AI Updates for the Week of 3/15/26

Updates

Below are some of the highlights in AI, robotics, and machine learning for this past week.

Claude temporarily doubles usage limits for everyone (8am – 2pm ET)
Leak: Meta considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company
Leak: ByteDance suspends launch of video AI model after copyright disputes with Hollywood
Spotify’s new Taste Profile feature lets users fine-tune their algorithm’s recommendations
Study: AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking
U.S. Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

BuzzFeed nearing bankruptcy after disastrous turn toward AI
xAI contacts rejected applicants to rebuild the service
Anthropic’s top lawyer says AI will kill the legal profession’s dreaded billable hour
Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools
AWS aims to boost AI business with Cerebras chip deal
Google rolls out Gemini screen automation on the Galaxy S26
BMW puts humanoid robots to work in Germany
NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents
FedEx Is planning an AI agent workforce
Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to create cancer vaccine for his dying dog
Musk’s $109 billion claim against OpenAI to proceed to trial
Leak: TikTok joint venture investors to pay Trump administration $10 billion
First humanoid robot ‘arrested’ after startling a 70-year-old woman in China
ElevenLabs restored Eric Dane’s voice with AI

Claude can now draw interactive charts and diagrams
Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods
Rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software
Facebook Marketplace now lets Meta AI respond to buyers’ messages
Ukraine allows allies to train AI models on its battlefield data
Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t get into NSFW content
Leak: China’s ByteDance gets access to top Nvidia AI chips
Atlassian follows Block’s footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI
Smart robot uses 3D vision to locate lost objects in homes 30% more efficiently
Leak: Meta delays rollout of new AI model because of performance concerns
Microsoft announces Copilot Health
FIFA is rebuilding world football operations on AI

Study: Chatbots enabled violence three-quarters of the time (Claude excepted)
Leak: OpenAI plans to launch Sora Video AI in ChatGPT in strategy shift
Anthropic’s Claude model is officially removed from U.S. State Department
Grammarly has disabled its tool offering AI feedback credited to real writers
Anthropic announces the Anthropic Institute
Leak: Microsoft in talks to lease large Texas data center site after Oracle walked away
Google completes Wiz acquisition
Zendesk acquiring AI customer service company Forethought
Uber will offer Zoox self-driving taxi to riders
Robotic hand with 91.9% success rate grips chips, raspberries without crushing them

Leak: In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’
Microsoft also backs Anthropic’s lawsuit against Pentagon
Meta acquires Moltbook
Report: AI-powered apps struggle with long-term retention
Study: Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits
Google to provide Pentagon with Gemini-powered AI agents
Google lets Google Photos users opt out of AI
ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help users understand math and science concepts
Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive
Zoom introduces an AI-powered office suite
AI-generated ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood drops a music video ahead of the Oscars (it sucks)
Metadata company Gracenote is the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app
Adobe is debuting an AI assistant for Photoshop
Amazon wins a temporary injunction against Perplexity’s Comet browser
Thinking Machines Lab inks massive compute deal with Nvidia
xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant

Anthropic sues Defense Department over supply-chain risk designation
OpenAI and Google employees rush to Anthropic’s defense in DoD lawsuit
AI unlocks cures to formerly incurable diseases
Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code
Agent hacked McKinsey’s chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours
Microsoft announces Copilot Cowork with help from Anthropic
X and xAI take steps toward blocking inappropriate uses of Grok
Leak: Nvidia plans to launch open source AI agent platform
OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents

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