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Granola Raises $125 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation for AI Notetaker Meta Pays. Anthropic Fights. OpenAI Subtracts. A Jury Said Meta Harmed Children. Investors Didn't Care. They Should. Anthropic Finds Skeptical Judge in Pentagon Supply Chain Hearing, Ruling Due This Week Arm Abandoned Neutrality. Its Biggest Customers Cheered. OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction. Granola Raises $125 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation for AI Notetaker Meta Pays. Anthropic Fights. OpenAI Subtracts. A Jury Said Meta Harmed Children. Investors Didn't Care. They Should. Anthropic Finds Skeptical Judge in Pentagon Supply Chain Hearing, Ruling Due This Week Arm Abandoned Neutrality. Its Biggest Customers Cheered. OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction.

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A Jury Said Meta Harmed Children. Investors Didn't Care. They Should.

A New Mexico jury needed less than a day to find Meta liable on every count, awarding $375 million. Meta's stock rose 5%. Investors did the math and moved on. But the fine was never the point. The verdict validated a legal playbook that sidesteps Section 230 and treats platforms as defective products. More than 40 state attorneys general now have a tested courtroom strategy. A bench trial in May won't ask what Meta should pay. It will ask what Meta should change.

By Maria Garcia · 11 min read · 2 hours ago

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The One Number

$2.1M — Sora's total lifetime revenue from a product burning an estimated $15 million per day in compute

From: OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction.

02 Vibe Coding

Vibe Coding

Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More

Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI share commands like /clear, /model, and @ file references. But similar commands behave differently across tools, context windows range from 192K to 1M tokens, and each company's strategic divergence tells a sharper story than the shared vocabulary.

Marcus Schuler · 12 min read · Mar 22

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Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes

Claude Code Channels launched without voice messaging. A 120-line patch and a Whisper server add it in 20 minutes, with cloud alternatives for those without GPU hardware. Plus: how OpenClaw's agent improvised voice transcription before anyone built support for it.

Marcus Schuler · 15 min read · Mar 20

Vibe Coding

Cursor Ships Composer 2, Beating Anthropic's Opus 4.6 at One-Tenth the Token Cost

73% — Anthropic's share of first-time enterprise AI spending, up from a 50/50 tie with OpenAI in January

Marcus Schuler · 10 min read · Mar 19

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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

AI token prices fell 99% in three years. Enterprise value now flows to orchestration, data flywheels, workflow integration, and compliance.

Marcus Schuler · 28 min read · Mar 24

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OpenClaw Setup Guide. From Install to Autonomous Agent

Set up OpenClaw from scratch with Telegram, model fallbacks, memory, custom skills, and cron jobs. Every config block explained.

Marcus Schuler · 12 min read · Mar 17

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From Shoebox to Spreadsheet. Build an AI Tax Pipeline With Paperless-ngx and Claude

A step-by-step tutorial for automating tax document sorting with Paperless-ngx, Paperless-AI, and Claude via MCP. Annual AI cost: under $25.

Marcus Schuler · 22 min read · Mar 10

From Today's Analysis

“A New Mexico jury found Meta liable on all counts, awarding $375 million. Meta's stock rose 5%. But the fine was never the point. The verdict handed 40 state attorneys general a tested legal playbook that sidesteps Section 230. The next phase will decide what Meta must change.”

From: A Jury Said Meta Harmed Children. Investors Didn't Care. They Should.

05 Deep Dives

Analysis

Google Called It an Experiment. The Last One Became Permanent in a Month.

Google's AI is rewriting publisher headlines in search results with no label or disclosure. The company calls it a small experiment, but that's exactly what it said about Discover headlines last December. That test became permanent in four weeks. Publishers have already lost 34 percent of Google search referrals. Now the last element they controlled in results is being replaced by machine-generated text that has already reversed the meaning of at least one article.

Maria Garcia Mar 23 · Analysis

A Jury Said Meta Harmed Children. Investors Didn't Care. They Should.

Granola Raises $125 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation for AI Notetaker

Meta Pays. Anthropic Fights. OpenAI Subtracts.

Your Router Banned. Your Desktop Commandeered. Your Headlines Rewritten.

FCC Blocks New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers From US Sale in Sweeping Security Order

Anthropic Gives Claude Full Control of Mac Desktops in Agent Push Against OpenClaw

Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More

Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes

Cursor Ships Composer 2, Beating Anthropic's Opus 4.6 at One-Tenth the Token Cost

The analysis your competitors are reading.

The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

OpenClaw Setup Guide. From Install to Autonomous Agent

From Shoebox to Spreadsheet. Build an AI Tax Pipeline With Paperless-ngx and Claude

Google Called It an Experiment. The Last One Became Permanent in a Month.

The analysis your competitors are reading.

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