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Derron Lee

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Byte Points #105

This week on the pod, we cut through the hype around Moltbook — the bots-only social platform that went viral for surreal, human-like AI conversations — and why that sci-fi narrative quickly unraveled after serious security failures exposed emails, API keys, private messages, and even agent credentials. We also look at Quebec’s new healthcare triage chatbot from Bonjour-santé, designed to keep patients off generic tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT by using locally hosted, regulation-aware medical AI built for Canada’s data-sovereignty realities. We then turn to how AI has quietly become normal work infrastructure. New workforce data shows routine AI use spreading across offices, schools, and professional services, while Microsoft doubles down on “agentic” workflows inside OneDrive and expands AI moderation across Xbox. On the creative side, Roblox rolls out live text-to-3D object generation inside games—just days after Google showcased its own playable world-generation tech—raising fresh questions about authorship, labor, and who really builds the next generation of virtual worlds. We also cover the accelerating model race between Anthropic and OpenAI, including new autonomous coding and workplace agents, alongside OpenAI’s decision to retire several older ChatGPT models as it consolidates around its GPT-5 lineup. Add in major software-supply-chain and proxy-network security takedowns, extreme volatility across crypto markets, and a growing sense that AI infrastructure spending is starting to reshape investor expectations. We close with The Oracle: court documents indicating Google plans to eventually retire ChromeOS in favor of a unified desktop platform—and fresh signals from Advanced Micro Devices pointing to a next-generation Xbox built on AMD silicon targeting a 2027 launch.

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FEB 2

Byte Points #104

This week on the pod, the internet gets a lot more alive — and a lot more complicated. We start with Google quietly rolling out two big swings: Project Genie (Project Genie), a text-to-explorable “world builder” that generates short interactive video environments, and Auto Browse in Google Chrome, a preview “agentic” mode powered by Gemini that can run background web tasks like form-filling, research, and planning—while still pausing for user approval on sensitive steps. Then we hit the viral side of AI: the lobster-themed assistant “Clawdbot” rebranding to Moltbot after a legal push from Anthropic—plus the investor ripple effects tied to local-run agent tooling and infrastructure. On the silicon front, Microsoft unveils Maia 200, a second-gen inference accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process, positioning it as a hyperscaler-grade alternative with aggressive performance and scaling claims. We also look at the growing backlash to automated agents in commerce, as eBay moves to explicitly ban AI bots from auctions starting February 20, 2026, even as the broader industry experiments with “agent checkout” concepts. In science, we spotlight AnomalyMatch scanning the Hubble Legacy Archive at massive scale to surface rare cosmic phenomena—turning decades of images into a fast, searchable anomalys of discoveries. And we close with the more serious side: a sharp rise in reports of AI-related child exploitation material flagged by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, new warnings about exposed LLM/MCP endpoints being targeted at scale, plus policy and platform shifts—from France’s push to restrict under-15 social media access, to Europe’s “digital sovereignty” moves, to big updates across Apple tracking hardware, enterprise compliance tooling, and the security reality of modern NFC access cards. Big promises, real risks, and a web that’s starting to act on your behalf—let’s get into it.

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