Good morning, { AI enthusiasts }. OpenAI and Anthropic can have been the night’s fiercest rivalry not on the sphere, but they were removed from the one AI players fighting for the highlight.
With Google, Meta, Amazon, a slew of AI startups, and even an AI-generated vodka spot flooding the Big Game’s ad breaks, the tech’s mainstream presence is growing as fast because the models powering it.
In today’s AI rundown:
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AI ads steal the show at Super Bowl LX
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The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases
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Construct lead widgets to your site without coding
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Crypto.com founder drops $70M on AI.com
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4 latest AI tools, community workflows, and more
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AI & THE SUPER BOWL
Image source: SVEDKA
The Rundown: AI corporations/products took over Super Bowl LX with a wave of commercials, featuring spots from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, and startups that turned the Big Game right into a battlefield for consumer AI attention.
The small print:
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Anthropic made its SB debut with its viral campaign against ads in AI, whose launch kicked off a viral feud with OpenAI and Sam Altman last week.
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Vodka brand SVEDKA ran what it called the primary primarily AI-generated Super Bowl ad, reviving its robotic mascot with AI-trained dance moves.
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Meta showcased “athletic intelligence” via its AI glasses, Amazon pushed the brand new Alexa+, and Google highlighted Gemini and Nano Banana.
Why it matters: Major AI players showed as much as the SB fighting for a similar thing — to be the default assistant, agent, or device that the masses actually trust as AI weaves into every corner of day by day life. Svedka’s use of AI to generate its spot also shows the tech influencing each side of the screen — what’s being sold AND the way it’s made.
TOGETHER WITH YOU.COM
The Rundown: RAG was the 1st step—but retrieval alone doesn’t guarantee accuracy. You.com explains what AI grounding is, why it matters, and the way organizations can implement it to attain higher accuracy.
The playbook covers:
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The three-part approach outperforms RAG alone
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Why grounding is not set-and-forget, and find out how to construct audit trails
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The open vs. closed platform trade-off (and what it means to your next model switch)
THE RUNDOWN ROUNDTABLE
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The Rundown: The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature during which we poll members of The Rundown staff about how we use AI in our work and day by day lives.
Jennifer, Tech & Robotics Author: I put Gemini Deep Research and Perplexity Pro to work as my personal research assistants. For robotics research, I tell them to follow top-tier journals and first sources only, and demand citations and dates for every thing. Then I even have them distill the highlights right into a ranked list so I do know exactly where to dig deeper.
Billy, University Educator: Every Sunday night, my Openclaw asks me to recap my week and send it some photos I took. It makes a collage of the photos and generates a stylized “magazine cover” based on the recap. At the top of the 12 months, I must have a neat collection of time capsules.
Jason, Developer: I have been taking topics I need to study (mostly coding docs for brand new technologies) and giving them to NotebookLM to create customized podcasts for my runs when there aren’t interesting podcasts available from the channels I frequent. And it really is definitely good and enjoyable, and not only AI slop.
AI TRAINING
The Rundown: On this guide, you’ll learn find out how to use Replit to construct a custom calculator lead form to your website. Should you can copy and paste, you’ll be able to construct software to your team, and also you’ll save on per-seat pricing.
Step-by-step:
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Go to Replit, toggle on “Plan mode,” and prompt: “Construct a custom lead gen widget app using Python (Flask) and Replit SQL. Users will create embeddable cost-savings calculators that capture email leads and track analytics. Allow custom colours, form fields and formulas.”
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Answer any follow-ups from the agent and hit “Construct” when ready. Once it finishes, test the tool within the preview tab. Try making a latest lead widget.
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Copy the widget’s embed (iframe) code and embed it in your brand website, then check captured leads in Replit → Database → Development Database.
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If every thing works, click “Publish”. Replit will deploy your app to a public URL. You will want to log in to this version and re-create your form.
Pro tip: Use this method to embed anything in your site — a slideshow, countdown timer, or perhaps a blog.
PRESENTED BY GITLAB
The Rundown: GitLab Transcend is an exclusive virtual event happening tomorrow that explores how agentic AI is transforming software delivery, with real-world stories, product demos, and a preview of GitLab’s upcoming roadmap.
At Transcend, you will hear:
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How teams are using agentic AI to automate real-world DevOps workflows
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Perspectives from tech leaders and live Q&As with GitLab project leaders
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A primary have a look at GitLab’s upcoming innovations and investments
AI DOT COM
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The Rundown: Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek revealed he purchased the AI.com domain for $70M, the biggest domain sale ever, debuting the positioning as an autonomous AI agent platform for consumers with a Super Bowl industrial.
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The platform guarantees a private AI agent that may trade stocks, manage calendars, send messages, and automate workflows with no technical setup.
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The record-breaking deal nearly doubled the prior domain record set by voice.com‘s $30M sale in 2019.
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Marszalek envisions a network of agents that autonomously construct latest capabilities and share upgrades across users, “accelerating the arrival of AGI”.
Why it matters: That’s definitely one approach to make a giant splash — with each the biggest domain sale ever (admittedly for a wonderful one) and a primetime entrance with a Super Bowl ad. But a powerful marketing play and a tool that really competes with the flurry of agentic upgrades from established, frontier labs are two very different beasts.
QUICK HITS
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⚙️ GPT-5.3-Codex – OpenAI’s latest SOTA agentic coding model
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🧠 Claude Opus 4.6 – Anthropic’s upgrade to its strongest model line
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🎥 Krea Realtime – Krea’s realtime, long-form AI video generation system
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🎥 Kling 3.0 – Kling’s latest video AI with higher consistency and 15s outputs
Adapt just announced the long run of AI for work – an always-available co-worker that understands business context and works across tools. See the vision and fundraising deck.*
Anthropic released a ‘fast mode’ for its latest Claude Opus 4.6 model, which delivers 2.5x faster responses at drastically higher token costs.
Goldman Sachs revealed it has been working with Anthropic over the past six months to construct AI agents that automate accounting, compliance, and client onboarding.
xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin praised Claude Opus 4.6’s physics capabilities, saying that a “Claude Code moment for research” could also be approaching.
Axiom announced that its AI independently solved an unsolved math problem and wrote its own verified proof, a primary for AI in advanced mathematical research.
COMMUNITY
Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.
Today’s workflow comes from reader Howard C. in Hawkins, TX:
“I’m retired and sell diecast models on eBay. My system worked well, but I desired to cut inkjet use by printing packing lists on 4”x6” labels with a thermal printer. With ChatGPT’s help, I built a Mac Automator app that takes a dropped eBay packing list and creates a print-ready 4”x6” version routinely.
We also built one other app that uses the identical file to generate a buyer email saying the order is able to ship.”
How do you utilize AI? Tell us here.
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Read our last AI newsletter: OpenAI, Anthropic fight on the frontier
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Read our last Tech newsletter: Paris raid raises stakes for X
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Read our last Robotics newsletter: Cancer-fighting bubble bots
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Today’s AI tool guide: Construct custom lead widgets to your site
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RSVP to our next workshop on Feb. 11: Agentic Workflows Bootcamp pt. 1
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