Google is rolling out powerful Gemini AI upgrades across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, letting subscribers generate full drafts, build spreadsheets from prompts, and create presentations by pulling content from Gmail, Drive, and the web.
Yann LeCun's new startup AMI Labs secures a record-breaking $1 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, backed by Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others, to develop AI that understands and operates reliably in the physical world — though experts warn the technology is complex, high-stakes, and a longer-term investment.
Nearly 10,000 authors, including Kazuo Ishiguro and Richard Osman, publish a deliberately empty book titled 'Don't Steal This Book' at the London Book Fair, demanding the UK government block AI companies from using copyrighted creative work without permission or payment.
Nielsen's Gracenote is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming the AI giant scraped its human-curated entertainment metadata without permission to train models like ChatGPT, despite repeated ignored licensing attempts.
Niantic Spatial is turning 30 billion Pokémon Go player images into a centimeter-precise AI navigation system, now powering Coco Robotics' 1,000 delivery robots across US and European cities where GPS falls short.
Nvidia launches NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform courting major tech partners like Salesforce, Google, and Cisco, marking a bold strategic pivot beyond its proprietary CUDA ecosystem to help enterprises deploy AI workforce agents on any hardware.
Meta acquires viral AI agent social network Moltbook, bringing founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs on March 16, as the tech giant doubles down on autonomous AI agent infrastructure.
Google launches Gemini Embedding 2, its first natively multimodal embedding model, capable of processing text, images, video, audio, and documents together in a single unified space across 100+ languages, now available in public preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI.
Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA are joining forces in a multi-year partnership to deploy over one gigawatt of next-gen NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI systems as early as next year, with NVIDIA making a significant investment to expand frontier AI access for enterprises, researchers, and scientists worldwide.
A court orders Perplexity AI to immediately stop its Comet browser agent from making purchases on Amazon, following a lawsuit accusing the startup of computer fraud for concealing when its AI bot shops on behalf of real users.