Challenge All Requirements Reject requirements you can’t defend. Dead policies scare people into submission. Established practices need an exorcism. Are today’s requirements good ideas gone bad? “Simplifiers are accelerators.” Jon McNeill Slow Drag Useless rules cause quiet failure. People follow steps that don’t matter. Teams protect processes that don’t serve. Energy seeps out one pointless … Read more
Storied semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to make its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event Tuesday in San Francisco, the company revealed the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built for running inference in an AI data center. The … Read more
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok, last month released what may be one of the most ambitious open-source AI agent frameworks to date: DeerFlow 2.0. It's now going viral across the machine learning community on social media. But is it safe and ready for enterprise use? This is a so-called "SuperAgent harness" that orchestrates … Read more
Paywall bypass website Archive.today and several of its associated domains (including .is and .ph) have been blocked by Russian authorities, according to error pages that appeared when loading its websites. The pages appear blocked as of Monday when TechCrunch visited the websites from the U.S. East Coast. A page in Russian said: “Access to the … Read more
Leading Thoughts for March 19, 2026 IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. John Kenneth Galbraith on power: “An important tendency in all modern political comment is to exaggerate the role of personality in the exercise of … Read more
Conferences are a great excuse to meet other marketers, learn cutting-edge tactics, and just simply hang out and make friends! Even better if it’s on your company’s dime. I asked Daria Samokish, our Head of PR and Conference Partnerships, for the list of conferences we’ve shortlisted that are worth attending. Without further ado, here are … Read more
AI coding company Cursor launched a new model this week called Composer 2, which it promoted as offering “frontier-level coding intelligence.” However, an X user posting under the name Fynn soon claimed that Composer 2 was “just Kimi 2.5” with additional reinforcement learning — Kimi 2.5 being an open source model recently released by Moonshot … Read more
Values: Where Good Intentions Go to Die The work isn’t crafting values; it’s living them. Values show up in calendars, promotions, and confrontations. What’s your system for aligning behaviors with commitments? When did your last meeting compare convictions with actions? Leaders huddle in conference rooms debating definitions, grammar, and punctuation. Daily practice is all that counts. … Read more
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that last year announced raising a $32 million Series A … Read more
1. Semantic So number 1, semantic. This is obviously one we’re very familiar with from conventional keyword research. Instead of wireless mice, what about cordless mice or other similar sorts of synonyms? 2. Entity Number 2, entity. I might bring in a specific brand or product. Is Pulsar a good pick-up for gamers? 3. Follow-up … Read more