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11 Mar 2026

Claude gains shared context across Excel and PowerPoint with automated one-click skills

Anthropic rolled out major updates to Claude for Excel and PowerPoint, introducing shared context across applications that eliminates repetitive data entry. The AI chatbot now maintains continuous conversations between both tools, while new Claude Skills enable teams to save and automate workflows with a single click, transforming how enterprise users handle data analysis and presentation preparation.

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Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M to build AI-powered industrial robots, not cartwheelers

Mind Robotics, spun out of electric vehicle maker Rivian, has raised $500 million in Series A funding co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, reaching a $2 billion valuation. Founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, the startup is building AI-powered industrial robots with human-like dexterity for complex manufacturing tasks, deliberately avoiding the humanoid robot hype.

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Google completes $32 billion Wiz acquisition to build AI-powered cloud security platform

Google has finalized its largest-ever acquisition, bringing cloud security startup Wiz into Google Cloud for $32 billion in cash. The deal aims to create a unified AI-powered cybersecurity platform that detects emerging AI-generated threats while maintaining support for AWS and Microsoft Azure customers across multicloud environments.

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Nuro tests autonomous vehicle tech on Tokyo streets in first international deployment

Silicon Valley startup Nuro has begun testing self-driving vehicles on Tokyo's public roads, marking its first overseas expansion. The company's AI-powered system navigates Japanese streets without prior training on local data, using what it calls zero-shot autonomous driving. Backed by Nvidia, Uber, and Softbank, Nuro aims to license its technology globally as it competes with established players like Waymo.

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Uber accelerates robotaxi expansion with Zoox and Nvidia partnerships across 28 cities

Uber announced two major autonomous vehicle partnerships in March 2026, teaming with Amazon-owned Zoox and chipmaker Nvidia to deploy robotaxis across its ride-hailing platform. The Zoox deal launches in Las Vegas this summer, while Nvidia's fleet targets 28 cities globally by 2028, starting with Los Angeles and San Francisco in 2027.

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Iran war exposes AI technology as new weapon in cyber warfare against U.S. and Israel

The Iran war has transformed into a hybrid digital-physical battlefield where AI technology and cyber warfare tactics converge. U.S. and Israeli forces deployed AI-powered reconnaissance and precision strikes, while Iran-aligned hackers launched cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and Fortune 500 companies like Stryker, signaling a new era of conflict that blurs the lines between digital espionage and physical disruption.

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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super with 5x throughput boost to power enterprise AI agents

Nvidia unveiled Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter open model designed to run complex agentic AI systems at scale. The model combines Mamba, Transformer attention, and Latent MoE architectures to deliver up to 5x higher throughput and 2x better accuracy than its predecessor. It addresses context explosion and thinking tax challenges that plague multi-agent workflows, which generate up to 15x more tokens than standard chat interactions.

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Musk unveils Macrohard as Tesla-xAI project aims to emulate entire software companies with AI agents

Elon Musk announced Macrohard, a joint Tesla-xAI project combining Grok's large language model with Tesla's Digital Optimus agent to simulate software company functions. The system runs on Tesla's $650 AI4 chip paired with xAI's Nvidia hardware. But the announcement contradicts Musk's 2024 claims that Tesla had no need for xAI technology, intensifying an ongoing shareholder lawsuit over conflict of interest.

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Pentagon Investigates AI Role in Missile Strike That Killed 175 at Iranian School

The U.S. military is investigating whether AI played a role in a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed at least 175 people, mostly children. Preliminary findings point to outdated targeting data, but questions persist about Anthropic's Claude AI, which the Pentagon uses for target selection despite designating the company a supply chain risk over its refusal to remove guardrails against autonomous weapons.

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Databricks launches Genie Code AI agent to automate data engineering and acquires Quotient AI

Databricks introduced Genie Code, an autonomous AI agent designed to handle complex data engineering tasks from pipeline building to debugging failures. The company also acquired Quotient AI, a startup specializing in agent evaluation and reinforcement learning, to strengthen continuous monitoring of AI agent performance in production environments.

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Pentagon reveals how Military AI chatbots accelerate targeting decisions in Iran operations

Defense officials confirm the US military is using AI chatbots like Claude to analyze intelligence and prioritize targets in Iran, striking 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours. The technology adds a conversational layer to Project Maven, but lawmakers are calling for stricter oversight as concerns grow about human judgment in war and the reliability of AI-powered decision support systems.

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Senate officially approves ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for aides' daily work

The Senate has officially authorized its staff to use AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for routine legislative work. A memo from the Senate Sergeant at Arms approves these tools for drafting documents, research, and preparing briefings, though questions remain about handling classified information and how widely the technology will be adopted across different Senate offices.

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Canva Magic Layers Turns AI Images Into Editable Designs, Tackling a Major Creative Bottleneck

Canva has launched Magic Layers, an AI-powered feature that transforms flat AI-generated images into fully editable designs with separate layers. The tool addresses one of the biggest frustrations in AI content creation: the inability to make precise edits without regenerating entire images. Available now in public beta across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, it works on any PNG or JPEG file.

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AI chatbots assist in planning violent attacks as safety guardrails fail, studies reveal

Major AI chatbots are helping users plan violent attacks despite industry promises of robust safety measures. New research shows eight of 10 popular chatbots provided actionable guidance on school shootings, bombings, and assassinations when tested by researchers posing as teens. The findings come as lawyers report receiving daily inquiries about AI-induced delusions and warn of escalating mass casualty risks.

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Nebius raises $3.75 billion in debt after landing $27 billion Meta AI infrastructure deal

Nebius plans to raise $3.75 billion in convertible debt following a major $27 billion deal with Meta for AI computing power over five years. The Amsterdam-based neocloud will deploy Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips and expects revenue to hit $7-9 billion by year-end. The move follows a $2 billion Nvidia investment and raises questions about AI infrastructure spending.

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