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Three Black Easter Fashions That Need to Be Laid to Rest

The Root

25 classic Sesame Street skits that parents and kids will botn enjoy

Polygon - All

How one Democratic senator is tackling Trump’s corruption

Vox - All

The sticky, sugary history of Peeps

Vox - All

Voice-acting legend Eric Bauza on his Mario Galaxy role and the Mario Bros. Movie scene that got cut

Polygon - All

Anker’s Nebula P1 projector is the portable sound king

The Verge - All Posts

The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (Politico)

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Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual pay of as much as ~$18M; China's AI industry has eschewed mega pay packages (Bloomberg)

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Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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Sources: Copilot sales hit "big audacious goals" by March end after Microsoft pivoted its sales strategy; 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

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Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are "lawfare" (Leila Sheridan/Inc.com)

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

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Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra

The Verge - All Posts

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key. (Boris Cherny/@bcherny)

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Dr. King’s Favorite Pastime and More Little Known Facts on the Anniversary of His Murder

The Root

Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)

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Every Peanuts strip ever is now available for $25

Polygon - All

Sources: Meta's "Project Walleye" Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (Financial Times)

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