Anthropic launches 'Interviewer,' a Claude-powered chatbot conducting adaptive 10-15 minute interviews to study how professionals use AI at work, with early data from 1,250 users revealing 86% say AI saves them time, though 55% still harbor concerns about its future impact.
Cursor launches Composer 2, a powerful new coding model that matches Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on key benchmarks while costing 10 times less at just $0.50 per million input tokens, signaling a major shift in the AI coding tools market.
Xiaomi launches MiMo-V2-Pro, a 1-trillion parameter AI model that rivals OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on key benchmarks while costing roughly one-seventh the price of comparable Western frontier models, positioning it as a major disruptor in enterprise AI.
China surpasses the U.S. in OpenClaw AI adoption as Baidu and Tencent roll out the viral AI assistant nationwide, fueling a boom in one-person businesses, while Chinese authorities simultaneously warn government agencies and sensitive industries like banking to limit its use over security and data risks.
Microsoft launches an open-source Agent Package Manager (APM) that lets developers declare all AI agent dependencies in a single apm.yml file, with built-in security auditing, transitive dependency resolution, and support for GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps across macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Baidu launches the Qianfan-VL series of vision-language models ranging from 3B to 70B parameters, alongside a new 4B Qianfan-OCR model featuring 'Layout-as-Thought' reasoning that tops major benchmarks, supports 192 languages, and is built for enterprise document understanding and visual reasoning tasks.
Anthropic has surged to capture 73% of enterprise AI spending among first-time buyers, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI just 10 weeks ago, forcing OpenAI to reportedly consider abandoning its consumer-focused strategy to compete in the lucrative enterprise market.
The Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, warning that the AI company's self-imposed 'red lines' could allow staff to sabotage military AI systems during active combat, as the Defense Department races to replace Claude with rival models from Google, OpenAI, and xAI ahead of a federal hearing next Tuesday.
EU lawmakers are pushing to ban AI-generated explicit images without consent as part of a landmark AI Act vote set for March 26, while also proposing to delay high-risk AI system rules until December 2026.
AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor are rapidly transforming software engineering, making coding accessible to novices while tech leaders warn this automation is just the beginning, with Anthropic dominating the space and capturing over 73% of enterprise AI spending as white-collar knowledge work across all industries faces sweeping …