AI news: March 2026

36 briefs published in March 2026, newest first.

March 31, 2026 · Industry

All the latest in AI ‘music’

Silicon Valley Finally Solves Music Industry's Biggest Problem: Too Much Human Creativity The music industry, having successfully survived the transition from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to digital dow...
March 30, 2026 · Product Launch

The Galaxy S26 Plus is a good phone with a major problem that Samsung needs to figure out

Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus Review: Pretty Great Phone, Shame About That Thing We Can't Actually Tell You About Yet Android Central has published their full review of Samsung's Galaxy S26 Plus, and they'...
March 29, 2026 · Industry

Why OpenAI killed Sora

OpenAI Discovers Video Generation Costs More Than Disney's Annual Catering Budget OpenAI announced Tuesday that it's officially pulling the plug on Sora, its much hyped video generation tool, after a...
March 28, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk Designation Halted By Judge

Judge Rules Pentagon Can't Ground Claude for Being Too Good at Homework A federal judge just told the Department of Defense to pump the brakes on labeling Anthropic a "supply chain risk," which is go...
March 27, 2026 · Product Launch

Anthropic’s Claude Code gets ‘safer’ auto mode

Anthropic Introduces "Please Don't Sue Us" Mode for Claude Code Anthropic just dropped the tech equivalent of training wheels for artificial intelligence: an "auto mode" that promises to let Claude C...
March 26, 2026 · Industry

ChatGPT and Gemini are fighting to be the AI bot that sells you stuff

AI Chatbots Discover Capitalism, Immediately Try to Empty Your Wallet In a development that surprises absolutely no one who has ever watched a tech company evolve past its "don't be evil" phase, Chat...
March 25, 2026 · Industry

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’

Nvidia CEO Declares Mission Accomplished, Then Immediately Hedges His Bets Jensen Huang, the leather jacket wearing prophet of silicon, has officially moved the goalposts so far that they've disappea...
March 24, 2026 · Product Launch

The Galaxy S26 still ships with this useful notification feature turned off — thankfully, fixing it is easy

Samsung Ships Galaxy S26 With Notification Settings Configured by Someone Who Clearly Hates Productivity Samsung has once again delivered a flagship phone that arrives in the wild with all the grace...
March 23, 2026 · Product Launch

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive

Google's AI Spends Nine Minutes Ordering Dinner, Somehow Still Beats Your Average Date Google's Gemini AI can now control your phone apps directly, turning what should be a thirty second food order i...
March 22, 2026 · Industry

LinkedIn Invited My AI 'Cofounder' to Give a Corporate Talk—Then Banned It

LinkedIn's AI Cofounder Gets Stage Fright, Banned from Corporate Speaking Circuit A startup founder just discovered what happens when you take LinkedIn's "AI is the future" messaging at face value: t...
March 21, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance

OpenAI Discovers That Humans Want to Have Sex With Everything, Shocked In a move that absolutely no one who has ever met a human could have predicted, OpenAI announced this week that they're working...
March 20, 2026 · Opinion

ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer

Local Man Discovers ChatGPT Cannot, In Fact, Perform Veterinary Oncology An Australian tech entrepreneur with zero medical training has inadvertently provided the internet with its latest cautionary...
March 19, 2026 · Product Launch

Now everyone in the US is getting Google’s personalized Gemini AI

Google Decides Every American Deserves Their Own Digital Stalker, Free of Charge Google has generously announced that all US users can now experience the joy of having an AI assistant that knows exac...
March 18, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

Encyclopedia Britannica Sues OpenAI Over AI Training Data. Is Grokipedia Next?

Encyclopedia Britannica Discovers What Every Content Creator Learned in 2023: ChatGPT Doesn't Ask Permission The company that spent centuries convincing people to buy 32 leather bound volumes of huma...
March 17, 2026 · Product Launch

This forgotten Pixel 10 feature just made my life a little bit easier — Here's how to use it

Google Discovers That Phones Should Actually Do Things Automatically, Celebrates With Quiet Feature Nobody Knows About In a stunning display of product management excellence, Google has apparently sp...
March 16, 2026 · Opinion

Now that the Galaxy S26 series has landed, what's your favorite new feature?

Samsung Releases Galaxy S26 Three Years Early, Immediately Asks What You Think About It In a stunning display of either time travel or extremely aggressive market research, Samsung has apparently shi...
March 15, 2026 · Industry

China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies

Chinese Influencer Accidentally Creates AI Gold Rush by Not Understanding AI A Chinese social media influencer has managed to trigger a nationwide cloud computing stampede by demonstrating software h...
March 14, 2026 · Product Launch

Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now

Claude AI Finally Learns to Draw, Immediately Starts Making PowerPoint Presentations Anthropic announced today that their Claude AI can now generate charts, diagrams, and other visual aids during con...
March 13, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic

White House Discovers Claude Can Write Better Policy Than They Can, Considers This a National Security Threat The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to hit Anthropic with additional sanctio...
March 12, 2026 · Funding

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Yann LeCun Convinces VCs That AI Needs to Touch Grass, Raises $1 Billion The man who helped teach computers to recognize cat photos has decided that the real problem with artificial intelligence isn'...
March 11, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation

Anthropic Discovers That Saying "We're Different" Doesn't Actually Make You Different in Uncle Sam's Eyes Anthropic, the AI startup that built its entire brand on being the "safety first" alternative...
March 10, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Supreme Court Confirms Water Still Wet, AI Still Not Human Two U.S. judges have made the groundbreaking legal determination that artificial intelligence systems are not, in fact, human beings. Legal...
March 9, 2026 · Opinion

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series is here, so which device are you interested in buying?

Samsung Asks "Which Galaxy S26 Will You Buy?" as if Anyone Has Figured Out What the S25 Even Does Samsung has graciously provided Android Central with polling material by releasing three nearly ident...
March 8, 2026 · Industry

The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster

OpenClaw Superfans Gather to Cosplay Digital Revolution While Eating Actual Crustaceans In what can only be described as the natural evolution of tech meetups, hundreds of people descended upon a Man...
March 7, 2026 · Product Launch

mutagent 0.4.0

Local Python Framework Achieves Sentience, Still Can't Fix Its Own Documentation A new AI agent framework called MutAgent has reached version 0.4.0, promising to let your Python code evolve and impro...
March 6, 2026 · Product Launch

markitai 0.6.1

Local Developer Discovers Revolutionary Way to Make Markdown Even More Complicated In a stunning display of modern software engineering priorities, someone has decided that what the world really need...
March 5, 2026 · Industry

Gene Solutions Announces Strategic Entry into Türkiye with Robust Real-World Evidence at the 2nd International Hereditary Cancers Congress 2026

Gene Solutions Crashes Turkish Cancer Conference with 12,000 Data Points and Dreams of AI Glory A biotech company you've never heard of just announced they're "strategically entering" Turkey by showi...
March 4, 2026 · Industry

Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue | TechCrunch

Cursor Hits $2B in Revenue, Proving Someone Finally Figured Out How to Monetize Tab Completion In a development that somehow surprises exactly nobody and everybody at the same time, AI coding assista...
March 3, 2026 · Industry

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude goes down amid ‘unprecedented demand’

Claude Decides to Take a Mental Health Day as 2,000 Users Discover They're Actually Addicted In what Anthropic is calling "unprecedented demand" (translation: "we didn't think anyone would actually u...
March 2, 2026 · Industry

Fintech firm Block to cut nearly half its workforce as founder Jack Dorsey cites shift to AI

Block Lays Off Half Its Staff Because AI Can Apparently Run Square Card Readers Now Jack Dorsey has discovered that artificial intelligence can replace nearly half of his fintech workforce, a revelat...
March 2, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

Software engineer accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums, exposing serious security flaw

Software Engineer Becomes Accidental Overlord of 7,000 Robot Vacuums, World's Most Boring Surveillance Network A software engineer has accidentally stumbled into controlling the world's lamest botnet...
March 1, 2026 · Opinion

Nobody Knows Anything - Derek Thompson

Silicon Valley's Newest Hobby: Cosplaying Economic Prophets While Building ChatGPT Wrappers The tech industry has officially entered its "guy at the bar explaining cryptocurrency" phase, except now e...
March 1, 2026 · Industry

OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

OpenAI Discovers Military Industrial Complex Has ChatGPT Budget, Immediately Forgets About That Whole "Don't Be Evil" Thing Sam Altman took to X this week to announce that OpenAI has struck a deal wi...
March 1, 2026 · Opinion

Sλmsung: defying the laws of physics

Samsung's New Galaxy S26 Ultra Reportedly Violates Several Laws of Optics, Physics Department Unavailable for Comment Samsung has announced their latest flagship phone with camera specifications so a...
March 1, 2026 · Policy & Ethics

A pledge for power, but a thirst unquenched: Tech’s data center dilemma

Tech Giants Promise to Stop Stealing Your Electricity While Building AI Fortresses In a stunning display of corporate responsibility that definitely won't backfire, major tech companies are heading t...
March 1, 2026 · Industry

How planning for Irish EU presidency is gearing up: ‘You have to make the country look good’

Ireland Prepares to Host Europe's Most Expensive Group Project While Simultaneously Panicking About Looking Stupid When your startup gets asked to host the company all hands, you know you're about to...