Apple's new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599 (2 minute read)
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.
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Meta Tests AI Shopping Research Tool to Rival ChatGPT, Gemini (2 minute read)
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
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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The Architecture Behind Open-Source LLMs (11 minute read)
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.
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Your Agent Needs a Harness, Not a Framework (13 minute read)
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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There is exactly one way that SaaS can be saved (6 minute read)
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.
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Clawed (22 minute read)
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 logic.
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Anthropic and Alignment (22 minute read)
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.
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