AI: OpenAI += OpenClaw creator

Sam Altman on X: "Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our" / X

OpenClaw founder Steinberger joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation | Reuters

Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Sunday.

"Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents," Altman said in a post on X, adding "OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support."

What could possibly go wrong? - YouTube by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

This was already suggested in this informative interview with the creator of OpenClaw.

Apparently there was a "bidding" between Facebook and OpenAI on CEO level.
And it was quite clear that the author was quite upset with Anthropic's lawyers push against similar name, and that he liked OpenAI's model more... 
This turned out to be a great way to get a good job... and have good fun in the process...

OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 - YouTube

#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast

EPISODE LINKS:
Peter’s X: https://x.com/steipete
Peter’s GitHub: https://github.com/steipete
Peter’s Website: https://steipete.com
Peter’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steipete
OpenClaw Website: https://openclaw.ai
OpenClaw GitHub: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
OpenClaw Discord: https://discord.gg/openclaw

openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞@GitHub

TS, MIT

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant you run on your own devices. It answers you on the channels you already use (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, WebChat), plus extension channels like BlueBubbles, Matrix, Zalo, and Zalo Personal. It can speak and listen on macOS/iOS/Android, and can render a live Canvas you control. The Gateway is just the control plane — the product is the assistant.

If you want a personal, single-user assistant that feels local, fast, and always-on, this is it.

The wild rise of OpenClaw... - YouTube

OpenClaw Use Cases that are actually helpful... - YouTube by Matthew Berman - YouTube

Claude Code models in VS Code

 Pricing per million tokens:

Model	Input	Output
Opus 4.6	$15	$75
Sonnet 4.5	$3	$15
Haiku 4.5	$0.80	$4

There are a few ways to switch models in Claude Code within VS Code:

In the chat prompt, use the /model command — type /model in the input box to open the model selector. This is the primary way.

Keyboard shortcut — you can switch models mid-prompt with Alt+P (Option+P on Mac).

In the CLI / terminal — if you're using the integrated terminal, run claude --model claude-opus-4-5-20251101 (or whichever model string you want) to start a session with a specific model.

Via settings — you can set a default model in ~/.claude/settings.json with something like:

{
  "model": "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"
}

This persists across sessions for both the extension and the CLI.

The available models are Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and Haiku 4.5. Worth noting: Haiku 4.5 automatically uses Sonnet in plan mode and Haiku for execution, so there's some smart model routing built in already.

Car sales 2025 stats

 LEGACY COLLAPSE: Chinese Brands Just Ended Japan’s 20-Year Dominance - YouTube

2025 (Full Year) USA: Top Light Vehicle and Car Manufacturers and Brands - Car Sales Statistics

R	Manufacturer	Sales 2025	Sales 2024	% 24/25
1	GM	2,853,299	2,705,080	5.5
2	Toyota	2,518,071	2,332,623	8
3	Ford	2,204,124	2,078,832	6
4	American Honda	1,430,577	1,423,857	0.5
5	FCA	1,260,344	1,303,570	3
6	Nissan	926,153	924,008	0.2
7	Hyundai	901,686	836,802	8
8	Kia	852,155	796,488	7
9	Subaru	643,591	667,725	-3.6
10	BMW MINI	417,646	397,645	5

The 25 Bestselling Cars, Trucks, and SUVs of 2025

List of automotive manufacturers by production - Wikipedia

2025 Archives - Car Sales Statistics

Cuby: Factory of House Factories?

clever, like Tesla, "factory machine that builds driving machines"

"home factory is a product"

Cuby

"Design, Develop, Deploy
Mobile  Micro-Factories
that manufacture and assemble homes..."

The Company Solving The Housing Crisis - YouTube

In this video, we get a look at Cuby, the company trying to build the most houses in history and make housing affordable again. The housing crisis is at its core a supply problem, and the path to solve it is simply – increase supply. Over the last 5 years Cuby has created a MMF which is a mobile-micro-factory that makes and prepares housing parts on site, to drop down the costs of homes to solve the housing crisis...