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March 25, 2026
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.
Oracle AI Agents Enable Autonomous Decisions
Oracle is building AI agents into its cloud-based enterprise applications, allowing them to reason, decide, and act autonomously in business processes. Analysts urge caution due to unresolved data integration and liability issues.
Bedrock RFT with OpenAI-Compatible APIs Walkthrough
This AWS blog post details the end-to-end workflow for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) on Amazon Bedrock using OpenAI-compatible APIs. It covers authentication setup, deploying a Lambda-based reward function, launching training jobs, and running inference on fine-tuned models.
Meta, YouTube Liable in Addiction Lawsuit
A jury ruled Meta and YouTube negligent for app designs with addictive features. These designs caused mental health distress to a young user. This marks a landmark case on social media responsibility.
Lyria 3 Pro Generates 3-Min AI Songs
Google updates Lyria 3 Pro to create full 3-minute songs from prompts, up from 30 seconds. It supports custom elements like intros, verses, choruses, and better handles complex transitions. Available for paid Gemini users, Vertex AI, APIs, and Google Vids.