Latest news from the AI world
Midjourney V8 Alpha 5x faster in native 2K, OpenAI buys Astral (uv, Ruff) for Codex, NVIDIA OpenShell open source runtime for autonomous agents. Week of March 18-23, 2026.
March 17, 2026: OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano with benchmarks close to the full model, Mistral and Perplexity join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition at GTC 2026, and Perplexity opens Comet to enterprise teams with MDM governance.
March 12–14, 2026: Anthropic opens the 1M token context window generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, Genspark unveils AI Workspace 3.0 with its agent Claw and $385M raised, Perplexity Computer arrives on smartphones.
March 12, 2026: Claude generates interactive charts and diagrams inline in conversation across all plans, OpenAI opens the Video API with Sora 2 to developers, and Google Maps receives its biggest overhaul in ten years thanks to Gemini.
March 11, 2026: Anthropic creates an interdisciplinary institute led by Jack Clark, Perplexity launches its Computer vision with 4 APIs, OpenAI equips the Responses API with a full computing environment for agents, and Meta publishes 4 generations of MTIA chips.
March 10, 2026: Claude Code launches Code Review in research preview, OpenAI acquires Promptfoo for enterprise AI security, Runway opens its GWM-1 Characters video agents API.
March 8, 2026: Claude Code v2.1.71 introduces /loop to schedule recurring tasks, GitHub Copilot VS Code v1.110 brings agent plugins and browser agent tools, Pika launches AI Selves for video digital twins, and Luma unveils its creative agents.
March 6, 2026: Anthropic and Mozilla reveal 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox thanks to Opus 4.6, OpenAI launches Codex Security with 14 CVEs detected in open source projects, and Kling 3.0 rolls out Motion Control globally.
Week of March 3–5, 2026: OpenAI's GPT-5.4 launches native computer use and reaches 75% on OSWorld, NotebookLM generates immersive videos with Gemini as director, Codex arrives on Windows, and GitHub enables Copilot Memory by default.
March 3, 2026: Claude Code launches Voice Mode (push-to-talk, free), GPT-5.3 Instant replaces GPT-5.2 in ChatGPT with hallucinations down 26.8%, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite in preview. Teaser GPT-5.4, FLUX.2 [pro] 2x faster, ElevenLabs at MWC.
March 2, 2026: Claude Code v2.1.63 delivers /simplify, HTTP hooks and 8 memory fixes, OpenAI signs a classified AI agreement with the Pentagon, Anthropic refuses mass surveillance and threatens to sue. Also: Claude Memory on the free plan, Qwen 3.5 Small Series, Gemini CLI v0.31.0, and deprecations of Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1 in Copilot.
February 27, 2026: OpenAI announces a $110 billion round with SoftBank, NVIDIA and Amazon, an exclusive AWS cloud partnership, Gemini Drop with Lyria 3 and Nano Banana 2, and GitHub launches Agentic Workflows in Markdown.