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Zuck’s Personal AI Agent Mar 23, 2026

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Mark Zuckerberg has spun up his own AI bot to do his job for him. Or help him do his job quicker, I guess. OpenAI hires an ad guru from Meta. Elon loses a case. Maybe some managers actually want you to use as many tokens as possible. And how to get your LLM to recursively improve itself? Maybe?

Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO (WSJ)
OpenAI Taps Former Meta Executive to Lead Ad Push (WSJ)
Samsung's Galaxy S26 Phones Will Work With Apple's AirDrop, Much Like the Pixel 10 (CNET)
Musk Misled Twitter Investors Before 2022 Buyout, Jury Says (Bloomberg)
More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use. (NYTimes)
‘The Karpathy Loop’: Former OpenAI researcher’s autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days—and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading (Fortune)

AI Superapps Mar 20, 2026

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OpenAI is becoming a superapp. Does Amazon really want to try its hand at a smartphone again? Google is making further steps to obviate classic Google Search in that innovator’s dilemma way. And in the Longreads, why has AI gotten worse at writing.

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer (The Verge)
The Human Skill That Eludes AI (The Atlantic)

The AI Race Is Now A Land Grab For Dev And Design Work Mar 19, 2026

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In three parts I’ll make the case that in Q1 of this year, the AI race has become basically a land grab for design and development tasks. MLB fully embraces our new prediction market overlords. Even if they’re behind in AI Apple is still making big money from AI. And Uber is still placing bets in the self-driving race.

Google introduces 'vibe design' with Stitch (The Deep View)
OpenAI to Acquire Startup Astral, Expanding Push Into Coding (Bloomberg)
Crypto.com cuts around 12% of staff as CEO pushes enterprise-wide AI integration (The Block)
Major League Baseball Steps Into the Prediction Markets, Strikes Deal With Polymarket (WSJ)
Apple Is Way Behind in AI—and Still Making a Fortune From It (WSJ)
Uber to invest $1.25 billion in Rivian as part of new robotaxi deal (The Verge)

Crypto Gets Its Rulebook Mar 18, 2026

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At long last, the government has issued guidance to crypto on what is or is not allowed. The blowup from gamers has caused Jensen to push back. A tale of contrasting IPOs from wildly different industries. And is your boss about to ask you to submit expense reports for your token use?

SEC, CFTC Move to Define Which Digital Assets Are Securities (Bloomberg)
Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash (TomsHardware)
Meta to Discontinue Key Metaverse Product for VR Headsets (Bloomberg)
AI Drone Software Stock Jumps 520% in Best IPO Since Newsmax (Bloomberg)
Crypto exchange Kraken freezes multibillion-dollar IPO plan due to difficult market conditions (CoinDesk)
Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps (The Information)
You’ve Finally Figured Out AI at Work—Now Comes the Bill (WSJ)

Westworld For Real Mar 17, 2026

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All the headlines from Nvidia’s big event yesterday. Can Apple make fetch happen with foldable phones cause nobody else seems to be able to. One hour deliveries is the new, screw it, we’re doing five razorblades. And the robots are really coming to Disney theme parks, right now.

The Mother Of All Meta Layoffs? Mar 16, 2026

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Is Meta about to do the mother of all layoffs? New AirPods Max 2. Why OpenAI delayed its sexytime chat… the calls to do so were coming from inside the house. What does it mean if the San Francisco real estate market is ripping again? And what if it ends up Apple has played a blinder by sitting out AI CAPEX spending?

Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount (Reuters)
Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2 (TechCrunch)
Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training (Reuters)
OpenAI’s Bid to Allow X-Rated Talk Is Freaking Out Its Own Advisers (WSJ)
The AI Boom Has Exploded the San Francisco Housing Market (WSJ)
The most brilliant move in corporate history? (ASYMCO)

Is Avocado… Toast? Mar 13, 2026

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Meta’s big new AI model is delayed because they still can’t get to state of the art. The social media addiction trial is winding down. All the video apps are going to end up looking exactly like one another eventually. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (David Oks's Blog)
James Mason in a cave with a cat (Joel Morris's Substack)

AI Makes Google Maps Sound Much Better Mar 12, 2026

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More AI inspired job cuts. I gotta say, adding AI to Google Maps makes it sound like it might work much, much better. A new entrant into the AI health space. An Iran-war-related hacking takes down a company. And Mark Gurman tells us what to expect from a foldable iPhone.

The New King Of All Media Mar 11, 2026

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Sources say the US government is investigating Binance around Iranian sanction evasion. Meta is helping authorities worldwide crack down on scammers. YouTube literally now is, officially, the biggest media entity in the world. And the legal way to listen to full songs right inside of TikTok.

Meta Plumps For Bot Social Networks Mar 10, 2026

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Meta moves for the social network for AI bots. Code Review for Claude Code seems to be like another revolution for the software development industry. Yan LeCun raises the biggest European seed round of all time. And the MacBook Neo… worth investing in or not?

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