# Digest: 2026-03-09

## Status
phase: complete
updated: 2026-03-10T04:00:00
html_generated: 2026-03-10T03:50:00
items_count: 20
links_validated: true
permissions_set: true
telegram_sent: true
completion_signaled: true

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## Source 0: Product Hunt

### Fetch
- [x] Fetched 20 products at 2026-03-10T03:00:58

### Initial Filter
| Rank | Name | Votes | Decision | Reason |
|------|------|-------|----------|--------|
| 1 | Timelaps | 455 | SKIP | Brand tracking/marketing tool |
| 2 | Roundtable | 394 | SKIP | EU investment fund setup |
| 3 | Dex | 293 | SKIP | AI data analyst wrapper |
| 4 | simply | 267 | SKIP | Nutrition/wellness app |
| 5 | SCRAPR | 242 | CANDIDATE | Web data extraction, developer tool |
| 6 | BrandingStudio.ai | 158 | SKIP | AI branding/marketing |
| 7 | Unite Pro for macOS | 147 | CANDIDATE | macOS app, turn websites into native apps |
| 8 | Nothing Phone (4a) Pro | 143 | SKIP | Android phone |
| 9 | OpenClix | 135 | SKIP | Mobile push campaigns |
| 10 | cutefolio | 129 | SKIP | Portfolio/link-in-bio builder |
| 11 | Hannah & Co | 119 | SKIP | AI marketing tool |
| 12 | Phi-4-reasoning-vision | 117 | SKIP | Already covered 03/04 |
| 13 | Reflct | 114 | SKIP | Journaling app, nothing novel vs Obsidian |
| 14 | Flowripple | 108 | CANDIDATE | SaaS workflow automation, dev tool |
| 15 | Wideframe | 92 | SKIP | Video editor AI tool |
| 16 | Kita | 92 | SKIP | Document intelligence for lenders |
| 17 | SubSchool | 47 | SKIP | Teaching platform |
| 18 | WhyFi | 38 | CANDIDATE | macOS menu bar Wi-Fi diagnostics |
| 19 | Revolink | 25 | SKIP | Smart short links/marketing |
| 20 | Design Diff | 25 | CANDIDATE | Figma vs Production QA tool |

### Analyzed: SCRAPR
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://scrapr.io
- votes: 242
- summary: Web data extraction API for developers. Handles proxies, CAPTCHAs, and anti-bot measures.

### Analyzed: Unite Pro for macOS
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://bzgapps.com/unite
- votes: 147
- summary: Turn any website into a native macOS app. Available on Setapp. SSBs with native features.

### Analyzed: Flowripple
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://flowripple.com
- votes: 108
- summary: SaaS workflow automation platform. Free tier available. Visual workflow builder.

### Analyzed: WhyFi
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://whyfi.network
- votes: 38
- summary: macOS menu bar app for Wi-Fi diagnostics. Real-time signal monitoring and troubleshooting.

### Analyzed: Design Diff
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://floto.ai
- votes: 25
- summary: Compare Figma designs against live production sites. Visual QA tool for pixel-perfect development.

### Product Hunt Complete
- candidates_analyzed: 5
- included: 5

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## Source 1: AI-LLMs

### Fetch
- [x] r/openai - 25 posts
- [x] r/singularity - 17 posts
- [x] r/LocalLLaMA - 25 posts
- [x] r/artificial - 14 posts

### Analyzed: Anthropic Sues Pentagon (FEATURED)
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/anthropic-sues-defense-department-over-supply-chain-risk-designation/
- summary: Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration after being labeled a "supply chain risk" by the Pentagon. The designation came after Anthropic refused to allow its AI for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. Follow-up to ongoing Pentagon conflict covered 03/03-03/08.

### Analyzed: OpenAI/Google Workers Amicus Brief
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/openai-and-google-employees-rush-to-anthropics-defense-in-dod-lawsuit/
- summary: 37 researchers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed amicus brief supporting Anthropic. They argued the Pentagon's blacklisting "chills professional debate" and undermines American innovation.

### Analyzed: Microsoft Copilot Cowork
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/03/09/copilot-cowork-a-new-way-of-getting-work-done/
- summary: Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork, built on Claude technology from Anthropic. Long-running multi-step AI agent for M365. Research preview now, broader availability late March.

### Analyzed: OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-promptfoo/
- summary: OpenAI acquiring Promptfoo, the open-source LLM evaluation framework. Signals focus on evaluation tooling.

### Analyzed: Nvidia NemoClaw
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://developer.nvidia.com/nemo-agent-toolkit
- summary: Nvidia readying NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform for enterprises. Partnering with Salesforce, Google, Adobe, CrowdStrike. Hardware-agnostic. Ahead of GTC conference.

### Analyzed: Fine-Tuned Qwen3 4B Beats 120B
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.distillabs.ai/blog/we-benchmarked-12-small-language-models-across-8-tasks-to-find-the-best-base-model-for-fine-tuning
- summary: Benchmarks show fine-tuned Qwen3-4B matches or exceeds GPT-OSS-120B (a 30x larger model) on 7/8 benchmarks. 30x lower inference costs and runs on-prem.

### Analyzed: Gemma 4 Spotted
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://x.com/AILeaksAndNews/status/2031004721826201711
- summary: Google's upcoming Gemma 4 open-source model spotted in a GitHub PR. Expected to feature 256K context and multimodal support.

### Analyzed: Brain Cells Play Doom
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://futurism.com/health-medicine/doom-human-brain-cells
- summary: Cortical Labs CL1 biological computer uses ~200K living human neurons to play Doom. First code-deployable biological computer. Brain cells learned the game in less than a week via API.

### Analyzed: Figure AI Helix 02
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://figure.ai/news/helix-02-living-room-tidy
- summary: Figure AI's Helix 02 humanoid robot autonomously cleans a living room. Picks up objects, navigates furniture, places items correctly. Major robotics milestone.

### Analyzed: Terence Tao Claude Code
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHEO7cplfk8
- summary: Terence Tao published a video showing how he uses Claude Code to formalize mathematical proofs in Lean. AI-assisted formal verification at the highest level of mathematics.

### AI-LLMs Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 4
- candidates_analyzed: 10
- included: 10

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## Source 2: GenAI-Media

### Fetch
- [x] r/StableDiffusion - 25 posts
- [x] r/midjourney - 15 posts
- [x] r/comfyui - 14 posts

### Analyzed: BFL Self-Flow
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://bfl.ai/research/self-flow
- summary: Black Forest Labs (FLUX creators) introduce Self-Flow, a self-supervised flow matching framework for multimodal generation. 2.8x faster convergence, improved video consistency, sharper text rendering. Single model handles image, video, and audio.

### Analyzed: CubeComposer
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/papers/2603.04291
- summary: Tencent ARC's CubeComposer generates 4K 360° panoramic video from perspective input. Uses cubemap decomposition for memory-efficient native 4K generation. Key for VR applications.

### GenAI-Media Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 3
- included: 2

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## Source 3: Apps-Software

### Fetch
- [x] r/macapps - 11 posts
- [x] r/selfhosted - 24 posts
- [x] r/opensource - 9 posts
- [x] r/SideProject - 25 posts

### Analyzed: TablePro
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://tablepro.app
    github: https://github.com/datlechin/TablePro
- summary: Free, open-source native macOS SQL client. Pure SwiftUI + AppKit (no Electron). Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB. Built-in AI assistant. Lightweight alternative to TablePlus.

### Analyzed: TrueNAS Build System Closed Source
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.truenas.com/blog/truenas-plans-for-2026/
- summary: iXsystems moving TrueNAS SCALE build system from public GitHub to internal infrastructure, citing Secure Boot and platform integrity requirements. No more external PRs or issues accepted on the build repo.

### Analyzed: Deskeen 2
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://littlehj.github.io/
- summary: macOS screen capture app that unifies capturing, organizing, and reusing screenshots. Color picker with 22 formats, screen recording, macOS Markup integration.

### Apps-Software Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 4
- included: 3

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## Final Selection

Total items: 20

### Product Hunt (5)
1. SCRAPR — 242 votes — scrapr.io
2. Unite Pro — 147 votes — bzgapps.com/unite
3. Flowripple — 108 votes — flowripple.com
4. WhyFi — 38 votes — whyfi.network
5. Design Diff — 25 votes — floto.ai

### AI-LLMs (10)
1. FEATURED: Anthropic Sues Pentagon — techcrunch.com
2. OpenAI/Google Workers Amicus Brief — techcrunch.com
3. Microsoft Copilot Cowork — microsoft.com
4. OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo — openai.com
5. Nvidia NemoClaw — developer.nvidia.com
6. Qwen3 4B Beats 120B — distillabs.ai
7. COMPACT: Gemma 4 Spotted — x.com
8. Brain Cells Play Doom — futurism.com
9. Figure AI Helix 02 — figure.ai
10. COMPACT: Terence Tao + Claude Code — youtube.com

### GenAI-Media (2)
1. BFL Self-Flow — bfl.ai
2. CubeComposer 4K 360° — huggingface.co

### Apps-Software (3)
1. TablePro — tablepro.app
2. TrueNAS Closed Source — truenas.com
3. COMPACT: Deskeen 2 — littlehj.github.io

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## Previous Digests (Last 7 Days)
Scanned 2026-03-03 through 2026-03-08. Key URLs noted for dedup.

### Developing Stories
- **Anthropic Pentagon escalation** — Ongoing, covered extensively 03/03-03/08. NOW: Lawsuit filed 03/09.
- **GPT-5.4 release** — Covered 03/05, follow-ups 03/07
- **Apple M5 Pro/Max** — Covered 03/03, MacBook Neo 03/05
- **Qwen 3.5 leadership** — CEO takeover covered 03/05
- **Eon Systems brain emulation** — Covered 03/08
- **Claude Marketplace** — Covered 03/08

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