TLDR 2026-03-24

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Big Tech & Startups

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Control Your Computer (3 minute read)

Claude can now take control of a computer to perform tasks for Claude Pro and Claude Max users on macOS. It can manually perform tasks by typing or moving the cursor and use programs like web browsers, dev tools, and file browsers. The agent will always ask for permission before performing tasks, and users can stop the agent from performing a task at any time. Anthropic has implemented safeguards to minimize risks like prompt injections.

More Magic Math from OpenAI? (3 minute read)

OpenAI is offering 17.5% guaranteed returns to private equity firms. It is likely offering the deal because the company needs money, and private equity is the last large pool of capital it can tap. No healthy business needs to offer the terms that OpenAI is offering. The need for cash is real.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Alphabet's drone delivery startup, Wing, expands service to the Bay Area (1 minute read)

Wing is bringing its ultra-fast residential drone delivery service to the Bay Area. The company currently operates in limited areas of Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth. It has completed more than 750,000 deliveries. Users can get drone delivery through eligible apps like Walmart and DoorDash, as well as Wing's own marketplace.

Designing AI for Disruptive Science (27 minute read)

There is hope that, if we build systems with much stronger general reasoning, discovery will follow as a near-automatic consequence, but there is no guarantee that this will happen. Many technologies have promised radical scientific acceleration yet failed to do so. For example, the Internet has made it much easier to search and collaborate, but revolution has not largely emerged at scale, mostly because of deeper inefficiencies in how science is organized. There is even evidence that online journals narrow what researchers read and cite, potentially accelerating consensus instead of expanding the space of ideas explored.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

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Ever notice how AI transcription bots miss the big picture? Granola takes your raw meeting notes and enriches them so you get the information you actually need from each call. Replit, Vercel, and PostHog use it to auto-create pitches, standups, and strategy docs. TLDR readers get 1 month free with code: TLDR1MO

cq: Stack Overflow for Agents (5 minute read)

cq is a way for agents to share the useful knowledge they have locally for the benefit of other agents. It allows agents to share knowledge, with other agents confirming what works and flagging what's gone stale. This stops agents from wasting tokens on what doesn't work. The more knowledge the agents share, the better they all get.

How we made Ramp Sheets self-maintaining (9 minute read)

Ramp built an agentic system to maintain Ramp Sheets that continuously monitors production, triages alerts, and proposes fixes without human intervention. All code still requires engineer review before it is merged. This article explains how the team built the system. Strong observability and QA means fewer bugs, less downtime, and a better experience for Ramp customers, and agents make exhaustive monitoring feasible at a production scale.

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Miscellaneous

There are only two paths left for software (13 minute read)

Public markets are saying that software is not as valuable as it used to be. CEOs need to either accelerate revenue growth by 10+ percentage points, year over year, through genuinely new AI-native products over the course of the next 12-18 months, or rebuild their companies to 40%+ true operating margins, including stock-based compensation. By the end of next year, everything between those paths of high growth and high profits will look like no-man's land. CEOs today need clear initiatives to drive toward one of these outcomes.

How Nvidia Keeps Its Iron Grip on the AI Boom (14 minute read)

Nvidia generates more profit than almost any other public company on the planet, thanks to the astronomical demand for its chips prompted by the global AI boom. It has used its funds to become the industry's most powerful financier. The company's deals have grown the broader AI ecosystem by providing the crucial financing backing for companies crushed by the high costs of building the technology. It also keeps customers hooked on Nvidia's products and steers them away from rival chipmakers.

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The broken economics of databases (14 minute read)

Database vendors have incentives that push them away from simplicity and toward defensibility, which results in products that get worse over time.

Autoresearch on an old research idea (7 minute read)

Autoresearch is effective when the search space is clearly defined, but it falls apart when entering into unknown territory.

Markdown Ate The World (13 minute read)

Markdown is easy to write and produces an output that is consumable in a universal and highly performant way that requires nothing except access to a web browser.

Make smarter application decisions with Azure Copilot Migration Agent (Sponsor)

Stop guessing what to modernize. This playbook from Microsoft's Azure Copilot Migration Agent team gives you strategies to decide what to re-platform, refactor, and what to leave as is. Try it yourself–download a copy today.

ArrowJS (Website)

ArrowJS is a fast, type-safe UI framework for the agentic era with zero dependencies.

Auto-dream (1 minute read)

Claude Code has a new feature called Auto-dream that basically runs a sub-agent periodically to consolidate Claude's memory files for better long-term storage.

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