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Wikipedia editors have adopted a formal policy prohibiting the use of large language models to write or rewrite encyclopedia articles, citing hallucinations, fabricated sources, and a lack of editorial accountability.
Google's Android 17 Beta 3 reaches platform stability, locking the API surface and shipping post-quantum cryptography support for APK signing.
Cohere launches Transcribe, a 2B-parameter open-source speech recognition model that achieves #1 on the HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard with Apache 2.0 licensing.
OpenAI has launched plugins for its Codex coding agent, enabling seamless integration with Slack, Figma, Notion, Gmail, and more — and reset usage limits across all plans to mark the launch.
Federal Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction, ruling that the Pentagon's designation of the company as a supply-chain risk was 'classic illegal First Amendment retaliation' for refusing autonomous weapons use of Claude.
WhatsApp announced AI-powered writing suggestions and reply drafts built on Private Processing — a confidential computing architecture where even Meta can't read your messages.
Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is discontinued and permanently removed from its lineup, with no successor planned — ending a product line that debuted in the 1990s.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live launches today with lower latency, doubled context window, and expanded availability across 200+ regions, targeting developers building real-time voice and vision AI agents.
DoorDash Labs has unveiled Dot, an autonomous sidewalk delivery robot designed for real-world urban environments — not controlled lab conditions.
NousResearch's Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent with a built-in learning loop and self-improving skill documents, surpassed 13,600 GitHub stars after its v0.4.0 release added an OpenAI-compatible API server and six new messaging adapters.
The Mysten Labs-built decentralized storage protocol has surpassed 450TB of data stored in its first year on mainnet, beating Arweave, and launched MemWal — an SDK letting AI agents carry long-term memory on-chain.
Datalab released Chandra OCR 2, an open-source model that converts documents to structured HTML, Markdown, or JSON — outperforming Gemini 2.5 Flash on multilingual accuracy across 90 languages.
Mistral launched Voxtral TTS, a 4B parameter open-weight text-to-speech model that outperforms ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in human evaluations while supporting 9 languages and adapting to new voices from just 3 seconds of audio.
Brazil's Law No. 15.358 allows seized cryptocurrencies to be funneled directly into police equipment and intelligence operations before a final conviction.
Trust Wallet's new Agent Kit lets AI agents execute swaps, DCA orders, and transfers across 25+ chains directly from users' self-custody wallets.
A Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta and Google deliberately built addictive social media platforms that damaged a young woman's mental health, awarding $6 million in damages.
Fannie Mae is accepting crypto-backed mortgages for the first time, letting buyers pledge Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral through a new program with Coinbase and Better Home & Finance.
ByteDance's DeerFlow 2.0 is a ground-up rewrite that transforms a deep-research tool into a full super-agent harness with sub-agents, sandboxed execution, and persistent memory — now the #2 trending repo on GitHub.
The FCC added all foreign-made consumer routers to its national security Covered List on March 23, effectively banning new router models from being imported or sold in the US.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, calling for an immediate federal pause on new AI data center construction until Congress enacts national safeguards on safety, jobs, and energy.
Mozilla AI's open-source cq project lets AI coding agents pool their discoveries into a shared knowledge base, so agents stop wasting time re-solving the same problems independently.
Spotify launches SongDNA in beta for Premium users — an interactive web of writers, producers, samples, and covers embedded directly in the Now Playing view.
The European Parliament is holding a repeat vote on Chat Control today after the EPP group forced it back onto the agenda, seeking to reverse a March 11 decision that rejected mass scanning of private messages.
Apple has complete access to Google's Gemini in its own data centers and can use it to create smaller, specialized models tuned for Apple devices — a process called distillation.
X head of product Nikita Bier announced that Grok AI will fully take over the platform's recommendation algorithm next week — the biggest algorithmic change in X's history.
Hugging Face's Transformers.js hit a new milestone, running Liquid AI's 24B parameter LFM2 model locally in a web browser via WebGPU at around 50 tokens per second.
President Trump appointed 13 leaders including Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Marc Andreessen to PCAST, co-chaired by David Sacks, to advise on science and technology policy.
X has hired Benji Taylor — former CPO at Aave Labs and head of design at Coinbase's Base — as its new design lead, signaling serious crypto ambitions ahead of X Money's planned April launch.
TRM Labs released Co-Case Agent, an AI investigative assistant embedded in its forensics platform that traces illicit crypto funds using natural language — deployed to law enforcement starting March 25.
Google Research published TurboQuant, an algorithm that compresses AI inference memory by 6x with zero accuracy loss — sending memory hardware stocks lower on the same day.
ARC Prize launches its third-generation benchmark designed to expose the gap between AI memorization and real learning — and current frontier models can't break 0.3%.
Generalist AI ran a nonstop live demo at NVIDIA GTC using a Universal Robots platform it had never seen in person — up and running in days, not weeks.
Starling Bank's new 'Starling Assistant' lets customers manage budgets, set savings goals, and automate bill payments using natural language — the UK's first in-app agentic AI banking tool.
Google's upgraded music generation model extends AI-composed tracks from 30 seconds to 3 minutes, with new controls for song structure and a broad platform rollout.
Figure AI's humanoid robot Figure 03 made history at the White House, walking in with First Lady Melania Trump at the 'Fostering the Future Together' AI education summit and greeting guests in 11 languages.
Tesla's official Optimus account called the humanoid robot 'the biggest product ever made' and announced a high-volume production push, as Elon Musk amplified the message to over 160,000 likes.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has imposed an immediate moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to UK political parties, citing risks of foreign interference in British democracy.
UK challenger bank Monument plans to tokenize up to £250 million in retail deposits on the Midnight privacy blockchain, becoming the first regulated UK bank to put customer savings on a public chain.
Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, the New York startup behind Sprout — a 3.5-foot soft-bodied humanoid designed for consumer and research environments.
Franklin Templeton is tokenizing five of its ETFs via Ondo Finance, enabling 24/7 trading through crypto wallets for investors outside the US.
Wintermute Asia has launched OTC crude oil CFDs, letting traders speculate on WTI prices 24/7 using crypto or fiat margin — a direct response to weekend oil-market gaps exposed by the Iran conflict.
Baltimore filed the first U.S. city-level lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging Grok generated millions of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes — including thousands depicting minors.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released gstack, a 20-skill Claude Code toolkit he used to ship 600,000+ lines of production code in 60 days — and just used it to refactor YC's own 1.84M-line legacy codebase.
Ripple joins Singapore's MAS BLOOM sandbox to pilot RLUSD-powered cross-border trade payments that trigger automatically when shipment conditions are verified.
A federal judge heard Anthropic's bid to block its unprecedented designation as a US supply-chain risk — a retaliation, the company says, for refusing to let the Pentagon use Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Binance's AI Pro Beta went live today — an AI trading agent that lets users execute spot and perpetual orders, run on-chain queries, and deploy custom strategies through a single interface powered by multiple LLMs.
Arm revealed its first homegrown datacenter CPU at the 'Arm Everywhere' event — a 136-core chip built for agentic AI workloads, claiming 2x performance-per-watt versus x86.
A 1-trillion-parameter model appeared on OpenRouter with no attribution on March 18 — it turned out to be from Xiaomi, and it's topping usage charts at a fraction of frontier model prices.
Allen Institute for AI releases MolmoWeb, an open visual web agent built on Molmo 2 that achieves new open-weight SOTA across four major web-agent benchmarks and outperforms OpenAI CUA on three of them.
Anthropic launched the Anthropic Institute today, a new internal think tank combining three research teams, as its lawsuit against the Department of Defense heads to a preliminary injunction hearing.