Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI and Anthropic may have been the night's fiercest rivalry not on the field, but they were far from the only AI players fighting for the spotlight. | With Google, Meta, Amazon, a slew of AI startups, and even an AI-generated vodka spot flooding the Big Game's ad breaks, the tech's mainstream presence is growing as fast as the models powering it. | | In today's AI rundown: | AI ads steal the show at Super Bowl LX The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases Build lead widgets for your site without coding Crypto.com founder drops $70M on AI.com 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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| | | | AI & THE SUPER BOWL | |  | Image source: SVEDKA |
| The Rundown: AI companies/products took over Super Bowl LX with a wave of commercials, featuring spots from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, and startups that turned the Big Game into a battlefield for consumer AI attention. | The details: | Anthropic made its SB debut with its viral campaign against ads in AI, whose launch kicked off a viral feud with OpenAI and Sam Altman last week. Vodka brand SVEDKA ran what it called the first primarily AI-generated Super Bowl ad, reviving its robotic mascot with AI-trained dance moves. Meta showcased "athletic intelligence" via its AI glasses, Amazon pushed the new Alexa+, and Google highlighted Gemini and Nano Banana. Other AI-related spots included Base44, Genspark, Ramp, Rippling, and Wix, with tech's Super Bowl ad share reportedly increasing to around 10%.
| Why it matters: Major AI players showed up to the SB fighting for the same thing — to be the default assistant, agent, or device that the masses actually trust as AI weaves into every corner of daily life. Svedka's use of AI to generate its spot also shows the tech influencing both sides of the screen — what's being sold AND how it's made. |
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| | TOGETHER WITH YOU.COM | | | The Rundown: RAG was step one—but retrieval alone doesn't guarantee accuracy. You.com explains what AI grounding is, why it matters, and how organizations can implement it to achieve higher accuracy. | The playbook covers: | The three-part approach outperforms RAG alone Why grounding isn't set-and-forget, and how to build audit trails The open vs. closed platform trade-off (and what it means for your next model switch)
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| | THE RUNDOWN ROUNDTABLE | |  | Image Source: Ideogram / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature in which we poll members of The Rundown staff about how we use AI in our work and daily lives. | Jennifer, Tech & Robotics Writer: I put Gemini Deep Research and Perplexity Pro to work as my personal research assistants. For robotics research, I tell them to stick to top-tier journals and primary sources only, and demand citations and dates for everything. Then I have them distill the highlights into a ranked list so I know exactly where to dig deeper. | Billy, University Educator: Every Sunday night, my Openclaw asks me to recap my week and send it some photos I took. It makes a collage of the photos and generates a stylized "magazine cover" based on the recap. At the end of the year, I should have a neat collection of time capsules. | Jason, Developer: I've been taking topics I want to learn about (mostly coding docs for new technologies) and giving them to NotebookLM to create customized podcasts for my runs when there aren't interesting podcasts available from the channels I frequent. And it really is actually good and enjoyable, and not just AI slop. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to use Replit to build a custom calculator lead form for your website. If you can copy and paste, you can build software for your team, and you'll save on per-seat pricing. | Step-by-step: | Go to Replit, toggle on "Plan mode," and prompt: "Build a custom lead gen widget app using Python (Flask) and Replit SQL. Users will create embeddable cost-savings calculators that capture email leads and track analytics. Allow custom colors, form fields and formulas." Answer any follow-ups from the agent and hit "Build" when ready. Once it finishes, test the tool in the preview tab. Try creating a new lead widget. Copy the widget's embed (iframe) code and embed it on your brand website, then check captured leads in Replit → Database → Development Database. If everything works, click "Publish". Replit will deploy your app to a public URL. You will need to log in to this version and re-create your form.
| Pro tip: Use this method to embed anything on your site — a slideshow, countdown timer, or even a blog. |
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| | PRESENTED BY GITLAB | | | The Rundown: GitLab Transcend is an exclusive virtual event happening tomorrow that explores how agentic AI is transforming software delivery, with real-world stories, product demos, and a preview of GitLab's upcoming roadmap. | At Transcend, you'll hear: | How teams are using agentic AI to automate real-world DevOps workflows Perspectives from tech leaders and live Q&As with GitLab project leaders A first look at GitLab's upcoming innovations and investments
| Reserve your spot for tomorrow's event now. |
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| | AI DOT COM | | | The Rundown: Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek revealed he purchased the AI.com domain for $70M, the largest domain sale ever, debuting the site as an autonomous AI agent platform for consumers with a Super Bowl commercial. | The details: | The platform promises a personal AI agent that can trade stocks, manage calendars, send messages, and automate workflows with no technical setup. The record-breaking deal nearly doubled the prior domain record set by voice.com's $30M sale in 2019. Marszalek envisions a network of agents that autonomously build new capabilities and share upgrades across users, "accelerating the advent of AGI".
| Why it matters: That's certainly one way to make a big splash — with both the largest domain sale ever (admittedly for an excellent one) and a primetime entrance with a Super Bowl ad. But a strong marketing play and a tool that actually competes with the flurry of agentic upgrades from established, frontier labs are two very different beasts. |
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| | | | | ⚙️ GPT-5.3-Codex - OpenAI's new SOTA agentic coding model 🧠 Claude Opus 4.6 - Anthropic's upgrade to its most powerful model line 🎥 Krea Realtime - Krea's realtime, long-form AI video generation system 🎥 Kling 3.0 - Kling's new video AI with better consistency and 15s outputs
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| | | Adapt just announced the future of AI for work – an always-available co-worker that understands business context and works across tools. See the vision and fundraising deck.* | Anthropic released a 'fast mode' for its new Claude Opus 4.6 model, which delivers 2.5x faster responses at drastically higher token costs. | Goldman Sachs revealed it has been working with Anthropic over the last six months to build AI agents that automate accounting, compliance, and client onboarding. | xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin praised Claude Opus 4.6's physics capabilities, saying that a "Claude Code moment for research" may be approaching. | Axiom announced that its AI independently solved an unsolved math problem and wrote its own verified proof, a first for AI in advanced mathematical research. | *Sponsored Listing |
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| | | | | Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier. | Today's workflow comes from reader Howard C. in Hawkins, TX: | "I'm retired and sell diecast models on eBay. My system worked well, but I wanted to cut inkjet use by printing packing lists on 4"x6" labels with a thermal printer. With ChatGPT's help, I built a Mac Automator app that takes a dropped eBay packing list and creates a print-ready 4"x6" version automatically. | We also built another app that uses the same file to generate a buyer email saying the order is ready to ship." | How do you use AI? Tell us here. |
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| | | | That's it for today!Before you go we'd love to know what you thought of today's newsletter to help us improve The Rundown experience for you. | | See you soon, | Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown | |
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