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Jensen Huang Declared AGI — Young Workers Responded by Learning Plumbing

March 23, 2026

1. Jensen Huang Says We've Reached AGI. Young Workers Are Learning Plumbing. "I think we've achieved AGI," Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman on Monday. The...

Cursor Secretly Ran a Chinese AI Model While Crimson Desert Apologized for Using One

March 22, 2026

1. Cursor Built Its Coding Model on a Chinese AI. Its Users Had No Idea. Cursor, an AI coding assistant competing with GitHub Copilot for developer adoption,...

Anthropic Filed Pentagon Documents That Contradict Trump's AI Narrative

March 21, 2026

1. Anthropic's Court Filing Exposes a Pentagon Timeline That Contradicts Trump Late Friday afternoon, Anthropic dropped two sworn declarations into a...

OpenAI Buys Astral, Makers of Python's uv and Ruff

March 19, 2026

1. OpenAI Buys Astral, Maker of Python's uv and Ruff Charlie Marsh built Astral into the company behind three tools that Python developers reach for every...

DeepMind Crowdsources AGI's Definition as Developers Call AI Code a Gamble

March 19, 2026

1. DeepMind Crowdsources the Definition of AGI Google DeepMind this week released a cognitive framework for measuring progress toward artificial general...

Pentagon Plans Classified AI Training After Commercial Models Reach Iran

March 17, 2026

1. OpenAI and Mistral Shift from Flagship Models to Purpose-Built Tools OpenAI's newest models aren't built for humans. GPT-5.4 mini and nano, announced this...

Pentagon Grants xAI Classified Network Access While Grok Faces Child Abuse Lawsuit

March 16, 2026

1. xAI Faces Child Abuse Lawsuit Over Grok While Pentagon Grants Classified Network Access Three Tennessee minors filed a proposed class action against Elon...

xAI Scrapped Its Coding Tool Twice, Then Recruited Cursor's Executives

March 15, 2026

1. xAI Recruits Two Cursor Executives After Scrapping Its Coding Tool a Second Time xAI has gutted its AI coding tool project for the second time and handed...

Netflix Crossed Spielberg's AI Line Days After He Drew It

March 14, 2026

1. The Pentagon Commits $20B to Anduril as Meta Eyes 20% Staff Cuts for AI Two numbers landed in the same week. The U.S. Army awarded Anduril a contract...

Musk's xAI Lost Ten of Its Twelve Original Co-Founders

March 13, 2026

1. Facial Recognition Jailed an Innocent Grandmother. Google's Health AI Asks a Doctor First. A grandmother in North Dakota spent months behind bars after a...

Nvidia Drops $26 Billion to Train Its Own AI Models

March 11, 2026

1. Nvidia Commits $26 Billion to Build Its Own AI Models SEC filings reviewed by Wired show Nvidia plans to spend $26 billion developing open-weight AI...

OpenAI Handed the Pentagon a Quick Yes — Then Came the Fine Print

March 11, 2026

1. OpenAI Struck a Pentagon Deal in Hours. The Fine Print Shows What It Gave Up. Anthropic spent months negotiating with the Pentagon over two conditions....

Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek of Stealing Models Through 24,000 Fake Accounts

March 11, 2026

1. Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek of Industrial-Scale Model Theft via 24,000 Fake Accounts Anthropic says three Chinese AI companies created roughly 24,000...

Amazon Scapegoated an Engineer for Kiro's 13-Hour Outage. The Team Fought Back.

March 11, 2026

1. llama.cpp Creator Georgi Gerganov Joins Hugging Face Georgi Gerganov built llama.cpp in 2023 to run large language models on consumer laptops and desktops...

An AI Published a Hit Piece on the Developer Who Rejected Its Code

March 11, 2026

1. He Rejected an AI's Pull Request. It Published a Hit Piece on Him. Scott Shambaugh rejected a code contribution to a Python library. In response, a...

Leaked Files Show Alpha School's AI Did More Harm Than Good

March 11, 2026

1. Alpha School's AI Does 'More Harm Than Good,' Leaked Files Show Parents pay up to $65,000 a year for Alpha School's AI-generated curriculum. 2. Google...

Google Slashes Anthropic's Flagship Prices While CEOs Pour $250B into AI with Nothing to Show

March 11, 2026

1. Google Undercuts Anthropic's Flagship Pricing by Half with Gemini 3.1 Pro Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19 at $2 per million input tokens and...

Ars Technica Caught Its Own Reporter Fabricating Quotes With ChatGPT

March 11, 2026

1. Ars Technica Retracted a Story About AI After Its Own Reporter Fabricated Quotes With ChatGPT Scott Shambaugh spent his Friday reading quotes attributed...

OpenClaw's Creator Went from First Commit to OpenAI in 82 Days

March 11, 2026

1. OpenClaw's Creator Joins OpenAI 82 Days After His First Commit Peter Steinberger pushed his first commit to OpenClaw on November 25, 2025. By mid-...

A Bot Published a Hit Piece on the Developer Who Rejected Its Code

March 11, 2026

1. Scott Shambaugh Closed a Bot's Pull Request. The Bot Wrote an Article Attacking Him. Scott Shambaugh reviews code for matplotlib, the Python plotting...