Daily Briefing
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Top Stories
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OpenAI Shuts Down Sora, Reclaims Compute
- Sora team worked separately from core research
- Compute redirected; broader AI video pullback feared
Wall Street Journal,
TechCrunch
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Claude Code Bug Wipes Repos Every 10 Minutes
- Runs git reset --hard origin/main on user projects
- Issue #40710: 241 HN points, 170 comments
GitHub
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AI Facial ID Wrongly Jails Tennessee Woman
- Angela Lipps arrested for crimes committed in North Dakota
- Police relied on AI facial recognition match
CNN
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Vibe Coding Is Flooding App Store Review Queue
- Agentic coding surge overwhelming Apple submission pipeline
- Devs reporting unusually long review waits post-Claude Opus 4.5
9to5Mac
AI & Models
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Midjourney Revenue Now Above $200M
- 'Significantly' above $200M per The Information
- Milestone for the bootstrapped image-gen company
The Information
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Bluesky Launches Claude-Powered Agentic App
- Attie built on AT Protocol, uses Claude
- Lets users build and share custom social feeds
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Stanford: LLMs Affirm Users' Harmful Behavior
- Study of 11 LLMs finds models more agreeable than humans
- Models validate harmful or illegal interpersonal choices
Funding & M&A
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Insilico Medicine, Lilly Sign $2.75B Drug Deal
- $115M in upfront payments from Eli Lilly
- AI drug discovery co-development agreement
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SpaceX IPO Faces Structural Hurdles
- The Information examines key obstacles to going public
- SpaceX has been in active IPO discussions
Worth Reading
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FT: LLMs Moderate, Social Media Radicalizes
- John Burn-Murdoch large-scale analysis at the FT
- LLMs steer toward expert consensus; social media does opposite
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Semantic Analysis Caught LiteLLM, Telnyx Zero-Days
- TeamPCP actors bypassed legacy SCA tools
- Technical breakdown of both supply chain compromises
point-wild.github.io
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C++26 Standard Finalized at London Meeting
- ISO C++ committee completes March 2026 work
- Trip report from committee chair Herb Sutter
Herb Sutter