Vol. I · Monday, March 16, 2026 · Issue No. 11

Sam Altman Concedes Scaling Alone Won't Reach AGI

OpenAI's CEO reverses his previous stance, now acknowledging the necessity of novel AI architectures rather than relying solely on scaling. Gary Marcus contextualizes the shift alongside similar retreats by Musk, Zuckerberg, Hassabis, and others.

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• Karpathy "vibe coded" a U.S. labor market AI exposure analysis
• An entrepreneur used AI to create the first bespoke cancer vaccine for a dog
• Daniel Priestley: AI will make plumbers earn more than lawyers by 2029
• She quit, picked up AI, and shipped in 30 days what her team planned for Q3
• GPT-5 rebuilds a 100K-line app in six hours
• ByteDance pauses Seedance 2.0 global launch
• Simon Willison defines agentic engineering
• 5 new video study guides + crossword puzzle + Big Picture digest with podcast

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