Sunday, March 22, 2026

AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market  —  The AI sprint is hurtling toward a world where anyone can build personal concierges to do everything from executive presentations to March Madness brackets



A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year (Yue Wang/Forbes)

Yue Wang / Forbes:
A look at Huawei-backed Yuanjie, a maker of photonic chips used in AI data center optical interconnects, whose stock has surged 780% over the past year  —  Huawei-backed Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology makes photonic chips used in optical interconnects in AI data centers.



A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg:
A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe  —  Bitmain has been dogged for years by questions about the security of its mining rigs.  But that hasn't stopped it from going into business with a key member of the First Family.



An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte (Not Boring by Packy McCormick)

Not Boring by Packy McCormick:
An essay on the history, theory, progress, and potential of world models, a prominent theme at Nvidia GTC 2026, co-written by General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte  —  Welcome to the 458 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since our last essay!  Join 260,170 smart, curious folks by subscribing here:



Saturday, March 21, 2026

Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom  —  One of the most popular ways to view the Epstein Files, an interface called Jmail that mimics a Gmail inbox, is hosted on Guillermo Rauch's $9.3 billion unicorn Vercel.



Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic's momentum with business customers  —  OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of the year as it accelerates a push to sell to businesses and gain ground …



A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)

Chang Che / The Guardian:
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments  —  How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots?  I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out



How internet censorship tech maker Sandvine, a vendor to repressive regimes like Egypt, nearly collapsed before US restrictions forced new ownership and a pivot (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : How internet censorship tech maker Sandvine, a vendor to repressive regimes like Egypt, nearly collapsed bef...