AI's Third Era, Pieter Levels' Infinite Slop, and Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard

Tara Seshan (OpenAI's product lead for Codex and ChatGPT Work) lays out a "three eras of AI" framing that's the clearest articulation I've seen of where product strategy needs to go next. Meanwhile, Pieter Levels shipped a live AI-generated infinite stream called Infinite Slop, 37,000 people watched it, and it accidentally became a signal about video AI product velocity. Anthropic opened a research preview of something called the Model Hardware Standard — a spec for AI agents operating physical hardware — and it's the most quietly significant thing I saw this week.