AI News Recap: OpenClaw, Gemini 3, Sam vs. Dario, and the Jobs Conversation

AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. Weekly Blitz Episode 7. 

AI news recap for Feb 23, 2026: OpenClaw, Gemini 3, vibe coding, and the white collar job displacement conversation finally hitting mainstream news. Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer cover two weeks of AI in 30 minutes after a brief hiatus.

Key topics covered:

• OpenClaw and agentic AI: What Peter Steinberger built, why it sent markets down $1 trillion, and why Sam Altman hired him immediately after
• White collar job displacement: The Peter Schumer article comparing AI's economic disruption to COVID's early days in the Hunan province
• Gemini 3 benchmarks vs. Claude and OpenAI: Who's actually winning the AI race right now
• Claude Cowork vs. Claude Code: Why the new interface matters for non-developers trying to use agentic AI
• Selling your likeness to AI: The James Earl Jones / Darth Vader model and what it means for everyday people
• Automating your own workflows: How Jason uses Claude skills to cut podcast production and leadership reporting from hours to minutes
• Does AI make you dumber? What studies actually say about power users and cognitive load

If you've been wondering whether AI job displacement is real or hype, this episode gives you a straight answer: it's starting, it's hitting software first, and the people best positioned are the ones who figure out which parts of their job they do on autopilot anyway.

About Julie Koehrer:Julie Koehrer is an On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7 with 15+ years in radio and broadcast. Based in Lafayette, Indiana.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/

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