Me: Can you tell me about [thing]? Claude: ah, yes. You’re probably asking because of your interest in [other thing], and honestly, those two things have more in common than you even realize. [Bastardized version of [thing] that contorts it to fit [other thing].]
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Weekly Optimist Roundup: mRNA Cancer Vaccine to Robot Bio Labs
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results
SpaceX buys Cursor option
Fervo files S-1
Humble unstealths cabless truck
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Weekly Tech Breakthroughs: Geothermal, AI, Water, and Neuroscience
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Quaise 1st superhot geothermal plant
Panthalassa wave-powered lollipop AI DC
Vital Lyfe Access drinkable water in a box
Sabi hat that can read your mind
Prophetic dream lucidity
Salk Lab gets $41.3M Sonogenetics +Science Breakthroughs + Friedberg What a week for the optimists. -
AI Companies Drive NYC Office Space Leasing Surge
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My friend and broker from the Breather days, Ramsey Fehrer at CBRE, shared NYC tech leasing data they pulled for a client recently. AI is eating NYC office space.
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AI Agent Hits Token Limit Fetching and Parsing PDFs
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and another one! "I'm out of tokens to actually fetch and parse those PDFs in this turn"
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Claude Hits Search Budget Limit Mid-Message in Fresh Chat
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Claude just told me it "ran out of search budget" halfway through the first message in a fresh chat. Is this new?
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Weekly AI Highlights: Alzheimer’s, Chips, Robotics, and More
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OpenAI + Arc team up on Alzheimer's.
Substrate + Google DeepMind work on chips.
Syncere's Lume lamp can fold your laundry.
Humans travel farther than ever from Earth.
Primer releases The Orator.
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Weekly Roundup: Moon, OpenAI Acquisition, Gemma 4, Solar Efficiency
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We're going back to the fucking Moon.
OpenAI acquires TBPN.
Google DeepMind (what a great lab! hey guys!) releases Gemma 4.
Solar cells hit 130% efficiency (?).
Somos raises $40M. + Science Breakthroughs, grid, Bangalter What a week for the optimists. -
First RF Circuit Designed Autonomously From a Text Prompt
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The first RF circuit designed fully autonomously from a text prompt.
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Arena Physica Releases Heaviside EM Foundation Model
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In Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World, we hinted at Arena Physica's EM foundation model. They just released it: Heaviside. https://t.co/U3CUnqcYPp https://t.co/TE3OuiVMCh
— Packy McCormick (@packyM) 31 mars 2026In Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World, we hinted at Arena Physica's EM foundation model. They just released it: Heaviside. https://
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