2025-03-21
One of the World's Most Advanced AI Agents Is Completely Stuck Trying to Beat a Pokémon Game for Children
In case you haven't heard, Anthropic has been livestreaming its AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, as it attempts to complete a playthrough of Pokémon Red. The experiment, dubbed "Claude Plays...
Severance Scenes in Underwater Paint Swirls
Using paint in water to simulate clouds or smoke, Rudy Willingham created these magical scenes of characters from Severance (Instagram). Willingham also created this cool animated zoetrope record with dancing...
Evaluating Product Managers - follow up story
What Senior Leaders Really Look for in Product Managers
Pentagon Says It's Using AI to Delete Pages About History That's Too Woke
In response to the massive blowback it received for taking down a webpage about Jackie Robinson, Pentagon officials admitted that they're using AI to carry out their purge of all...
An analysis of pop music’s greatest two-hit wonders. “Pop stars are remembered...
An analysis of pop music’s greatest two-hit wonders. “Pop stars are remembered because they are very famous. One-hit wonders are remembered for the opposite. Two-hit wonders are stuck in the...
★ Keyboard Maestro Hack of the Week: Don’t Paste Images
I keep meaning to write more about Keyboard Maestro, and so I’m just going to start documenting all the little use cases I find for it. Here’s one from today.
What the hell? Saturn now has a total of 274 moons. That’s...
What the hell? Saturn now has a total of 274 moons. That’s so many that they may have to relax the naming conventions because there aren’t enough Norse deities to...
Bonkers Video Shows Boston Dynamics Robot Breakdancing
Robotics company Boston Dynamics has shared a new video of its latest-generation humanoid robot, dubbed Atlas, doing forward rolls, cartwheels, and army crawls. In one instance, the lanky robot throws...
Porn
No Mercy / No MalicePornography is the McDonald’s of sex — fast, convenient, and utterly divorced from nutrition. — AnonymousI was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month....
Yahoo Sold TechCrunch
Emma Roth, The Verge: TechCrunch has a new owner, again. Yahoo has sold the tech news site to the private equity firm Regent for an undisclosed sum, according to an...
Monica Technologies Simplifies Crypto To Naira Conversions
Monica Technologies is a Nigerian fintech startup that converts cryptocurrencies to naira at high speed. The company is entirely self-funded and investor-free. Monica Technologies is not actively seeking new investors...
TOMI Launches The First AI Voice Assistant Embedded Within a Crypto Wallet
TOMI, the Web3 infrastructure project creating a decentralized alternative internet ecosystem, introduces the first AI-powered voice assistant for a Web3 wallet. With this added feature to the TOMI Wallet, users...
Everyday Icons: Amy Sherald
A great behind-the-scenes look at the work and process of artist Amy Sherald in these two videos from Art21. In her studio in New Jersey, artist Amy Sherald paints portraits...
Elon Musk Begs Tesla Staff Not to Sell Their Stocks
Tesla's financial health is not looking good lately, to put it mildly. Earlier this week, four top senior executives at Tesla dumped their stocks amidst an ongoing freefall caused by...
Matthew Belloni on the ‘Apple TV+ Experiment’
Matthew Belloni has a very good take on Apple TV+ at Puck (that’s a gift link that should get you through their paywall — but which requires you creating a...
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In seeking information on how 21st century humans lived, future archaeologists will...
In seeking information on how 21st century humans lived, future archaeologists will rely on fossils of soda cans, chicken bones, clothes, and concrete. Oh and, “wherever those future civilisations dig,...
We Built an AI Product Manager in 58 mins (Claude, ChatGPT, Loom + Notion AI)
This isn’t surface-level advice like “use AI for this task.” We’re walking you through live, in-depth examples, showing exactly how to do it. So by the end, you’ll be ready...
Wait, Why Is the Cybertruck Held Together With Glue?
Tesla is in a bit of a sticky situation. On Thursday, it issued a recall for nearly every single Cybertruck it's manufactured to date because its stainless steel body panels...
Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits
The MFA in Boston is putting on an exhibition this spring and summer called Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) once wrote, “What I’m most passionate...
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