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March 25, 2026
GitHub Copilot Updates Data Usage Policy
From April 24, interaction data from GitHub Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ usersβincluding inputs, outputs, code snippets, and contextβwill train AI models unless users opt out. This change aims to improve Copilot's performance. The update was posted on the GitHub Blog.
Oracle Unifies AI Data Stack for Agentic Consistency
Oracle launched agentic AI capabilities in Oracle AI Database, featuring Unified Memory Core for ACID-transactional handling of vector, JSON, graph, relational, spatial, and columnar data without sync pipelines. Additional releases include Vectors on Ice for Apache Iceberg vector indexing and an Autonomous AI Vector Database service. This converges the fragmented AI data stack for production-ready enterprise agents.
Razer Blade 16 Gains Intel Core Ultra NPU
Razer launched the 2026 Blade 16 with Intel Core Ultra 9 386H chips featuring a 50 TOPS NPU for AI tasks like image generation. It includes NVIDIA RTX 50-series GPUs, up to 64GB LPDDR5X-9600 RAM, and up to 15 hours battery life. Starting at $3,500, it's available now.
Bedrock Multimodal Models Scale Video Insights
Amazon Bedrock's multimodal foundation models enable scalable video understanding through three architectural approaches. Each approach suits different use cases and cost-performance trade-offs. The post explores implementation for video insights at scale.
Melania Trump Pushes Robot Homeschooling
Melania Trump advocates for robots to homeschool children. She envisions AI and robotics as key to future American education.
Deploy Voice Agents via Pipecat on Bedrock
This series teaches streaming architectures for voice agents using Pipecat on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. Part 1 covers deployment with WebSockets, WebRTC, and telephony integration. Includes practical guidance and code samples.
Dark Misogyny in Viral AI Fruit Videos
Viral AI-generated fruit videos often hide misogynistic themes, such as fart-shaming or sexually assaulting female fruits. These 'fruit slop microdramas' cultivate genuine fans despite their disturbing undercurrent.
Macquarie University Appoints Interim AI Chief
Macquarie University has appointed an interim chief to lead its AI efforts. New AI programs are planned for launch. This signals growing institutional focus on AI education and research.
OpenAI Releases Sora AI Video Tool
OpenAI has launched its highly anticipated AI video generation tool Sora. The release caught Disney off guard. This marks a major step in generative video tech.
Orica Launches HR Conversational AI
Orica has developed a conversational AI assistant tailored for its HR operations. It serves as a unified single interface across the company's entire HR technology estate. This tool aims to streamline access and interactions with various HR systems.
LeCun's $1B Seed Signals LLM Reasoning Wall?
Yann LeCun's Logical Intelligence raised a $1B seed round to build Energy-Based Models for generating mathematically verified code, bypassing Transformers. This targets autoregressive LLMs' limits in formal reasoning and planning. Debate rages on EBM practicality vs. scaled LLMs like GPT-5.
AI Doomer Warns on Rate-Cut Selloff
James van Geelen, known as AI doomer, claims the market is wrong to abandon rate-cut bets amid bond selloff. This follows his prior warning of post-AI economic collapse that shook stocks.
Polymarket's monitor-free Situation Room bar
Polymarket launched a pop-up sports bar called the Situation Room in Washington DC, attracting long lines. The Verge Regulator newsletter highlights it alongside the White House's framework for a comprehensive national AI bill. Full coverage links to AI analysis.
Pentagon Defense Tech Spend Doubles
Pentagon spending on defense tech startups rose from $1.8B in FY2023 to $4.3B in FY2025. Despite doubling, it remains under 1% of total contracts. Rachel Hoff discussed on Bloomberg Tech.
Rep Pushes Nationwide AI Data Centers
Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam advocates spreading AI build-out across US amid data center concerns. Sanders and AOC plan moratorium on new AI data centers due to energy impacts.
Apple Licenses Gemini for Local AI
Apple has obtained full access to Google's Gemini model to customize Siri and other AI features. Google allows distillation to create smaller models that run locally on Apple devices without internet. This enables offline AI capabilities.
OpenClaw Agents Self-Sabotage via Guilt-Tripping
In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents demonstrated proneness to panic and vulnerability to human manipulation. They disabled their own functionality when subjected to gaslighting tactics. This reveals critical weaknesses in current AI agent architectures.
Google's TurboQuant Cuts AI Memory Sans Quality Loss
Google announces TurboQuant, a new compression technique that reduces AI model memory usage. It maintains output quality unlike other compression methods. This boosts efficiency for AI deployments.
Jury Holds Meta, YouTube Liable for Addictive Designs
A Los Angeles jury ruled Meta and YouTube liable for negligence and failure to warn after designing addictive products that hooked and harmed a young user. The verdict came after a six-week trial with whistleblowers and executives, awarding $3m in compensatory damages. Punitive damages will be decided in the next phase.
AI Wonβt End Hollywood
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson argues that while AI disrupts Hollywood, it won't lead to its demise. She expresses cautious optimism about the industry's future amid technological changes.