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Based on a transcript excerpt: AI Explained analyzes recent statements from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei suggesting they may release models whose behavior they cannot fully verify or control, alongside Google's Gemini 4 Carbon release. The video also covers an Anthropic staff survey and offers a mental model for why models keep demonstrating unforeseen capabilities.

AI News & Analysis • AI Explained

GenRobot AI • Series A+

GenRobot AI, a Beijing-based company providing data infrastructure for robot development, has completed a $100 million Series A+ funding round. Participating investors include SAIC Motor, Malaysia's Eastworlds, Baidu, Shoucheng Holdings, and Galaxy General Robotics, alongside financial investors including GL Ventures, CITIC Goldstone.

Stanford researchers tested 50 widely cited claims about LLMs against 20 current models and found 44% of the findings are already expired, with another 34% significantly weakened. The average lifespan of a claim is just 15.7 months, and claims about what models cannot do expire fastest.

AI Research • The Decoder

AAPL

Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share, with iPhone revenue rising 17.5% in the fourth quarter and Mac sales growing strongly. The company is capitalizing on the AI boom without matching competitors' infrastructure spending.

QCOM

Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink around 20% compared to 2025. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out plans to make a splash in the AI data center business through partnerships with Amazon and Meta announced earlier.

Productivity

Datasette Agent 0.5a0 adds a panel that lets the agent chat open and sit next to Datasette pages such as a table or query page; combined with datasette-apps, you can prompt a database-backed app into existence and then modify it from the chat beside that app.