Daily Digest - July 3, 2026

Chapters

1. 0:00

   Intro

2. 0:20

   Anthropic explores a custom chip with Samsung

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/anthropic-is-discussing-a-new-custom-chip-with-samsung/
3. 1:09

   Simon Willison ships an agent that wrote itself

   https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2/llm-coding-agent/
4. 1:59

   WebKit ships a Safari MCP server

   https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
5. 2:46

   Zuckerberg concedes AI agents are lagging

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-tells-staff-that-ai-agents-havent-progressed-as-quickly-as-hed-hoped/
6. 3:35

   AI's real cost shows up in Google and Amazon emissions

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/a-warning-sign-about-ais-real-cost-courtesy-of-google-and-amazon/
7. 4:32

   A spyware investigator gets hit with Pegasus

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/politician-who-investigated-spyware-abuses-had-his-phone-hacked-with-pegasus-spyware/
8. 5:19

   A Scattered Spider suspect is extradited

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/02/scattered-spider-criminal-group-suspect-extradited/
9. 6:08

   Hackers took over Instagram accounts by asking Meta AI

   https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/
10. 6:56

    PamStealer is an unusually careful Mac stealer

    https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/new-pamstealer-macos-malware-uses-clever-tradecraft-to-remain-stealthy/
11. 7:45

    Sony erases movies people paid for

    https://www.wired.com/story/sony-erases-digital-content-from-libraries/
12. 8:36

    Sign-off