Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, its most affordable AI video generation model yet, offering developers Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video capabilities at less than 50% of the cost of Veo 3.1 Fast, with support for 720p and 1080p resolutions and flexible durations, available now through the Gemini API.
Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs amid a 25% stock drop and mounting debt, as the tech giant bets big on AI infrastructure with plans to raise $50 billion and honor a $300 billion OpenAI deal, while analysts say slashing up to 30,000 employees could unlock $10 billion in free …
A 5-level AI proficiency stack is reshaping professional workflows in 2026, but most users remain stuck at Level 2, missing compounding productivity gains by treating AI like a search engine instead of leveraging persistent projects, reusable skills, automations, and autonomous agents across specialized platforms like Claude, GPT-5.4, Grok, and Gemini.
Hermes Agent v0.6.0 launches March 30, 2026, bringing multi-profile isolation, expanded platform integrations including Feishu, WeCom, and Slack multi-workspace OAuth, plus a major security overhaul with atomic config writes, dangerous command detection, and automatic inference failover across 95 merged PRs.
DeepSeek suffers its longest outage in over a year, with two incidents totaling more than eight hours of downtime on March 29-30, 2026, just as the Chinese AI startup prepares to launch its next major model, V4, a multimodal system trained with help from Huawei and Cambricon.
Anthropic launches a Compliance API for the Claude Platform, giving organization admins programmatic access to audit logs that track user activity and configuration changes, though model inference and direct Claude interactions remain unlogged.
All 11 co-founders of Elon Musk's xAI have now departed the company, raising serious questions about its future as SpaceX absorbs the $250 billion acquisition and Musk admits its products must be rebuilt from scratch.
A new Quinnipiac University poll reveals American trust in AI is cratering, with 55% believing it will do more harm than good — an 11% spike from last year — as over 70% fear job losses and 80% refuse to work under an AI manager.
Four beginner-friendly AI tools—Wispr Flow, Comet or Atlas browser, Perplexity Discover, and ChatGPT Voice—are quietly revolutionizing daily productivity, with voice dictation accuracy hitting 95% and potential 3-4x efficiency gains, even as public skepticism keeps many users on the sidelines.
South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions hits a $2.34 billion valuation after securing $400 million in a pre-IPO round led by Mirae Asset Financial Group, while simultaneously launching two new AI infrastructure platforms, RebelRack and RebelPOD, as the company aggressively expands into the U.S., Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan.