Weds, March 25: Meta Cuts headcount & loses court cases; SpaceX IPO? UK bans crypto donations, Reddit verifying, Claude Code Autonomy++New post

The 70's were the brownest time in human history so far.

Tues, Mar 24, 2026: Arm's AGI CPU; Apple retools Siri & pushes Apple Business; NYSE 24/7 tokenized trading, Oracle Fusion Agents, big year for Revolut

For all Mankind renewed for 6th season. Looks like I'll have to watch the first 5.

Monday, March 23, 2026: Beware the Ads of March: Apple's putting ads in Maps, OpenAI hires ex-Meta ad leader. Pentagon locks in Palantir, Leonid Radvinsky passes away.

Much crypto drama has also happened.

The Weekender: OpenAI vows mass hiring; Musk's TERAFAB; Apple lifts external storage prices and Samsung finally speaks AirDrop.

Note the Teck [sic] in the AI generated banner haha

Friday March 20th: Record Mac sales, WhiteHouse AI policy, Kalshi Raises, Kalshi Blocked, Cursor 2 & BSKY Raise.

Enjoy your weekend!

Thursday, Mar 19, 2026: Uber writes a big check for Rivian robotaxis; NHTSA escalates Tesla FSD probe; Meta shifts moderation to AI, MLB + Polymarket

Today's Site Outage: Largely resolved; Apologies!

Weds, March 18: Micron making RAM is the new NVIDIA making GPUs. Apple blocks Replit; Microsoft's not happy about OpenAI / Amazon Tie Up.

Image Credit: Me; The Suzuki Jimny, the rugged simple little SUV that's forbidden fruit for North Americans. Pictured passing through Makati.

Tuesday, March 17: Mastercard and PayPal push onchain rails; OpenAI wins an AWS government contract and ships smaller GPT models, while Google and Microsoft double down on assistant features and team consolidation.

Image Credit: Me - sunrise over the Philippine Sea.

Monday, March 16: Meta buys 27B of Nebius compute, Micron accelerates DRAM, Nvidia sells robotaxi plans, Teens sue Grok & xAI, No-one thinks AdultGPT is a good idea

Well, I mean, I'm sure there's some people that are into it.

Thurs, March 12: Microsoft backs Anthropic; Atlassian downsizes, biggest Google Maps update in a decade; China cracks down on OpenClaw.

I'm charmed that AI images can still have bizarre hands (look at gesturing guy on the right - right hand on left arm, 3 fingers tops)

Weds, March 11: Iran threatens American companies; Meta buys Moltbook, Google buys Wiz for 32B, Replit raises at 9B, Nvidia launches (sigh) Nemoclaw

Big day for acquisitions.

Monday, Mar 9, 2026: Microsoft launches Copilot with Anthropic's Claude Cowork, Chatbots Misfire, Crypto Titans Buy Big, and Apple Delays Smart Home Devices.

I mean, why wouldn't Microsoft launch an Anthropic-powered Copilot??

Burying the Lede Fridays: Softbank borrows 40B to finance OpenAI; Google goes CLI, XBox becomes Helix, M5 Rules.

Plus: Epic’s Tim Sweeney barred from speaking out: The settlement restricts public criticism of Google Play until 2032.

Thurs, March 5: China's 5 year tech plan, Bitcoin's back, Anthropic's branded a supply chain risk.

Weds, March 4: OpenAI takes on... GitHub? Google drops Play Store fees, Apple M5 and Macbook Neo.

Does the Neo run iOS or MacOS?

Monday, Mar 2, 2026: Nvidia $4bn photonics investment; Apple iPhone 17e, Bitcoin rallies, Anthropic goes down, also: TURN OFF YOUR OPENCLAW

Plus: the inexplicably overpowered M4 iPad Air

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday: Devices - Apple's big week ahead; Honor, Huawei, and Xiaomi annoucements set the stage.

Friday, Feb 27, 2026: OpenAI Banks $110bn Amid Shifts: Meta Rents Google TPU; Block Downsizes, Netflix Pulls Out, and Duolingo Falters

OpenAI wins with 700B

Thursday, Feb 26, 2026: Nvidia Shatters $68.1B Quarter, Amazon Mulls $50B OpenAI Bet, NanoBanana 2 in the wild

Anthropic retires Claude 3 Opus - will it be missed like ChatGPT 4o?

Weds, Feb 25, 2026: Samsung S26 family launches, iPhone Fold starts production, OpenClaw drama, Google Disrupts Espionage, Anthropic Alters AI Safety

Phones phones phones! Samsung S26 gets launched, and Apple (apparently) starts iPhone Fold production.

Tues, Feb 24, 2026: AMD and Meta Rev Up AI Power with Giga Chip Pact; Stripe buying Paypal?? Bitcoin and Anthropic Under Pressure; Apple manufacturing in Houston

Stripe buying Paypal is the story of this era: incumbents becoming disruptors and then getting disrupted once they're incumbents

Claude Jolts IBM, ASML Hits 1000W, Google Swings the Ban Hammer, Nvidia Invades Windows Laptops, and OpenAI Eyes a Smart Speaker

I'm really looking forward to the flowering of weird AI devices coming - Apple's pin and camera-equipped AirPods, OpenAI's smart lamp and speaker - bring it on

Friday, Feb 20, 2026: AI safety meets the War Machine, Gemini 3.1 Pro lights a fire, Bitcoin Stalls, ATM Malware Threatens, Tesla & AWS Face Scrutiny

Fun new word to start off your weekend: ATM Jackpotting

Thursday, Feb 19, 2026: Microsoft Copilot Glitch Sparks Enterprise Alarm, Klarna Surges, Google drops Gemini 3.1 Pro and 2x's thinking performance

Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026: Meta inks mega Nvidia deal, Tesla ditches Autopilot branding, and laser‐etched glass hints at data immortality.

Lots going on today, but the big news is a top tier phone with a FLAT BACK (no camera bump!) --- the Google Pixel 10a. Its been a long time...!