Have you heard these exciting AI news? - March 13, 2026 AI Updates Weekly

Have you heard these exciting AI news? - March 13, 2026 AI Updates Weekly Presented by Lev Selector Slides on GDrive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dmj00iilSP-JYmriMUUaHCKz5X54e3UX?ths=true Slides on GitHub - https://github.com/lselector/seminar (click on pptx file, then on "raw" or download button on the right) ------------------------------------------------------- Question to you: Have you tried to create your own digital employee (like OpenClaw) ? ------------------------------------------------------- Need AI Consulting ? - Enterprise AI Solutions - https://EAIS.ai - Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/levselector - GitHub - https://github.com/lselector ------------------------------------------------------- Our books: "Artificial Intelligence In Business: Strategies That Work" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKZ3364G/ "AI Product Manager: Building Tomorrow" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS9NFK9/ "How to Learn with AI?: A Practical Guide for Students, Professionals, and Self-Learners" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWLNVQMJ/ "Professional + AI: Future-Proofing Your Career" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBXLCTZQ --------- Contents of today's video: 00:00 Winner: Claude + Claude Code 00:27 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 01:35 OpenAI acquired Promptfoo 01:52 LeCun's AMI raises $1B 02:40 Claude Shows Visuals 03:03 Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super Open 120B params 04:01 Nvidia NemoClaw Open Source - upcoming 05:36 Perplexity "Computer" Agentic Workflows 06:31 Devon 2.2 - a fully autonomous AI software engineer 07:03 DataBricks KARL 08:08 OpenClaw Recent Updates 08:54 OpenClaw Agents Making Money 09:26 Microsoft Phi-4 Reasoning Vision 15B 09:42 OpenAI Symphony Coding Tracker 10:07 Xiaomi launched MClaw 10:46 Yuan3.0 Ultra Multimodal 11:01 Claude Scheduling, Super Nested Claude Code 12:11 Claude Code - Tool Search & Calling 14:11 Claude Code is better than Cline 17:32 Claude CoWork as Virtual Employee 18:29 Elon Musk's Digital Optimus 20:30 KiloClaw Cloud-hosted Alternative to OpenClaw 20:54 Claude Code + Playwright CLI 22:32 Superpowers GitHub repo for AI Coding Agents 23:10 OpenClaw Memory 24:08 Moonshots - about OpenClaw 24:32 AI is transforming education 25:49 Infrastructure Investments - $135 Billion in 7 Days 26:02 Krea AI "Core Edit" 27:02 Pulsia AI - Runs 3,300 Companies 27:32 Apple vs Nvidia 28:42 Facebook buys Moltbook (Team & Operations) 29:23 Anthropic sues Pentagon 29:52 OpenAI revises military AI deal with US Government 30:07 Anthropic has launched Claude Marketplace 30:33 Intel 18A Manufacturing Process 31:33 Leopold Aschenbrenner Investments 32:43 Autoresearch from Andrej Karpathy 33:28 Modeling a fruit fly brain 34:49 Alibaba's Qwen Team Restructuring 36:33 Jobs, Layoffs, demand for AI Engineers ---- Takeaways: 1. Claude Code combined with the Claude model is dramatically better than using Claude through generic clients like Cline, because the model and development environment are specifically tuned to work together, enabling multi-step reasoning and autonomous research. 2. The AI industry is shifting from SaaS applications toward intelligent digital employees that can be taught custom skills and workflows, making the new consulting model about training and deploying these agents for specific clients. 3. Open-source AI continues rapid advancement with major releases from Nvidia, Yuan, and Qwen, though Alibaba restructuring now threatens the future open-source output of their widely-used Qwen models. ---- Quotes "It is like you are talking to a genius as opposed to talking to an average programmer." "I switched from Python to Rust and I am not going back." "Model efficiency is advancing faster than models scale." ---- Summary: - In this talk the presenter covers weekly AI updates including: - Claude Code proving superior to generic AI clients because the model and tool are co-tuned - LeCun's AMI raising over a billion dollars from Bezos and Nvidia - Nvidia releasing the 120B Nemotron open model - Anthropic filing a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense over being labeled a supply chain risk - OpenAI revising its military contract after backlash - OpenClaw reaching 310K GitHub stars - New tools like Perplexity Computer and Devon 2.2 - The shift toward AI digital employees - Apple challenging Nvidia with its own data center chips - Alibaba restructuring the Qwen team away from open-source focus ---- Keywords: Claude Code, AI agents, OpenClaw, Nemotron, LeCun, digital employees, open source, Playwright, Anthropic, Pentagon, education, Intel 18A, Qwen, layoffs, Rust, Perplexity, Devon, Krea AI, Xiaomi, Yuan, Apple, Nvidia, Karpathy, fruit fly brain ---- ---- ----