Daily Brief Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI? March 12, 2026 Michelle The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US governmen...
Research How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater March 12, 2026 Michelle This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “Anyone wanna host a get together…
Products How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the w March 12, 2026 Michelle Pokémon Go was the world’s first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by the Google spinout Niantic, the AR twist on the juggernaut Pokémon franchise fast became a global ph...
Research Agentic Control Center for Data Product Optimization March 12, 2026 Michelle arXiv:2603.10133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data products enable end users to gain greater insights about their data by providing supporting assets, such as example question-S...
Products Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze March 12, 2026 Michelle Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast. Feng, a 27-year-old software engineer…
Daily Brief Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought March 11, 2026 Michelle Forethought was years ahead of its time and the 2018 winner of TechCrunch Battlefield....
Daily Brief 3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sci March 11, 2026 Michelle Professor Jesse Thaler describes a vision for a two-way bridge between artificial intelligence and the mathematical and physical sciences — one that promises to advance both....
Daily Brief Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex March 11, 2026 Michelle Rakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in weeks....
Funding Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B March 11, 2026 Michelle Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year's end....