Peter Steinberger has joined OpenAI. That hire anchors this week's Changelog newsletter, which also covers two robotics projects worth your attention: ZeroClaw, pitched as a ground-up rethink of claw mechanisms, and MimiClaw, a competing implementation running on a $5 microcontroller chip.
The technical contrast between those two claw projects is the core reason to read the full piece. One optimizes for correctness, the other optimizes for cost. Those are not the same problem, and the newsletter treats them as separate ones.
Steve Yegge's essay on managing what he calls the AI Vampire also gets coverage here, alongside a retrospective on telnet's end of life. The Yegge piece alone justifies opening the original link.
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