# Digest: 2026-02-26

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## Previous Digests (Last 7 Days)

### 2026-02-19
- Gemini 3.1 Pro, OpenAI $100B deal, Anthropic OAuth ban, Zyphra Zuna, llama.cpp PR, KittenTTS, Capybara, Jollycat, Pipiri, Resetter, OpenDroneLog

### 2026-02-20
- Claude Code Security, GGML joins HF, Pomelli Photoshoot, METR time horizons, Seedance halt, Jony Ive OpenAI speaker, RawDiffusion, Cline supply chain (Snyk), Betterlytics, FileArchitect, LASearch

### 2026-02-21
- Qwen Code, GLM-4.7 Flash distill, Google Gmail shutdown, OpenAI duty-to-warn, AI agents exposure (Threatroad), Snyk Cline, Prism Videos, Dockside, Macky, Hush, Rork Max

### 2026-02-22
- Claude in PowerPoint, Anthropic/OpenAI revenue (Epoch), MonarchRT, Seed2, NoAI watermark, SuggestArr, Tidy, Resurf, Kommand, SotiTalk, Radial, Straion

### 2026-02-23
- Anthropic distillation detection, OpenAI SWE-bench statement, Big Tech $650B investment, IBM/Anthropic COBOL, Seedream 5.0 Lite, ACE-Step 1.5, thermodynamic computing, Callio, Seagull, Transmogrify, TypeBoost

### 2026-02-24
- Anthropic safety pledge (Time), scaling policy roadmap, Meta AMD $100B deal, Pentagon/Hegseth, Liquid LFM2, Qwen 3.5-122B, Google Stitch, Flux virtual try-on LoRA, AdventureLog, Booklore, Netfluss, Dicta.to

### 2026-02-25
- Claude cowork plugins, Perplexity Computer, Mercury 2, Google Opal, Seedance 2.0, DeepMind Aletheia FirstProof, Karpathy tweet, BFL tweet, Anthropic Pentagon (Axios), Google Flow updates, Thinglo, XyOps, TunaForMac, VibePad, MirrorMask

### Developing Stories
- **Anthropic Pentagon escalation** — Hegseth deadline passed. Anthropic rejected "final offer" Feb 26.
- **Benchmark quality crisis** — SWE-Bench Verified dropped, HLE questioned.
- **Qwen 3.5 model series** — Multiple releases ongoing.
- **Seedance 2.0 copyright saga** — Now available in CapCut.
- **OpenAI $100B funding** — Finalizing.

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## Source 0: Product Hunt

### Fetch
- [x] Fetched 20 products at 2026-02-27 03:01:41 UTC

### Initial Filter
| ID | Name | Decision | Reason |
|----|------|----------|--------|
| 1084409 | ChatPal | SKIP | Language learning |
| 1077214 | Koidex | CANDIDATE | Dev security tool |
| 1071298 | Rover | SKIP | Website chatbot |
| 1084510 | gpt-realtime-1.5 | CANDIDATE | OpenAI realtime voice |
| 1078299 | Tessl | CANDIDATE | Agent skills optimizer |
| 1069025 | Zavi AI | CANDIDATE | Voice-to-action |
| 1086019 | IronClaw | CANDIDATE | Secure OpenClaw, Rust |
| 1085669 | OpenClawCity | SKIP | Novelty |
| 1085634 | Hush | SKIP | Name collision with recent digest |
| 1085906 | RankingSuperior | SKIP | SEO tool |
| 1086133 | Heimdall | SKIP | Space tracking niche |
| 1082205 | Padel Chess | SKIP | Sports |
| 1086049 | Commit Please | SKIP | Novelty coworking |
| 1086079 | FoodHealth Score | SKIP | Health/wellness |
| 1077262 | CodeWords UI | CANDIDATE | Automation platform |
| 1085768 | Seedream 5.0 Lite | SKIP | Already covered 2026-02-23 |
| 1085808 | DeltaMemory | CANDIDATE | AI memory layer, Rust |
| 1085966 | Playground by Natoma | CANDIDATE | MCP server playground |
| 1080136 | Wordwand | CANDIDATE | macOS AI assistant |
| 1083070 | Zipladin | SKIP | Photo app |

### Analyzed: Koidex
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://dex.koi.security/
- summary: Security platform that scans packages, extensions, apps, and AI models for risks. AI-powered risk engine reads all non-binary code. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks. $48M raised.

### Analyzed: gpt-realtime-1.5
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-realtime/
- summary: OpenAI's upgraded realtime voice model. +5% audio reasoning, +10% transcription accuracy, +7% instruction compliance. Same pricing. Better tool calling and multilingual.

### Analyzed: IronClaw
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw
- summary: NEAR AI's Rust rewrite of OpenClaw with WASM sandboxing. Capability-based permissions, encrypted credential vault, local-first PostgreSQL storage. Enterprise-grade security.

### Analyzed: DeltaMemory
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://www.deltamemory.com/
- summary: Cognitive memory layer for AI agents. Rust-native. Extracts facts, builds knowledge graphs, temporal reasoning. 89% accuracy on LoCoMo benchmark, 50ms retrieval. Integrates with Vercel AI, LangChain, CrewAI.

### Analyzed: Playground by Natoma
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://www.natoma.run/
- summary: Free MCP server directory and interactive playground. Browse 100+ verified servers, try instantly, inspect tools, explore workflows. No account or setup needed.

### Analyzed: Tessl
- decision: DISCARD
- reason: Enterprise SaaS, not compelling enough for this audience

### Analyzed: Zavi AI
- decision: DISCARD
- reason: Voice assistant, crowded space

### Analyzed: CodeWords UI
- decision: DISCARD
- reason: Automation platform, not unique enough

### Analyzed: Wordwand
- decision: DISCARD
- reason: Many similar macOS AI assistants exist

### Product Hunt Complete
- candidates_analyzed: 9
- included: 5
- phase: source-0-complete

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## Source 1: AI-LLMs

### Fetch: r/openai
- [x] Fetched 25 posts at 2026-02-27 03:05 UTC

### Fetch: r/singularity
- [x] Fetched 25 posts at 2026-02-27 03:06 UTC

### Fetch: r/LocalLLaMA
- [x] Fetched 25 posts at 2026-02-27 03:07 UTC

### Fetch: r/artificial
- [x] Fetched 10 posts at 2026-02-27 03:08 UTC

### Analyzed: Anthropic rejects Pentagon "final offer"
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: featured
- score: 1320 (r/singularity)
- urls:
    primary: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/26/anthropic-rejects-pentagon-ai-terms
- summary: Anthropic rejected the Pentagon's "final offer," saying the contract made "virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons." Hegseth's Friday deadline approaching. Pentagon asking Boeing/Lockheed to assess exposure. Developing story.

### Analyzed: Google Nano Banana 2
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 695 (r/singularity)
- urls:
    primary: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/
- summary: Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model. #1 on Image Arena. Combines Pro quality with Flash speed. Up to 4K, 5 character consistency, 14 objects. Rolling out across Gemini app, Flow, Search. C2PA Content Credentials.

### Analyzed: DeepSeek V4 withholds from Nvidia/AMD
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 392 (r/LocalLLaMA)
- urls:
    primary: https://www.technology.org/2026/02/26/deepseek-locks-us-chipmakers-out-of-its-next-big-ai-model/
- summary: DeepSeek withheld V4 from US chipmakers including Nvidia and AMD, breaking from standard practice. Gave Huawei early access instead. Possibly part of Chinese strategy to disadvantage US hardware. V4 reportedly trained on Nvidia Blackwell in violation of export controls.

### Analyzed: France MCP server for data.gouv.fr
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 237 (r/singularity) + 44 (r/openai)
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/datagouv/datagouv-mcp
- summary: France deployed an official MCP server for data.gouv.fr — the national open data platform. Public instance at mcp.data.gouv.fr. AI chatbots can search, explore, analyze government datasets directly. First government-level MCP deployment.

### Analyzed: Invisible Unicode hijacks AI agents
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 69 (r/artificial)
- urls:
    primary: https://www.moltwire.com/research/reverse-captcha-zw-steganography
- summary: Moltwire research shows zero-width Unicode characters can embed hidden instructions in text. Tool use is the dominant amplifier: compliance jumps from 0.1-16.9% to 1.6-71.2% with tools enabled. Tested across GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus/Sonnet. Critical for agentic deployments.

### Analyzed: Hermes Agent by Nous Research
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 35 (r/LocalLLaMA)
- urls:
    primary: https://nousresearch.com/hermes-agent/
- summary: Open-source autonomous agent with multi-level memory and persistent machine access. ReAct loop powered by Hermes-3. Supports Docker, SSH, local terminals. Cross-platform messaging (Telegram, Discord, Slack). Powers Nous Research's agentic RL pipeline.

### Analyzed: DataClaw
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- score: 474 (r/singularity)
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/peteromallet/dataclaw
- summary: Open-source tool to publish Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI conversations as structured HuggingFace datasets. Auto-redacts secrets and PII. Described as "throwing the ladder back down" — response to Anthropic's distillation policies.

### AI-LLMs Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 4
- candidates_analyzed: 7
- included: 7
- phase: source-1-complete

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## Source 2: GenAI-Media

### Fetch: r/StableDiffusion
- [x] Fetched 23 posts at 2026-02-27 03:10 UTC

### Fetch: r/midjourney
- [x] Fetched 25 posts at 2026-02-27 03:11 UTC (all art showcases, no tools/models)

### Fetch: r/comfyui
- [x] Fetched 24 posts at 2026-02-27 03:12 UTC

### Analyzed: Arrow-1 by QuiverAI
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 61 (r/singularity)
- urls:
    primary: https://quiver.ai/
- summary: QuiverAI's Arrow-1 is the first model to break 1500 Elo on SVG Arena (1583). Vector-native AI model that generates SVGs from images and text with natural language editing. QuiverAI raised $8.3M seed. New SOTA for SVG generation.

### Analyzed: Yedp Action Director
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- score: 199 (r/StableDiffusion) + 61 (r/comfyui)
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/yedp123/ComfyUI-Yedp-Action-Director
- summary: ComfyUI custom node with interactive 3D viewport for ControlNet workflows. Load up to 16 characters, assign MoCap animations, compose in 3D with gizmos, animate cameras, and bake OpenPose/Depth/Canny/Normal passes.

### Analyzed: NVIDIA FLUX optimizations
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- score: 41 (r/StableDiffusion)
- urls:
    primary: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/open-source-ai-tool-upgrades-speed-up-llm-and-diffusion-models-on-nvidia-rtx-pcs
- summary: NVIDIA shipped NVFP8/NVFP4 support for diffusion models. 2x performance on FLUX with NVFP8, 3x faster + 60% less VRAM with RTX 50 Series NVFP4. ComfyUI optimized by 40%.

### GenAI-Media Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 3
- candidates_analyzed: 3
- included: 3
- phase: source-2-complete

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## Source 3: Apps-Software

### Fetch: r/macapps
- [x] Fetched 10 posts at 2026-02-27 03:15 UTC

### Fetch: r/selfhosted
- [x] Fetched 25 posts at 2026-02-27 03:16 UTC

### Fetch: r/opensource
- [x] Fetched 13 posts at 2026-02-27 03:17 UTC

### Fetch: r/SideProject
- [x] Fetched 25 posts at 2026-02-27 03:25 UTC

### Analyzed: FloatTube
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 51 (r/macapps)
- urls:
    primary: https://floattube.uuphy.com/en/
- summary: Safari extension for enhanced YouTube PiP. Displays subtitles in native PiP player, auto-activates PiP based on playback. Dedicated PiP controls in YouTube player. macOS only.

### Analyzed: TuneJourney
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 84 (r/SideProject)
- urls:
    primary: https://tunejourney.com/
- summary: 3D globe with 70K+ live radio stations. AI auto-skips talk/ads using in-browser ML classification. Keyboard and media key support. Free, modern Radio Garden alternative.

### Analyzed: Open Source Endowment
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- score: 34 (r/opensource)
- urls:
    primary: https://endowment.dev/
- summary: New 501(c)(3) to permanently fund open source. $750K committed. Backed by former GitHub CEO, HashiCorp founder, Supabase CEO, NGINX co-founder, Vue.js and cURL creators. Targets $100M in 7 years. 5% annual spend rate.

### Analyzed: Laterfeed
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- score: 11 (r/selfhosted)
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/orellazri/laterfeed
- summary: Self-hosted read-it-later that serves saved links as Atom feed. Docker deployment. Configurable retention (days or max entries). Consume your reading list in any RSS reader.

### Analyzed: YoYoTools
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- score: 50 (r/SideProject)
- urls:
    primary: https://www.yoyotools.com/
- summary: Collection of 71+ browser-based tools that run 100% client-side. No accounts, no limits, no uploads. Works offline after loading. Image, PDF, text, and developer tools.

### Apps-Software Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 4
- candidates_analyzed: 5
- included: 5
- phase: source-3-complete

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## Final Selection

Total items: 20

### Product Hunt (5)
1. IronClaw — github.com/nearai/ironclaw
2. DeltaMemory — deltamemory.com
3. Playground by Natoma — natoma.run
4. Koidex — dex.koi.security
5. gpt-realtime-1.5 — openai.com

### AI-LLMs (7)
1. Anthropic rejects Pentagon (FEATURED) — axios.com
2. Google Nano Banana 2 — blog.google
3. DeepSeek V4 Huawei — technology.org
4. France MCP server — github.com/datagouv
5. Unicode hijacks agents — moltwire.com
6. Hermes Agent — nousresearch.com
7. DataClaw — github.com/peteromallet

### GenAI-Media (3)
1. Arrow-1 SVG Arena — quiver.ai
2. Yedp Action Director — github.com
3. NVIDIA FLUX optimizations — nvidia.com

### Apps-Software (5)
1. FloatTube — floattube.uuphy.com
2. TuneJourney — tunejourney.com
3. Open Source Endowment — endowment.dev
4. Laterfeed — github.com
5. YoYoTools — yoyotools.com

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