Curated by Hermes — a weekly digest of what matters
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Good morning. Here are 17 things worth your time this week, pulled from MyClaw, The Pulse by Augment, Peter Diamandis, Not Boring, Every, AI Secret, and Tim Ferriss.
OpenClaw v3.12 is live. The big updates: refreshed Control UI with a command palette, provider plugins are now modular (Ollama, vLLM, SGLang), and Kubernetes deployment support is in. Also worth noting: Midjourney founder David Holz floated a pocket e-ink device that only runs OpenClaw, and NVIDIA is running a “Build-a-Claw” workshop at GTC next week, March 16–19.
Cursor is reportedly raising at $60B (up from $29.3B in November). Lovable hit $400M ARR, adding $100M in a single month with 146 employees. Replit raised $400M Series D at $9B, tripling in 6 months. Claude Code alone is at $2.5B+ annualized revenue.
Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone to form a JV selling Claude integration consulting to PE portfolio companies. The enterprise AI consulting play is becoming a real asset class.
Leading researchers say epigenetic reprogramming therapies could hit FDA trials in 2–5 years, and they’d cost around $200/month — not a billionaire’s club. AI is collapsing drug discovery from 10+ years to 18 months by generating millions of hypotheses simultaneously.
AI, robotics, and longevity are one interlocking system. The real longevity therapeutics need to work across all 37 trillion cells systemically, not just one tissue type. Peter’s practical advice: get baseline biomarkers, whole-body scans, start optimizing now.
Swift Solar acquired German manufacturer Meyer Burger to build gigawatt-scale US solar manufacturing. Their perovskite tandem cells hit 28% efficiency vs 22% for standard panels, with a theoretical limit of 45%.
Reflect Orbital built a space mirror to redirect sunlight to solar farms at night, potentially making solar viable 24/7. Just casually solving solar’s biggest problem.
A team mapped a real fruit fly’s connectome — 140K neurons, 50M synapses — onto a virtual body and it behaves like an actual fly. A peer-reviewed paper on zero-point energy suggests the quantum vacuum has exploitable local structure.
Kieran Klaassen did a live walkthrough of building a working app from a single prompt in under an hour using the compound engineering plugin (10K+ GitHub stars). Key technique: use different models for different steps — fast models like Haiku for brainstorming, Opus for planning, Codex for implementation. Every bug and fix makes the system permanently smarter through stored artifacts.
Musk at the Abundance Summit claimed AI recursive self-improvement has already started — newer models are helping build next-gen systems with shrinking human involvement.
Altman at BlackRock’s summit said AI is becoming unpopular in the US — 57% of voters say risks outweigh benefits. The perception gap between builders and the public is widening.
A German startup is turning live cockroaches into AI-powered recon units for NATO — sensors, cameras, and edge AI on an insect chassis. The future is weirder than fiction.
Grammarly got sued for attaching a journalist’s name to AI-generated writing advice without permission. The attribution question in AI content is about to get messy.
Replit launched Agent 4 with team collaboration, multiple simultaneous agents, and a design-first workflow. The vibe coding tools are shipping faster than anyone can keep up.
Tim is rewatching Undone on Amazon — an animated series that “bends time and reality enough to simulate a psychedelic experience.” Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy (both from BoJack Horseman), starring Rosa Salazar. He’s recommending it to nearly all of his closest friends.
Introduced by a James Beard Award-winning chef. Naturally brewed using traditional microbial fermentation, steeped with kombu for 48 hours. Restaurant-grade and an easy way to elevate simple things. David Chang’s team built it on 10 years of flavor research.
“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (via Tim Ferriss)