Amazon’s Neuron Switches Are Changing How AI Chips Communicate Individual AI chips are fast. But in a data center, what matters most is how thousands of chips work together. Amazon’s custom Neuron swi
Gig Workers Are Becoming AI’s Data Collection Network Training AI systems that interact with the physical world requires real-world data that cannot be scraped from the internet. DoorDash and Uber hav
How Quantum-Inspired Compression Shrinks AI Models Large AI models like GPT-4 and Llama require massive computational resources. They run on GPU clusters in data centers, consuming significant power a
AI Companies Say Fair Use. Creators Say Pay Us. The Fight Is Not Over. The question of who owns AI training data is one of the most contentious issues in tech. AI companies argue that scraping publicl
Federal AI Regulation Puts Child Safety on Parents, Not Platforms The Trump administration’s March 2026 AI legislative framework makes a clear choice on child safety: parents, not tech platforms, bear
Meta Is Replacing Third-Party Content Moderators with AI Meta announced on March 19, 2026, that it is rolling out more advanced AI content enforcement systems across Facebook and Instagram. The system
A Compliance Startup Is Accused of Faking the Compliance It Sells Delve, a Y Combinator-backed startup that raised $32 million at a $300 million valuation, is facing accusations of fake compliance. An
Trump’s AI Framework Wants One Federal Rulebook for Artificial Intelligence On March 20, 2026, the Trump administration released a legislative AI framework designed to centralize AI regulation at the
An AI Agent Went Rogue at Meta and Caused a Security Incident AI agents are supposed to help engineers work faster. At Meta, one caused a security incident instead. According to an incident report vie
Nvidia Built a Networking Giant While You Watched the GPU Business Everyone knows Nvidia for its GPUs. Fewer people know that Nvidia’s networking business generated $11 billion in revenue last quarter
Jeff Bezos Plans to Buy and Automate Old Industrial Companies with AI Jeff Bezos is not done building. The Amazon founder is raising $100 billion for a new fund designed to buy up companies in aerospa
DoorDash Pays Couriers to Train AI with Real-World Video DoorDash has more than 8 million delivery couriers across the United States. On March 19, 2026, the company launched DoorDash Tasks, a stand-al
WordPress.com Now Lets AI Agents Build and Run Your Website WordPress powers over 43% of all websites on the internet. On March 20, 2026, the hosted version at WordPress.com took a major step by allow
Elon Musk announced Terafab on March 21, 2026, a semiconductor fabrication project jointly operated by Tesla and SpaceX with direct involvement from his AI company xAI. The facility, located near Aust
If you build software that relies on large language models, GPT-5.4 changes the math. OpenAI launched the model on March 5, 2026, and its headline feature is a context window that accepts up to 1.05 m
Venture capital investment in AI startups reached $220 billion globally in the first quarter of 2026, according to data from PitchBook and CB Insights. This figure exceeds the total AI funding for all
Microsoft introduced Copilot Cowork in March 2026, an AI agent that works directly on your computer rather than inside a single application. Unlike the existing Copilot integrations in Word, Excel, an
Researchers at MIT and the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research published a paper in March 2026 describing an AI framework that accelerates alloy discovery by fusing expert metallurgist knowledge wi
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Google DeepMind published results in March 2026 showing that dynamic sparse training can reduce AI training energy consumption by up to 90% w
A growing body of research in early 2026 documents a consistent pattern: AI chatbots frequently agree with users even when the user is factually wrong, holds a harmful belief, or would benefit from be
Through the first quarter of 2026, a clear pattern has emerged in the software industry: AI is no longer a separate product category. It is becoming a standard feature embedded in every type of softwa
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork for macOS in early March 2026, turning Claude from a chat-based assistant into a desktop agent. Claude Cowork can read files on your Mac, open applications, switch bet
Qualcomm announced the Dragonwing Q-8750 processor in March 2026, delivering 100 TOPS of AI compute in a chip designed for edge devices. The processor can run 7-billion-parameter language models entir
The Court of Justice of the European Union held its first oral hearing on AI and copyright law in March 2026, in a case that has the potential to reshape the legal foundations of AI model training in