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☀️ Tech & AI Daily — March 26, 2026

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🧠 ARC-AGI-3: The Gap Between Brute Force and Reason

François Chollet and the ARC-AGI team have released the third iteration of the landmark benchmark. While LLMs continue to dominate standard benchmarks, ARC-AGI-3 confirms the "brute force wall": current models still fail to learn new abstract rules in context with human-like efficiency. The report suggests we are still missing a fundamental architectural piece for true fluid intelligence.

ARC Prize • Mar 25

💻 Intel Launches 32GB Arc Pro B70 for $949

Intel is aggressively targeting the AI workstation market with the new Arc Pro B70. Featuring 32GB of GDDR6 memory and 367 TOPS of AI performance for under a thousand dollars, it undercuts NVIDIA's VRAM pricing significantly. For local inference (Qwen 3.5 27B or Llama 3 70B), this is the most cost-effective "new" silicon on the market today.

VideoCardz • Mar 25

🛡️ Apple Randomly Closing Bug Reports

Developers are reporting that Apple has begun "randomly" closing Radar bug reports unless the reporter "verifies" the bug remains unfixed in the latest beta. Given the effort required to reproduce complex OS-level bugs, this move is being seen as a hostile way to prune the tracker by exhausting reporter patience rather than fixing the underlying issues.

Lap Cat • Mar 25


📡 Worth Knowing

Sodium-Ion Breakthrough

New EV battery delivers 11-minute charging and 450km range, signaling a major shift away from lithium dependency.

Electrek • Mar 25

📌 GitHub Copilot Data Policy

GitHub has updated its interaction data usage policy; users are advised to verify their "Allow GitHub to use my data" opt-out settings.

GitHub • Mar 25

🧊 Antimatter Transported

Scientists have successfully transported antimatter outside of a laboratory for the first time, a massive leap for physics research.

Nature • Mar 25


🔧 Repo/Tool of the Day

ATLAS

An open-source AI system that uses smart infrastructure to help a 14B model outperform Claude Sonnet 4.5 on coding benchmarks.

GitHub • Mar 25

VitruvianOS

A desktop Linux distribution heavily inspired by the classic BeOS "modular and multi-threaded" philosophy.

Website • Mar 25

Flow2API

A load-balanced reverse proxy and account pool manager for Gemini 3 Pro (Nano Banana Pro) with auto-refresh and caching.

GitHub • Mar 25

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