• Iranian Missiles Take AWS Bahrain, Dubai Offline
  • Amazon declares 'hard down' status for multiple AZs
  • Both Gulf regions deemed unavailable for extended period
  • Tom's Hardware
• Anthropic Charges Extra for Third-Party Harnesses
  • OpenClaw and others no longer covered by Claude subscription limits
  • Pay-as-you-go or API key required as of April 4 at noon PT
  • TechCrunch, Engadget
• Meta Gags 'Careless People' Author
  • Sarah Wynn-Williams banned from saying anything negative about Meta
  • Book alleged sex harassment and censorship inside the company
  • The Times
• YC Quietly Drops Delve Over Fake Certs
  • Profile removed from YC startup directory without announcement
  • Allegations: Delve fabricated compliance certificates
  • Techmeme
• Copilot Hits Goals; Only 3% Were Paying
  • Judson Althoff told staff of 'big audacious goals' in Q3
  • Just 3% of Microsoft customers paid for Copilot as of January
  • Techmeme

• PrismML Releases Energy-Sipping 1-Bit Bonsai 8B
  • 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient than comparable 8B models
  • Caltech spinout targets mobile and edge AI deployment
  • The Register
• Generalist Ships GEN-1 for Robot Dexterity
  • Company raised $140M at $440M valuation in 2025
  • Model targets high-dexterity tasks typically performed by humans
  • Techmeme
• Apple Signs Tiny Corp Driver for Nvidia eGPUs on Arm
  • Supports AMD and Nvidia eGPUs for LLM workloads, not graphics
  • No SIP disable needed; compile via Docker
  • The Verge, Techmeme
• Study: Most Users Surrender to Faulty AI Reasoning
  • 1,372 participants and 9,000+ trials; researchers call it 'cognitive surrender'
  • Subjects showed minimal skepticism even when AI reasoning was wrong
  • Techmeme

• Planet Labs Blacks Out Iran Conflict Imagery
  • US government formally requested indefinite withholding of access
  • Signals wartime pressure on commercial satellite providers
  • Techmeme
• Inflation Seen Spiking in First Post-Iran War Data
  • Gasoline prices surged following Gulf conflict escalation
  • Key CPI snapshot due next week; markets bracing for print
  • Bloomberg
• White House AI Preemption Bid Stalls in Congress
  • Effort to override state AI laws rejected by multiple Democrats
  • Opposition dismissed the proposal as a partisan maneuver
  • Techmeme

• Karpathy Shares LLM 'Idea File' on GitHub
  • Gist earned 2,618 stars within hours of posting
  • Structured notes on LLM development framed as a living wiki
  • GitHub (Karpathy)
• Seat Pricing Is Dead: The Autopsy
  • Author argues seat tiers are 'zombie pricing' already replaced in practice
  • Traces SaaS pricing shift from seats toward usage-based models
  • seatpricing.rip
• Simon Willison on AI's Coding Inflection Point
  • Names GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 launches as the structural turning point
  • Describes growing 'exhaustion' from managing fleets of coding agents
  • Lenny's Newsletter