02/16/26 - Steinberger Joins OpenAI for Agent Development, iOS 27 Stability Push, India Tax Holiday for Cloud Infrastructure

02/16/26 - Steinberger Joins OpenAI for Agent Development, iOS 27 Stability Push, India Tax Holiday for Cloud Infrastructure

Episode description

This episode examines Peter Steinberger’s move from OpenClaw to lead personal agent development at OpenAI, Apple’s reallocation of iOS 27 engineering resources toward stability work in preparation for the iPhone Fold and touchscreen MacBook Pro, Siri’s transition to a chatbot interface rolling out through iOS 26.4 and iOS 27, Chris Liddell’s appointment to Anthropic’s board bringing enterprise and policy experience, and India’s twenty-year tax holiday for cloud providers as hyperscale infrastructure commitments approach seven hundred billion dollars from the five largest providers. The briefing covers talent consolidation dynamics in agentic AI, operating system infrastructure requirements for hybrid hardware, incremental assistant interface deployment, governance expansion at AI research organizations, and geographic diversification of data center investments driven by energy constraints and fiscal policy.

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