Yann LeCun's new startup AMI Labs secures a record-breaking $1 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, backed by Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others, to develop AI that understands and operates reliably in the physical world — though experts warn the technology is complex, high-stakes, and a longer-term investment.
Microsoft is urging a federal court to block the Pentagon's unprecedented ban on Anthropic's Claude AI models, warning the Defense Department's supply chain risk designation — historically reserved for foreign adversaries — could immediately disrupt tech products used by U.S. warfighters and force emergency contract overhauls across the defense industry.
Niantic Spatial is turning 30 billion Pokémon Go player images into a centimeter-precise AI navigation system, now powering Coco Robotics' 1,000 delivery robots across US and European cities where GPS falls short.
Nvidia launches NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform courting major tech partners like Salesforce, Google, and Cisco, marking a bold strategic pivot beyond its proprietary CUDA ecosystem to help enterprises deploy AI workforce agents on any hardware.
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.
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.
The AI industry fractures over military contracts as Anthropic sues the Pentagon over a supply chain risk designation, OpenAI's robotics chief resigns in protest of autonomous weapons deals, and nearly 1,000 AI workers from OpenAI and Google sign a petition demanding tech employees unite against Department of Defense demands.
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, a powerful new Microsoft 365 feature that autonomously executes tasks and runs workflows across Outlook, Teams, and Excel on users' behalf, with broader availability expected through the Frontier program in late March 2026.
AI and robotics are rapidly empowering small groups and terrorist organizations to launch autonomous attacks using drones powered by open-source vision models, prompting urgent warnings from experts that policymakers must act now to criminalize violent AI fine-tuning and strengthen defenses before these threats become reality.
A deepening AI infrastructure crisis is forcing companies like Anthropic to actively degrade their own products to conserve compute, as surging demand from agentic tools outpaces supply — and with DRAM constraints expected to cap growth at 15GW until 2027, experts warn inference shortages will worsen through 2026 and 2027, …