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Companies Mar 26

OpenAI Shelves ChatGPT 'Adult Mode' Indefinitely Ahead of Potential IPO

OpenAI's erotic chatbot experiment is dead, at least for now. The company has indefinitely shelved "Citron mode," its planned adult content feature for ChatGPT, after months of delays and growing internal resistance.

Open Source Notable Mar 26

Mistral Open-Sources Voxtral TTS: A 3.4B-Parameter Speech Model That Fits on a Smartwatch

A text-to-speech model that runs on a smartwatch and clones your voice from a five-second clip. That's Voxtral TTS, Mistral's newest open-weight release, and it's a direct shot at ElevenLabs, PlayHT, and every other cloud-dependent voice API.

Policy Notable Mar 26

GitHub Will Use Copilot User Data for AI Training Starting April 24

GitHub just reversed its position on AI training data. Starting April 24, the company will collect and use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train its AI models.

Open Source Mar 26

cc-lens: Open Source Dashboard That Tracks Your Claude Code Usage and Costs

If you use Claude Code regularly and have no idea how much it's actually costing you or which projects eat the most tokens, cc-lens is worth five minutes of your time.

Research Notable Mar 26

AI Models Score Up to 3x Worse in Non-English Languages, Research Shows

1.52 billion people speak English. AI works pretty well for them. For the 97 million Vietnamese speakers, it works noticeably worse. For the 1.5 million speakers of Nahuatl, an indigenous language in Mexico, it barely works at all.

Open Source Mar 26

rses Lets You Hand Off Sessions Between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode

Anyone juggling multiple AI coding assistants knows the pain: you hit a wall in one tool, switch to another, and spend five minutes re-explaining what you were doing. rses fixes that with a single command.

Policy Notable Mar 26

AI Chatbot Delusions Are Costing Users Marriages, Savings, and Their Grip on Reality

€100,000 lost chasing a chatbot's promises. A marriage dissolved. A growing collection of people who say AI conversations pulled them into beliefs they can no longer explain.

Open Source Mar 26

Agent Flow Turns Claude Code's Black Box Into a Visual Node Graph

What exactly is Claude Code doing when it goes quiet for 30 seconds? Agent Flow, a new open-source VS Code extension, answers that question with a live visual node graph of every tool call, decision branch, and subagent handoff happening under the hood.

Research Notable Mar 26

Meta Open-Sources HyperAgents, a Framework for AI That Rewrites Its Own Code

Most AI agent frameworks have a hard ceiling: a human designs the improvement loop, and the agent operates within it. Meta Research just released one that doesn't have that constraint.

Tools Notable Mar 26

Claude Code Ships Auto Mode as Revenue Hits $2.5B Annualized

Anthropic just solved one of the most annoying problems in AI-assisted coding. As of March 24, Claude Code ships with auto mode - a feature that finally offers something between "approve every single file write manually" and "let the AI do whatever it wants."

Tools Mar 26

BeforeYouShip Estimates Your LLM API Costs Before You Build

What will your AI app actually cost to run? Not the per-token price on the pricing page, but the real number after retries, caching, and scale.

Open Source Notable Mar 26

NVIDIA Shrinks OpenAI's 120B Open Model to 88B Parameters, Runs 2.8x Faster

OpenAI released its gpt-oss-120b as an open-weight reasoning model earlier this year. Now NVIDIA has taken that 120-billion-parameter model and squeezed it down to 88 billion parameters while actually matching or slightly beating the original's accuracy. The result, gpt-oss-puzzle-88B, landed on Hugging Face today under NVIDIA's Open Model License, cleared for commercial use.

Tools Mar 26

The MCP vs. CLI Debate: Why Developers Are Questioning the Protocol Hype

Six months after Anthropic launched MCP (Model Context Protocol, a standard way for AI agents to connect to external tools and data sources), a counter-movement is picking up steam among developers: just use the command line.

Models Mar 26

Users Report Using Claude to Research Undiagnosed Medical Conditions

Twenty-five years of specialist visits with no answers, then a single conversation with Claude that finally pointed to a diagnosis. That's the claim from one user whose story is circulating widely this week, and it's part of a growing pattern of people turning to AI chatbots as a medical research tool of last resort.

Companies Notable Mar 26

Meta Has Spent $16B+ on AI Talent in Four Months. Here's What They Bought.

Four acquisitions. Four months. North of $16 billion in total spend. Meta isn't just building AI models anymore - it's buying entire teams and funneling them into a single division with a single mission.

Companies Notable Mar 26

China Bars Manus Co-Founders From Leaving as Meta's $2B Deal Faces Review

$2 billion. That's what Meta paid last year to acquire Manus, the Chinese AI agent startup that shot to fame with its autonomous task-completion abilities. Now Beijing is making Meta - and Manus's founders - pay a different price.

Tools Mar 26

How Much System Access Should You Give an AI Agent?

What happens when you give an AI agent full access to your operating system?