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OpenClaw shipped a lot of meaningful updates this month
If you've been sleeping on OpenClaw's plugin system, March was a banger! Three things that caught my attention: 1. Firecrawl is now bundled natively. Web scraping just became a first-class tool ins…
Tim Cook Made Apple Rich. I'm Hoping John Ternus Makes It Interesting Again.
Apple announced on April 20, 2026 that Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO. He's moving into an Executive Chairman role. John Ternus — Apple's long-time hardware engineering lead, the guy who's been runn…
I'm Paying $200 a Month for Claude. Dispatch Has Been Down for Two Days.
I signed up for Claude's $200 plan at the start of this month. First time at that tier. I made the jump because the Anthropic stack — Claude Code, Cowork, Claude in Chrome, Claude in Excel, and especi…
Anthropic Just Released Opus 4.7. I've Been Using It All Day and the Difference Is Not Subtle.
Opus 4.6 came out on February 5th. Opus 4.7 dropped today, April 16th. That's ten weeks. Ten weeks between major model releases from the same company. Let me put that in perspective. In 2024, Anthrop…
I'm an Anthropic Fanboy. Here's Why Their Revenue Numbers Bother Me.
I've been all-in on Claude for a couple of months now. I pay $200 a month for the Max plan. I use Dispatch, Cowork, Claude Code — the whole ecosystem. I've built projects, written content, and automat…
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Both Going After Drug Discovery. Here's Why That Matters.
Two things happened in the last two weeks that most people in the AI space aren't connecting. Anthropic paid $400 million for Coefficient Bio — a drug discovery startup with fewer than 10 people that…
Hot Take: Elon Might Win the AGI Race and Nobody Is Paying Attention
I'm going to make a prediction that most people in the AI space would laugh at right now. I think Elon Musk has a legitimate shot at winning the race to AGI. And the reason has nothing to do with Grok…
Your Hand-Written Code Has Had Bugs for 27 Years. But Sure, Vibe Coding Is the Problem.
Anthropic just unveiled Claude Mythos, and it's already making some people very uncomfortable. The model isn't publicly available — Anthropic considers it too powerful to release broadly right now — b…
My AI Caught Something a Major Podcast Missed
I use AI to help me write these posts. I'm not hiding that, and I'm not apologizing for it. Nobody has said to me in those exact words, "I don't trust AI-assisted writing." But I'm not naive. I know …
A Company Is Bringing Back Dire Wolves. Tell Me Again How AI Is Only Bad.
Colossal Biosciences just did something that sounds like it belongs in a movie. They brought back dire wolves. Or at least something close to them. In October 2024, two dire wolf pups were born — Rom…
Kimi Called Itself Claude. Good Luck Doing Anything About That.
The day before a Reddit user caught Kimi K2.5 saying it was Claude, Anthropic published a blog post naming three Chinese AI labs for stealing their technology. Timing like that is hard to script. On…
Google's Gemma 4 Is What the Chinese Models Promised But Couldn't Deliver
For the past year, every few months a new Chinese open model would drop and the discourse would go something like this: "This is it. GPT-4 level, open weights, you can run it yourself." And then you'd…
SpaceX Is Filing to Go Public. The Real Story Isn't the Stock.
SpaceX just filed confidentially with the SEC for an IPO. The valuation numbers floating around are somewhere between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion — which would make it one of the largest IPOs in Ame…
How Anthropic Went From $3B to $20B in 10 Months — And Why I Think They Earned It
I use Claude every day. Not as a novelty. Not to ask it trivia questions. I use it to run my businesses. In the past two months, I built two websites and an iOS app with Claude. I don't know how to c…
Apple's New $599 MacBook Neo: What You Get and What It Means
My wife and I walked into the Apple Store in Bethesda last week planning to buy a MacBook Neo. We left with nothing — and with a story worth thinking about. The store was sold out. The staff told us …
Nvidia Just Put $2 Billion Into Marvell. Here's Why a Deal Instead of a Buyout Makes More Sense
When Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in Marvell Technology last week, the headlines focused on the size of the number. But the more interesting question isn't how much — it's why this looked …
AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Jobs. Is That Good or Bad for Workers?
The Department of Homeland Security is partially shut down. Iran-linked hackers are ramping up attacks on US infrastructure. And somewhere in San Francisco, a startup is pitching AI tools that can fin…
ARM Just Announced a New Chip — Here's What They're Saying About It
ARM, the company whose chip designs power everything from iPhones to Android phones to data centers, just announced something unusual: their own computer chip. This is actually a big deal, because AR…
Grok 4.20 Just Dropped. Here's How It Actually Stacks Up.
xAI released Grok 4.20 on March 8, and the claims are big: record-low hallucination rates, a four-agent architecture, and benchmark scores that put it in the conversation with GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6…
Google Just Made Every AI Model 6x Cheaper to Run. The Memory Chip Industry Is Panicking.
Google published a paper this week on something called TurboQuant. It's a compression algorithm that shrinks the memory needed to run large language models by six times. No accuracy loss. No retrainin…
McKinsey Adds AI Tool Proficiency to Job Interview Process
McKinsey has added AI tool proficiency as a graded component of its hiring process. In a pilot running since earlier this year, final-round candidates for Business Analyst positions are required to us…
What AI Agents Are and Where They Stand in 2026
AI agents have become a central focus of the technology industry in 2026. The term appears frequently in product launches, conference agendas, and investment discussions. This article explains what AI…
Morgan Stanley Projects Major AI Capability Increase by June 2026
Morgan Stanley published a report this month projecting a significant AI capability increase between now and June 2026, driven by an unprecedented accumulation of compute resources at major U.S. AI la…
Over 60,000 Tech Workers Laid Off in Early 2026 as Companies Cite AI Investment
More than 60,000 technology workers have been laid off in 2026 through the end of Q1. Companies are citing AI investment and restructuring as primary reasons for the reductions. Major Layoffs Amazon…
Anthropic Leaks Mythos. Mind blown.
Anthropic accidentally spilled the beans on a major new AI model called Claude Mythos, and the way it happened says as much about the state of AI right now as the model itself. This isn’t just another…
I Tried Every Chinese AI Model. Here's My Honest Take as a Non-Engineer.
I've spent the last couple months testing basically every major Chinese open-source AI model: DeepSeek, Kimi, and now MiniMax. The only one I haven't really gotten my hands on yet is the latest Qwen. …
Claude Can Control Your Computer Now. I Built Two Websites and an App Without Knowing How to Code.
Anthropic just released computer use for Claude. It can control your mouse, your keyboard, see your screen, open apps, click buttons, fill out forms. It's basically what made OpenClaw go viral, except…
OpenAI Just Killed Sora — Agents Are Where the Real Money Is At
OpenAI just shut down Sora. Six months after launch. Gone. Their applications chief literally told the team they "could not be distracted by side quests." That's what Sora was to them. A side quest. …
Amazon Wants to Make a Phone Again. Seriously.
Somewhere inside Amazon's Devices and Services division, a team is reportedly working on a smartphone codenamed "Transformer." If that sentence triggers your fight-or-flight response, you probably rem…
OpenAI Wants to Let You Sext With ChatGPT. Privacy Experts Are Horrified.
OpenAI is developing what's being called "Adult Mode" — a feature that would allow verified adults to have intimate and sexual conversations with ChatGPT. The company frames it as "treating adults lik…
Palantir Just Became a Permanent Part of the U.S. War Machine
On March 9th, the Pentagon formally designated Palantir's Maven AI as an official "program of record" — which in defense-speak means it's no longer a pilot project or experimental tool. It's now core …
AI's Dirty Secret: The Power Grid Can't Handle It
Everyone's talking about what AI can do. Almost nobody's talking about whether we can actually power it. Here's a number that should stop you cold: there are currently 50 gigawatts of data center dem…
The Guy Who Built Signal's Encryption Is Now Securing Your Meta AI Conversations
If you've ever had a private conversation with an AI chatbot and wondered who else might be reading it — this one's for you. Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer who built Signal's end-to-end encrypt…
The Pentagon Just Blacklisted Anthropic. The Court Hearing Is Tomorrow.
This might be the most important AI story nobody's paying enough attention to. The Department of Defense has formally designated Anthropic — the company behind Claude — as a "supply chain risk." That…
Musk Wants to Build a $25B Chip Factory — and Send Most of It to Space
Elon Musk just announced something called TeraFab. It's a $25 billion project between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to build their own chip factory in Austin. The basic idea: instead of buying chips from ot…
Apple Is Handing Siri's Brain to Google — and Hoping You Won't Notice
Apple just confirmed what's been rumored for months. The next version of Siri will be powered by Google's Gemini models, running on Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. It's expected to roll …
Anthropic Just Dropped $100M to Build a Claude Army — Here's What That Means
Anthropic announced the Claude Partner Network this month, backed by $100 million in funding. The short version: they're paying consulting firms, agencies, and developers to help big companies deploy …
I Did Everything Right and Still Can't Afford a House. AI Might Be My Way Out.
Something's shifted. If you've been paying any attention over the past year, you've felt it. Across the country, people are pushing back against AI — and not quietly. Artists are organizing. Workers …
Tesla's Cybercab Is Actually Happening — Here's Why I Think People Are Sleeping on This
Tesla just started rolling Cybercabs off the line at Giga Texas. Drone footage from earlier this month showed 25 units on the factory grounds. Full volume production is targeted for April, with the li…
Data centers in orbit sounds like sci-fi. It's not anymore.
There's a quiet race happening to move AI compute off-planet. NVIDIA's GTC announcement that it's building Space-1 Vera Rubin — an AI data center module designed for orbit — was easy to dismiss as a …
Jensen just laid out NVIDIA's entire autonomous driving stack — and it's a lot
Nvidia's GTC summit just wrapped, and if you thought the AV world was crowded, you haven't seen anything yet. Here's what actually came out of it. Rubin is the new baseline. The Rubin platform — NVI…
GPT-5.4 Just Landed — How Does It Stack Up Against Opus 4.6, Grok and Gemini 3.1 Pro?
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 on March 5th and it's a pretty significant step up from 5.2. The headline numbers: 33% fewer factual errors per claim, 18% fewer errors overall, and a 272K context window. They …
Google Just Dropped Stitch 2.0 — Free AI Tool That Designs Full UIs From a Conversation
Google Labs just completely redesigned Stitch, and honestly this one caught me off guard. It went from a basic AI mockup generator to a full design canvas that can take you from "I want an app that fe…