Apple's MLX framework now supports the M5 chip's Neural Accelerators, delivering a massive 4x speedup in AI response times and up to 27% faster token generation, powered by the M5's 153GB/s memory bandwidth, enabling MacBook Pro users to run powerful large language models locally with ease.
A new NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters finds only 26% of Americans view AI positively, with 46% viewing it negatively amid surging anxiety over job loss, privacy risks, and rising energy costs driven by data center expansion.
Chinese software stocks surge 20% Monday as viral AI platform OpenClaw gains rapid adoption among government agencies and tech giants like Tencent, sending shares of UCloud Technology, QingCloud Technologies, and Hangzhou Shunwang Technology sharply higher while the broader CSI 300 Index closes 1% lower.
The AI industry fractures over military contracts as Anthropic sues the Pentagon over a supply chain risk designation, OpenAI's robotics chief resigns in protest of autonomous weapons deals, and nearly 1,000 AI workers from OpenAI and Google sign a petition demanding tech employees unite against Department of Defense demands.
Over 30 OpenAI and Google employees, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief backing Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon after the Department of Defense designated the AI company a supply-chain risk, severely restricting its work with military contractors following a breakdown in negotiations over AI use …
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, a powerful new Microsoft 365 feature that autonomously executes tasks and runs workflows across Outlook, Teams, and Excel on users' behalf, with broader availability expected through the Frontier program in late March 2026.
Anthropic launches a multi-agent AI code review system for Claude that tripled substantive PR feedback from 16% to 54% internally, catching critical bugs before production — now available in research preview for Team and Enterprise users at $15–25 per review.
MIT researchers unveil a breakthrough AI technique that makes computer vision models both more accurate and explainable by extracting learned concepts and translating them into plain-language descriptions, outperforming existing interpretable models in tasks like bird species identification and skin lesion detection.
Academic publishers and journal editors clash at a Bentley University panel over Generative AI's role in research, raising urgent concerns about hallucinations, bias, intellectual property risks, and 'scholarly deskilling,' while agreeing on disclosure but failing to reach unified standards.
AI and robotics are rapidly empowering small groups and terrorist organizations to launch autonomous attacks using drones powered by open-source vision models, prompting urgent warnings from experts that policymakers must act now to criminalize violent AI fine-tuning and strengthen defenses before these threats become reality.