🎯 Sam Altman plans to hand OpenAI to AI 🎯
Forbes profile unveils controversial vision for AGI transition

Sam Altman disclosed plans to eventually transfer OpenAI leadership to an AI model in a Forbes interview, arguing that if the goal is AGI capable of running companies, OpenAI should be first. He claimed the company has "basically built AGI," drawing pushback from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella who called their relationship "frenemies." Employees reportedly worry OpenAI is trying to do "too much too quickly" as Altman maintains stakes in over 500 companies.

🍎 Apple's Xcode integrates Claude Agent SDK natively 🍎
Anthropic brings full agentic capabilities to Apple's IDE

Xcode 26.3 now supports Claude Agent SDK natively, enabling developers to use subagents, background tasks, and plugins directly within Apple's development environment. The integration brings Claude Code's full functionality into standard workflows without switching tools. This marks a major partnership between Apple and Anthropic, embedding advanced AI assistance at the heart of iOS and macOS development.

🏥 Lotus Health raises $35M for AI doctor 🏥
Free primary care available 24/7 in 50 languages

Lotus Health AI secured $35 million in Series A funding led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins to scale its AI-powered primary care platform. The service offers free medical consultations, prescriptions, and specialist referrals with board-certified doctors from Stanford, Harvard, and UCSF reviewing all AI-generated diagnoses. Lotus claims it can see 10x more patients than traditional practices while maintaining quality care, addressing the critical shortage of primary care physicians in the U.S.

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🇨🇳 Alibaba launches Qwen3-Coder-Next for agentic coding 🇨🇳

Alibaba released Qwen3-Coder-Next, a new open-weight model designed specifically for coding agents. Built on a hybrid MoE architecture, it delivers strong performance in executable synthesis and RL-based environment interaction. The model achieves competitive agentic coding performance at lower inference cost compared to closed-source alternatives.

💻 Intel enters GPU market with new chief architect 💻

Intel is hiring a chief architect to lead its expansion into the GPU market, as announced by CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The move targets the high-demand AI infrastructure space where GPUs are crucial for training large language models. Despite recent challenges, Intel's stock has rallied on optimism about its foundry business and investments in AI hardware capabilities.