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12 Mar 2026

Meta unveils four MTIA chip generations to power AI inference and reduce Nvidia dependence

Meta announced four successive generations of its custom MTIA chips on March 11, scheduled for deployment through 2027. The MTIA 300, 400, 450, and 500 are optimized for AI inference workloads, with HBM bandwidth increasing 4.5 times across the lineup. Meta has already deployed hundreds of thousands of MTIA chips in production, joining Google, AWS, and Microsoft in building custom silicon to diversify from sole reliance on Nvidia.

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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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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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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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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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Samsung and AMD formalize HBM4 supply deal, explore foundry partnership for next-gen AI chips

Samsung Electronics and AMD have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their collaboration on next-generation AI memory technologies. Under the agreement, Samsung will serve as the primary HBM4 supplier for AMD's upcoming MI455X AI accelerators and provide DDR5 memory for EPYC processors, while both companies explore potential foundry partnership opportunities.

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Meta deploys AI tools to detect scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger

Meta announced new AI-powered scam detection tools for Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger to combat rising fraud. The company removed 159 million scam ads and 10.9 million fraudulent accounts in 2025, while partnering with law enforcement to arrest 21 alleged scammers and disable over 150,000 accounts linked to scam centers.

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OpenAI Plans to Bring Sora AI Video Generation Directly Into ChatGPT

OpenAI is preparing to integrate its Sora AI video generation tool directly into ChatGPT, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The move would allow millions of ChatGPT users to create videos from text prompts without switching apps. While the standalone Sora app will remain available, this integration marks a significant push toward expanding ChatGPT's multimodal capabilities.

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Intel brings XeSS 3.0 frame generation to older Arc GPUs, but keeps code proprietary

Intel released its XeSS 3.0 SDK with up to 4x multi-frame generation, extending advanced AI-powered upscaling technology to first-gen Alchemist and Battlemage GPUs. The move contrasts sharply with Nvidia's hardware-gating approach, but Intel still hasn't delivered on its four-year-old open-source promise, leaving the SDK locked to Windows as proprietary binaries.

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