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FBI ALERT: SCAMMERS TARGET ZONING PERMIT APPLICANTS

The FBI issued a PSA warning that criminals are impersonating city and county planning officials in targeted phishing campaigns, using publicly available permit data to craft convincing emails with real property addresses, case numbers, and official names to solicit fraudulent payments via wire transfer, P2P apps, or cryptocurrency.

WHITE HOUSE CYBER STRATEGY PRIORITIZES OFFENSE

The White House's new cyber strategy elevates preemptive offensive operations, as strategic assets while rejecting compliance‑heavy regulation.

ERICSSON BLAMES VENDOR VISHING SLIP-UP FOR BREACH EXPOSING THOUSANDS OF RECORDS

A vishing-led compromise of a US service provider's employee account exposed sensitive data on 15,661 people linked to Ericsson, including IDs, Social Security numbers, and financial and medical details in some cases.

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LINKEDIN IS THE MOST-CITED DOMAIN FOR PROFESSIONAL QUERIES IN AI SEARCH

LinkedIn has quickly become a major source in AI search. From November 2025 to February 2026, it moved from about the 11th most cited domain on ChatGPT to around 5th. Growth is driven largely by UGC. Posts, articles, and newsletters now account for nearly 35% of LinkedIn citations, up from about 27%. AI systems are increasingly indexing this publishing layer, giving individuals and companies more opportunity to expand visibility and credibility by sharing expertise on the platform.

65% OF MARKETING JOBS MAY NOT SURVIVE AI

Anthropic's Labor Market Impacts report ranked marketing specialists fifth among 800 occupations most exposed to AI displacement. The vulnerability extends well beyond content creation to research, segmentation, brand strategy, and competitive analysis. This type of work makes up roughly 80% of what marketers do. US marketing job postings fell 7% YoY in Q2 2025, salaries stayed flat in real terms, and hiring of younger workers in exposed roles dropped 14% versus 2022.

A DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO VIDEO HOOKS

Strong social media videos rely on 3 hooks in the first few seconds to capture attention. Start with a text on screen hook that quickly signals what the video will cover, often through a question or cliffhanger. Pair it with a concise spoken hook that includes key words and delivers the message immediately, since viewers decide quickly whether to keep watching. Add a visual hook through movement or editing, such as zooms, transitions, or dynamic framing, to create curiosity and keep the viewer engaged.

WHY REPLYING TO GOOGLE REVIEWS IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST-ROI THINGS YOU CAN DO

88% of consumers are more likely to choose businesses that respond to all reviews and those businesses earning 35% more revenue than average. Consumers also spend up to 49% more at businesses that engage with feedback, and a one-star rating improvement can translate to a 5-9% revenue lift according to Harvard research. With 89% of consumers now expecting responses and 50% put off by templated replies, personalized and timely engagement has shifted from a nice-to-have to a baseline expectation, especially for small businesses.

OUR MARKETING TEAM IS MOVING TO GITHUB

The Head of Marketing at BizMachine moved the team's marketing infrastructure from Google Drive to GitHub because their AI-driven workflows had grown too complex for a shared drive. The team manages numerous AI agents, skills, context files, and automations that require reliable collaboration and change tracking. Google Drive lacked version control and structured review, making it difficult to manage updates as the team grew. GitHub provides version history, pull requests, and testing branches, allowing workflows to be updated and tested safely, similar to how engineering teams manage shared infrastructure.

THE MARKETER'S GUIDE TO CLAUDE COWORK PLUGINS

This guide explains how the Claude Cowork plugins package pre-built workflows that allow complex tasks to run with minimal setup. Each plugin bundles domain skills, slash commands for specific actions, integrations with tools such as HubSpot, Ahrefs, and background agents that handle multi-step work. The Marketing Plugin includes commands to plan campaigns, review brand voice, and audit SEO.

WHEN PEOPLE ARE MOST LIKELY TO SWITCH BRANDS

Consumers are most likely to switch brands after they gain some experience in a product category but before they become experts. Analysis of 3.7 million product reviews across nearly 30 years showed that confidence follows an inverted U pattern as experience grows. People were 4.5% more likely to switch makeup brands after reviewing 2 to 10 products, and 54% of people who switched never returned. The research shows that prompting customers to reflect on product quality or benefits can increase confidence and reduce switching.

CHECKING AN LLM'S WORK IS A SYSTEMIC, NOT AN INDIVIDUAL, PROBLEM

LLMs increase output speed but weaken problem definition when teams skip critique and rely on AI-generated prototypes. Tools like ChatGPT spread quickly because they fit workflows that reward speed and visible activity instead of real progress. AI can generate code or designs in seconds, but the output is statistically average and cannot signal when it fails. Humans must review every result, and constant checking increases mental fatigue and burnout. The typical AI prototype workflow lacks a structured design critique, where people question the purpose of a design, examine why decisions were made, and test whether the solution actually solves the user's problem.

HOW I STOPPED BORING PEOPLE WITH MY CONTENT

To make content compelling, focus on finding a specific angle rather than just covering a topic. Avoid “everyday angles” that are common statements your audience has seen many times. Instead, create a “payday angle” by identifying a specific problem your audience faces, uncovering an unexpected or counterintuitive truth about it, and presenting a better path forward. This requires customer research and listening to sales calls. A strong payday angle interrupts expectations and provides insight competitors aren't offering, ensuring your work is noticed.

TO BECOME A BETTER SEO, THINK LIKE A CREATOR

15 characteristics of successful creators that can also be applied to SEO.

APPLE'S UNHINGED TIKTOK VIDEOS ARE DIVIDING FANS

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ANTHROPIC SUES PENTAGON OVER ‘SUPPLY CHAIN RISK' LABEL

Anthropic has filed two lawsuits against the Department of War to change the Pentagon's decision to label it a 'supply chain risk'. One of the lawsuits is in the US District court in the Northern District of California, and the other is in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The supply chain risk designation is typically applied to firms that are deemed a major national security risk and has never been used on an American company. Anthropic has offered to continue negotiating with the Pentagon and also offered to help move the Pentagon off its technology and onto another AI system. OpenAI and xAI have signed agreements to provide technology on the Department of War's classified systems in recent weeks.

APPLE POSTPONES SMART HOME DISPLAY LAUNCH AS IT WAITS FOR NEW AI AND SIRI

Apple's smart home display has been delayed until later this year. The project was first scheduled to launch in the spring of 2025, but it was postponed to let the company finish work on a new Siri digital assistant. It was then scheduled to be released this month, but the new Siri is still not yet ready. The display is designed to be a central AI hub for the home that can display personalized data, such as calendar appointments, reminders, notes, and more.

CHINA LEADS THE HUMANOID ROBOT RACE — BUT THE US STILL HAS A SHOT

China's humanoid robots now dominate the market with over 90% of global sales and thousands of units shipped last year. Tesla's Optimus robots still won't be ready for launch until at least next year. While Chinese vendors are more advanced when it comes to production scales, US companies are very strong at the technical side of things, especially in the hardware and software departments. By the time humanoid robot startups build up their production bases, they will be ready for large-scale deployment.

HOW TO DESIGN ANTIBODIES

BoltzGen is the leading open-source approach for computational antibody design. It uses the permissive MIT license, so it can be used commercially by anyone. This guide walks through the full process of designing an antibody from home using BoltzGen. The process involves choosing a target, preparing a target structure, running a design campaign, filtering candidates, and experimentally validating the results.

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CODE REVIEW, A NEW FEATURE FOR CLAUDE CODE

Code Review is a new feature for Claude Code that dispatches a team of agents on every PR to catch bugs. Built for depth, not speed, the system is now in research preview for Team and Enterprise. Anthropic runs Code Review on nearly every PR. The tool doesn't approve PRs, but it closes the gap so reviewers can cover what's shipping. Reviews are billed on token usage, and admins have several ways to control spend and usage.

PERHAPS NOT BORING TECHNOLOGY AFTER ALL

The recurring concern, that large language models will push technology choices towards the tools best represented in their training data, making it harder for new tools to break through the noise, doesn't really hold up anymore. New models have large enough context lengths that they can consume a lot of documentation before they start working on a problem. Most agents work just fine in existing codebases that use libraries or tools too private or new to feature in the training data. Developers are still free to choose whatever tools they want to use and are not restricted to using the ones LLMs are most familiar with.

AFTER FALLING FAR BEHIND THE REST OF INDUSTRY, BLUE ORIGIN CREATES NEW STOCK OPTION PLAN

When Jeff Bezos launched Blue Origin, he knew that the company would not meet investors' expectations for return on investment over a typical investing horizon. Decades later, the company is still not operationally profitable, though recently, it has made impressive strides and seen financial returns from the sale of engines and commercial launches. To continue its growth and attract top talent, Blue Origin will begin granting stock options to employees this spring. The new program is structured to provide opportunities for liquidity events that will enable employees to convert vested stock options into realized value. More details about the program will be released during a company-wide meeting on April 17.

AMAZON TELLS FCC TO BIN SPACEX'S MILLION-SATELLITE DATACENTER DREAM

Amazon has criticized SpaceX's application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic. It wants regulators to reject the application, which it says is a speculative placeholder rather than a complete application under the Commission's rules. Amazon also raised concerns about satellite interference and environmental objections. Analysts say that SpaceX's plan of putting datacenters in space is 'peak insanity' as running spaceborne facilities would be uneconomical and could never satisfy terrestrial demand for compute power.

FORMER META AI CHIEF'S START-UP IS VALUED AT $3.5 BILLION

Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs is only a month old and employs just 12 people.

GHOSTTY 1.3.0

Ghostty 1.3.0 is a significant release that includes hundreds of improvements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations across all platforms.

BLUESKY CEO JAY GRABER STEPS DOWN

Graber, who will be replaced by Toni Schneider as interim CEO, will transition to a new role as chief innovation officer.

VIDEO CONFERENCING WITH POSTGRES

SpacetimeDB recently open-sourced a way for people to make video calls over a database.

10X IS THE NEW FLOOR

AI amplifies people with agency and curiosity.

THE HUMAN.JSON PROTOCOL

human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others.

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PROMPTFOO IS JOINING OPENAI

Promptfoo has agreed to be acquired by OpenAI. It will remain open source and continue to serve users and customers. The company was founded in 2024 to make it easy for developers to systematically test AI applications. It is joining OpenAI so that the security, evaluation, and compliance platform can have the greatest impact on how teams build and deploy AI. OpenAI will improve and integrate Promptfoo's core tech within its model and infrastructure layers so that teams can catch vulnerabilities early and ship secure AI from the beginning.

ANTHROPIC SUED US DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

Anthropic filed lawsuits in California and Washington, DC after the US Department of Defense labeled the company a supply-chain risk, which could bar government contractors from using its models. The dispute followed Anthropic's refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its AI systems, citing concerns over mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

COPILOT COWORK: A NEW WAY OF GETTING WORK DONE

Microsoft's Copilot Cowork automates tasks across Microsoft 365, enhancing productivity through intelligent workflow management. Utilizing Work IQ, it coordinates emails, meetings, and files, performing actions like rescheduling and document preparation while maintaining user control. Currently in Research Preview, broader availability is expected in March 2026.

THE TOP 100 GEN AI CONSUMER APPS

Generative AI usage in consumer apps has evolved significantly, with products like CapCut, Canva, and Notion integrating AI as core features. ChatGPT remains the leading AI product globally, but competitors like Gemini and Claude are gaining traction, especially with US paid subscriptions. The AI landscape is diversifying geographically and functionally, with notable developments in video generation and agentic AI, notably OpenClaw, suggesting a shift beyond traditional browser and app metrics.

THE DEBT BENEATH THE DREAM

SoftBank's shares are deflating fast. Investors are more and more concerned that the company cannot pay its debts, and debtors are getting nervous. It is unclear how SoftBank will meet its commitments to OpenAI in April. Its borrowed money and illiquid assets mean that the firm's margin for error is far thinner than any announcement ever suggested.

HOW CODING AGENTS ARE RESHAPING ENGINEERING, PRODUCT, AND DESIGN

Coding agents have collapsed the traditional waterfall process by making implementation cheap and shifting the bottleneck from writing code to reviewing it. High throughput is the new constraint, favoring builders with product sense and systems thinkers who can manage rapid cycles. Generalists gain the most advantage by eliminating communication overhead, while the bar for pure specialization rises because domain depth alone is no longer enough to justify a role.

WHEN CODE IS FREE, RESEARCH IS ALL THAT MATTERS

As implementation costs collapse, the scarce resource becomes knowing what is worth building and whether it is feasible. Software engineering optimizes toward known solutions, but research operates without ground truth, making it resistant to the automation currently impacting traditional development. Research taste remains portable and nearly impossible to train, acting as the ultimate differentiator in a world where barriers to entry have dropped.

CODE REVIEW

Code Review for Claude Code allows developers to set up automated PR reviews that catch logic errors, security vulnerabilities, and regressions using multi-agent analysis. It analyzes GitHub pull requests and posts findings as inline comments. Findings are tagged by severity, and the tool doesn't approve or block PRs, allowing existing review workflows to stay intact. Claude Review is billed based on token usage, with reviews averaging $15 to $25.

TEACHING LLMS TO REASON LIKE BAYESIANS

Google researchers taught LLMs to reason in a Bayesian manner by training them to mimic the predictions of an optimal Bayesian model. Bayesian inference defines the optimal way to perform updates over multiple interactions. It could help LLMs optimize user interactions by updating their estimates of a user's preference. The researchers' approach significantly improves LLM performance on recommendation tasks and enables generalization to other tasks, suggesting the method taught LLMs to better approximate Bayesian reasoning.

PENGUIN‑VL: EFFICIENT VISION‑LANGUAGE MODELS

Tencent AI Lab released Penguin‑VL, a compact VLM family designed to improve multimodal efficiency by redesigning the vision encoder. It introduces Penguin‑Encoder, initialized from a text‑only LLM to align visual features with language representations and improve data‑efficient multimodal reasoning.

AI ASSISTANTS NOW EQUAL 56% OF GLOBAL SEARCH ENGINE VOLUME

AI assistants generate 45 billion monthly sessions, making up 56% of global search engine volume. Notably, 83% of AI usage occurs in mobile apps, with ChatGPT dominating at 89% of global AI sessions. Despite AI's rise, search engine activity remains crucial, with combined usage growing 26% globally since 2023.

NO, IT DOESN'T COST ANTHROPIC $5K PER CLAUDE CODE USER

A recent article by Forbes on Cursor claims that Anthropic's $200 per month Claude Code Max plan can consume $5,000 in compute. It is likely that the article's sources are confusing retail API prices with actual compute costs. The actual compute cost is roughly 10% of retail API prices. Most users don't come anywhere near their limits. Anthropic isn't a profitable company, but inference isn't why.