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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-07-03.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Alibaba is banning Anthropic's Claude Code over alleged backdoors, escalating the US-China AI drama.
▸ • Meta quietly dropped "Pocket," a new app for generating AI minigames that has absolutely nothing to do with saving articles.
▸ • Mark Zuckerberg admitted to staff that AI agents are developing slower than expected, proving even billionaires can't rush the singularity.
Starting July 10, Alibaba employees are banned from using Anthropic's Claude Code over alleged security risks and backdoors. This comes just weeks after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting Claude's capabilities. The AI cold war is getting petty, and we're absolutely here for the drama.
Mozilla may have killed the beloved read-it-later app Pocket, but Meta is resurrecting the name for something entirely different. The new Pocket is a "vibe-coded" social platform where users generate and share interactive AI minigames called "gizmos" using text prompts.
In a rare moment of tempered expectations, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told Meta staff that AI agents aren't progressing as quickly as he'd hoped. Turns out, building autonomous digital assistants that don't hallucinate wildly is actually quite hard.
Google has lost its long-running appeal against a record EU antitrust fine for bundling its search engine and browser with Android. Time to check the couch cushions in Mountain View.
Midjourney released a behind-the-scenes video of its futuristic medical ultrasound scanner. While the hardware looks like it belongs on the Starship Enterprise, there's still very little proof that the AI image generator company has actually built a working medical device.
TechCrunch dug into the IPO documents for sandwich chain Jersey Mike's and found the inevitable: AI mentions. Because nothing says "disruptive tech" like a turkey provolone with extra mayo.
Scott Aaronson takes a deep dive into the state of privacy, examining the Census Bureau's statistical noise infusion and what it means for the future of data protection in a highly polarized landscape.
Apple's Safari Technology Preview 247 introduces a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This allows AI coding agents to connect directly to a live browser window, giving them access to the DOM, network requests, and console output to debug your terrible CSS autonomously.
Manticore Search rebuilt its auto-embeddings path, ditching Hugging Face's Candle for the ONNX Runtime backend. The result? CPU embedding throughput jumped from a sluggish 5-11 docs/sec to a blistering 70-230 docs/sec.
Researchers have successfully coaxed an artificial cell into managing a few rounds of cell division. It requires a heavy cocktail of added materials to work, but it's a fascinating step toward synthetic life.
Private space companies True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are currently performing high-stakes, "Top Gun-style" satellite fly-bys for the U.S. Space Force.
Remember when $250 got you a lifetime Plex Pass? Those days are over. The media server company is now pushing a 5-year membership for the same price, proving that nothing gold can stay in the subscription economy.