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Techmeme surfaced this story in its April 13, 2026 roundup, and the original article is Stanford HAI’s The 2026 AI Index Report.

Stanford’s latest AI Index argues that the biggest mistake right now is to think AI progress is flattening out. The report says the opposite is happening: frontier capability is still improving quickly, adoption is spreading across organizations and consumers, and the center of gravity is moving from isolated model launches toward a broader system built from chips, datacenters, capital, education, and public policy.

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What this article is about

This summary covers The Economist’s March 28th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents under Social media and headlined Big tech's reckoning.

The article argues that a California jury verdict against Meta and Google matters not because the damages are large, but because the legal theory is new. Instead of blaming the companies for specific harmful posts, the case attacks the addictive design of the platforms themselves. That gives critics a way around the legal shield that has protected social-media firms for years.

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Calef Letorney’s article argues that “active piloting” is often invoked as a vague compliment or criticism when it should be treated as a concrete, trainable discipline. The core idea is simple: a paraglider should not be allowed to wander through the sky while the pilot passively endures whatever the air does next. A good pilot is constantly feeling what the wing is doing, predicting where it is about to go, and making timely corrections that keep the glider overhead and efficient. Letorney frames that work not as nervous overcontrol but as the normal operating mode of serious paragliding.

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What is the worst band you saw live? (r/AskReddit)

• ihaveredhaironmyhead: Bob Dylan. I fell asleep. I’m not sure but I think he briefly did too.
• Fine-Brilliant-2983: Lauryn Hill😭 She was 2 hours late, sang for 20 minutes, sounded like shit and left. Such a huge letdown. I have loved her FOREVER.
• Segesaurous: Poison, 1992. They had to restart the first song 3 times and were verbally fighting on the mics during the show. It was so, so bad.

Have you ever seen someone get rich overnight, like literally? How? (r/AskReddit)

• ZeldskiPowers: A family member worked for a major pharmaceutical company who was pushing medicine not for it’s intended use. He was a whistleblower and got close to \$50,000,000 after the government sued the company
• MJ-Franklin: A friend from school’s mum won £8.9million on the lottery. Saw him the day before, didn’t see him for a while after that!
• PraetorianOfficial: My orthodontist in the 70’s won a Powerball jackpot in 1995 for \$32million. He kept practicing for 4 more years before retiring. He passed away in 2020. Didn’t much seem to change his life at the time.

If money wasn’t an issue, what would you be doing with your life right now ? (r/AskReddit)

• Turn_around_advicer: Buy a small farm, grow weird vegetables, and nap in a hammock with my dogs. No alarms, no emails, just peace and dirt.
• AdditionFickle: Sleeping 8 hours without guilt, then spending the day learning random shit that actually interests me guitar, photography, cooking fancy pasta. No burnout, no clock watching. Just living life to the fullest
• Antique_Hovercraft60: Hiking trails near my house everyday. Clearing fallen trees and brush and picking up trash

TIL the Stone Age encompasses 99% of human history (r/todayilearned)

• RunDNA: I have a mortar & pestle so I’m continuing on the tradition.
• thetruegasolineman: Also worth noting that, in spite of this, a lot more than 1% of all humans to ever live are alive right now (about 8%), let alone the rest of human history.
• SquarePegRoundWorld: I like what Stefan Milo said about The Stone Age. If all the wood they used during the Stone Age didn’t rot away and was left to be discovered like the stone parts, we’d be calling it The Wood Age.

Are kids not allowed to walk to school by themselves nowadays? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• Uhhyt231: Kids walk to school when they can. I think fewer people live less than a mile from the school
• Appropriate_Tie534: In America? No. I know someone who had CPS called on them because they let their 7 year old bike around the (quiet, suburban) neighborhood by himself. And that was 15 years ago already.
• Prtyvacant: Kids in the city walk to school all the time. Most urban schools have a radius where they won’t even send a Gen Ed bus.

Men, what’s the biggest green flag you’ve seen on a woman? (r/AskReddit)

• ClassicPermission322: A musician was playing in the street and his music sheet blew over in the wind. She went and picked it up for him. She was my first gf at 16. Lovely person!
• Avon_gent: My now wife asked if I wanted to skip the usual overly long messaging back and forth on the dating app and if I’d like to just go for a drink instead.
• Gilmore75: The biggest green flag on any woman is that she is kind, not just to you but to everyone.

Hungary election: Orbán concedes to Magyar’s Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority (r/news)

• ToranjaNuclear: Damn, I’m surprised he just conceded without any major drama. Really curious to see what’ll change from now on, since both Trump and Putin just lost major allies
• Numerous_Photograph9: I’m so glad to have some actual good news to end the week.
• Kingofthetreaux: Holy shit is Hungary about to rejoin euro policies, please be yes!!!

Former New York City mayor Eric Adams obtains Albanian citizenship (r/news)

• its_yer_dad: Because nothing says innocent like getting an Albanian citizenship after being Mayor of New York. Geez, even Rudy did better
• Ok-Mycologist-3829: Contrast this to Mamdani trying to make his city a great place to live, this former mayor fleeing not just the city but the country and continent..
• RecordHigh: Did anyone tell Eric Adams that the US has an extradition treaty with Albania?

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Oracle’s new CFO got \$26M in stock after layoffs. Employee says an ‘algorithm’ targeted workers with stock options first (r/technology)

• QuantityInfinite8820: Getting laid off just before stock vesting season was a common scam for years. Nothing new.
• HeggyMe: How is firing employees who are close to vesting legal even? Isn’t this a slam dunk case of discrimination?
• VonVader: An algorithm?!? They didn’t simply have a spreadsheet of employees with options.

‘I feel helpless’: college graduates can’t find entry-level roles in shrinking market amid rise of AI (r/technology)

• blow-down: Meanwhile my manager copies any question someone asks him into Copilot and then pastes the answer verbatim into Teams. He makes \$200k a year. Make this shit make sense.
• Highlandgamesmovie: Ai??? It’s called greedy corporations keeping profits higher than ever while cutting labour to do it.
• well-informedcitizen: Can we please keep questioning this narrative that AI has already started stealing jobs, when nothing has come back except underwhelming results and failure

Data from 120k API calls across 2 machines proves Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5m on March 6th, this is why your quota usage exploded in March (r/ClaudeCode)

• AllCowsAreBurgers: Amazing how a multi-billion dollar company can fuck up this badly. No tests and no monitoring apparently. Just a bunch of apes yoloing infra with their own coding agents and it shows
• Chinse: This was found back in the leak. Ant employees had 1h cache, everyone else had 5 min
• snow_schwartz: According to the docs “By default, the cache has a 5-minute lifetime” so your investigation sounds good but perhaps not your conclusion. Maybe the 1hr TTL was the bug the whole time.

Finally happened to me and my colleagues. Seeing severely degraded performance. (r/ClaudeCode)

• TJohns88: Yep, it’s been absolutely lobotomized. Opus 4.6 on Max effort and it still can’t follow simple instructions without implementing dangerous bugs. Infuriating. Codex is ~5x better currently
• Deep_Ad1959: the lack of communication is what kills trust, not the degradation itself. every tool has bad weeks.
• SuitableLeather: Yes it is abysmal. I am spending hours going in circles and burning credits because it is overriding its own previous code that worked on pages completely different than the ones I’m asking it to fix. Fucking ridiculous

Full Root Cause Analysis vs. “It works now” – when do you draw the line? (r/cscareerquestions)

• shinglee: It depends where you work and the engineering culture. At my current job – literally never. If anyone puts up a PR without showing a convincing understanding of the issue they get called out immediately.
• lrascao: Always RCA, learn something to prevent it happen again and amortize the cost in the long run
• gringo_escobar: It depends on how impactful the issue was. If it’s high-impact then definitely do an RCA to prevent it from happening again. If it’s a minor issue then time box it and move on if you can’t figure it out

Venture Studio that recruited me wants to charge \$20k/mo in service fees. I will not promote. (r/startups)

• Ruckus55: If they didnt disclose \$20k in fees out of the gate, what else are they hiding? Can you negotiate? Go more a la carte?
• mdas: Coming from someone who worked for many years at a studio, that deal is nonsensical. The way its structured makes it impossible to raise follow on funding, and a \$240k/year service fee is highway robbery.
• Sad-Background-2295: Move on, it’s a total money grab and I’m seeing more and more of these types of startups …

Are AI tools actually making you too productive to switch off? (r/OpenAI)

• Freed4ever: It is addictive since the reward loop is so quick. And also, there is a use-it-or-lose-it mentality with the subscription. However, there will be burnouts. Constant context switching has its toll.
• Intrepid_Dare6377: Same. There is something addictive about it. In particular I find myself wanting to make sure that Claude is always working on something. If it’s idling, waiting on me, I feel like it’s lost time.
• TXFin: I call work “Robo-simming” now. Flight sim is one of my big hobbies, but agentic AI has become more fun resulting in me flying a lot less. Instead of flight simming I am robo simming.

Vibecoders ARE the FUTURE. (Blind)

• zjshdhxjjx: Not knowing coding language was never a barrier. Its knowing what to build, how to build and where to look when things go wrong. That is still the same. So IMHO nothing has changed.
• UqPT65: I’ll raise you one and say AI agents that code are the future.
• skykomish: Two separate tracks. For POCs, yes, vibe-coding. For robust production code, way more human involvement.

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A mountain profile built around attention instead of fame

Matthew Tufts frames “Ski(tour) Mountaineering” as a profile of Andrew McNab, but the piece is really about a way of moving through mountains that has become increasingly rare in an era of public tick lists, famous zones, and aggressive branding. McNab is introduced not as a ski celebrity but as the kind of local skier other strong skiers quietly rely on: born and raised in Revelstoke, deeply knowledgeable, technically gifted, and far more interested in overlooked terrain near home than in building a public mythology around himself. Tufts places him in the middle of one of North America’s most famous ski landscapes while emphasizing that his preferred terrain often sits just outside the obvious spotlight. The point is not that he rejects big mountains, but that he has learned to see possibilities in their margins.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: N-Queens
• Main tags: Array, Backtracking

What the problem is really asking

The board details can make this problem look more complicated than it is.

At a higher level, the task is:

• place exactly one queen in each row
• never reuse a column
• never place two queens on the same diagonal
• return every full placement that satisfies those rules

That “one queen per row” reframing is the key simplification.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: House Robber
• Main tags: Array, Dynamic Programming

What the problem is really asking

Each house has some amount of money. The thief wants the largest total possible, but robbing two neighboring houses triggers the alarm.

So the real question is:

At every house, is it better to:

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Generate Parentheses
• Main tags: String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking

What the problem is really asking

Given n pairs of parentheses, generate every string that is:

• exactly 2n characters long
• made only of ( and )
• balanced at every point

The last condition is the important one.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Search in Rotated Sorted Array
• Main tags: Array, Binary Search

What the problem is really asking

The array started out sorted in ascending order, then got rotated at some pivot.

That means a sequence like [0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7] might become [4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, 2].