempo, vocals, lyrics, and cover art across eight languages. Free users get 10 tracks per day, and all output carries SynthID watermarking. This puts Google in direct competition with Suno and Udio in the fast-growing AI music generation space.

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