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Top 10 — News
- Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world.
- YouTube CEO says the best YouTubers will ‘never leave their home’ CEO Neal Mohan insisted that he isn’t worried about Netflix luring away YouTube's most popular creators.
- Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC Why did a leading prediction market feel the need for an in-person bar in DC?
- Anthropic reportedly views itself as the antidote to OpenAI’s “tobacco industry” approach to AI Anthropic grew out of more than just concern for AI safety—it was born from a bitter power struggle and personal conflict at OpenAI.
- I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier.
- ChatGPT won’t let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it…
- Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567969 Points: 180…
- Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week Article URL: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
- Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options? Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.
- The Pixel 10a doesn’t have a camera bump, and it’s great
The Google Pixel 10a can lay flat on a table, but otherwise the company hasn't brought a ton of upgrades to its newest budget smartphone.
AI tools & model updates
- Anthropic’s new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap Anthropic's second Economic Index tracks how Claude usage is evolving across the economy.
- openai/openai-node: v6.33.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.30.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openrouter==0.2.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- huggingface/transformers: Release v5.4.0: PaddlePaddle models 🙌, Mistral 4, PI0, VidEoMT, UVDoc, SLANeXt, Jina Embeddings v3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.8.12 Release update (see link for changelog).
- AWS Step Functions adds 28 new service integrations, including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with 28 additional services and over 1,100 new API actions across new and existing AWS…
- run-llama/llama_index: v0.14.19 Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world.
CEO Neal Mohan insisted that he isn’t worried about Netflix luring away YouTube's most popular creators.
Why did a leading prediction market feel the need for an in-person bar in DC?
Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.
The Google Pixel 10a can lay flat on a table, but otherwise the company hasn't brought a ton of upgrades to its newest budget smartphone.
Amazon’s bet on “Project Hail Mary” has paid off handsomely.
Is this just normal corporate strategy, or are we about to see a broader pullback on AI-generated video?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.
AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building pl…
The latest app from the team behind Bluesky is Attie, an AI assistant that lets you build your own algorithm.
It's rare for a movie to get technology right.
Amazon loves to manufacture an event.
The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve.
In the coming years, HBO wants its new Harry Potter series to become "the streaming event of the decade" as it adapts each of the franchise…
Bird feeders have come a long way since their inception in the early 1900s.
Apple's most legendary computer has two legacies: there's the computer itself, and there's the commercial.
Anthropic grew out of more than just concern for AI safety—it was born from a bitter power struggle and personal conflict at OpenAI.
Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier.
An Australian AI consultant used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and Grok to find a possible treatment for his dog Rosie's incurable cancer.
OpenAI is pulling the plug on Sora, its AI video generation tool, in a two-stage shutdown starting April 2026.
A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label…
Researchers from four US universities have built a framework that improves AI agents during operation.
Researchers at Meta and several universities have developed "hyperagents," AI systems that don't just solve tasks, but also optimize the ve…
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South Korean internet giant Naver built a video world model grounded in actual city geometry from over a million of its own Street View ima…
Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it…
US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is betting big on AI-driven drug development, signing a $2.75 billion deal with Hong Kong-listed Insilico…
A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this we…
As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Al…
Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process.
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567969 Points: 180…
Article URL: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Article URL: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpected-sunbathers-live-longer-201606069738 Comments URL: https://news.…
Article URL: https://github.com/dreddnafious/thereisnospoon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568080 Points: 56 # Commen…
Article URL: https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Crazierl is an experimental/hobby operating system based around BEAM.
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260327-the-road-signs-that-teach-travellers-about-france Comments URL: https://news.ycomb…
Article URL: https://isp.netscape.com/news/story/0001/20260329/e4d8ea591b3b036142c2bf2dee7dff5a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
Article URL: https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566442 Points: 263…
Article URL: https://bramcohen.com/p/more-on-version-control Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566332 Points: 55 # Comme…
Article URL: https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/train/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566140 Points: 58 # C…
Article URL: https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/ Comments URL:…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-computer-history.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564579 Poin…
Article URL: https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape-recorder-4/ Comments URL: ht…
Article URL: https://github.com/DavidHavoc/ayaFlow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563978 Points: 85 # Comments: 4
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=475633…
Article URL: https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561819 Points: 290 # Comments: 212
Article URL: https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-overestimation-of-microplastics-u-m-study-reveals/ Comments URL: htt…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
Anthropic's second Economic Index tracks how Claude usage is evolving across the economy.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
LiteLLM Hack: Were You One of the 47,000?
AI models don't know about their own updates after training.
Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a1 New release of the base plugin that makes models from LLM available for use by other Datasette plugins such as…
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI models tell people what they want to hear nearly 50 percent more often than other humans do.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack Callum McMahon reported the LiteLLM malware attack to PyPI.
AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with 28 additional services and over 1,100 new API actions across new and existing AWS…
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies via a single…
Today, AWS announces the ability to remotely connect from Kiro and Cursor IDEs to Amazon SageMaker Studio.
Release update (see link for changelog).
The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatically caching JDBC queries with Valkey , including Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey caches.
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region.
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region.
Release update (see link for changelog).
AWS announces the Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, enabling developers to easily build, deploy, troubleshoot, and manage serverless applica…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, AWS announces remote connection from Cursor IDE to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio via the AWS Toolkit extension.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now enables customers to configure Chrome Enterprise policies for AgentCore Browser and specify custom root Certif…
AWS Batch now supports quota management with job preemption for SageMaker Training jobs, enabling you to efficiently allocate and share com…
Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region (ap-northeast-1).
Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region (eu-central-1).
Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Europe (London) region (eu-west-2).
Google DeepMind researches AI's harmful manipulation risks across areas like finance and health, leading to new safety measures.