Sunday Rundown #128: Motion Video & OpenMoltClawd

Sunday Bonus #88: Recording of my live NotebookLM walkthrough.

Happy Sunday, friends!

Welcome back to the weekly look at generative AI that covers the following:

• Sunday Rundown (free): this week’s AI news + a fun AI fail.

• Sunday Bonus (paid): an exclusive segment for my paid subscribers.

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In case you missed it, here’s this week’s Thursday deep dive:

15 New Genspark Features You Should Try

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Let’s get to it.

🗞️ AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

👩‍💻 AI releases

New stuff you can try right now:

1. Airtable launched Superagent, a multi-agent AI that uses function calls to handle complex tasks and deliver polished answers.

2. Alibaba released Qwen3‑Max‑Thinking, a SOTA reasoning model with built-in tools for search, memory, and code execution.

3. Anthropic news:

   1. Contribution metrics in Claude Code let Team and Enterprise admins evaluate the impact of Claude-assisted PRs and commits via GitHub.

   2. Cowork Plugins let you customize Claude with bundled skills, connectors, and commands for specific roles and workflows.

   3. Interactive tools in Claude enable users to open and interact with apps like Asana, Slack, Figma, and more right inside the chat.

4. Apple updated Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro with new AI-powered tools to speed editing and music production.

5. Decart AI dropped Lucy 2, a real-time video model that redraws live scenes at 1080p with zero latency.

6. DeeVid launched AI Video & Image Agent, a chat-style assistant that turns briefs into finished videos and images, complete with a soundtrack and voiceover.

7. Genspark rolled out AI Workspace 2.0, with voice dictation input, autonomous email workflows, and upgraded AI creative agents.

8. Google news:

   1. GDP premium benefits are now bundled into AI Pro and AI Ultra plans, giving subscribers Google Cloud credits and integrated developer tools.

   2. Gemini 3 is now the default model for AI Overviews, and you can dive into AI Mode for follow-up chat right from Search.

   3. Gemini in Chrome got a major upgrade that uses Gemini 3 to navigate sites, fill forms, do comparison shopping, and complete multi‑step tasks.

   4. Gemini in Navigation is now also available for walking and cycling so that you can ask AI for routes, nearby spots, ETAs, and more while on foot or bike.

   5. Project Genie lets you create and explore infinite interactive worlds from text prompts. (Only for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US for now.)

9. InVideo launched AI Motion Graphics in cooperation with Anthropic, letting you generate pro‑level animated designs from a single prompt.

10. LM Studio dropped LM Studio 0.4.0, making it easier to run local AI models with a new chat API, faster responses, and a cleaner UI.

11. Luma AI dropped Ray3.14, generating native 1080p professional‑grade videos with stronger quality and motion consistency 4× faster and 3× cheaper.

12. Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.5, a new open‑source multimodal agentic model with vision, coding smarts, and a self‑directed agent swarm for parallel workflows.

13. OpenAI news:

    1. GPT‑4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini will be retired on February 13, so you’ll need to switch to newer ChatGPT models.

    2. Prism is a free GPT‑5.2‑powered LaTeX editor that lets scientists write, cite, and collaborate in one AI-native workspace.

14. Suno AI launched Sample that turns any sound clip into a full song by trimming, styling, and remixing it with AI.

15. xAI launched Grok Imagine API, a video-audio creation and editing tool that turns text or images into cinematic clips with edit controls.

16. Yahoo released Scout, an AI-powered answer engine that uses Claude to synthesize information from the open web and Yahoo content.

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🔬 AI research

Cool stuff you might get to try one day:

1. Anthropic partnered with the UK Government to pilot a Claude‑powered AI assistant on GOV.UK to help people navigate public services.

2. Meta teased agentic commerce tools that aim to automate shopping and business tasks across Meta products over the coming months.

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📖 AI resources

Helpful AI tools or stuff that teaches you about AI:

1. “The Adolescence of Technology” [ESSAY]—musings on the maturation of artificial intelligence and AI risks by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

2. “Complete guide to building skills for Claude“ [PDF]—a comprehensive guide from Anthropic that covers workflows and best practices from early adopters.

3. “How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills“ [REPORT]—a look at how coding copilots affect performance and employee learning by Anthropic.

4. “Use of AI in the Workplace” [REPORT]—snapshot from Gallup of real-world AI use by US workers, including trends.

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🔀 AI random

Other notable AI stories of the week:

1. NVIDIA open-sourced Earth‑2 open AI weather models that use AI to forecast storms and 15-day global weather faster and cheaper than legacy systems.

2. OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot, then Moltbot)—an open‑source AI assistant that automates tasks, has persistent memory, and lives in your messaging apps—became a viral hit…and sparked major security concerns.

🤦‍♂️ AI fail of the week

When you rebrand so often, your own search results don’t know even who you are anymore.

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💰 Sunday Bonus #88: NotebookLM video walkthrough (+advanced tips and use cases)

Today’s bonus is the recording of my first official live Q&A session.

It’s a complete walkthrough of NotebookLM, from basic mechanics to lesser-known features and workflows.

I also include a neat reference sheet with all the key points covered in the video.

Enjoy: