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As of Sat 18 Jul 2026 · 7 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest

Saturday 18 July 2026

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  1. 01 · Stratechery

    Mainframes and Main Characters

    Ben 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.

    AI

  2. 02 · Puck

    Grindr: Up to 80% of code is now written by AI agents

    Grindr's CEO says AI now writes up to 80% of its code, letting 94 engineers do the work of 300.

    AI

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

    AI

  6. 06 · Puck

    Why MLB's business boom won't stop a lockout

    Baseball 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.

  7. 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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