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💻 Perplexity turns Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent
🦾Plus: ️🤖 Musk revives Macrohard as a joint xAI-Tesla project
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March 12, 2026
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🤖 Musk revives Macrohard as a joint xAI-Tesla project
🔐 Google's $32B security bet reshapes cloud
⚖️ Microsoft backs Anthropic in Pentagon legal fight
📱 Apple's Foldable iPhone to Feature iPad-Like Interface
💡 AI Tutorial: How to create notes in your own handwriting using Gemini
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Perplexity just debuted Personal Computer, a new local version of its Computer AI agent system that runs on a dedicated Mac mini — positioning itself as a more secure, controlled rival to the viral OpenClaw. The agent gives Perplexity's Comet assistant persistent local access to files, apps, and sessions on a Mac mini, able to be managed from anywhere.
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Elon Musk pushed back on reports that its AI software initiative Macrohard had stalled, revealing xAI's project is merging with Tesla's ‘Digital Optimus’ AI agent into a system he claims can "emulate the function of entire companies."The system will pair Grok with a ‘Digital Optimus’ agent, processing live screen video and inputs and borrowing techniques from Tesla's FSD tech.
37 rival AI researchers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind, 22 former military officials, and civil rights groups file briefs supporting Anthropic's motion against DoD classification.
Google has completed its acquisition of Wiz, a leading cloud and AI security platform, in Google's largest acquisition to date. The Wiz team will join Google Cloud while retaining its brand, giving Google a comprehensive platform to secure cloud, hybrid, and AI environments across enterprise systems.
Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone will have an iPad-like layout when opened. It will be able to run apps side-by-side for the first time. The interior foldable display will be roughly the size of an iPad mini. The external screen will be about the size of the display on a small iPhone.
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AI Tutorial
How to create notes in your own handwriting using Gemini
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Go to NanoBanana and sign up.
Upload a small sample of your handwriting (just a few lines on paper).
Enter a prompt like this:
Sample Prompt: “Analyze the uploaded handwriting sample and match its style exactly (letter shapes, spacing, slant, and stroke flow). Write the following text in the same handwriting style: [sample text]”
Click generate.
Within seconds, Claude recreates your handwriting and writes the content directly in that style.
It looks like you personally wrote it.
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Anthropic unveiled the Anthropic Institute, a new group combining three teams under co-founder Jack Clark to study AI’s societal impacts, launching amid the company's legal battle with the Pentagon over its blacklisting as a supply-chain risk.
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