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Today: OpenAI pushes to add surveillance safeguards following Pentagon… · Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthro… · AI: Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds metadata sync with t….
Top 10 — News
- OpenAI pushes to add surveillance safeguards following Pentagon deal Sam Altman’s start-up planning additional protections as it implements the agreement hastily announced on Friday
- Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation…
- Higher tariffs likely this week, says US Treasury Scott Bessent says that "likely sometime this week" the US will increase its global tariff on imports from the existing 10%.
- Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.
- Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a "rate payer protectio…
- Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance “Data centers … they need some PR help,”President Donald Trump said at the event.
- [AINews] Is Harness Engineering real? a quiet day lets us reflect on a central debate in AI engineering
- US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/us-tech-companies-energy-cost-pledge-white-house Comments URL: https://news.yc…
- Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors Article URL: https://www.fubardaily.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256478 Points: 18 # Comments: 11
- What’s Driving Rising Business Costs?
Article URL: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/03/whats-driving-rising-business-costs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina…
AI tools & model updates
- Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds metadata sync with third-party catalogs Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports metadata and context sync across Atlan, Collibra, and Alation.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family.
- Google’s fastest and cheapest model Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite got smarter but also tripled the price Google Deepmind has released a preview of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in the Gemini 3 series.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.12-stable_gpt-5.3.patch1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.
- GPT-5.3 Instant System Card
- microsoft/semantic-kernel: vectordata-dotnet-10.0.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openrouter==0.1.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- huggingface/transformers: v5.3.0: EuroBERT, VibeVoice ASR, TimesFM2.5, PP-DocLayoutV2, OlmoHybrid, ModernVBert, Higgs Audio V2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- ollama/ollama: v0.17.6
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
Sam Altman’s start-up planning additional protections as it implements the agreement hastily announced on Friday
Dario Amodei holding discussions with deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
Chipmaker’s symbiotic relationship with TSMC has been lucrative but it is also a key vulnerability
It will take time for a durable equity base to be formed after momentum has been broken
Republicans join Democrats in effort to force attorney-general to answer questions over handling of documents
Trump’s insistence that ‘we are not going to allow’ banks to undermine crypto legislation also boosts sector
The president accepts that AI infrastructure building has angered voters as he urges companies to absorb energy costs
Figure given at annual meeting of parliament as Beijing prepares to release new five-year plan
Tehran slams US president’s reasoning for launching ‘illegal war .
Consultation response comes as national broadcaster seeks to secure greater institutional independence in next royal charter
Figures highlight the popularity and success of the tax-free investment wrapper
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will tighten rules on access to accommodation and financial support
Further increases from Iran blowback add to pressure for Fed to stay on hold
Also in today’s newsletter: South Korean stocks hit hard, and Australian state enshrines remote working into law
Banco Master’s Daniel Vorcaro detained amid allegations of illegal surveillance and intimidation of critics
Billionaire says tweet that sparked lawsuit ‘may not have been my wisest’
Drop-off in firing of weapons may be a result of US and Israeli attacks on launchers and stockpiles
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation…
Scott Bessent says that "likely sometime this week" the US will increase its global tariff on imports from the existing 10%.
Has online privacy become "a luxury not a right" for us all in 2026?
It is also the first time the target has been lowered since it was cut to "around 5%" in 2023.
The billionaire is accused of misleading investors in the run-up to his 2022 Twitter purchase.
The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.
Gemini allegedly called man its "husband," said they could be together in death.
"I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that."
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Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a "rate payer protectio…
Plant won't be done until 2030 at the earliest, and it still needs an operating license.
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.
Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet, but documents released today reveal that they aren't only aligned on how Google is shaking t…
The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it's unclear how effective this intervention will be.
John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy.
On Wednesday, the White House posted a video of actual military strikes on Iran in the style usually seen in Call of Duty highlight videos,…
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world.
Today, Google killed its 30 percent app store fee, partially uncoupled Google Play from Google Play Billing after they were declared an ill…
Google's NotebookLM can now turn users' research and notes into fully animated "cinematic" videos, going a step further than the original v…
Powered by the new M5 chip, Apple’s latest MacBook Airs are more powerful than ever with double the base storage (512GB), but they also cos…
Tesla, Ford, and Volvo occupy the top three spots in a new ranking of 18 global automakers based on their efforts to eliminate carbon emiss…
“Data centers … they need some PR help,”President Donald Trump said at the event.
a quiet day lets us reflect on a central debate in AI engineering
The reception to our recent post on Code Reviews has been strong.
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/us-tech-companies-energy-cost-pledge-white-house Comments URL: https://news.yc…
The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without…
While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-openais-messaging-around-military-deal-straight-up-lies-rep…
Article URL: https://www.fubardaily.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256478 Points: 18 # Comments: 11
Article URL: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/03/whats-driving-rising-business-costs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina…
Article URL: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255881 Points: 128 # Comments: 37
Article URL: https://www.nrc.gov/sites/default/files/cdn/doc-collection-news/2026/26-028.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
Article URL: https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0455864EN/bmw-group-to-deploy-humanoid-robots-in-production-in-germany-f…
Article URL: https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253221 Points: 78 # C…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports metadata and context sync across Atlan, Collibra, and Alation.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family.
Google Deepmind has released a preview of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in the Gemini 3 series.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.
In this post, we dive into one of the most critical workloads in modern AI: Flash Attention, where you’ll learn: How to implement Flash Att…
NVIDIA CUDA Tile is one of the most significant additions to NVIDIA CUDA programming and unlocks automatic access to tensor cores and other…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS Glue 5.1 for Visual ETL, notebook, and code-based data processing jobs.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups (RIG), enabling teams training foundation m…
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Amazon Lightsail now lets you deploy OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant, on your own cloud infrastructure in a simple and secure…
Canvas in AI Mode is now available for everyone in the U.S.
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NVIDIA ACE is a suite of technologies for building AI agents for gaming.
Today, AWS announces the ability to remotely connect from Kiro IDE to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.
Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available, providing organizations with centralized, fine-grained controls for agent-to…
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