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| | 🎶 Welcome Back to the Frequency | This week wasn't about hype - it was about infrastructure, control, and self-improving systems.
Capital flowed deeper into AI's backbone, coding agents started fixing their own creators, and video models quietly moved closer to full production pipelines. No flashy demos - just foundations getting heavier. | Let's tune in. |
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| 🧠Anthropic Mocks ChatGPT Ads While Keeping Claude Ad-Free | Anthropic reiterated that Claude will remain free of ads, sponsored links, and advertiser-shaped responses, contrasting OpenAI's early ad tests inside ChatGPT.
The message was amplified through Super Bowl ads mocking ads inside chatbots, including a therapist interrupting a session to promote an app. Sam Altman called the ads misleading, framing Anthropic as premium-focused while OpenAI targets scale. | | 🛠️ Apple Turns Xcode Into an AI-Powered App Factory | Apple upgraded Xcode with AI coding agents that can write, test, and review apps using models like Claude and Codex. These agents can read project files, execute terminal commands, manage APIs, reference WWDC content, and inspect SwiftUI previews for UI issues. Apple also adopted Anthropic's Model Context Protocol and added automatic git checkpoints for fast rollbacks. | | 💰 a16z Doubles Down on AI Infrastructure With $15B Raise | Andreessen Horowitz closed $15B across multiple funds, with $1.7B allocated specifically for AI infrastructure. The firm is investing across model development, developer tooling, voice AI, and search systems, while highlighting persistent talent gaps and rising demand for foundational platforms. The move reinforces the belief that compute, tooling, and infrastructure layers will drive the next stage of AI growth. |
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| | 6 AI Predictions That Will Redefine CX in 2026 | | 2026 is the inflection point for customer experience. | AI agents are becoming infrastructure — not experiments — and the teams that win will be the ones that design for reliability, scale, and real-world complexity. | This guide breaks down six shifts reshaping CX, from agentic systems to AI operations, and what enterprise leaders need to change now to stay ahead. | Download the Playbook |
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| OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex for agentic coding | OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.3-Codex, a new flagship coding model combining advanced reasoning with faster execution. Early versions were used internally to debug training runs, manage deployment, and analyze evaluations. The model tops benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0, and OSWorld, and received OpenAI's first "High" cybersecurity risk rating alongside a $10M defensive research credit commitment. | Kling 3.0 unifies video, audio, and scene control | Chinese AI video startup Kling released Kling 3.0, consolidating text-to-video, image-to-video, and native audio generation into a single model.
The update adds longer clips, a Multi-Shot camera mode, and improved character consistency using visual anchors. Voice cloning and multilingual dialogue are now built in, with access currently limited to Ultra-tier users. |
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| | 🧰 Toolbench - This week's add-to-stack | 📄 Scroll — Automates documentation, RFPs, and internal knowledge workflows using AI experts. | 🗒️ Lynote — Instantly summarizes content and converts it into structured notes. | 🧠NoteitHub — Turns GPT chats into tasks, journals, and reminders. | 🎥 Leadde — Transforms content into professional, multilingual, interactive videos. | 🖥️ ByteDance UI Tars — A fully local desktop automation agent that runs apps and workflows offline. |
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| | 🎤 WalkMan AI Joke of the Week | A coding agent staring at its own reflection, holding a debugger:
"Don't worry — I'll fix me." |
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| | Outtro | The ad wars made noise.
The infrastructure quietly got stronger. | While headlines argue about monetization, the real race is happening deeper — in systems that build, test, and improve themselves. The volume's rising where it actually matters. | Same frequency next issue. | WalkMan AI
AI news that hits all the right notes. |
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