Sunday, 8 March 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listen
The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.
Read moreGoogle just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.
Read moreOpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.
Read moreMicrosoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic Claude remains available to non-defense customers
Trump's Department of War feud with Anthropic won't impact other companies that are using Claude via Microsoft and Google products.
Read moreAnthropic's Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks
In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as "high-severity."
Read moreClaude's consumer growth surge continues after Pentagon deal debacle
Claude's app is now seeing more new installs than ChatGPT and is growing its daily active users.
Read moreAfter Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil
Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe.
Read moreGrammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual experts
A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech journalists, too.
Read moreIndustry
Scaling intelligent automation without breaking live workflows
Scaling intelligent automation without disruption demands a focus on architectural elasticity, not just deploying more bots. At the Intelligent Automation Conference, industry leaders gathered to dissect why many automation initiatives stall after pilot phases. Speaking alongside representatives fro
Read moreAnthropic to challenge DOD's supply-chain label in court
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he plans to challenge the Department of Defense's designation of the AI firm as a supply-chain risk. He claims most Anthropic customers are unaffected by the label.
Read moreDiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable
Instead of relying on expensive management consultants, the startup uses AI voice agents to conduct interviews with customers of the companies the PE firms are considering buying.
Read moreIt’s official: The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk
The Department of Defense has officially labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, making the AI firm the first American company with the label. Meanwhile, the DOD continues to use Anthropic's AI in Iran.
Read moreBeyond the pilot: Dyna.Ai raises eight-figure Series A to put agentic AI in financial services to work
The financial services industry has a pilot problem. Institutions pour resources into AI proofs-of-concept, generate impressive dashboards, and then quietly watch momentum stall before anything reaches production. Singapore-headquartered Dyna.Ai was built precisely to break that pattern–and investor
Read moreResearch & Products
OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ again
The feature, which will give verified adult users access to erotica and other adult content, had already been delayed from December.
Read moreAnthropic's Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts
The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s $200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned
Read moreAnthropic vs. the Pentagon, the SaaSpocalypse, and why competitions is good, actually
The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s $200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned
Read moreThe firm that never forgets: Rowspace launches with $50M to make AI for private equity actually work
Private equity runs on judgment–and judgment, it turns out, is extraordinarily hard to scale. Decades of deal memos, underwriting models, partner notes, and portfolio data are scattered across systems that were never designed to communicate with each other. Every time a new deal crosses a firm’s des
Read moreAWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare
AWS is launching Amazon Connect Health, an AI agent platform that will help with patient scheduling, documentation, and patient verification.
Read moreLuma launches creative AI agents powered by its new ‘Unified Intelligence’ models
Luma introduced Luma Agents, powered by its new “Unified Intelligence” models, designed to coordinate multiple AI systems and generate end-to-end creative work across text, images, video and audio.
Read moreOpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions
GPT-5.4 is billed as "our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work."
Read moreCursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.
Read morePolicy & Ethics
City Detect, which uses AI to help cities stay safe and clean, raises $13M Series A
City Detect, a company that helps local governments prevent urban decay, is in at least 17 cities so far, including Dallas and Miami.
Read moreUS reportedly considering sweeping new chip export controls
In an alleged drafted proposal, the U.S. government would play a role in every chip export sale regardless of which country it's coming from.
Read moreJPMorgan expands AI investment as tech spending nears $20B
Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to core business systems inside large companies. One example comes from JPMorgan Chase, where rising AI investment is helping push the bank’s technology budget toward about US$19.8 billion in 2026. The spending plan reflects a broader shift among
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