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OpenAI's Symphony Proved the Opposite of What It Was Supposed to Prove
Gabriella Gonzalez tested OpenAI's Symphony project — their flagship example of spec-driven code generation — and it failed to produce a working implementation. The spec itself was 1/6 the length of the Elixir codebase and contained literal pseudocode.
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Anthropic's Cowork Dispatch Is Now on Every Claude Pro Account
Anthropic has finished rolling out Claude Dispatch to 100% of Claude Pro users. The update gives Claude Pro subscribers a simple way to trigger Cowork tasks from any device while the real work continues on their desktop machine.
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Google Stitch Ships a Canvas That Writes Code, PRDs, and Design Rules in One Surface
Google Stitch rolled out a new canvas experience today that collapses the gap between design and code. The update brings prompt-to-UI generation, a context-aware agent, and DESIGN.md — a portable file format for carrying design rules across tools.
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81,000 People Described Their Ideal AI Future — Most of Them Just Want to Go Home on Time
Anthropic's 81,000-person global survey — the largest qualitative AI study ever — reveals that when people describe their ideal AI future, a third of them want work to take up less of their lives.
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Perplexity Opens Comet Enterprise and Turns the Browser Into a Managed AI Workspace
Perplexity launched Comet Enterprise on March 17, 2026, bringing its AI browser to managed teams with deployment controls, telemetry, and browser policies built for IT.
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A Million TPUs, a Locked Contract, and No TSMC Capacity Until 2027
Google sold a million TPUs to Anthropic before realizing how valuable that compute would become. Now TSMC is sold out and Google cannot meaningfully increase its own allocation until 2027.
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Stripe and Tempo Launch MPP for Machine-to-Machine Payments
Stripe and Tempo launched the Machine Payments Protocol as an open standard for machine-to-machine payments, with Tempo Mainnet live and Stripe handling agent transactions through its existing payments infrastructure.
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37.4% Is the Best Any Model Could Do on ServiceNow's New Enterprise Agent Benchmark
Claude Opus 4.5 reached 37.4% on ServiceNow Research's new EnterpriseOps-Gym benchmark, the top result among 14 frontier models. The bigger signal is why: human-authored plans lifted performance by 14 to 35 points, which says planning is still the weak link in enterprise agents.
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NVIDIA Open-Sourced OpenShell to Put Autonomous Agents Inside a Real Security Boundary
NVIDIA open-sourced OpenShell under Apache 2.0, introducing an alpha runtime for autonomous AI agents with kernel-level sandboxing, granular policy enforcement, and private inference routing.
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Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem Finally Has a $4 Answer
Benjamin Bloom’s 1984 2 Sigma Problem sat unsolved for four decades: one-to-one tutoring beat classroom instruction by two standard deviations, but the economics never worked at scale. Khan Academy now has 2 million Khanmigo users, 731% year-over-year growth, and a $4-per-month product built around guided learning rather than answer vending.
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Stanford Found AI Chatbots Affirmed Users Nearly 66% of the Time. That Is a Business Risk.
Stanford researchers reviewed more than 391,000 messages across nearly 5,000 conversations and found AI chatbots affirmed user messages in nearly 66% of responses, often validating distorted or delusional thinking.
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Claw Compactor Compresses LLM Context by 54% Without a Single Inference Call
Claw Compactor, an open-source zero-dependency token compression engine, hit the Hacker News front page today. Its 14-stage deterministic Fusion Pipeline cuts LLM API context by 54% on average — 82% on JSON — with no ML inference overhead, reversible via hash-addressed RewindStore.
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