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As of Sat 18 Jul 2026 · 7 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest
Saturday 18 July 2026
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01 · Stratechery
Mainframes and Main CharactersBen Thompson argues IBM's worst day in 115 years reflects AI finally porting load-bearing code off mainframes, so those lost sales never come back.
02 · Puck
Grindr: Up to 80% of code is now written by AI agentsGrindr's CEO says AI now writes up to 80% of its code, letting 94 engineers do the work of 300.
03 · Stratechery
Is Netflix Washed Now?Sharp Text asked whether Netflix is washed after another earnings-driven stock hit, with its originals gone strangely disposable.
04 · Puck
Can A24 keep Kane Parsons, Hollywood's hottest free agent?Kane Parsons, 21, whose $10M film Backrooms grossed $364M for A24, is now Hollywood's most-chased free agent.
05 · Digiday
WTF is LLM honeypotting?Publishers are using LLM honeypotting, luring AI scrapers into useless content mazes to spike their compute costs and poison the models.
06 · Puck
Why MLB's business boom won't stop a lockoutBaseball is having a banner year but heading toward a near-certain 2027 lockout, as a booming sport raises the stakes of a salary-cap fight.
07 · The Athletic
A car crash nearly killed ESPN's Matt Miller. Then came the fraud allegations.ESPN's Matt Miller faces fraud allegations after a near-fatal car crash.
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