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For years, Rivian Automotive has been the poster child of the cash-burning electric vehicle startup, hemorrhaging billions of dollars as it scaled production of its R1T pickup trucks and R1S SUVs. That narrative shifted dramatically on February 20, 2025, when the Irvine, California-based company reported its first-ever annual profit — a $144 million gain for the full year — sending its stock soaring 27% in a single trading session.

In the corridors of Silicon Valley and the trading floors of Wall Street, a singular narrative has taken hold with almost religious fervor: artificial general intelligence is just around the corner, perhaps arriving within the decade, and it will reshape everything. Billions of dollars in capital expenditure flow into data centers. Valuations of AI companies soar on the promise of superintelligent systems. CEOs of the world’s most powerful technology firms speak of AGI timelines measured in single-digit years.

For more than a decade, the web development industry has been locked in an escalating arms race of JavaScript complexity. Single-page applications, sprawling client-side frameworks, and ever-larger bundles of code shipped to users’ browsers have become the default architecture for modern websites. But a growing chorus of engineers, performance researchers, and standards advocates is now arguing that this trajectory is fundamentally unsustainable — and that the industry must reckon with the consequences before the damage becomes irreversible.

OpenAI is in advanced discussions to hire the founder and team behind OpenClaw, a startup focused on building open-source robotic manipulation tools, according to a report from The Information. The deal, which would effectively constitute an acqui-hire, represents the latest and perhaps most telling signal yet that Sam Altman’s artificial intelligence juggernaut is preparing to make a serious push into robotics — a domain it once explored and then abandoned years ago.