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March 29, 2026, 2:20 PM

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol, which uses Claude and enables users to build custom feeds  —  The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it's not a social network, but an AI assistant that allows …
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider:
Logan Bartlett / @loganbartlett:
A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI  —  This week I co-wrote Redpoint's 2026 Market Update for our Limited Partners with my colleagues @AdilBhatia and @lydianday.
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments  —  BEIJING — U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has reached a $2.75 billion deal to bring drugs developed using artificial intelligence …
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Analysis: while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and towards expert-aligned stances  —  Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms © FT montage/Getty Images …
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Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week  —  ‘Fruit Love Island’ averages over 10 million views for each of its episodes  —  A new viral dating show featuring sexy …
More: Gizmodo and BBC
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin  —  Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator  —  Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023.  — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was “rattled” on the stand  —  Plaintiff's attorney Mark Lanier uses props and parables to challenge social-media giants, drugmakers and manufacturers …
More: RTÉ
Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs:
ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected  —  The European Commission has allegedly been breached by ShinyHunters, with reported data dumps including content from mail servers.

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