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APPLE'S NEW IPHONE 17E HAS AN A19 CHIP, MAGSAFE, AND 256GB OF STORAGE
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Apple has introduced a new iPhone in March for the second year in a
row. The iPhone 17e is a basic, no-frills iPhone that features an A19
chip with four GPU cores and an Apple C1X cellular modem. The phone
supports Apple Intelligence and MagSafe charging. It will be available
for preorder on March 4 for a March 11 launch. The base 256GB model
will cost $599, while an upgraded 512GB model will be available for
$799.
META TESTS AI SHOPPING RESEARCH TOOL TO RIVAL CHATGPT, GEMINI (2
MINUTE READ) [10]
Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its AI chatbot. The
feature responds with carousels of product images with captions
containing information about brands, websites, and prices. The
chatbot's recommendations are tailored to users' location and other
details when applicable. It is unclear whether Meta currently receives
referral commissions for its chatbot recommendations or whether the AI prioritizes brands that already advertise with Meta.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
ELON MUSK OUTLINES PLAN FOR FIRST STARSHIP TOWER CATCH ATTEMPT (1
MINUTE READ) [11]
SpaceX will attempt to catch Starship's upper stage with its launch
tower after two perfect soft landings in the ocean. Starship V3 Ship 1
is now headed for ground tests. The vehicle is designed for full
reusability. The first Starship V3 flight of 2026 will likely occur
this month.
FIRST-EVER IN-UTERO STEM CELL THERAPY FOR FETAL SPINA BIFIDA REPAIR
IS SAFE, STUDY FINDS (3 MINUTE READ) [12]
A research team at UC Davis Health has safely performed a spina
bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells. The therapy
involved adding a layer of human placenta-derived stem cells to
standard fetal surgery. Putting stem cells into a growing fetus was a
total unknown, but the team reported great safety. The success paves
the way for new treatment options for children with birth defects.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
THE ARCHITECTURE BEHIND OPEN-SOURCE LLMS (11 MINUTE READ) [13]
In the open-weight ecosystem, teams build on each other's innovations
to compound the pace of progress. This post looks at various open
source models and the engineering bets that define each one. Every
major open-weight model released at the frontier since 2025 uses a Mixture-of-Experts transformer architecture. Almost every 'open
source' model is actually open weight - this means the trained
parameters are public, but the training data and often the full
training code are not.
YOUR AGENT NEEDS A HARNESS, NOT A FRAMEWORK (13 MINUTE READ) [14]
A harness is a layer that connects, protects, and orchestrates
components without doing the work itself. Every agent framework is
trying to build its own harness from scratch, but durable,
event-driven infrastructure already solves this. Utah (Universally
Triggered Agent Harness) is a conversational Telegram or Slack agent
with tools, memory, sub-agent delegation, and full durability - a
durable, cloud-ready OpenClaw. It was created to prove that durable, event-driven infrastructure can be used to create an agent harness
that decouples orchestration from the agentic loop.
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MISCELLANEOUS
THERE IS EXACTLY ONE WAY THAT SAAS CAN BE SAVED (6 MINUTE READ) [15]
Intercom found success as a late-stage SaaS company in AI. Three
years ago, its future was looking pretty bleak as the company was
heading quickly towards negative growth. It launched a new service
agent called Fin in the summer of 2023, after which its business began
to violently recover. The process involved destroying many parts of
the business and creating new things. It was difficult, but the
company is now at $400M ARR overall, with overall growth rates
doubling for the past two years.
CLAWED (22 MINUTE READ) [16]
US policy has become increasingly unpredictable, thuggish, arbitrary,
and capricious. Even if threats against Anthropic are scaled back,
great damage has been done. The government has shown that it will
treat homegrown companies like a foreign adversary simply for refusing
to capitulate to its terms of business - for having its own opinions
on how to, or how not to, deploy its own property. Companies
cooperating with the US government will now have to operate under this
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STRIPE WANTS TO TURN YOUR AI COSTS INTO A PROFIT CENTER (2 MINUTE
READ) [19]
Stripe is introducing a new feature that will allow companies to
charge an automatic markup on token usage.
ANTHROPIC AND ALIGNMENT (22 MINUTE READ) [20]
The US government was always going to use AI for whatever purposes it
desired, regardless of provider - the way to address this is with new
laws and through strengthening accountable oversight.
GO IS THE BEST LANGUAGE FOR AI AGENTS (12 MINUTE READ) [21]
Go exists in a sweet spot of usability, performance, and ubiquity
that makes it a very good fit for agents.
SPACEX PURSUES 5G-LEVEL CONNECTIVITY WITH STARLINK MOBILE V2
EXPANSION (2 MINUTE READ) [22]
SpaceX's upcoming Starlink V2 satellites will deliver up to 100 times
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MINUTE READ) [23]
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