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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

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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.

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EVERYONE USING AI HAS ABOUT 12 MONTHS TO DEVELOP THESE 3 MOATS

As AI defaults make products indistinguishable, the gap between lazy and intentional usage is closing.

TECHNOLOGICAL SPEED LIMIT

The learning rate of a technology has a maximum speed, and once you have enough money and talent, you saturate the learning rate - more simply doesn't help.

ORACLE IS BUILDING YESTERDAY'S DATA CENTERS WITH TOMORROW'S DEBT

Oracle faces setbacks with debt-fueled data center expansion as AI chip upgrades outpace construction timelines.

BITCOIN RISES AS OIL SPIKES, EQUITIES DROP

Bitcoin rose 2.8% during European trading hours even as US equity futures fell more than 1.5% and oil increased to $115 per barrel amid the Iran conflict and supply disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz. Analysts noted that while BTC has yet to fully earn its digital gold narrative, its practical use case as a digital escape hatch is becoming increasingly relevant, particularly in Gulf countries, amid episodes of currency volatility and political uncertainty, highlighting Bitcoin's resilience to oil shocks and geopolitical risks.

STRATEGY BUYS $1.3B IN BITCOIN, HOLDINGS HIT 738,731 BTC

Strategy purchased 17,994 BTC for $1.28 billion at an average price of $70,946, bringing total holdings to 738,731 BTC worth roughly $50 billion and representing over 3.4% of Bitcoin's fixed supply. The buys were funded through ongoing at-the-market equity and preferred stock programs as part of its broader $84 billion capital plan, even as the firm sits on approximately $6 billion in unrealized losses and its stock trades near net asset value. Michael Saylor dubbed the milestone “the second century,” marking over 100 separate Bitcoin acquisitions as corporate treasury competition intensifies.

NASDAQ AND KRAKEN BUILD AN EQUITIES-TO-DEFI GATEWAY

Nasdaq is partnering with Kraken parent Payward to build an "equities transformation gateway" that uses Kraken's xStocks framework to let tokenized equities move between regulated markets and decentralized blockchain networks while keeping issuer control, investor protections, and legal shareholder rights anchored on Nasdaq's permissioned infrastructure. The gateway aims to create interoperable onchain liquidity for tokenized securities, with Nasdaq's equity token design and related services expected to begin rolling out in the first half of 2027.

POLYGON INCREASES TO 78% OF X402 AGENT PAYMENT FACILITATORS

New Dune data shows x402 agent payments consolidating around Solana, Base, and Polygon, with Polygon recently capturing over 60% of facilitators and peaking at 78% in a single day. The spike follows Polygon's Lisovo upgrade, $1M in gas subsidies for agents, and the launch of a new Agent CLI, signaling an aggressive push to position Polygon as the default settlement layer for AI-driven payments.

LAST WEEK IN SOLANA PAYMENTS

Solana stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $650B in February, doubling the previous all-time high. TradFi and emerging market integrations deepened as Crossmint backed Western Union's USDPT stablecoin launch with wallet and payment API infrastructure, while Raenest's 1M+ African fintech user base gained USDT/USDC support on Solana, and the Noah-Nafolo partnership targeted remittance corridors to cut up to 12% in legacy bank fees. Crossmint also previewed agentic payment cards enabling AI agents to transact via Visa Intelligent Commerce.

POLYGON: STABLECOINS ACTUALLY BECOMING PAYMENTS ON POLYGON

Raw stablecoin transfer volume on Polygon spiked to ~$140B in May 2025 but, after adjusting for automated flows, “real” monthly transfers stayed near $5 to 10B year-round, while app-level adjusted volume grew steadily from ~ $500M/month to more than $2B in Jan 2026 driven by Avenia, Rio, Revolut, BlindPay and the late-year rise of Tazapay. Average raw transaction size briefly increased to ~$1,800 in April to May before collapsing under $200 by year-end (adjusted averages fell more smoothly from ~$750 to ~$550), C2B payments overtook C2C (C2B was greater than $200M/month by year-end), and circulating stablecoin supply on Polygon roughly doubled from $1.6B to $3B.

VITALIK ON BUILDING DEMOCRATIC TECH IN A “CHAOTIC ERA”

Enthusiasm for DAOs, quadratic funding, onchain voting, and broader democratic tech has faded, especially as we see a broader “authoritarian wave” driven by disillusionment with democratic systems. Today's chaotic era leaves little room for ambitious mechanism design compared to the more stable 2000s and 2010s. Instead of pushing rigid, binding governance systems, focus on consensus-finding tools like anonymous polling, assurance contracts, and Pol.is style coordination that surface widely supported proposals and give distributed groups a credible collective voice. In moments of instability, democratic tech should function less as a replacement order and more as “sanctuary tools” that help communities signal legitimacy and influence real power in real time.

DOLLAR STABLES ARE BLEEDING VALUE; IT'S TIME TO DIVERSIFY

On-chain charts show nearly all stablecoin supply is USD-denominated, so non-US holders have lost roughly 10% purchasing power as the dollar fell versus the euro since January 2025. Crypto users can hedge by diversifying into non-USD stables like EURC (~€393M circulation, MiCA-compliant, yields ~2.6% on Aave/ETH and ~2.9% on Fluid/Base), EURcv (Societe Generale-FORGE, institutional focus), and VCHF (onchain Swiss franc under Liechtenstein rules).

CIRCLE AND STRIPE RACING TO BUILD AI AGENT STABLECOIN PAYMENTS

Circle Internet Group and Stripe are both building payment infrastructure targeting autonomous AI agents that settle transactions in stablecoins, positioning for a potential shift away from card-based payments.

USDC FLIPS USDT IN TRANSACTION VOLUME

USDC has consistently flipped USDT in transaction volume over recent months, with USDC volumes reaching new ATHs at more than 2x USDT's – notable given Tether is valued roughly 20x Circle's current market cap.

CURVE FINANCE ACCUSES PANCAKESWAP OF CODE COPYING

Curve Finance publicly accused PancakeSwap of illegally copying its stableswap code following the launch of PancakeSwap Infinity's StableSwap feature.

PUDGY PENGUINS FACES TRADEMARK LAWSUIT FROM ORIGINAL PENGUIN

PEI Licensing, parent company of the Original Penguin apparel brand, has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Pudgy Penguins, alleging the NFT project's merchandise marks deceive consumers – a claim rooted in PEI's penguin trademark dating back to 1956.

IPHONE FOLD DESIGN LEAKS IN PURPORTED 3D CAD RENDERING FILES

Leaked 3D CAD files shared by Sonny Dickson appear to show the design of Apple's rumored foldable iPhone, often called the iPhone Fold. The renders suggest a dual-camera bump similar to the iPhone Air, rounded corners opposite the hinge, and a layout showing both the internal display with a front camera and the external screen when the device is closed.