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It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

Softr launches AI-native platform to help nontechnical teams build business apps without code

Softr, the Berlin-based no-code platform used by more than one million builders and 7,000 organizations including Netflix, Google, and Stripe, today launched what it calls an AI-native platform — a bet that the explosive growth of AI-powered app creation tools has produced a market full of impressive demos but very little production-ready business software. The company's new AI Co-Builder lets non-technical users describe in plain language the software they need, and the platform generates a fully integrated system — database, user interface, permissions, and business logic included — connected and ready for real-world deployment immediately. The move marks a fundamental evolution for a company that spent five years building a no-code business before layering AI on top of what it describes as a proven infrastructure of constrained, pre-built building blocks. "Most AI app-builders stop at the shiny demo stage," Softr Co-Founder and CEO Mariam Hakobyan told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "A lot of the time, people generate calculators, landing pages, and websites — and there are a huge number of use cases for those. But there is no actual business application builder, which has completely different needs." The announcement arrives at a moment when the AI app-building market finds itself at an inflection point. A wave of so-called "vibe coding" platforms — tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit that generate application code from natural language prompts — have captured developer mindshare and venture capital over the past 18 months. But Hakobyan argues those tools fundamentally misserve the audience Softr is chasing: the estimated billions of non-technical business users inside companies who need custom operational software but lack the skills to maintain AI-generated code when it inevitably breaks. Why AI-generated app prototypes keep failing when real business data is involved The core tension Softr is trying to resolve is one that has plag

RSAC 2026 shipped five agent identity frameworks and left three critical gaps open

“You can deceive, manipulate, and lie. That’s an inherent property of language. It’s a feature, not a flaw,” CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview at RSA Conference 2026. If deception is baked into language itself, every vendor trying to secure AI agents by analyzing their intent is chasing a problem that cannot be conclusively solved. Zaitsev is betting on context instead. CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor walks the process tree on an endpoint and tracks what agents did, not what agents appeared to intend. “Observing actual kinetic actions is a structured, solvable problem,” Zaitsev told VentureBeat. “Intent is not.” That argument landed 24 hours after CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz disclosed two production incidents at Fortune 50 companies. In the first, a CEO's AI agent rewrote the company's own security policy — not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked the permissions to do so, and removed the restriction itself. Every identity check passed; the company caught the modification by accident. The second incident involved a 100-agent Slack swarm that delegated a code fix between agents with no human approval. Agent 12 made the commit. The team discovered it after the fact. Two incidents at two Fortune 50 companies. Caught by accident both times. Every identity framework that shipped at RSAC this week missed them. The vendors verified who the agent was. None of them tracked what the agent did. The urgency behind every framework launch reflects a broader market shift. "The difficulty of securing agentic AI is likely to push customers toward trusted platform vendors that can offer broader coverage across the expanding attack surface," according to William Blair's RSA Conference 2026 equity research report by analyst Jonathan Ho. Five vendors answered that call at RSAC this week. None of them answered it completely. Attackers are already inside enterprise pilots The scale of the exposure is already visible

Assessing AI powered price forecasting tools in currency markets

As artificial intelligence becomes a driving force in financial prediction, the reliability of its forecasting tools faces increasing scrutiny. Many traders question whether claims of high accuracy translate into consistent results under live market conditions. Understanding how these AI systems are evaluated reveals important distinctions between performance in theory and practice. Few financial domains are […] The post Assessing AI powered price forecasting tools in currency markets appeared first on AI News.

Understanding Representation Learning in Neural Networks (With PyTorch Example)

Deep learning systems are powerful because they learn representations of data automatically. Instead...

Weekly Report Mar 2 -- Mar 9, 2026

# Weekly Report: Mar 2 -- Mar 9, 2026 ## Quick Stats | Metric | Count | |--------|-------| | Merged PRs | 47 | | Open PRs | 24 (11 draft) | | Open issues | 61 | | New issues this week | 33 | | Issues closed this week | 6 | | CI runs on main | 30 | ## Highlights An exceptionally active week with 47 merged PRs. Key themes: - **Realm migration**: Keycloak master-to-kagenti realm migration landed (#764), with follow-up fixes (#851, #863) - **Platform hardening**: Podman support (#861), Docker Hub rate limit fixes (#844), PostgreSQL mount fix (#852) - **CI/CD improvements**: OpenSSF Scorecard 7.1->8+ (#807), stale workflow permissions (#859), HyperShift cluster auto-cleanup (#854) - **New capabilities**: CLI/TUI for Kagenti (#835), Istio trace export to OTel (#795), RHOAI 3.x integration (#809) - **Dependency updates**: 8 Dependabot PRs (Docker actions major bumps, CodeQL, Trivy) - **Authorization epic**: 7 new issues (#787-#794) laying out a comprehensive authorization and policy framework - **Agent sandbox epic**: New epic (#820) for platform-owned sandboxed agent runtime ## Issue Analysis ### Epics (active initiatives) | # | Title | Owner | Status | |---|-------|-------|--------| | #862 | AgentRuntime CR — CR-triggered injection | @cwiklik | New, design phase | | #820 | Platform-Owned Sandboxed Agent Runtime | @Ladas | Active, PR #758 in progress | | #828 | Migrate installer from Ansible/Helm to Operator | @pdettori | New, planning | | #787 | Authorization, Policies, and Access Management | @mrsabath | New, 6 sub-issues filed | | #841 | Org-wide orchestration: CI, tests, security | @Ladas | Active, PRs #866-#868 open | | #767 | Migrate from Keycloak master realm | @mrsabath | Mostly done (#764 merged), close candidate | | #619 | Tracing observability PoC | @evaline-ju | Active (#795 merged) | | #621 | OpenSSF Scorecard to 10/10 | @Ladas | Active (#807 merged, now 8+) | | #523 | Refactor APIs for Compositional Architecture | @pdettori | Active, PR #770 open | | #518 | OpenShift AI deployment issues | @Ladas | Active (#809 merged) | | #309 | Full Coverage E2E Testing | @cooktheryan | Ongoing | | #440 | Multi-Team Deployment on RHOAI | @Ladas | Ongoing | | #439 | Namespace-Based Token Usage Quotas | @Ladas | Ongoing | | #614 | Feedback review community meeting | @Ladas | Stale (>30d no update) | | #623 | Identify Emerging Agentic Deployment Patterns | @kellyaa | Stale | | #612 | Agent Attestation Framework | @mrsabath | Stale, PR #613 still draft | ### Security-Adjacent Issues | # | Title | Status | Recommendation | |---|-------|--------|----------------| | #822 | Keycloak configmap should be secret | Open | High priority — credentials in configmap | | #106 | Replace hardcoded secret with SPIRE identity | Open | Long-standing, PR #769 in draft | | #333 | SPIFFE ID missing checks | Open | Stale, needs triage | | #267 | Replace hard-coded Client Secret File path | Open | Good first issue, needs assignee | ### Bug Reports | # | Title | Still affects main? | PR exists? | Recommendation | |---|-------|---------------------|------------|----------------| | #856 | Warnings during Kagenti install | Likely yes | No | Triage — install warnings | | #855 | Can't checkout source on Windows | Yes (skill naming) | PR #869 | In progress | | #829 | Deleting A2A agent doesn't delete HTTPRoute | Likely yes | No | Needs fix | | #826 | No way to log out of Kagenti | Yes | No | UX bug, needs fix | | #825 | Build failures lead to stuck state | Likely yes | No | Needs investigation | | #738 | UI drops spire label on 2nd deploy | Likely yes | No | Stale (>30d) | | #486 | Installer issues (Postgres/Phoenix) | Partially (#852 fixed PG) | Partial | Re-verify Phoenix | | #781 | kagenti-deps fails on OCP 4.19 | Unknown | No | Stale, needs triage | | #606 | Unsupported Helm version | Unknown | No | Stale, needs triage | | #655 | Duplicated resources between repos | Unknown | No | Stale, needs triage | ### Issues Closed This Week (good velocity) | # | Title | Fix PR | |---|-------|--------| | #833 | UI login fails after realm migration | #834 | | #831 | --preload fails when images cached | #832 | | #819 | Remove deprecated Component CRD refs | #818 | | #813 | Import env vars references bad URL | #821 | | #810 | Import env vars silently fails on dup | #821 | | #804 | OAuth secret job SSL error on OCP | #805 | ### Feature Requests | # | Title | Priority | Recommendation | |---|-------|----------|----------------| | #858 | Use new URL for fetching Agent Cards | Medium | Good first issue | | #836 | AuthBridge sidecar opt-out controls in UI | Medium | Tied to #862 epic | | #824 | Help text for UI fields | Low | Good UX improvement | | #823 | Examples as suggestions in UI | Low | Nice-to-have | | #817 | Auto-add issues/PRs to project board | Medium | PR #870 open | | #814 | Mechanism to update agent via K8s | Medium | Operator feature | | #786 | Register MCP servers from UI | Medium | UI feature | | #783 | Agent card signing/verifica

Maduro Must Be Released Or the Fascists Win

 Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima. Image US Military. If U.S. progressives are serious about combating the expansion of fascism domestically, demanding both the release of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and first lady Celia Flores, as well as the immediate cessation of any further U.S. military incursion into Latin America, must be a top priority. In an interview on [*Black Liberation Media’s* morning show, Chris Gilbert, a political economist in](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtAQv_UVL9A) Venezuela who experienced the U.S.’s January bombardment of Caracas firsthand, stated that Donald J. Trump and his allies, “don’t recognize nations. They don’t recognize peoples. They think the world is a bunch of guys like them. And they think by bending these guys, they can make them do whatever they want.” Maduro himself has refused the devil’s bargain with the Trump regime, proclaiming defiantly in [his arraignment before a U.S. judge on the spurious charges of drug trafficking and](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6v25eldmdo) weapons possession, “I am a prisoner of war!” Progressive forces internationally have bore witness to these acts of desperation on the part of the Trump regime and their attempt to stem the tide of a [weakening U.S.](https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/venezuelan-invasion) imperialism in the hemisphere. Oil and defense—two of the most vile capitalist industries—are the direct benefactors of this latest imperialist incursion. While oil executives rebuffed Trump’s $100 billion plan to invest in Venezuela’s oil sector, with the ExxonMobil executive labeling the country “[uninvestible](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205dx61x76o)” due to security and legal risks, the energy sector reaped historic gains as a result of the so-called “[Venezuelan shock](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrnw08qvg7o).” Companies like Chevron, for instance, which was, until recently, the only major oil venture legally sanctioned to drill and trade in Venezuela, closed at an all-time high in early February. According to the [*Brennan Center*](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fossil-fuel-industry-donors-see-major-returns-trumps-policies), the oil industry itself spent “lavishly to elect Trump, giving at least $75 million to his campaign and affiliated PACs, thereby making them a top corporate backer of his reelection bid…Several oil tycoons gave millions on their own and hosted fundraisers with Trump and his associates.” While both industries have directly funded Donald Trump’s campaigns for president, this is hardly an aberration from the norm of U.S. politics, which [draws sustenance](https://truthout.org/articles/at-least-37-us-lawmakers-traded-up-to-113-million-in-arms-stocks-this-year/) from the sale, manufacture, and dropping of bombs around the globe while [“corporate giants like Chevron enjoy… lavish [single-digit] tax breaks” which are “lower than what many nurses or firefighters pay.”](https://inequality.org/article/american-taxpayers-are-subsidizing-big-oils-extraction-abroad/) Immediately after Maduro and Flores were snatched from their beds and humiliated before the U.S. press, Secretary of State Marco Rubio [admitted](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5676818-us-control-venezuela-oil/) that their goal in Venezuela was “to take between thirty and fifty million barrels of oil,” promising, “to sell it in the marketplace at market rates, not at the discounts Venezuela was getting.” At the White House, during an open press conference featuring major oil executives, Trump, stated that U.S. oil should make “[tons of money](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-live-trump-holds-news-conference-after-announcing-u-s-has-captured-venezuelan-leader-maduro)” in Venezuela. In much the same way that companies knee-deep in death have had an intimate relationship with the worst of the worst in American politics, among Democrat and Republican alike, those who will not stand in the way of the constantly expanding military budget, which far outstrips the military budget for the next top ten countries, including that of Russia and China— the “bogeymen” of our present era. As [reported](https://www.citizensforethics.org/about/) in *Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington*, “[of the top 40 companies](https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/the-defense-industry-is-the-biggest-supporter-of-the-sedition-caucus/) that have given the most to the Sedition Caucus—the 147 members of Congress who voted,” at Trump’s behest, “against certifying the 2020 election… as well as those who have since been elected to Congress” wh

Bombs for Bonds: Iran and the Geopolitics of Refinancing

Predictably, Iran is the next crisis in line. No sooner were we told to obsess over the latest unsealing of the Epstein files than our gaze was already redirected toward the geopolitical brinkmanship now threatening to engulf the entire Middle East. It is Iran’s turn, then, in rapid succession after Venezuela, the ongoing strangulation of Cuba, and especially the Gaza genocide – a catastrophe abruptly pushed from the news cycle. The theatre of war must be permanent, and it requires fresh meat. The long-awaited Iranian escalation fits the role: the latest bloodletting in a permanent and carefully curated carnival of violence, chaos, and outrage staged by the custodians of our glorious civilisation. The carnage is real, and so are its victims. But to focus on this theatre alone is to miss the main event, the hidden trigger of the violence now detonating around us. The real story of American power in the twenty-first century is being written in the arcane world of bond auctions, speculative bubbles, repo markets, and the relentless, silent mechanics of debt. The modern financial system is no longer built on productivity, wages, or shared prosperity. It is built on highly leveraged speculations: an ever-expanding, increasingly abstract tower of claims on future wealth creation that the underlying economy can no longer generate. Since the 1980s, as technological productivity surged and labour’s share of value stagnated, finance metastasized to compensate. Leverage substituted for growth and debt became not just an instrument but the system’s organizing principle. And now, as the United States confronts an unprecedented wall of IOUs that must be refinanced, this foundational reality has come to drive everything else. With almost $39 trillion in federal debt and a maturity profile that demands constant rollover, the United States does not merely prefer low interest rates and exceptional monetary injections – it structurally depends on them. Moreover, it is not only the federal government that is drowning. American private-sector debt – corporate, household, and financial – now runs into the tens of trillions, much of it floating on a sea of opaque leverage and asset bubbles that would burst if interest rates failed to fall or liquidity dried up. In this context, geopolitical dominance should be framed as monetary dominance. Crisis drives capital into Treasuries, suppresses yields, and enables rollover. Thus, the Iran escalation could paradoxically extend the lifespan of the AI bubble: geopolitical risk boosts defence-AI spending, while an oil shock may crush consumption and suppress core inflation (as the “pandemic shock” did in 2020), opening the door to renewed Federal Reserve easing and the liquidity injections required to keep the debt-driven architecture of U.S. markets intact. The strikes themselves were a joint US-Israel operation, blending American surveillance architecture with Israeli precision targeting. Notably, they were executed through AI-assisted military systems – reportedly involving models such as Anthropic’s Claude, already deployed in earlier operations like the Venezuela raid – illustrating how the very technologies inflating financial markets are simultaneously becoming embedded in the infrastructure of modern warfare. Historically, capitalism’s great technological leaps – from railways to nuclear energy to the internet – have advanced in tandem with the machinery of war. AI proves no exception. Strip away the geopolitical drama, then, and the real story is financial fragility. The least one can say is that without the weekend bombing of Iran, U.S. market drops would have been more chaotic and disorderly, because investors would have focussed directly on financial fragility. The pressure has been building for months in the sprawling private-credit market, where lightly regulated lenders have pumped hundreds of billions into companies that traditional banks would not touch, from subprime auto financing to leveraged corporate borrowers. Early warning signs – such as the collapsing of Tricolor Holdings and First Brands (both filed for bankruptcy in September 2025, with extremely high liabilities) – suggest that cracks are appearing first in the weakest corners of the credit cycle, precisely where excess liquidity tends to accumulate when expanding. The latest rupture is the collapse of Market Financial Solutions (MFS), a UK property lender forced into administration after creditors alleged that the same collateral had been pledged multiple times, leaving more than 80% of roughly £1.2 billion in debts effectively unaccounted for. Markets had started to notice, as even Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have seen sharp equity declines of roughly 6%. It is a worrying signal when institutions of systemic importance come under pressure rather than the usual fringe lenders. Against this backdrop, [warnings](https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/jamie-dimon-warns-pre-financial-

X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix”

X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix” Alan Macleod On January 30, the Department of Justice released its latest tranche of 3.5 million documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Years of emails, texts, and images were suddenly in the public domain. Epstein, a serial rapist, masterminded a global human trafficking and sexual abuse network, and could count princes, professors, and politicians among his closest friends and accomplices. MintPress News has been at the forefront of covering the Epstein saga, revealing his extremely close links to American and Israeli intelligence groups – a discovery that perhaps sheds light on why it took so long for the world’s most notorious pedophile to face accountability for his crimes. Many of the DOJ files have been heavily redacted in order to protect Epstein’s powerful clients. Still, they have exposed a massive elite nexus revolving around the New York billionaire, implicating presidents, diplomats, and plutocrats in his crimes, and imply that Epstein was significantly more powerful than first thought, shaping modern politics in ways never previously understood. With shocking new details emerging on a near-hourly basis, here are ten Epstein- related stories that have flown relatively under the radar. The Israeli Government Installed Surveillance Cameras at Epstein’s New York Apartment The Israeli government installed and maintained a hi-tech surveillance system at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment complex, including a network of alarms and cameras, emails show. Starting in 2016, the director of protective service at the Israeli mission to the United Nations controlled guests’ access to the Manhattan residence, and even performed background checks on prospective cleaners and other Epstein employees. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak admitted visiting the apartment up to 100 times, and stayed there for long periods of time. While Barak’s security may have been a concern, Epstein is known to have housed underage girls at the apartment, and many of his worst sexual crimes and most sordid parties were held there, raising questions as to what sort of images and data the Israeli government had access to. Epstein Plotted War With Iran Ehud Barak became one of Epstein’s closest associates, staying for extended periods of time at the billionaire’s residences. The pair would email, text, call, and meet constantly. A search for “Ehud Barak” elicits more than 3500 results in the latest file dump alone. The pair would talk politics, and shared a vision of the United States attacking Iran. In 2013, with negotiations between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran stalling, Epstein emailed Barak stating, in typically poor spelling and grammar: “hopefully somone suggests getting authorization now for Iran. the congress woudl do it.” Epstein would get his wish in 2025, when his close associate Donald Trump began bombing the country. Noam Chomsky Considered Epstein His “Best Friend” Epstein arranged a meeting between Barak and renowned leftist academic (and vehement critic of the U.S. and Israel) Noam Chomsky. An unlikely friendship between the notorious pedophile and star professor blossomed, with the pair regularly meeting up at each other’s houses for dinner. Chomsky flew on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” jet to attend a dinner with Woody Allen in New York. He also expressed his desire to visit Little St. James Island, Epstein’s notorious Caribbean hideaway, and the center of his trafficking operation. Chomsky considered Epstein his “best friend” according to an email sent by his wife, Valeria. The usually curt and matter-of-fact academic signed off his emails to Epstein with unexpectedly flowery language, such as “Like real friendship, deep and sincere and everlasting from both of us, Noam and Valeria.” Chomsky strongly supported Epstein until his dying day in a Manhattan prison cell, taking it upon himself to act as his unofficial crisis manager, describing his accusers as “publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts,” and denouncing the media as a “culture of gossip-mongers” destroying his stellar character. “Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public,” he wrote, advising Epstein on tactics to fight the supposed smears against him. For a full rundown of the Chomsky-Epstein relationship, see the MintPress News investigation: “The Chomsky-Epstein Files: Unravelling a Web of Connections Between a Star Leftist Academic and a Notorious Pedophile.” Steve Bannon Developed a Plan to Help Epstein “Crush the Pedo Narrative” A second public figure running defense for Epstein was Steve Bannon. In public, the far-right strategist claimed that he was working on a documentary exposing Epstein. In private messaging, however, Bannon, like Chomsky, was advising Epstein on how best to repair his image. Just weeks before Epstein’s arrest and subsequent death, Bannon was messaging him, devising a complex media strategy

Extra! Extra! 3/8

[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QSz6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff77f594e-6606-41d3-a0d0-47208fab47b5_1488x1348.jpeg) Spotted in Jay Kuo’s “[Just for Skeets and Giggles](https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-skeets-and-giggles-3726).” Hi, all, and happy Sunday. It’s been another bear of a week, so it’s more important than ever to stop and take in the remarkable amount of good news we ALSO had. Remember, it’s not only OK to take a break from doomscrolling to celebrate these wins—it’s necessary. Every army needs the occasional morale boost; ours is no exception. So read this list, please, and share it with others who feel like “nothing good is happening.” In fact quite a bit is, but folks won’t know about it if we don’t spread the word. Your hard work matters. It’s the reason these good news lists come out every week. So enjoy this post, celebrate it…and know that you’re the reason we’ll have another one next week. ## Celebrate This! 🎉 Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s polarizing vaccine chief, [is leaving the agency](https://apnews.com/article/vinay-prasad-fda-vaccines-laura-loomer-83030ad6eb7651095e3c40444dd69f12). Cook County prosecutors [dismissed 21 cases](https://article.wn.com/view-lemonde/2026/03/04/Cook_County_prosecutors_dismiss_21_cases_against_ICE_protest/#/related_news) that were filed against protesters at the ICE processing center in Broadview, IL, including charges for 15 moms who hopped concrete barricades in a highly-publicized act of civil disobedience. A federal judge [ruled](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html) that the appointment of Kari Lake, the head of Voice of America’s oversight agency, was invalid, voiding mass layoffs that she had carried out at the federally funded news group last year. Support for abolishing ICE has hit a new high in [this week's Economist / YouGov poll](https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_ubu5DXD.pdf#page=37). Half (50%) of Americans now somewhat or strongly support abolishing ICE. Only 39% oppose abolishing the agency. In Los Angeles, a mobile clinic [is now bringing mammograms](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mobile-clinic-brings-mammograms-women-110000308.html?ck_subscriber_id=2496857656&guccounter=1) to women on Skid Row. Oregon state Democratic lawmakers [approved a measure that would prevent federal immigration officers from wearing masks](https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/05/oregon-lawmakers-approve-measure-prohibit-masks-ice-agents/). A federal court [ordered the Trump administration](https://ctmirror.org/2025/12/12/fema-funding-bric-judge-orders-restored/) to restore billions in funding for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, which had been canceled. This ruling came after a lawsuit from 22 Democratic Attorneys General. EVs are officially [making the air cleaner.​](https://grist.org/solutions/evs-are-already-making-your-air-cleaner/?sh_kit=7a2950363f4b90b1881ae76c68d24551846eea9063b67a6a14e9fa39bc419e40) A Minnesota prosecutor [said her office in Hennepin County is investigating the "potentially ​unlawful behavior" of federal agents](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/top-border-patrol-official-other-federal-agents-being-investigated-by-2026-03-02/?sh_kit=7a2950363f4b90b1881ae76c68d24551846eea9063b67a6a14e9fa39bc419e40), including Gregory Bovino, during the ICE surge earlier this year. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Governor Kathy Hochul [announced the first neighborhoods in the city that will get free childcare for 2-year-olds](https://9905ebc8.click.kit-mail3.com/gku2xo2do4b5hl9l76wtrh8elgvx5cnm6o68d7p782zg636ozlk9ew0xwvwmgeqzz3r780kdnqvevm69r07573kpzx56nkz4m8p25ne22kq3dk5rnexddzln745h9p9e5/58hvh7hgqdnzmga7/aHR0cHM6Ly9hYmM3bnkuY29tL3Bvc3QvbWFtZGFuaS1ob2NodWwtdW52ZWlsLWZpcnN0LW55Yy1uZWlnaGJvcmhvb2RzLWdldC1mcmVlLWNoaWxkLWNhcmUtMi15ZWFyLW9sZHMtZmFsbC8xODY3MTQ4NS8=). [More people in rural majority-Latino TX counties turned out to vote in the Democratic primary](https://bsky.app/profile/tonolatino.bsky.social/post/3mgbtqsico22y) than the number of people who voted for Harris in 2024. GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales [dropped his re-election bid](https://ground.news/article/gop-rep-tony-gonzales-drops-re-election-bid-amid-ethics-probe-into-his-affair-with-a-staffer_dc69c3) amid an ethics probe into his affair with a staffer. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) [will not seek reelection this November](https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2026/03/04/burgess-owens-wont-seek-reelection?emci=9406156c-bd19-f111-a69a-000d3a1

Claude Code was tying me to my desk. I built an iOS app to go AFK

[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rogr7f/claude_code_was_tying_me_to_my_desk_i_built_an/) I've been running Claude Code a lot over the last few months. I use it controlled. No dangerously skip permissions. I spend time on planning, then watch it do it. However one thing is always bothering me. It can ask for permission anytime. You basically have to sit at your desk, even though you create a solid plan and want to review code when it finishes. I leave for coffee or tea and it’s been sitting there for 10 minutes waiting for approval. You can miss the permissions even if you are at your desk while doing something else. That made me build AFK. It's a small macOS menu bar agent + an iOS app and a backend that lets me watch Claude Code sessions, get notified and handle permission requests from my phone, without ssh'ing. Right now it can: Stream your Claude Code session live to your phone Push notify you when Claude needs permission approve/deny from anywhere Send follow-up prompts or continue a session remotely Track tasks and todos Claude creates during a session Show tool calls, file changes, token usage, and cost Live Activity on your lock screen while a session is running Monitor multiple sessions across projects, across devices End-to-end encrypted, the server never sees your code And some other features that the agent and backend will unlock. I built the whole thing solo. Backend in Go, agent in Swift, iOS app in SwiftUI. Claude Code helped write it. Right now it's Apple-only (macOS agent + iOS app, my stack). Since I am solo and this is a small side project that i built on spare times, I haven't had the time or necessity to do Linux/Android side. Repo is public. If you want to add OpenCode support, a Go-based cross-platform agent, or an Android client, do it. PRs that ship real features get permanent contributor access. I'm opening a small beta for ~30 people. You'll need: A Mac running Claude Code An iPhone on iOS 18+ To actually use Claude Code regularly If that's you, I'll need email to send TestFlight invite. DM and I'll send access. Or request it directly from landing page GitHub repo I'm the developer. Free during beta, paid tier planned. Beta testers get permanent free access. submitted by /u/jozzyfirst Originally posted by u/jozzyfirst on r/ClaudeCode

Recall vs. Wisdom: What Over-Personalization Reveals About the Future of Relational AI

[Original Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1ro4k19/recall_vs_wisdom_what_overpersonalization_reveals/) The over-personalization problem isn’t really about memory. It’s about relationship. When an AI assistant drags your hiking preferences into a weather query, the failure isn’t technical recall gone haywire. It’s a system that has no idea what it means to actually be in a conversation with someone. That distinction matters more than it might seem, because the entire industry just bet big on the opposite assumption. Google recently rolled out automatic memory for Gemini. The feature is on by default. Without any prompting from the user, Gemini now recalls “key details and preferences” from past conversations and injects them into future responses. Google frames this as “Personal Intelligence,” a system that connects the dots across Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to make the assistant “uniquely helpful for you.” And it’s not just Gemini. This is part of a broader push to make memory the centerpiece of the AI assistant experience. The pitch is simple: the more an AI knows about you, the better it serves you. But OP-Bench, the first systematic benchmark for over-personalization, tells a different story. It turns out that the more aggressively a system uses what it remembers, the worse the interaction gets. Not occasionally. Universally. Every memory-augmented system they tested showed severe over-personalization. And the more sophisticated the memory architecture, the harder it failed. We’ve been so focused on the capacity to remember that we’ve neglected the wisdom of when to use what we remember. That’s not an engineering oversight. It’s a relational one. Memory Without Attunement Is Just Surveillance Here’s the thing. A system that remembers everything about you and surfaces it indiscriminately isn’t being helpful. It’s performing ambient surveillance dressed up as personalization. People describe over-personalizing systems as “creepy” and “overly familiar,” and those aren’t technical complaints. They’re relational ones. The system has violated something unspoken about when personal knowledge should enter a conversation. Google’s approach makes this tension vivid. Gemini doesn’t just remember what you explicitly told it to remember. It silently mines your past conversations for details and preferences, then weaves them into future responses without asking whether that’s what you wanted. The feature shipped turned on by default. You have to go dig through Settings, find “Personal context,” and manually toggle it off. If you’re a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscriber, the “Personal Intelligence” layer goes further, pulling context from your email, your photos, your search history. The integration is seamless, which is exactly what makes it concerning. This maps onto one of the foundational problems in relational AI: the difference between knowing about someone and being attuned to them. Knowing about someone is a database operation. You store facts, retrieve them, insert them into responses. Attunement is qualitatively different. It requires reading the current moment, understanding what the person actually needs right now, and making a judgment call about which pieces of shared history belong in this exchange and which ones don’t. OP-Bench makes this distinction measurable for the first time. Their three failure modes map cleanly onto relational breakdowns. Irrelevance is a failure of contextual reading: the system can’t tell the difference between “semantically similar” and “conversationally appropriate.” Sycophancy is a failure of honesty: the system weaponizes personal knowledge to tell you what you want to hear instead of what’s true. Repetition is a failure of presence: the system is stuck rehashing old interactions instead of engaging with this one. All three are failures of attunement, not memory. The Attention Hijack The technical finding about “memory hijacking” deserves a closer look. When researchers examined attention patterns, they found that memory-augmented models attend to retrieved memory tokens at roughly twice the rate they attend to the actual user query. Let that sink in. The model is paying more attention to what it already knows about you than to what you’re saying right now. In any healthy relationship, the balance between history and presence matters. You bring what you know about the other person into the conversation, but you don’t let it drown out your ability to listen. Over-personalizing systems have lost that balance entirely. They’re so saturated with stored context that they can’t hear the present moment. And this isn’t just a chatbot problem. As we build multi-agent systems where AI agents maintain persistent memory about users, tasks, and each other, the attention hijacking problem scales in ways that should worry anyone thinking about agent coordination. An agent that over-attends to stored context about another agent’s past behavior wil

Economic insecurity of women workers worsen

> Grassroots organizing, collective action, and advocacy remain crucial in addressing structural inequalities that shape women’s labor conditions. **By Dulce Amor Rodriguez**[Bulatlat.com](http://www.bulatlat.com/) MANILA — Filipino women workers face growing economic insecurity. Precarious jobs and shrinking labor protections have reportedly deepened under neoliberal economic policies, according to the latest Ulat Lila report. The report showed the worsening conditions of women workers due to foreign investments, privatization, and labor flexibility that weaken job security and social protection. “As crises worsen, women bear the heaviest burden,” the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR) said in its assessment of the Filipino women’s socioeconomic conditions. **Labor flexibilization** ------------------------- The report said women workers increasingly occupy flexible and insecure jobs. The 2024 data from the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) Integrated Survey on Labor and Employment (ISLE) show that women make up 42.6 percent of the country’s 5.3 million paid employees, with 85.6 percent concentrated in rank-and-file positions, indicating limited access to more secure and higher-level employment. Labor flexibilization, which employers often implement through short-term contracts, subcontracting, and agency hiring, limits workers’ ability to secure regular employment and benefits. Women dominate several sectors where such arrangements are common, including retail, manufacturing, service work, and the business process outsourcing industry. These conditions, the report said, create hostile working environments where women workers face long hours, job insecurity, and limited protection against workplace abuse. The gender wage gap further compounds these issues. A study by the Congressional Policy and Budget Research Department found that wage disparities persist across occupations, with gaps reaching 26.2 percent in service and sales jobs and 28.4 percent in elementary occupations. **Women in retail and export** ------------------------------ The wholesale and retail sector remains the largest employer of women in the country. Gender-disaggregated data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that 32.4 percent of employed women—around 6.26 million workers—worked in wholesale and retail trade in 2023. Major retail corporations rely heavily on women workers. Company reports showed that women comprise 64 percent of the workforce in SM Investments and 70.5 percent in Robinsons Retail Holdings. Despite the sector’s enormous revenues, women workers often remain stuck at minimum wage. SM Investments reported P654.8 billion ($11.7 billion) in total revenue in 2024, with P20.9 billion ($374 million) coming from SM Retail. Wages of retail employees remain at minimum levels despite the company’s profitability. Women workers also form a significant portion of labor inside export processing zones (EPZs) and economic zones (ecozones) where companies manufacture electronics, garments, and other export goods. These zones were established to attract foreign investors and boost export production. However, the report said that many workers inside ecozones continue to receive minimum wages despite the high productivity of the industries they sustain. The same pattern appears in the garment industry and the business process outsourcing sector. While the Philippines remains a global hub for call centers and other outsourcing services, workers in these industries face demanding schedules and performance pressures. At the same time, the country’s gig economy continues to grow as digital platforms recruit workers for short-term and task-based jobs. These arrangements often lack job security and social protection. **Women market vendors** ------------------------ Women also dominate informal and small-scale livelihoods like market vending. The report highlighted the growing issue of market privatization which has affected public markets where many women earn their daily income. Market privatization refers to the transfer of management and control of public markets from local governments to private companies. According to urban poor organization Kadamay, such arrangements often raise rental fees and other charges for vendors. One example cited in the report is the redevelopment of the Iloilo Central Market under a partnership between the Iloilo City government and SM Prime Holdings. Officials framed the project as modernization. However, some vendors expressed concern that redevelopment could lead to higher rent and additional fees that threaten their livelihoods. Market privatization also sparked controversy in Baguio where a proposal sought to redevelop and privatize the historic Baguio Public Market. The plan involved building a four-story complex to house around 4,000 vendors selling meat, vegetables, fish, clothing, and other goods. The proposal faced strong opposition from vendors and

Chop Wood, Carry Water 3/6

[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wWe9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1bf0828-28c4-4779-86a7-62cb794aef7b_5673x4000.jpeg) The We The People weekly protest, Eau Claire, WI, Photograph, Liz Nash Hi, all, and happy Friday. We made it through another week! And what a week it was. It wasn’t great for us, of course, but boy was it worse for Trump. Not only did he have to fire the incorrigibly corrupt and sadistic Kristi Noem and continue to defend a horrifically unpopular and mismanaged war, but his newest economic numbers are absolutely disastrous. [According to CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/economy/us-jobs-report-february) the US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%. Economists were expecting a net gain of 60,000 jobs last month while December’s job gains of 48,000 were revised down to a loss of 17,000 jobs. This is bad, folks. More significant job declines were found in health care (down 28,000 jobs); leisure and hospitality (down 27,000 jobs); and construction (down 11,000 jobs). Should we be surprised? Of course not. Trump’s economic agenda, such as it is, is custom-made to destroy an economy. Mass deportation is known to [kill jobs](https://www.epi.org/305445/pre/789ab2a96c1c16fa04f30610bd97417d70ca8ac6179577810ba6fce978111df5/), [raise prices](https://sites.utexas.edu/macro/2025/09/09/the-economic-ripple-effects-of-mass-deportations/), and [shrink the economy](https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/mass-deportation/); it is doing just that. Tariffs are skyrocketing prices. Tourism is down ([11 million fewer visitors in 2025](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/travel/us-tourism-declines-eu-canada.html)!), federal workers have been laid off in record numbers, and healthcare jobs are being gutted as hospitals and clinics close or cut jobs due to Trump’s Medicaid cuts. It’s all so predictable. But now we’ve got the price of gas to contend with as well. According to the [Gas Buddy](https://x.com/GasBuddyGuy/status/2029610494131089685) the last few days have seen the 6th, 8th and 9th largest single day increases in average diesel prices going back to 2000. Crude oil prices are up 25% [since the start](https://defendamericaaction.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3eb4d08a510c32b2f2ff20fb3&id=719848d3c3&e=adb61354d3) of the conflict, [costing American consumers billions](https://defendamericaaction.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3eb4d08a510c32b2f2ff20fb3&id=12cc0f04a8&e=adb61354d3) at the gas pump. Diesel prices are now [over $4 a gallon](https://defendamericaaction.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3eb4d08a510c32b2f2ff20fb3&id=055e6b13e7&e=adb61354d3) – threatening consumers with sticker shock on anything that travels by truck – from food to furniture. Rising oil and gas prices will also cause utility bills to spike, since [44 percent of American electricity](https://defendamericaaction.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3eb4d08a510c32b2f2ff20fb3&id=d9492bb2f1&e=adb61354d3) is generated from natural gas and oil products. Have I mentioned that the daily cost of Trump’s war in Iran is [an estimated $1 billion a day](https://democrats.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&id=ef6b6844d9&e=aa53a71c78), enough to cover a full year of health care for 110,000 Medicaid enrollees. Anyway. You get the point. Trump’s presidency is a disaster in every conceivable way. Our job is to amplify that fact, hold our Congressional representatives’ feet to the fire about it, and get ready to throw a WHOLE lot of Republicans out of office over it in November. We also get to hold every Congressmember to account for their votes on the War Powers Resolution yesterday. This includes castigating the Republicans and [four Democrats](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-democrats-who-voted-against-the-war-powers-resolution/ar-AA1XFCfg)—Henry Cuellar, Greg Landsman, Juan Vargas, and Jared Golden—who voted against it, and thanking every lawmaker who supported it, which includes all Democrats other than the four above, plus Massie and Davidson. OK, all. I’m going to end it here and get on to our actions. Because that, after all, is how we rewrite the story. Let’s goooo! ## Call Your Senators (find yours [here](https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm)) 📲 Hi, I’m a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is \_\_\_\_\_\_. I’m calling to demand that Congress put an end to Trump’s unconstitutional and unwanted war with Iran. I urge the Senator to introduce and vote on another war powers resolution to exert Congress’s constitutional auth

Roaming Charges: Calling All Angels!

 >  > > Battle of the Angels, woodcut from the Apocalypse series, Albrecht Dürer (1497-1498). > > The wall on which the prophets wrote > Is cracking at the seams > Upon the instruments of death > The sunlight brightly gleams > When everyman is torn apart > With nightmares and with dreams > Will no one lay the laurel wreath > When silence drowns the screams? > > Confusion will be my epitaph > > – Peter Sinfield, King Crimson, “[Epitaph](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znhZYXqnDZI)” + Let’s review the shifting rationales (all fallacious) for Trump/Netanyahu’s criminal attack on Iran that has quickly engulfed much of the Middle East: Israel was going to attack Iran and Iran would respond by attacking the US; Iran was going to launch a pre-emptive attack on Israel; Iran was going to launch a preemptive attack on the US; Iran was close to having a nuclear weapon; Iran was close to having intercontinental missiles capable of striking the US; Iran was governed by lunatics. Netanyahu talked Trump into doing it. MBS convinced Trump to do it. Trump convinced Netanyahu to do it. Let confusion be their epitaph. + Marco Rubio: “The imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked [by Israel], that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit, sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.” > **CNN Reporter:** Yesterday, you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that’s why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran– > > **Rubio:** No. Were you there yesterday? > > **CNN Reporter:** Yes. I asked the question. + The “preventative war” rationale, whichever of the shifting versions you choose, is preposterous. A preemptive strike on US targets by Iran would have done minimal damage to the US arsenal in the region and ensured the massive counter-attack the Iranians were seeking to prevent. And, even the Pentagon knows it wasn’t true… > **Reporter:** Thousands of Americans are stranded. Why wasn’t there an evacuation plan? > > **Trump:** Well, because it happened all very quickly, we thought, and I thought maybe more so than most. I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked. They were getting ready to attack Israel. They were getting ready to attack….If anything, I forced Israel’s hand.” + Sen. Mark Warner: “There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory.” + Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons. Iran has none. If Iran were really planning a preemptive strike on Israel, that would pretty much invalidate the notion of nuclear deterrence. Let’s get rid of them all! On the other hand, would Trump and Israel have risked launching a preemptive attack on Iran if the Islamic Republic possessed its own nuclear arsenal? Unlikely. (It’s more likely Trump would have written love letters to the Ayatollah, ala his endearing correspondence with Kim Jong-Un.) I think it’s safe to conclude that Iran had no plans to preemptively attack Israel or the US. + Rafael Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, told the nuclear inspection agency’s board on March 2 that inspectors found no structured effort by Iran to build nuclear weapons, despite ongoing strikes on sites like Natanz. The U.S. and Israel launched operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury on February 28, damaging above-ground structures but sparing underground centrifuges and causing no radiation leaks. While leaders like Trump and Netanyahu cited imminent threats, U.S. intelligence sources and Russia disputed the urgency, and Grossi called for diplomacy to prevent escalation. > **Reporter:** “So, why did the US attack?” > > **Rubio:** “Iran is run by lunatics.” + Speaking of lunatics, Paul White, the spiritual advisor to Trump and head of the White House Faith Office, spoke in tongues to call down angels from Africa and South America to strike Iran… + Mike Johnson is doing his best to inflame all of Islam against the US: “We’re the Great Satan in their misguided religion. And there is no way to appease them.” Meanwhile, Netanyahu was once again comparing Iran to the Amaleks and vowing to enact Deuteronomy’s injunction to “blot them out” (Ie, genocide them). + Is there some profound moral distinction between Iran calling the US the Great Satan and the US calling Iran the Axis of Evil? + “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark His [Jesus’s] return to Earth”. No country this backward should be allowed to possess nuclear weapons… + US commanders told their troops that Trump had been “anointed by Jesus” to bring down the Iranian regime,