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Stop watching Silicon Valley for a second. The most important AI event this week is happening in New Delhi — and the chaos tells you everything about where India actually stands in the global AI race. Every AI CEO on Earth Just Flew to Delhi Sam Altman. Sundar Pichai. Dario Amodei. Demis Hassabis. Yann LeCun. Brad Smith. Over 100 countries. Twenty heads of state. 3,250 speakers. 250,000 expected visitors across five days at Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam. ...

Alibaba just dropped a model with 397 billion parameters that only uses 17 billion of them. And it might be the most important AI release of 2026 so far. Qwen 3.5 landed on the eve of Chinese New Year — 60% cheaper to run than its predecessor, 8x faster at decoding, and supposedly beating GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro on multiple benchmarks. Bold claims. But even if you discount the scoreboard, the engineering underneath tells a story worth paying attention to. ...

The company that built its brand on saying “no” to dangerous AI might be about to learn what that actually costs. Over the weekend, Axios reported that the U.S. Department of Defense is considering designating Anthropic — maker of Claude, darling of the AI safety crowd — as a supply chain risk. If that label sticks, every defense contractor in the ecosystem would be forced to sever ties with the company. ...

A solo developer vibe-codes an AI assistant. It goes viral. Anthropic sends a cease-and-desist over the name. He rebrands — twice. Within a month, OpenAI hires him to “drive the next generation of personal agents.” Peter Steinberger’s journey from hobbyist tinkerer to OpenAI employee is the most 2026 story imaginable. But beneath the speed-run narrative, his move tells us something important about where the entire AI industry is heading. From Side Project to Industry Shaker OpenClaw — originally called Clawdbot, then Moltbot — is an AI assistant that actually does things. Not just answers questions. It manages calendars, books flights, sends messages, and even interacts with other AI assistants on what became a bizarre and delightful AI social network. ...

A solo developer vibe-codes an AI assistant. It goes viral. Anthropic threatens to sue over the name. He rebrands twice. Within a month, he’s hired by OpenAI to build the future of personal AI agents. That’s not a hypothetical. That’s Peter Steinberger’s actual February. From Side Project to OpenAI in 30 Days Steinberger was already a known name — he founded PSPDFKit and ran it for 13 years. But OpenClaw was different. It started as a tinkering project called Clawdbot: an AI assistant that could actually do things. Not just chat. Manage calendars, book flights, send messages, even talk to other AI assistants on what became a genuinely weird and wonderful AI social network. ...

Spotify’s CEO told Wall Street this week that his best engineers haven’t written a single line of code since December. They just prompt AI and review what comes out. This isn’t a startup flex. This is a company with 600 million monthly users telling investors that code-writing is officially a machine’s job. And the implications go way beyond Spotify. The Supervisor Era Is Here Gustav Söderström didn’t hedge. His most senior engineers “only generate code and supervise it.” They’ve gone from architects to inspectors — and he’s thrilled about it. ...