🌐 Crypto.com CEO pays record $70M for AI.com domain 🌐
The largest domain sale in history aims to become the default consumer AI entry point.

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.

🤖 Unitree G1 robot traces Olympics logo in -53°F extreme test 🤖
Chinese robotics company demonstrates extreme-weather capabilities with 130,000-step autonomous navigation.

Chinese robotics company Unitree released footage of its G1 humanoid robot autonomously navigating through snow in -53°F temperatures in China's Xinjiang region. The robot completed approximately 130,000 steps while tracing a Winter Olympics logo across the ice, demonstrating mobility and durability in harsh climates. The successful test showcases potential applications for search and rescue operations, exploration missions, and industrial work in extreme conditions. The rollout of extreme-condition testing continues as robotics companies push the boundaries of where autonomous systems can reliably operate.

🏈 AI companies dominate Super Bowl LX with ads 🏈
Tech's share of Super Bowl advertising reaches approximately 10% as AI labs compete for consumer attention.

AI companies turned Super Bowl LX into a major advertising battleground, with spots from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, and numerous startups. Anthropic made its Super Bowl debut with a viral anti-ad campaign, sparking a public feud with OpenAI and Sam Altman. Tech's share of Super Bowl ads reportedly reached ~10%, with notable appearances from Base44, Genspark, Ramp, Rippling, and Wix. SVEDKA ran what it claimed was the first primarily AI-generated Super Bowl ad. While comparisons to crypto's 2022 Super Bowl dominance raise concerns, analysts note AI has stronger enterprise fundamentals and hundreds of millions of active users.

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⚡ Anthropic releases 2.5x faster Claude Opus 4.6 ⚡

Anthropic has released a 2.5x faster version of Claude Opus 4.6, now available as an early experiment via Claude Code and the API. The speedup comes after internal teams built with the accelerated model, which maintains the state-of-the-art reasoning and coding capabilities of the original Opus 4.6 released just days ago. The faster variant is designed to reduce latency on complex multi-step tasks, agentic workflows, and large codebase operations while preserving performance on benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Humanity's Last Exam.

🤖 Meta preps Avocado models with MCP and browser agents 🤖

Meta is preparing a major update to Meta AI featuring new "Avocado" and "Avocado Thinking" models with Fast and Thinking modes. Code analysis reveals upcoming features including scheduled tasks, voice agents, and browser agents tied to Meta's Manus AI acquisition. The platform will support MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration and connections to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Outlook. Meta is also testing models from competing labs including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, signaling a potential multi-model approach.