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March 9, 2026, 4:10 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
MacBook Neo thoughts, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources say Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone  —  Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake up the computer market.
Harvard Business Review:
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity  —  On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms …
Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI's robotics team, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's US DOD contract  —  Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
Nancy Scola / Politico:
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS  —  Korean giant's device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools
Wall Street Journal:
Kalshi is trying to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers and others; 26% of users now are women, up from 13% in May 2025  —  Kalshi wants to get more young women interested in the prediction-market platform, looking to expand beyond sports and its core male customer base.
Aaron Levie / @levie:
Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software  —  Building for trillions of agents — Over the past few months, something big has started to happen with agents.
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Lawsuit documents: two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth $100M+, to be cut for being related to DEI  —  Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.
Elizabeth Gibney / Nature:
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv  —  - Elizabeth Gibney  —  Search author on:  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  All major large language models (LLMs) …

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