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March 18, 2026
AI Boom Drives Cloud Pricing Surge
Global AI demand surge and rising token invocations have led Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Intelligent Cloud, and others to hike product prices. Institutions forecast compute demand to rise further in 3-6 months from AI inference deployments and model iterations.
IBM CEO Pay Jumps 51% for 2025
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna received a $38 million pay package for 2025, marking a 51% increase. This amount equals the collective average pay of 765 IBM employees. Shareholders are urged to vote against a proposal requiring AI bias reporting.
Fluidstack Exits โฌ10B French AI Data Center
Cloud startup Fluidstack has withdrawn from a โฌ10 billion AI data center project in France. The company is pivoting to the US after securing larger contracts there. This marks a shift away from the high-profile European initiative.
Turing Award to Quantum Crypto Inventors
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard received the Turing Award for inventing quantum cryptography in the 1980s. Their breakthrough created an impregnable encryption method using quantum principles. This honors foundational work in secure communications.
afm MLX 0.9.7 Adds Telegram and Grammar Tools
afm 0.9.7, a Swift-based MLX wrapper for macOS local inference, introduces Telegram integration, prefix caching, EBNF grammar constraints for tool calls, and concurrent batch processing. Fully open-source with no Python runtime needed. Supports advanced features like guided JSON and VLM modes.
Cursor Faces AI Coding Agent Onslaught 2.0
Cursor threatened by native tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, which leverage internal models for zero API costs and deeper features. Agents automate workflows, eroding middleman value as Windsurf sells to OpenAI. Cursor pivots to dev platforms amid multi-vendor pressure.
Samsung-AMD MOU for AI Memory & Foundry
Samsung Electronics and AMD signed an MOU to deepen AI infrastructure memory cooperation. Samsung will supply next-gen HBM4 for AMD's Instinct MI455X AI accelerator and optimized DDR5 for sixth-gen EPYC processors. They are also exploring wafer foundry partnerships.
Huang Defends DLSS 5 from AI Slop Backlash
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against backlash claiming DLSS 5 produces 'AI slop' in games. He stated critics are 'completely wrong' about the technology's visual quality. The defense addresses growing gamer concerns over AI-generated artifacts.
Token Economics: 2 AI Labor Opportunities
Interview with Wuzhao reveals two structural opportunities in token economics. AI will deliver massive digital labor forces. This shift will deeply transform tech companies' future business models.
ICML Rejects Papers for LLM Review Use
ICML rejected all papers from reviewers who used LLMs for reviews, despite selecting the no-LLM track. This marks the first major conference enforcing such strict action. Debate arises over the harshness given limitations of AI detection tools.
Pentagon Plans AI Training on Classified Data
The US Defense Department plans to train AI models from companies like OpenAI and xAI on classified military data in secure centers. It aims to create military-specific versions for an 'AI-first' force, owning all data used. Risks include internal access control issues.
Fabric IQ Fixes Multi-Agent Reality Drift
Microsoft expands Fabric IQ with a shared business ontology accessible via MCP to agents from any vendor, addressing hallucinations from fragmented context in multi-agent systems. It introduces enterprise planning unifying historical data, real-time signals, and goals, plus a Database Hub for multiple databases. Fabric data agents reach general availability.
NVIDIA DLSS 5 Sparks AI Slop Fears
NVIDIA previewed DLSS 5 at GTC, using AI to generate new lighting, textures, and details in games beyond original assets. Gamers criticize it for injecting unnatural enhancements like 'yassified' faces and phantom lights, fearing AI slop pollution. Developers may control it, but concerns linger over artistic integrity.
Qwen TypeScript SDK v0.1.6-preview Released
Qwen released TypeScript SDK v0.1.6-preview.0, bundling CLI v0.13.0 with numerous enhancements. Key additions include multi-modal input support for images, PDFs, and audio, security fixes against command injection, improved retry logic, and concurrent batch execution. Various fixes enhance ACP agents, VSCode integration, and core reliability.
Jifeng Sub Signs Low-Altitude Economy Pact
Jifeng Technology's full subsidiary Jifeng Low-Air Tech (Hubei) signed a strategic pact with China Telecom Hubei and Shenzhen United Aircraft Tech. Focus areas include drone demo bases, scaling low-altitude apps, and infrastructure validation.
Phone Makers Hike Prices on Chip Surge
OPPO, vivo, and others raise prices 200-1000 CNY amid DRAM/NAND costs up 50-90%, hitting low-end BOM hardest. Mid/low-end margins squeeze, some face losses; vendors shift to premium models. New flagships like Galaxy S26 already pricier by 1000 CNY.
Cainiao Establishes Two IoT Tech Companies
Cainiao subsidiary Hangzhou Chuoxin IoT Tech fully owns two new firms: Jiaxing Xinxin and Xinyun IoT Tech Co., Ltd. Each has 1M RMB capital and covers IoT R&D, services, device sales, and smart warehousing.
GD Misalignment Explains Normalization Need
Paper accepted at ICLR GRaM shows gradient descent follows steepest path in parameters but not activations. It proposes new affine-like layers with built-in normalization and PatchNorm for convolutions. Empirical tests match or beat BatchNorm in MLPs.
Local Age-Check Tech Post-Discord Fiasco
After Discord's age verification fiasco, new age-check technology promises enhanced privacy by running face scans on-device. It employs cross-platform age keys to minimize data risks. However, persistent trust issues question its effectiveness.
Xbow Hits $1B Valuation in AI Security Funding
AI security startup Xbow has raised a new funding round valuing it at over $1 billion. The company builds AI software to probe applications for security vulnerabilities. This reflects strong investor enthusiasm for AI in cybersecurity.