Thursday, March 26, 2026 · 07:00 CET
ChatControl returns from the dead in Brussels. Eric Schmidt declares execution obsolete. ARC-AGI-3 drops and AI scores under 1%. Apple's quiet Gemini deal goes deeper than anyone thought. Design tooling hits a phase transition.
ChatControl resurrection vote — today. The EPP (European Conservatives) is attempting to force a new vote in the European Parliament to reverse the previous NO on indiscriminate scanning of all private messages, emails, and photos. The proposal was voted out once already; it's back with a vengeance. Levelsio is sounding the alarm.
"ChatControl is back with a vengeance. The Conservatives (EPP) are attempting to force a new vote TODAY (March 26) seeking to reverse the European Parliament's NO on indiscriminate scanning of ALL your private messages, emails and photos."
EU Inc gets a speed upgrade proposal. The eu/acc crowd is pushing to transform the EU Inc proposal from "good" to "legendary" by introducing an EU Velocity Scoreboard — a competitive ranking system for member states on company formation speed. The thesis: the Single Market's ultimate advantage isn't harmonization, it's velocity.
"It's time to unlock the ultimate competitive advantage for the Single Market: Speed. Enter: The EU Velocity Scoreboard."
CPAC Hungary as humiliation ritual. Ave Europa frames the Budapest CPAC as a loyalty test for European conservatives caught between Washington and Moscow — and argues non-European political organizations shouldn't be running events on European soil at all.
"Ideally, events such as CPAC and others, organised by non-European actors, shouldn't be allowed to take place on European soil anyway."
Eric Schmidt: the 10x advantage is now problem definition. In a clip making rounds, Schmidt argues the new workflow is: write a spec and an evaluation function at 7pm, wake up to what was invented overnight. The advantage belongs to whoever can specify the problem most precisely — not whoever codes the fastest.
"A programmer writes a spec and an evaluation function, runs it at 7pm, and wakes up to what was invented overnight. The advantage now belongs to whoever can specify the problem."
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ARC-AGI-3 drops. AI scores <1%. Greg Kamradt and team launch ARC-AGI-3: 135 novel environments, ~1K levels, all 100% human-solvable. Current AI agents score under 1%. It's being called the only unsaturated agent benchmark left. The gap between human and machine performance, Kamradt argues, is direct proof we don't have AGI.
"Each game is 100% human solvable, AI scores <1%. This gap between human and AI performance proves we do not have AGI."
Apple's Gemini deal is deeper than reported. Apple reportedly has complete access to the Gemini model inside its own data center facilities — and is using that access to produce smaller, task-specific models. Not a licensing deal. An absorption.
"Apple has complete access to the Gemini model in its own data center facilities. Apple can use that access to produce smaller models that power specific tasks."
Sanders on AI anthropomorphism. Bernie Sanders, after apparently interacting with an AI agent, describes it as "mind-blowing" how easy it is to start seeing the entity as a human being — and warns it's only going to get more effective.
"It is amazingly easy to start seeing this entity, this AI agent, or call it what you might, as a human being."
35B parameter model running on a $600 Mac Mini. A developer reports running a 35-billion parameter AI model on an M4 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM. The model doesn't fit in memory — it pages from SSD at 30 tokens/second. Same paging on NVIDIA gives 1.6 tok/s. Apple Silicon is 18.6x faster at this specific task. No cloud, no API.
"On NVIDIA, the same paging gives you 1.6 tok/s. Apple Silicon gives you 30. That's 18.6x faster."
Why Sora failed: the cake mix theory. When General Mills first sold cake mixes, they flopped — too easy, housewives felt like they were cheating. So they removed the powdered egg. Made you add a real one. Sales exploded. The argument: Sora's bad outputs weren't bad enough to make users feel like collaborators.
"A big part of the reason Sora failed is that the bad videos weren't bad enough."
X/xAI hiring a design dream team. Benji Taylor (design at X) is actively hiring, positioning X as working at "incredible scale" with deep craft. 1.4K likes, 118 reposts. The signal: design talent is concentrating around AI-product companies, not traditional tech.
Soleio on Cursor × Figma. Former Facebook design lead Soleio, seeing the new Cursor-Figma integration, feels a "twinge of resentment" — this would have been extraordinarily useful in 2007. "I can't believe I spent so much time hand-weaving UI."
"Sometimes I see a product release and feel a twinge of resentment: This would have been extraordinarily useful in 2007."
Expect: agents test your code in a real browser. Aiden Bai launches Expect — run Claude Code or Codex to QA your app, watch video of every bug found, fix and repeat. Fully open source. The agent-as-QA loop is becoming a real workflow.
InterfaceKit: real-time visual editing → agent prompt. Josh Puckett ships an alpha of InterfaceKit — a design tool for making real-time visual edits to your app, then copying a prompt for your coding agent to ship the changes. The Figma-to-code loop is collapsing.
Spline's Omma: 3D asset generation. Dann Petty flags Spline's new product Omma for generating 3D assets — "this is getting wild." The barrier to 3D in product design continues to erode.
body-shop.co as the 3D design bible. @0xausten shares body-shop.co as essential reference for anyone doing 3D design work — they post entire process breakdowns including early ChatGPT renders for quick massing before pushing to production.
"The dust hasn't settled." Ben Hylak argues that anyone building AI infrastructure today needs to internalize one thing: the dust hasn't settled. Your infrastructure will be mostly wrong in a few months. The competitors selling SaaS from the 90s in the fastest-moving industry in history are the ones to beat.
"Our largest competitor is selling SaaS from the 90s… in the fastest moving industry in human history."
Thermo on agent ownership. If you're using other people's agent harnesses, you don't really own or control your own agents. You can fork open source, sure — but the real edge comes from building your own process control. The implication: the abstraction layer you pick for agents is a sovereignty decision.
"If you are using other people's agent harnesses, then you don't really own or control your own processes or agents."
Sutro: email client for humans and their agents. Connor Sears announces Sutro — an email client where you bring your own Claude, Codex, or OpenClaw agents and have them work alongside you in your inbox. "Email isn't going anywhere. It's just going to get a whole lot better."
AI agents are a local services business. Silicon Valley thinks agents are a $20/mo self-serve subscription. Main Street is paying local agencies $10K to turn them on. Jason Shuman argues the biggest AI winners won't be SaaS — they'll be the agencies deploying agents for non-technical businesses.
"Some of the biggest winners in the AI boom" will be local agencies, not SaaS companies.
Claude Code on a Nintendo Switch. Maddie Reese exploits the original Switch's unpatchable Fusée Gelée hardware exploit to boot into Recovery Mode and run Claude Code. Used aluminum foil to short the Joy-Con rail pins. Pure lore.
Russian soldier guided Ukrainian strikes onto his own unit. For approximately 80 days, a Russian soldier secretly shared his unit's positions with Ukraine. Strikes landed 10–15 minutes after he sent coordinates. He claims the strikes killed 150 Russians and wounded 50.
"A Russian soldier secretly guided Ukrainian strikes onto his own people and says it killed 150 Russians and wounded 50."
The unchanging human. Rahul's taxonomy is circulating: things changing rapidly (context windows, intelligence, benchmarks, cost per token) vs. things not changing (humans, human behavior, preferences, tools people actually use). The implication: bet on the invariant.
"Things that are not changing much: 1. humans 2. human behavior, preferences, affinities 3. tools people actually use."
"The only moat left is being a hardcore motherfucker longer than other guy."
New Orleans burial trivia. Why do cemeteries in New Orleans bury people above ground? Same reason the "holy trinity" of Creole cooking uses bell peppers instead of carrots. The answer involves water tables, heat, and decomposition. A good rabbit hole.
Grimes on tensions regarding the hairstyle. Context-free Grimes post: "We met once. Tensions did rise regarding the hairstyle." Peak lore.
Browser Company building interfaces for the common man. Gokul flags that "the future of interfaces and interactions for the common man is being built at Browser Company" — and notes that's the last place he expected it from.