"Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement to resolve the multidistrict 'right to repair' litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois." www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

can't remember the last time i was bombarded this heavily with TurboTax ads heading into tax season

I may overuse the word wild, but this one is truly wild: @antonioregalado.bsky.social gets the inside scoop on a stealthy startup's pitch to create brainless human clones that act as backup bodies.

the better question is who does not want to connect at HumanX

The problem with bundled newsletter subscriptions is the same as the problem with iTunes for major news outlets: You need all the subscription revenue to be sustainable, and splitting it up means less money. Yet bundling also addresses a real need. It's a dilemma. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/thre...

smart chart www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

yeah Project Hail Mary was fun

when i moved to San Francisco in 2013, a country loaf from Tartine Bakery cost $8. the current price is $14.95, according to the San Francisco Chronicle

RIP Kidder www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

nothing at all to see here www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Text generated by large language models (LLMs)[1] often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies. For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for the exceptions given below." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

The memories in this story are so precious, and I’m very grateful to the 23 people who shared them. Some were teenagers when Apple was born, but most were in there 20s, 30s, or even 40s back them.

"I like to eat just about everything, but when I eat nuts I'm truly happy." -Robert Walser, Berlin Stories, 1908

thrilled to learn that our work on AI data center construction in the rural US received an honorable mention for a SABEW Best in Business award, alongside so much excellent business journalism sabew.org/2026/03/2025...

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says Microsoft is investing in OpenAI as part of this additional $120+ billion round www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/o...

you do wonder what the price of a million tokens might be five years from now www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/t...

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

yeah i'm a reMarkable guy now

nope nothing to see here

some details from this Nvidia China smuggling case implicating Super Micro employees are wild. here's Wally Liaw, a co-founder, allegedly telling an associate that shipments of AI servers would need to speed up before a Trump export control was set to go into effect www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/u...

"Ms. Drummond said Wired had added more than 200,000 new paying subscribers in the past year, and subscription revenue increased 24 percent last year in the United States. ... It has a newsroom of around 80 people with plans to hire up to a dozen more this year" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

new LinkedIn game alert. with Patches the idea is to superimpose rectangles over square-shaped cells, using number of cells in each rectangle as the number shown inside one of the cells in each rectangle? until you fill up the grid? i'm doing a bad job of explaining www.linkedin.com/games/patches/

"NEW YORK; March 18, 2026 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is collaborating with Microsoft to launch a forward deployed engineering (FDE) practice, designed to help organizations more rapidly design, build, and operationalize AI across the enterprise." newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/ac...

Jensen Huang signed part of Microsoft's GTC booth

"Defendants [OpenAI]’ ChatGPT-based AI products free ride on Plaintiffs [Encyclopedia Brittanica & Merriam-Webster]’ trusted, high-quality content ... by cannibalizing traffic to Defendants’ websites with AI-generated summaries of Plaintiffs’ own content" fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

fun watching all the private jets fly into San Jose

California likely to see $10 gasoline www.reuters.com/business/ene...

nothing to see here

you can just do things. RIP John Burns www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

"In January 2020, BART stations had an average of 388,910 exits on weekdays. This past January, that figure was 170,543, less than half of the pre-pandemic ridership. The agency now faces an ongoing $400 million annual structural deficit." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

If my son asked me to come with him to a job interview he'd get a clip round the ear'ole and be sent to bed with no supper. fortune.com/2026/03/12/g...

I got one wrong. I thought, "This sounds like Cormac McCarthy on a bad day," and marked the passage as AI. But it *was* Cormac McCarthy on a bad day. The quiz is fun, but in my experience a bit misleading. AIs can produce 3-4 pp of OK prose, but then go haywire. They should test longer passages.

"Investors are looking for ways to wager on trouble in the software industry .... While some hedge funds have used swaps in the past to short loans, many told the FT that they were unable to find a counterparty willing to take the risk of engaging in these trades." www.ft.com/content/52c4...

Yext: "Much has been said in recent months about the 'death of software.' While provocative, we believe this narrative is overstated." also Yext: "We will no longer provide forward-looking financial guidance." d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_997b1cfe54b...

Salesforce says in filing that Robin Washington, a member of its board of directors its recently appointed president and chief operating and financial officer, will now also take on the role of principal accounting officer www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

"Crux Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund, also decided to build a custom CRM after struggling to find SaaS offerings that fit its needs." www.wsj.com/cio-journal/...

Anthropic got there www.cnbc.com/2026/02/28/a...

for those wondering, yes, i am glad to still be at CNBC! thank you. i already miss colleagues who left us this week

thoughtful @om.co take on the latest OpenAI investments om.co/2026/02/27/a...

just noticed that MapQuest still exists

"'Those things won’t make it three years before they are antiquated. It’s a huge gamble,' said an investor who has turned down multiple GPU financing pitches." www.ft.com/content/3ea1...

"Capacity under construction fell to 5.99 gigawatts at the end of 2025 from 6.35 gigawatts at the end of 2024, real estate brokerage CBRE Group Inc. reported Wednesday." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

at 1:01 p.m. PT Salesforce announced earnings at 1:30 p.m. PT Marc Benioff got on TBPN for a livestream at 2 p.m. PT Salesforce is scheduled to start its "Earnings Show" with company executives as well as CEOs of SharkNinja, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and SaaStr www.cnbc.com/2026/02/25/s...

now here is something i can be pumped about www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/i...

"We are about to do a bad thing as a company. This is so irresponsible." -- Meta content policy chief Monika Bickert in 2019 on the company's adoption of end-to-end encryption on all messages, per a filing in the New Mexico AG case. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Amazon appears to have guardrails in place to prevent Alexa+ from speaking provably incorrect information aloud, and the company says partnerships with news organizations help with the production of responses www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...

OpenAI now targeting more than $280B in 2030 revenue, my colleagues are reporting. that would presumably be over $70B per quarter. latest quarterly revenue: AAPL $124B AMZN $213B GOOGL $114B META $60B MSFT $81B NVDA $57B www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/o...

Scoop: Gov. Pritzker today will call for a 2-year pause in tax incentives for data centers. "It is clear the governor recognizes these facilities are increasingly politically unpopular and should not lead to higher utilities bills for families." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

"Roughly 90% of Kalshi’s trading volume goes toward wagers on sports, while roughly half of Polymarket’s trading is tied to sports" apnews.com/article/kals...

"Athenahealth spent the last six months publishing 250,000 words of 'highly targeted, highly calibrated content' aimed at 'educating' the A.I. chatbots, Ms. Simpson said. The result: The company is more likely to be cited in relevant queries than it was a year ago." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...