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Below are some of the highlights in AI, robotics, and machine learning for this past week.
3/22
- Delve accused of misleading customers with fake compliance and false AI claims
- Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi
- Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will build ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Austin
- Nvidia showcases robot Olaf at GTC, raising questions about real-world deployment
- Square Enix integrates Google’s Gemini AI into Dragon Quest X
- Mathematician who bet against AI math progress now expects to lose
- AI fears are chilling tech M&A activity
- Adobe CFO turns finance department into AI testing ground
3/21
- FBI director confirms agency buys Americans’ data for surveillance
- Pentagon adopts Palantir’s Maven AI system as official program
- Man pleads guilty to defrauding streaming platforms with AI music
- Kaiser mental health workers strike over AI screening concerns
- AI evolves ‘indestructible’ robot that adapts in minutes
- Anduril opens Ohio factory to manufacture autonomous fighter jets
- L3Harris and Shield AI demo fully autonomous electronic warfare
- TikTok bans 20 AI-generated accounts used to promote explicit content
- Hachette pulls horror novel over AI-generation concerns
- Wall Street drops Nvidia stock despite bullish GTC keynote
- OpenAI’s first advertisers can’t prove ChatGPT ads work
- Leak: OpenAI expects to increase headcount to roughly 8,000 this year
- Microsoft promises to fix biggest Windows 11 issues
- Bay Area AI startups splurge on private parties as valuations soar
3/20
- Trump’s AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents
- MAGA has been swooning over a beautiful Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI
- OpenAI to combine ChatGPT, Codex and Browser into ‘SuperApp’
- Anthropic ships an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels
- Mistral releases its open Small 4 model
- Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
- South Korea’s KAIST humanoid robot shows off moonwalk and soccer skills
- New 3D-printed robot uses wind instead of batteries to explore harsh terrains
- WordPress now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more
- Google introduces ‘full-stack vibe coding’ in AI Studio
- Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin wants to launch data centers into space
- Elon Musk misled Twitter investors, jury finds
3/19
- Co-founder of tech company charged with diverting $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China
- Cursor launches new coding model Composer 2
- Leak: Jeff Bezos wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI
- Amazon acquires robotics startup
- Meta to cut back on third-party moderators, rely more on AI
- Google Labs overhauls Stitch into a full AI-native design platform
- DoorDash launches a new ‘Tasks’ app that pays couriers to submit videos to train AI
- Meta rolls out new AI content enforcement systems while reducing reliance on third-party vendors
- Leak: Google is testing a Gemini app for Mac
- Amazon brings Alexa+ to the U.K.
3/18
- A rogue AI agent triggers security alert inside Meta
- Leak: Microsoft grows concerned that OpenAI-AWS product may violate Azure contract
- U.K. reverses course on AI copyright position after backlash
- Mystery AI model Hunter Alpha may be DeepSeek V4 in disguise
- Yahoo’s new AI search tools support the open web, unlike others (cough, Google, cough)
3/17
- OpenAI releases GPT‑5.4 mini and nano
- Senators tell ByteDance to ‘immediately shut down’ Seedance AI video app
- Judge dismisses evidence after witness uses smart glasses for real-time coaching
- Leak: Microsoft overhauls AI leadership
- Report: OpenAI expands government footprint with AWS deal
- Researcher release open model Mamba 3
- Humanoid robot returns tennis shots with 96% accuracy in simulation tests
- Google’s Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all U.S. users
- Nvidia wants to power the next generation of data centers in space
- OpenAI takes steps to reduce ‘teaser-style phrasing’ in ChatGPT responses
- BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue
- Gamma adds AI image-generation tools
3/16
- xAI sued for turning three girls’ real photos into AI CSAM
- Leak: OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed ‘Adult Mode’ launch
- Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI
- Warren presses Pentagon over decision to grant xAI access to classified networks
- U.S. Treasury publishes AI risk Guidebook for financial institutions
- Heat sources can trick thermal cameras into seeing obstacles that aren’t there
- Nvidia launches its open-source Agent Toolkit
- z.ai debuts faster, cheaper GLM-5 Turbo model for agents and ‘claws’
- China’s DEEP Robotics unveils robot horse with 110-lb payload carrying capacity
- Nvidia’s DGX Station is a desktop supercomputer that runs trillion-parameter AI models without the cloud
- Nvidia unveils Groq-based chip system to speed up AI tasks like coding
- Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice
- Nvidia’s version of OpenClaw could solve its biggest problem: security
- Picsart now allows creators to ‘hire’ AI assistants through agent marketplace
- Claude can now turn your handwriting into a font
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