AI & Tech Developments - Mar 20

We just released Claude Code channels, which allows you to control your Claude Code session through select MCPs, starting with Telegram and Discord. Use this to message Claude Code directly from your phone.

— @trq212

BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell

— @kevinakwok

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

— @sundeep

Had to go see Project Hail Mary right away (it's based on the book of Andy Weir, of also The Martian fame). Both very pleased and relieved to say that 1) the movie sticks very close to the book in both content and tone and 2) is really well executed.

— @karpathy

Someone just open sourced a computer that works when the entire internet goes down. It's called Project N.O.M.A.D. A self-contained offline survival server with AI, Wikipedia, maps, medical references, and full education courses. No internet. No cloud. No subscription.

— @heynavtoor

I am now at 5 GPU providers being completely sold out for a single node of 8xH100s. I don’t think people understand the gravity of what is about to come.

— @Suhail

Jensen says he will be upset if he finds out his $500k engineer is *not* using at least $250k in tokens

— @bearlyai

Vance and Thiel after teeing up the perfect plan for a techno-Antichrist global surveillance state only for Netanyahu and his Cheeto puppet to grab the wheel and run it all off a cliff:

— @PinballWiz4rd

Anthropic would have built this in a day and a dev would have tweeted the news. At OpenAI, an exec is telling you about a plan. That gap tells you everything. In the last 7 days, Anthropic shipped Dispatch, channels, voice mode, /loop, 1M context GA, MCP elicitation, persistent.

— @aakashgupta

Introducing Kitten TTS V0.8: open-source TTS that fits in 25MB. Three variants: 80M | 40M | 14M (<25MB). Highly expressive. Runs on CPU. Built for edge. No GPU? No problem. Ship voice anywhere.

— @ron_joshi

Introducing Freebuff: the free coding agent. 100% free, up to 10x as fast as Claude Code. npm install -g freebuff.

— @jahooma

Humans don’t even write prompts anymore they just look at the terminal like this.

— @jiratickets

Anthropic’s openclaw-killer is complete. fucking crazy what they’ve shipped in 4 weeks: - texting claude code - 10,000s of claude skills + MCP - Claude security (autonomous bug-fixer) - persistent memory (claude never forgets) - channels (text claude from telegram) - autonomous.

— @cryptopunk7213

OPENAI TO MERGE CHATGPT, CODEX APP & BROWSER INTO DESKTOP SUPERAPP TO STREAMLINE RESOURCES & USER EXPERIENCE - WSJ.

— @FirstSquawk