OpenAI announced the hiring of Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source artificial intelligence program OpenClaw, to bolster its ChatGPT developers product offerings, according to a post on X by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Steinberger will join the company to drive the next generation of personal agents, Altman stated. Meanwhile, in the realm of software development, an individual tasked AI models Claude, Codex, and Gemini to build a SQLite-like engine in Rust, resulting in a 19,000-line code project with 282 passing unit tests, as reported on Hacker News.
Steinberger's OpenClaw will continue as an open-source project supported by OpenAI, as per Altman's statement. Steinberger himself shared on his website that he chose to join OpenAI to be at the forefront of AI research and development, emphasizing the importance of OpenClaw's continued open-source status. The SQLite-like engine project, detailed on Hacker News, included a parser, planner, volcano executor, pager, btrees, WAL, recovery, joins, aggregates, indexing, transaction semantics, grouped aggregates, and stats-aware planning. The project was built using a distributed systems approach, incorporating tools like Git, lock files, tests, and merge discipline.
In other news, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been actively opposing the Trump administration's immigration policies, signing laws to limit ICE operations within the state, as reported by Vox. Pritzker created the Illinois Accountability Commission and has sued the federal government, successfully blocking federal deployments.
VentureBeat highlighted the cyclical nature of technological advancements, drawing parallels to the Great Pyramid to illustrate how growth shifts from one area to another as progress slows in the initial domain. Nature News reported on scientific findings regarding a parasitic wasp that castrates diamondback moth larvae by injecting them with a virus, turning them into incubators for the wasp's eggs.
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