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Here's the AI News Your Probably Missed This Week. Try Warp Oz for free & for a limited time use code WOLFE to try Warp Build for only $5 ➞ https://oz.dev/wolfeyt Discover More: 🛠️ Explore AI Tools & News: https://futuretools.io/ 📰 Weekly Newsletter: https://futuretools.io/newsletter 🎙️ The Next Wave Podcast: https://youtube.com/@TheNextWavePod Socials: ❌ Twiter/X: https://x.com/mreflow 🖼️ Instagram: https://instagram.com/mr.eflow 🧵 Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mr.eflow 🟦 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-wolfe-30841712/ 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattrwolfe Resources From Today's Video: Claude Sonnet 4.6 Launch: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6 Improved Claude Web Search: https://claude.com/blog/improved-web-search-with-dynamic-filtering Claude in PowerPoint: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2024550844998570324 Claude Code to Figma: https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-claude-code-to-figma Gemini 3.1 Pro Announced: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro Lyria 3 Music Generation: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3 Pomelli Marketing Assets: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/pomelli-photoshoot NotebookLM Slide Updates: https://x.com/notebooklm/status/2023851190102986970 Grok 4.2 Beta Release: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2023829664318583105 Leonardo.Ai Rebrand: https://x.com/LeonardoAi/status/2024212882909798790 ByteDance Seed Platform: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seed2 Qwen3.5 Open-Weight Model: https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2023331062433153103 SAG-AFTRA Seedance Statement: https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-statement-seedance-20 Disney vs. Seedance: https://deadline.com/2026/02/disney-bytedance-cease-and-desist-letter-seedance-ai-video-1236719549 ByteDance Seedance Safeguards: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/bytedance-safegaurds-seedance-ai-copyright-disney-mpa-netflix-paramount-sony-universal.html Pentagon vs. Anthropic: https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-reportedly-hopping-mad-at-anthropic-for-not-blindly-supporting-everything-military-does-2000722286 OpenClaw Creator Hired: https://x.com/mreflow/status/2023152475948380179 Manus Telegram Agent: https://manus.im/blog/manus-agents-telegram Tavus Phoenix-4 Model: https://x.com/tavus/status/2024163626765148488 Meta Dead User AI: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/meta-patents-ai-that-takes-over-a-dead-persons-account-to-keep-posting-and-chatting-3320326 Unitree Humanoid Robots: https://x.com/unitreerobotics/status/2023430834695627030 Let’s work together! - Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: mattwolfe@smoothmedia.co #AINews #AITools #ArtificialIntelligence Time Stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:10 Claude Sonnet 4.6 5:05 Claude Code & Figma Collab 6:05 Optimizely 7:23 Gemini 3.1 Pro 11:26 Gemini Lyria 3 12:57 Google Pomelli 14:56 NotebookLM Prompt-Based Revisions 16:13 Grok 4.2 17:44 Leonardo.AI Re-branding 18:12 Seed2.0 19:14 Qwen3.5-397B-A17B 20:15 Pentagon/Anthropic Drama 21:14 Seedance/Hollywood Drama 25:00 OpenClaw Creator Joins OpenAI 26:02 Manus Chats 26:43 Tavus Phoenix-4 28:05 Meta Dead Posts Patent 28:55 Unitree Robot Performance 29:38 Outro

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