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Monday, March 23 (Today)
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Cloudflare CEO predicts bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, driven by generative AI agents visiting up to 1,000x more websites than humans.
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Bluesky disclosed a $100M Series B it closed in 2025 while growing to 43M+ users, and Walmart secured patents for AI-driven dynamic pricing tools raising surveillance pricing concerns.
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TikTok is testing a vertical drama feed with AI-generated content currently free to watch, entering a format that generated $1.4B in the US in 2025.
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Elon Musk launched Terafab in Austin—jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX—to produce chips at 100-200GW/year on Earth and 1TW in space, spanning a planned 100M sq. ft. facility.
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Cursor failed to disclose Kimi K2.5 as the base model for Composer 2, with co-founder Aman Sanger admitting the omission after Kimi revealed it publicly on X.
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Super Micro shares collapsed 33% Friday after co-founder Wally Liaw was indicted for smuggling NVIDIA chips to China via fake end-user documentation.
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ChatGPT is rolling out ads to free and Go-tier US users at $60 CPM with a $200K minimum buy, partnering with Criteo as OpenAI burns ~$17B/year serving 900M weekly users.
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SoftBank broke ground on a $500B AI data center campus in Ohio targeting 10 gigawatts of power, while Mark Zuckerberg is personally building an AI agent to help run Meta.
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Using multiple separate Claude agents—one to ideate, one to write, one to review—produces better outputs than dumping all tasks into a single chat context.
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The Hustle published a free database of 100 side hustle ideas, each with startup costs, earnings potential, and time commitments.
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Over 40,000 readers have reportedly used this guide to start their side hustle journeys.
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The newsletter specifically teases idea #47 as a standout opportunity worth prioritizing.
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Rising gas prices from the Iran war are driving renewed EV interest, with a 2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV selling for $23,991—over 50% off sticker—as manufacturer incentives replace the eliminated $7,500 federal tax credit.
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Tesla Semi is receiving rave reviews in pilot tests with truckers, with 15,000 mass-produced units planned for delivery by end of 2026 and 50,000/year thereafter.
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S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq all posted a fourth straight week of losses, with Bitcoin down 22.34% YTD and Beyond Meat down 79% over the past year ahead of Wednesday earnings.
→Sunday, March 22 (Yesterday)
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Nemotron 3 Super is Nvidia's 120B MoE open-source model with a 1M token context window, scoring 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and delivering higher throughput on B200 GPUs than comparable open models.
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Nvidia is investing $26B over five years in open-weight AI to create a hardware-software flywheel where model adoption drives Blackwell GPU sales via native NVFP4 co-design.
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The open-source AI ecosystem has a leadership vacuum as Meta slows Llama releases, DeepSeek R2 faces training instability delays, and Alibaba's Qwen team loses key members.
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Jessica Fain argues executives optimize for a global maximum while PMs optimize locally, making incentive alignment the key to getting buy-in.
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Presenting only one option to executives is a tactical mistake — always bring three options to create a real decision framework.
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As AI automates analytical work, human influence skills become more valuable, not less, making them the PM skill most worth developing.
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Dinner Table Club, TimeLeft, and Thursday are capitalizing on dating app fatigue by offering paid IRL singles events as Tinder and Hinge acknowledge declining user satisfaction with purely digital matching.
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Meetup.com, acquired by Bending Spoons in 2024, raised organizer fees 88% (from $24 to $45/month) and paywalled features, yet still recorded 20% growth in new app registrations.
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Investors remain skeptical of IRL event apps scaling to match the $6.2B swiping app industry, citing the difficulty of handling in-person logistics at scale.
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Margaret Crane invented the at-home pregnancy test in 1967 at age 26 while working as a freelance designer at Organon, but signed away all patent proceeds for a dollar she never received.
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The Predictor test first launched in Montreal in 1971 because U.S. pharmacy laws prohibited pharmacists from handling bodily fluids, making Canada the test market of choice.
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Crane's design won out over competitors not on merit alone but because she personally sourced cheaper plastics manufacturers across New York City, undercutting rival prototypes on cost.
→Saturday, March 21
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A California jury found Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders during his 2022 acquisition attempt, with potential damages reaching $2.6 billion.
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Microsoft is overhauling Windows 11 by reducing Copilot bloat, enabling movable taskbars, and improving update reliability after years of user backlash.
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OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 by end of 2026, with most hires focused on engineering, research, and sales.
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Iran's refusal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has caused fuel station closures across Laos and Cambodia, four-day workweeks in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, and a $400M fuel cost surge for American Airlines.
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US gas prices have risen ~$1/gallon to nearly $4 since the war began, while jet fuel has spiked from $85–90 to as high as $200 per barrel.
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CBS News eliminated its 99-year-old radio division and cut ~6% of staff under new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as parent company Paramount pursues acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
→Friday, March 20
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Iranian drones struck at least three AWS data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, disrupting banking, payments, and ride-sharing in what may be the first wartime attack on cloud infrastructure.
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Andrew Ng argues that community relationships and stackable skills are the two most stable assets individuals can invest in amid AI-driven job uncertainty and geopolitical risk.
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Qwen3.5 is releasing in multiple sizes, DeepSeek is making a Huawei hardware play, and Apple is developing a multimodal tokenizer, per this issue's headline stories.
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Rodeo, founded by ex-Hinge executives, raised $8.5M in seed funding to turn social media screenshots into shareable group plans, with 20k beta users but no monetization plan yet.
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Tomi Mikula, a former car salesman, built a $200k/month business negotiating car deals for buyers using his insider industry knowledge.
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Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds VR social app while Candela raised $34M for its electric hydrofoil ferry that uses 80% less energy than diesel boats.
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