🚀 China lands Long March-10A first stage on water for the first time

China has completed a water landing of the first stage of Long March-10A, its super-heavy reusable rocket. The vehicle stands 67 meters tall with a 5-meter diameter.

Long March-10A is designed for lunar missions. China plans to use it to deliver taikonauts to the Moon by 2030.

Reusable heavy lift is now part of the lunar timeline.


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🦞 OpenAI acquires OpenClaw and hires its creator

OpenAI has absorbed the OpenClaw project and brought its creator, Peter Steinberg, into the company. He will lead development of the next generation of AI agents. Sam Altman called him a genius and said his ideas will soon shape OpenAI products.

OpenClaw itself will remain open source. OpenAI says it will continue to support and develop the project.

The repository has been one of the fastest-growing in GitHub history by stars. At its peak, it gained 34,000 stars in two days. In about 60 days, it went from roughly 9,000 to nearly 200,000 stars. For comparison, Kubernetes took about three years to reach 100,000.

Anthropic reportedly had an opportunity to move earlier but focused on trademark concerns around the original name ClawdBot.

This time, OpenAI moved first and secured the team behind the momentum.


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🥋 AGIBOT shows kung fu robot A3 with jump kicks and flips

Shanghai-based AGIBOT presented its robot A3 performing jump kicks, spinning strikes at different angles, and backflips. The company says the robot can consistently hit its target during demonstrations.

Despite the martial arts moves, the intended use case is far calmer. AGIBOT plans to deploy A3 for guided tours and escort services.


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🍏 Apple to unveil $699 MacBook with A18 Pro in March

Mark Gurman reports that Apple plans to announce a lower-cost MacBook at its March event. The device is expected to start at $699.

Instead of an M-series chip, it will use the A18 Pro from the iPhone 16 Pro. While positioned below Apple Silicon M chips, the A18 Pro is said to approach original M1-level performance. The display is rumored at 12.9 inches. Apple has also developed a cheaper and faster aluminum manufacturing process for the chassis.

Color testing reportedly includes light yellow, light green, blue, pink, silver, and dark gray. Current MacBook Air models start at $999.

A sub-$700 Mac would reset the entry point to the Mac lineup.


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🤖 The man who taught AI to see

If you have ever scanned a bank card with your phone camera or watched an app extract data from a receipt, you used technology shaped by Yann LeCun.

In the 1980s, computer vision was stuck. Systems tried to process entire images at once, consumed heavy compute, and produced weak results. LeCun took a different path inspired by biology. He designed neural networks that break images into small patterns like edges and curves, then assemble meaning from those pieces.

In 1989, he introduced a handwritten digit recognition system. By the 1990s, his algorithms were processing roughly 10% of bank checks in the US. It was one of the first cases where neural networks delivered measurable profit to large companies.


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🤖 Kimi integrates OpenClaw to let users spin up custom agents

OpenClaw is now integrated into Kimi. Users can create their own agents in a few clicks and run them inside Kimi’s web interface.

Agents can execute actions across connected tools and build long task chains.

🔸 Through ClawHub, users can combine more than 5,000 skills

🔸 Each agent gets up to 40GB of cloud storage for files

🔸 Search can be configured to run
continuously and fetch fresh information

🔸 External OpenClaw setups can also be linked and controlled from Kimi

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🍏Apple prepares 3 AI wearables built around visual Siri

Mark Gurman reports that Apple is accelerating work on three wearable devices centered on Siri with visual context.

🔸 The first is smart glasses, code-named N50, positioned as a rival to Ray-Ban Meta. They would include two cameras, one for photos and video, another for computer vision similar to Vision Pro. There is no display. Interaction runs through speakers, microphones, and Siri. Production is targeted for December, with a potential 2027 release.

🔸 The second is a pendant device, roughly AirTag-sized, worn as a clip or necklace. It includes a camera and microphone and relies on the iPhone for processing. Unlike Humane AI Pin, it would function as an iPhone accessory rather than a standalone product. The project remains early stage and could launch in 2027.

🔸 The third is AirPods with a low-resolution camera designed to provide visual context for AI. Rumors have circulated since 2024, with a possible release this year.

At a recent internal meeting, Tim Cook said Apple is working on new product categories enabled by AI.

Apple’s next hardware cycle may revolve around giving Siri eyes.


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🤖 Chinese robots go from simple dances to flips in 1 year

A new video shows how far Chinese humanoid robots have progressed over the past year.

In early 2025, most demos focused on basic dance routines and controlled movements.

Now, the same class of robots is performing jump flips and more dynamic maneuvers.


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🖌 Claude Code can now generate full designs directly in Figma

Claude Code is now integrated with Figma, allowing it to generate complete, editable designs inside Figma.

The reverse flow already existed through Figma MCP, turning designs into code. This update completes the loop. Code written in the IDE can be translated into structured Figma layers, adjusted visually, then pushed back into code.

Development no longer has to follow a strict idea → design → code sequence. A product can start in code, move into design for review, then return to code with changes applied.

It turns coding agents into design-aware collaborators.


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