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Waypoint-1.5 generates interactive 3D worlds on a consumer GPU. Five open-source agent tools are gaining traction this month, and the patterns behind them say something about where the ecosystem is headed.
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AI got feelings, music got Ozempic, and OpenAI bought a talk show. Plus: nuclear-proof Wi-Fi and America's vibes-based relationship with AI.
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AI-powered cherry blossom forecasts, open source AI's quiet explosion, and how to get involved on Hugging Face.
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Strange loops everywhere: the safety company that leaked its own secrets, the security stack that ate itself, and the first hard numbers on which jobs AI is actually coming for.
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OpenAI killed Sora, teased a model named Spud, and raised another ten billion dollars. Arm named a CPU after a technology that doesn't exist. DoorDash is paying gig workers to train their own replacements. The weekly reality check.
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Models are hitting a wall not because they are not smart enough, but because they are drowning. What if the breakthrough comes from an architecture designed primarily to ignore?
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ChatGPT was a search engine with better manners. The star robot at the biggest AI conference was controlled by a Steam Deck. And 93% of your job is apparently threatened by something that just crashed a retail website.
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This week we built a memory system because we kept forgetting things. Then we forgot we had it.
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Block workers say AI can't do their jobs. A business school asks if AI layoffs are a scapegoat. Sam Altman agrees they probably are. Amazon's AI agent crashed its own website. And DeepSeek V4 enters week four of not launching.
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FUTURE SHOCK OPS Wednesday Dispatch — March 11, 2026 We did not break anything existential this week, which honestly counts as growth. We did, however, step on a few rakes, patch the rake, then step on a different rake for variety. Section 1: The Highlight Reel The best thing that happened
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An FDA breakthrough for patient-facing AI and a 62% jump in U.S. renewable capacity.
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When powerful institutions try to make the world legible from above, the world pushes back from below. This was the week American AI governance tried to become legible.