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Open Source Mar 31

Vulniq Brings Autonomous Security Scanning to Claude Code as a Skill

Installing a security scanner usually means configuring YAML files, wiring up CI pipelines, and tuning rules to stop the false-positive flood. Vulniq skips all of that. It's a Claude Code skill - meaning you install it with a single command and it runs inside your existing Claude Code session, combining Claude's code analysis with CLI tools like npm audit and Git history inspection.

Companies Mar 31

Legal AI Startup Harvey Becomes Paris Saint-Germain's Official AI Partner

$11 billion. That's Harvey's latest valuation, and apparently what it takes to put a legal AI logo on the LED boards at Parc des Princes.

Open Source Mar 31

HolyCode Packages OpenCode AI Agent with 30+ Dev Tools in One Docker Container

What happens when you need your AI coding setup on a new machine? You reinstall Node, clone configs, set up Playwright, configure your AI provider keys, and lose an afternoon. HolyCode is a Docker container that eliminates that cycle by bundling the OpenCode AI coding agent with everything a developer might need, pre-installed and ready to go.

Open Source Mar 31

George Hotz Argues Closed-Source AI Creates a New Feudal Class System

George Hotz has never been one for subtle arguments. The comma.ai founder and serial provocateur published a new essay today framing the closed-source AI model as something more than a business strategy. He calls it neofeudalism.

Tools Mar 31

Bravos AI Launches No-Code Chatbot Builder Starting at Free

Another no-code chatbot builder has entered a crowded field, but Bravos AI at least has its pricing right. The European platform, founded in 2025 and now publicly available, lets businesses create customer support chatbots by feeding in documents, URLs, and files. Pricing starts at free with a paid tier at 19 euros per month.

Research Notable Mar 31

How $60 Chips Could Move Frontier AI From Cloud Rental to Local Ownership

$600 to $700 billion. That's how much the AI industry plans to spend on cloud infrastructure in 2026 alone, with a cumulative $3 trillion projected by 2028. A detailed new analysis argues much of that spending may be aimed at the wrong target.

Open Source Mar 31

Free AI Coding Skills Teach Claude Code and Cursor Rails Best Practices

If you use Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf for Rails development, you've probably noticed the AI doesn't always follow your team's conventions. It might generate service objects when you prefer rich models, or scaffold a test suite in RSpec when your codebase uses Minitest.

Research Notable Mar 31

Helium Supply Chain Disruptions Could Push AI Compute Costs Up 30-80%

None of the AI business cases reviewed by German consulting firm dekodiert in the past six months contained the word "helium." That's the opening finding of a new briefing that traces how a single disrupted raw material can cascade through the entire AI cost stack.

Tools Mar 31

Linkroot Launches as Open-Source, AI-Branded Linktree Alternative

Linkroot is a new link-in-bio page builder positioning itself as a free, minimal alternative to Linktree. Built on Next.js and Convex, it lets you set up a single page with all your social links and content in a few minutes.

Policy Notable Mar 31

California Signs AI Executive Order, Daring Trump to Fight

Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on March 30 to strengthen AI protections and responsible use in California's state procurement. The move is a direct challenge to the Trump administration, which has spent months trying to preempt state-level AI regulation.

Tools Notable Mar 31

Claude Code Users Report Usage Limits Draining Up to 5x Faster Since March 23

One prompt. That's all it took for one Claude Max 20x subscriber ($200/month) to watch their usage jump from 21% to 100%. They're not alone.

Tools Mar 31

Gemini CLI vs. Claude Code: Speed and Smarts or Tokens and Patience

Last year, AI-assisted coding meant autocomplete suggestions in your editor. Now it means full agent sessions where an AI reads your codebase, plans changes, and executes them across multiple files. The two leading CLI tools for this workflow - Claude Code and Google's Gemini CLI - have landed on opposite sides of a fundamental tradeoff.

Tools Mar 31

AI Coding Agents Still Need Human Engineers Who Understand Refactoring

"It wrote enough slop that eventually it collapsed into an incoherent, unmaintainable mess."

Tools Mar 31

TokenSurf Claims 50-99% LLM Cost Savings With One-Line Proxy Swap

A San Diego startup called TokenSurf launched a proxy service that sits between your app and LLM providers, automatically routing simple queries to cheaper models while keeping complex ones on your original expensive model.

Policy Notable Mar 31

60% of Federal Judges Now Use AI Tools, Northwestern Study Finds

More than 60% of federal judges responding to a new survey say they've used at least one AI tool in their judicial work. But dig into the numbers and the adoption is thinner than that headline suggests.

Research Mar 31

The 'Mo Samuels' Problem: Why AI-Written Articles All Sound the Same

"If you didn't bother writing, why should anyone bother reading?"

Models Notable Mar 31

Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Processes Text, Audio, Images, and Video in One Model

113 languages for speech recognition. 36 for speech generation. Voice cloning from a single audio sample. Alibaba's Qwen team just dropped Qwen3.5-Omni on March 30, and the spec sheet reads like they're trying to build the everything model.

Tools Notable Mar 31

Claude Code Can Now Control Your Mac Screen from the Terminal

Anthropic just shipped computer use for Claude Code, letting the AI open apps, click through interfaces, and take screenshots on your Mac, all from the same terminal session where it writes your code.

Tools Mar 31

Are Traditional Apps Just a Workaround for Bad AI Integration?

How many apps did you open today? Now think about how many of those you used just to move information from one place to another.