Weekly Digest
A weekly roll-up of the most important items across my daily digests.
Weekly roll-up (for bookmarking). Each week links to the daily issues and surfaces a few highlights.
2026-W14 (2026-03-30 → 2026-04-05)
Issues: 2026-03-30 · 2026-03-31
Highlights — News
- Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war (The Verge)
- YouTube CEO says the best YouTubers will ‘never leave their home’ (TechCrunch)
- Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC (Ars Technica)
- Anthropic reportedly views itself as the antidote to OpenAI's "tobacco industry" approach to AI (The Decoder (AI))
- I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often (WIRED - AI)
- The Pentagon’s culture war tactic against Anthropic has backfired (MIT Technology Review)
- Authors' lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting (Ars Technica)
- Meta starts testing a premium subscription on Instagram (TechCrunch)
- 150 million users later, Roblox competitor Rec Room is shutting down (The Verge)
- [AINews] The Last 4 Jobs in Tech (Latent Space (AI newsletter))
Highlights — AI tools
- Anthropic's new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap (The Decoder (AI))
- openai/openai-node: v6.33.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- openai/openai-python: v2.30.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable (Google DeepMind Blog)
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openrouter==0.2.1 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
- Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is now available in the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor (AWS What's New (Recent Announcements))
- Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork more broadly and lets AI models check each other's work (The Decoder (AI))
- Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
2026-W13 (2026-03-23 → 2026-03-29)
Issues: 2026-03-23 · 2026-03-24 · 2026-03-26 · 2026-03-27 · 2026-03-28
Highlights — News
- Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla (TechCrunch)
- There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40 (Ars Technica)
- Musk says he’s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas (The Verge)
- What Happens If AI Makes Things Too Easy for Us? (IEEE Spectrum)
- Teaching Claude to QA a mobile app (Hacker News (front page))
- After hackers hit an Iowa company, cars around the country failed to start (Ars Technica)
- Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones (TechCrunch)
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ (The Verge)
- Meta acqui-hires Dreamer's entire team to bolster its lagging AI agent ambitions (The Decoder (AI))
- Claude Code Cheat Sheet (Hacker News (front page))
Highlights — AI tools
- OpenAI publishes a prompting playbook that helps designers get better frontend results from GPT-5.4 (The Decoder (AI))
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.18.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.86.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python)
- microsoft/semantic-kernel: vectordata-dotnet-10.1.0 (GitHub Releases - microsoft/semantic-kernel)
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.12 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.18.1 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
- openai/openai-node: v6.33.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- openai/openai-python: v2.30.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
2026-W12 (2026-03-16 → 2026-03-22)
Issues: 2026-03-17 · 2026-03-18 · 2026-03-19 · 2026-03-20 · 2026-03-21 · 2026-03-22
Highlights — News
- Nvidia’s version of OpenClaw could solve its biggest problem: security (TechCrunch)
- RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine changes to CDC vaccine guidance blocked by judge (Ars Technica)
- Nvidia says China’s BYD and Geely will use its robotaxi platform (The Verge)
- [AINews] NVIDIA GTC: Jensen goes hard on OpenClaw, Vera CPU, and announces $1T sales backlog in 2027 (Latent Space (AI newsletter))
- Utilities Study How to Protect Grids From Rising Physical Threats (IEEE Spectrum)
- The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says (MIT Technology Review)
- Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise (TechCrunch)
- Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app (Ars Technica)
- I went to the Pentagon to watch Pete Hegseth scold war reporters (The Verge)
- Why Anthropic Thinks AI Should Have Its Own Computer — Felix Rieseberg of Claude Cowork & Claude Code Desktop (Latent Space (AI newsletter))
Highlights — AI tools
- OpenAI's biggest problem may not be building AI but getting companies to actually use it beyond ChatGPT (The Decoder (AI))
- openai/openai-node: v6.31.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- Quoting A member of Anthropic’s alignment-science team (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
- Inside NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX: The Low-Latency Inference Accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform (NVIDIA Developer Blog)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.79.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript)
- OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 mini and nano, faster and more capable but up to 4x pricier (The Decoder (AI))
- openai/openai-python: v2.29.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- openai/openai-node: v6.32.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, which can describe 76,000 photos for $52 (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.4.0 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
2026-W11 (2026-03-09 → 2026-03-15)
Issues: 2026-03-11 · 2026-03-12 · 2026-03-13 · 2026-03-14
Highlights — News
- Google brings Gemini in Chrome to India (TechCrunch)
- Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency's own risk guidelines (Ars Technica)
- Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic (WIRED - AI)
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition (Krebs on Security)
- LLM as a Meta-Judge: Synthetic Data for NLP Evaluation Metric Validation (arXiv cs.CL (Computation and Language))
- 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns (Ars Technica)
- Netflix may have paid $600 million for Ben Affleck’s AI startup (TechCrunch)
- One of Grammarly’s ‘experts’ is suing the company over its identity-stealing AI feature (The Verge)
- Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code (Hacker News (front page))
- Preliminary data from a longitudinal AI impact study (Hacker News (front page))
Highlights — AI tools
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports stateful MCP server features (AWS What's New (Recent Announcements))
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.11 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
- I Used Google’s New Gemini-Powered ‘Help Me Create’ Tool in Docs. It’s Great at Corporate-Speak (WIRED - AI)
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.14-stable.gpt-5.4-patch7 (GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm)
- Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps (The Decoder (AI))
- OpenAI's new training dataset teaches AI models which instructions to trust (The Decoder (AI))
- Introducing Nemotron 3 Super: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE for Agentic Reasoning (NVIDIA Developer Blog)
- Nvidia steps into the open-source AI gap that OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic left behind (The Decoder (AI))
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.17.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM: v1.2.0 (GitHub Releases - NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM)
2026-W10 (2026-03-02 → 2026-03-08)
Issues: 2026-03-02 · 2026-03-03 · 2026-03-04 · 2026-03-05 · 2026-03-06
Highlights — News
- Consultation on social media ban for under-16s to begin (BBC News - Business)
- Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions (The Guardian - Business)
- OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon (TechCrunch)
- ElevenLabs and Google dominate Artificial Analysis' updated speech-to-text benchmark (The Decoder (AI))
- Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python (Hacker News (front page))
- China’s high-rise hog farms go international (Financial Times - World)
- 'I've given up on hospitality. The £15,000 pay isn't worth the stress' (BBC News - Business)
- ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal (TechCrunch)
- A gas shock – not an oil shock – from the Iran war looks more threatening | Nils Pratley (The Guardian - Business)
- Anthropic upgrades Claude’s memory to attract AI switchers (The Verge)
Highlights — AI tools
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.8.7 (GitHub Releases - open-webui/open-webui)
- AI can link fake online names to real identities in minutes for just a few dollars (The Decoder (AI))
- Quoting claude.com/import-memory (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
- OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership (OpenAI Blog (releases-only))
- Building Telco Reasoning Models for Autonomous Networks with NVIDIA NeMo (NVIDIA Developer Blog)
- ‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union (WIRED - AI)
- microsoft/semantic-kernel: python-1.40.0 (GitHub Releases - microsoft/semantic-kernel)
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.8.8 (GitHub Releases - open-webui/open-webui)
- Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds metadata sync with third-party catalogs (AWS What's New (Recent Announcements))
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.14-stable (GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm)
2026-W09 (2026-02-23 → 2026-03-01)
Issues: 2026-02-23 · 2026-02-25 · 2026-02-26 · 2026-02-27 · 2026-02-28 · 2026-03-01
Highlights — News
- Ukraine blames Russia for ‘terrorist attack’ in Lviv (Financial Times - World)
- US will not back out of its tariff deals with UK and others, says Trump trade representative (The Guardian - Business)
- The uncertainties facing businesses and consumers after Trump's tariff changes (BBC News - Business)
- Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it doesn’t fire board member Susan Rice (TechCrunch)
- America desperately needs new privacy laws (The Verge)
- Aussie and Kiwi dollars surge as traders position for global interest rate rises (Financial Times - World)
- Energy bills to fall in April after charges shake-up (BBC News - Business)
- Using big data for good (MIT Technology Review)
- Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI defeats xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit (The Verge)
Highlights — AI tools
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: bedrock-sdk: v0.26.4 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.83.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python)
- microsoft/semantic-kernel: vectordata-dotnet-10.0.0 (GitHub Releases - microsoft/semantic-kernel)
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.12-stable (GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm)
- ollama/ollama: v0.16.3 (GitHub Releases - ollama/ollama)
- Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all bracing for Deepseek's next big release (The Decoder (AI))
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.15.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- openai/openai-python: v2.24.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- openai/openai-node: v6.25.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.3.4 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
2026-W08 (2026-02-16 → 2026-02-22)
Issues: 2026-02-16 · 2026-02-18 · 2026-02-19 · 2026-02-20 · 2026-02-22
Highlights — News
- FirstFT: Fund managers take most bearish position on dollar for a decade (Financial Times - World)
- Starmer cancels plans to delay 30 local council elections in England (Financial Times - World)
- Six of Sarah Ferguson's companies winding down (BBC News - Business)
- How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from years of harm (BBC News - Technology)
- Tuning into the future of collaboration (MIT Technology Review)
- Nvidia secures multibillion-dollar Meta deal as it battles chip rivals (Financial Times - Technology)
- A new era of US antitrust-lite leaves investors little better off (Financial Times - World)
- Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips (The Verge)
- Illegal skin lightening cream being sold in UK butchers, watchdog warns (BBC News - Business)
- I invested £12,000 in Brewdog - I think I've lost it all (BBC News - Business)
Highlights — AI tools
- OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK (WIRED - AI)
- Manus new "Agents" mode arrives on Telegram first despite Meta owning WhatsApp (The Decoder (AI))
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.9 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.8 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
- openai/openai-node: v6.22.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.14.1 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.10 (GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain)
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.14.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.75.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript)
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.80.11.gemini-metadata.dev (GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm)
2026-W07 (2026-02-09 → 2026-02-15)
Issues: 2026-02-09 · 2026-02-10 · 2026-02-12 · 2026-02-13 · 2026-02-14 · 2026-02-15
Highlights — News
- Japanese stocks soar to record after Takaichi landslide election win (Financial Times - World)
- Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison (Financial Times - World)
- The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers (BBC News - Business)
- Luxury travel takes off as plane makers chase Asia's super-rich (BBC News - Business)
- Ella Baron on Jeff Bezos’s cuts to the Washington Post – cartoon (The Guardian - Business)
- Russia’s shell output soars as it prepares for ‘next war’, warns Estonia (Financial Times - World)
- Daniel Ek and Peter Thiel-backed start-ups win German military drone contracts (Financial Times - World)
- A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions (MIT Technology Review)
- US consumer spending slowed in December - Is it a warning for the economy? (BBC News - Business)
- Wrapped helps Spotify add users despite artists' criticism over fees (BBC News - Business)
Highlights — AI tools
- openai/openai-node: v6.18.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- openai/openai-python: v2.17.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.79.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.74.0 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript)
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: foundry-sdk: v0.2.3 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript)
- OpenAI says ChatGPT is growing again, plans new model this week (The Decoder (AI))
- openai/openai-python: v2.20.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- openai/openai-node: v6.21.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
- openai/openai-python: v2.19.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- openai/openai-node: v6.20.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-node)
2026-W06 (2026-02-02 → 2026-02-08)
Issues: 2026-02-02 · 2026-02-04 · 2026-02-05 · 2026-02-06 · 2026-02-07
Highlights — News
- The Download: inside a deepfake marketplace, and EV batteries’ future (MIT Technology Review)
- AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing (BBC News - Technology)
- Viral AI personal assistant seen as step change – but experts warn of risks (The Guardian - Technology)
- Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps (TechCrunch)
- Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men (The Verge)
- Can Tesla make its own chips? (Financial Times - Technology)
- Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished (Ars Technica)
- Walmart becomes first retailer to hit $1tn market value (BBC News - Business)
- Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics (TechCrunch)
- Department of Justice appeals Google search monopoly ruling (The Verge)
Highlights — AI tools
- Chinese AI companies rush to ship new models before Lunar New Year (The Decoder (AI))
- ComfyUI v0.12.1 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- Gemini models dominate new AI rankings for strategic board games (The Decoder (AI))
- Accelerating long-context model training in JAX and XLA (NVIDIA Developer Blog)
- H Company's new Holo2 model takes the lead in UI Localization (Hugging Face Blog)
- Apple’s Xcode adds OpenAI and Anthropic’s coding agents (The Verge)
- Xcode 26.3 unlocks agentic coding (official announcement) (Apple Newsroom)
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.26 (GitHub Releases - modelcontextprotocol/servers)
- Chinese AI video model Kling 3.0 takes another step toward usable creative assets (The Decoder (AI))
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.77.1 (GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python)
2026-W05 (2026-01-26 → 2026-02-01)
Issues: 2026-01-26 · 2026-01-27 · 2026-01-28 · 2026-01-29 · 2026-01-30 · 2026-01-31 · 2026-02-01
Highlights — News
- Inside OpenAI’s big play for science (MIT Technology Review)
- Data center power outage took out TikTok first weekend under US ownership (Ars Technica)
- TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a US data center (TechCrunch)
- MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva (The Verge)
- MCP Apps, the Model Context Protocol's first official extension, turns AI responses into interactive interfaces (The Decoder (AI))
- Measles is surging in the US. Wastewater tracking could help. (MIT Technology Review)
- Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware (Ars Technica)
- ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data (The Verge)
- OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro solves math problems that stumped every AI model before it (The Decoder (AI))
Highlights — AI tools
- ChatGPT fails to spot 92% of fake videos made by OpenAI's own Sora tool (The Decoder (AI))
- Scaling NVFP4 Inference for FLUX.2 on NVIDIA Blackwell Data Center GPUs (NVIDIA Developer Blog)
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.14 (GitHub Releases - modelcontextprotocol/servers)
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.10.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
- Amazon Quick Suite launches expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type support for SPICE datasets (AWS What's New (Recent Announcements))
- First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general agent (Simon Willison (LLM/tools))
- [AINews] Anthropic launches the MCP Apps open spec, in Claude.ai (Latent Space (LLM/tools))
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.26 (GitHub Releases - modelcontextprotocol/servers)
- openai/openai-python: v2.16.0 (GitHub Releases - openai/openai-python)
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.11.0 (GitHub Releases - comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
2026-W04 (2026-01-19 → 2026-01-25)
Issues: 2026-01-20 · 2026-01-21 · 2026-01-22 · 2026-01-23 · 2026-01-24 · 2026-01-25
Highlights — News
- OpenAI partners with Cerebras (OpenAI Blog)
- Differential Transformer V2 (Hugging Face Blog)
- The Conversational Exam: A Scalable Assessment Design for the AI Era (arXiv)
- Open Responses: What you need to know (Hugging Face Blog)
- Evaluating 21st-Century Competencies in Postsecondary Curricula with Large Language Models: Performance Benchmarking and Reasoning-Based Prompting Strategies (arXiv)
- US regulator appeals Meta’s antitrust win (Financial Times - Technology)
- Global markets on alert as Europe to suspend approval of US trade deal (BBC News - Business)
- Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism (TechCrunch)
- Netflix earned $1.5 billion from ads in 2025 (The Verge)
- Dollar and US stocks fall as Trump says ‘no going back’ on Greenland bid (Financial Times - World)