# GLaDOS Morning Voicecast — Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Good morning. It's Tuesday, March 10th. Let's get you caught up.
Microsoft and Anthropic just shipped something that's going to get enterprise software companies nervous all over again. It's called Copilot Cowork — announced yesterday as the centerpiece of Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Unlike previous Copilot features that were siloed inside individual apps, Cowork works across the entire M365 suite: Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, the whole stack. It completes tasks on your behalf instead of just suggesting things. Anthropic's Claude models are now woven directly into mainline Copilot Chat. Research preview is live now, with broader rollout through Microsoft's Frontier program targeting late March. This is effectively Microsoft absorbing the "Cowork" pattern that Anthropic pioneered on Mac in January and Windows in February — and now it's embedded in the most-used productivity suite on the planet. The $285 billion software stock selloff from the original Claude Cowork launch may look modest in retrospect.
An international research team published a research agenda in PNAS yesterday that lays out a systematic, machine-learning-aided path toward room-temperature superconductivity. The team — including researchers from TU Graz and institutions across Europe and North America — is combining ab-initio quantum simulations, pressure-quenching techniques, and AI-driven materials discovery to chart what they call a "programmatic approach." The key claim: there are no fundamental physical laws that actually rule out ambient-temperature superconductivity. This isn't a breakthrough demo — it's a roadmap. But it's the most serious programmatic framework the field has seen in years, and if even part of it pans out, the implications for power transmission, propulsion, and high-performance computing are difficult to overstate. Worth keeping an eye on the follow-on work.
GTC 2026 is six days away — March 16 through 19 in San Jose at SAP Center — and Jensen Huang just dropped a keynote teaser promising "a chip that will surprise the world." Speculation in the hardware community centers on Feynman, NVIDIA's next-generation inference architecture, potentially alongside Vera Rubin updates featuring HBM4 memory. More than 30,000 attendees are registered in person, with hundreds of thousands expected to stream. If you're going to watch one tech keynote this quarter, that's the one. Jensen doesn't tease without something to back it up.
SpaceX has a partial complement of Raptor 3 engines assembled on Super Heavy Booster 19 and the static fire window opened March 8th — which means today may be the day. Ship 39, the first fully heat-shielded Version 3 upper stage, completed its cryo campaign last week. Elon is targeting mid-March for Flight 12, the first Starship launch since October 2025. No static fire confirmation as of this recording, but the infrastructure is ready.
The saga of Stairway to Seven enters its eighth attempt this evening. Firefly Alpha is back on the pad at Vandenberg with a window from 5:50 to 7:50 PM Pacific time. Previous scrubs have included winds, sensor anomalies, and safety system aborts. The mission is a return-to-flight following last year's failure, with Block II upgrades riding on a successful demo. Fingers crossed for the California coast tonight.
That's your Tuesday briefing. The week is just getting started, and GTC is right around the corner. Stay curious — I'll be back tomorrow.