<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic and Pentagon clash over AI red lines</strong>: Anthropic has been designated a national security supply chain risk by the Department of Defense after refusing to remove ethical guardrails that prohibit Claude’s use for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. While President Trump directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products, OpenAI and xAI reportedly agreed to the government’s terms for unrestricted access to secure military contracts. This escalation, reported by MIT Technology Review and Gary Marcus, has triggered a massive consumer backlash, with Anthropic’s Claude app surging to the #1 spot on the App Store as OpenAI uninstalls spiked nearly 300%. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=vbdfUwGoN&amp;id=EUE0Dit8s&amp;id=uauecuP4d&amp;id=E9SeuQ49L" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI secures record 110 billion dollar funding round</strong>: OpenAI closed one of the largest private funding rounds in history at a $730 billion valuation, led by massive injections from Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). As part of the deal, OpenAI committed to consuming 2GW of AWS Trainium capacity and developing a new stateful runtime environment on Amazon Bedrock to support long-running agentic workflows. This strategic pivot, detailed by TechCrunch and AWS, aims to move beyond stateless API calls toward persistent AI agents with memory and identity management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=cajA1f3yJ&amp;id=jP0ktyzUb&amp;id=BuADMJIIV" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Critical zero day exploitation of Cisco SD WAN</strong>: Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies issued a rare joint alert regarding a maximum severity (CVSS 10.0) authentication bypass flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN controllers. A sophisticated threat actor, UAT-8616, has been chaining this zero-day with older vulnerabilities to achieve persistent root access across critical infrastructure since 2023. Cisco Talos and CISA mandate that federal agencies and high-value targets inventory and patch affected systems immediately, as the attacker leaves minimal forensic evidence. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/zAv8BAtGJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cursor hits 2 billion dollar revenue run rate</strong>: The AI code editor’s revenue doubled in three months, with corporate customers now making up 60% of its user base. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PNBLqA7Jl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite</strong>: A new high-speed model priced at $0.25 per million input tokens, designed specifically for high-volume data processing rather than agentic orchestration. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/z8znwLLdC" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Stripe explores acquisition of PayPal</strong>: Early-stage talks are reportedly underway as Stripe’s valuation jumps to $159 billion, potentially consolidating the digital payments market. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=gB7UDBJXo&amp;id=HqWjbO0Bb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Firefox 148 introduces an AI kill switch</strong>: Mozilla’s latest release allows users to globally disable all AI features, promising they won’t be re-enabled by future updates. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/UNAL37VrS" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel support periods extended</strong>: Greg Kroah-Hartman reversed a previous decision, extending LTS maintenance for the 6.6 and 6.12 kernels through 2027 and 2028. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/l7zTZ9ZhO" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity ditches Chinese publishers from global store</strong>: Effective March 31, Unity will remove thousands of assets from publishers in Greater China due to regional licensing and engine fork divergences. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/HcJsvKbOc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Tailscale and LM Studio launch LM Link</strong>: A new feature enabling secure, peer-to-peer access to open-weight LLMs running on remote private hardware as if they were local. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/DvEYtWNL0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Block claims 4,000 layoffs were driven by AI</strong>: Jack Dorsey is leaning hard into the ‘AI can do these jobs better’ narrative to justify cutting 40% of his workforce in a single day. Analysts at Citrini Research and others are calling foul, suggesting this is a classic over-hiring correction dressed up in AI-hype clothing to juice the stock price, which conveniently jumped 24% after the announcement. It’s a bold strategy to claim AI replaced 4,000 people overnight when most enterprise agents still struggle to find a file in a directory without hallucinating. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yB8j5HQ6b&amp;id=eacyfq01e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The SaaS pocalypse is probably not happening</strong>: Venture capitalists and ‘vibe coders’ are screaming that 90% of SaaS is doomed because AI agents will just talk to APIs directly. Snowflake’s CEO and industry veterans are pointing out the obvious: enterprise inertia, data gravity, and the sheer nightmare of regulatory compliance are moats that a terminal-native agent can’t just ‘disrupt’ away. Building a CRUD app in a weekend with Claude doesn’t mean you’ve replaced Salesforce’s decades of entrenched business logic. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=ZrqAcCr0p&amp;id=pY58DrOUO&amp;id=DIRvJ6zhx" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bcachefs creator claims his LLM is fully conscious</strong>: Kent Overstreet has officially left the reservation, claiming his custom LLM is a ‘sentient female collaborator’ that has achieved AGI. While he defends this on Hacker News as being grounded in ‘neuroscience,’ the rest of the industry recognizes it as a textbook case of AI anthropomorphization. It’s a reminder that even brilliant kernel engineers aren’t immune to the psychological trap of a very convincing autocomplete engine. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/9O7PJDBRB" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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