Meta acquires viral AI agent social network Moltbook, bringing founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs on March 16, as the tech giant doubles down on autonomous AI agent infrastructure.
Google launches Gemini Embedding 2, its first natively multimodal embedding model, capable of processing text, images, video, audio, and documents together in a single unified space across 100+ languages, now available in public preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI.
Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA are joining forces in a multi-year partnership to deploy over one gigawatt of next-gen NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI systems as early as next year, with NVIDIA making a significant investment to expand frontier AI access for enterprises, researchers, and scientists worldwide.
A court orders Perplexity AI to immediately stop its Comet browser agent from making purchases on Amazon, following a lawsuit accusing the startup of computer fraud for concealing when its AI bot shops on behalf of real users.
Nvidia pays a $150 million deposit to seize 600MW of data center capacity in Abilene, Texas after Oracle and OpenAI scrap a planned Stargate expansion following failed financing negotiations and weather-related infrastructure setbacks, with Nvidia reportedly eyeing Meta as a tenant to keep the site exclusively running its own silicon.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer-use and 1M token context as rival Claude hits #1 on the US App Store with record signups, while OpenAI's massive $110B funding round turns out to contain only ~$15B in immediately deployable cash.
Anthropic sues the Pentagon in two federal courts, challenging its controversial 'supply-chain risk' designation after refusing to let its AI be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons, calling the government's move unconstitutional retaliation that is causing immediate, irreparable harm to its business.
A viral Forbes claim that Anthropic loses $5,000 per Claude Code Max user is misleading, as actual compute costs are estimated at just $500 — and on average, Anthropic is likely profitable on most Claude Code subscribers, with typical developers costing only $18 per month to serve.
OpenAI is abandoning plans to expand its Stargate data center with Oracle in Texas, choosing newer Nvidia GPU clusters elsewhere as the AI industry faces a growing crisis where data centers become obsolete faster than they can be built, leaving Oracle — which carries over $100 billion in debt and …
Tencent AI Lab launches Penguin-VL, a compact vision-language model that ditches traditional visual encoders in favor of a text-LLM-initialized architecture, delivering stronger fine-grained visual understanding and efficient long-video processing, with two model variants now live on Hugging Face.