The 10 most important AI stories of March 10, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. Backed by Nvidia, Temasek and Jeff Bezos, the startup aims to build AI that understands the physical world.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab struck a multiyear strategic partnership with NVIDIA to deploy at least one gigawatt of Vera Rubin systems. The deal includes a significant strategic investment from Nvidia into the one-year-old AI startup.
Microsoft threw its support behind Anthropic and advocated for a temporary restraining order against the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation, escalating the legal battle over military AI contracts.
Alphabet's Google is introducing AI agents across the Pentagon's three million-strong workforce to automate routine jobs, according to a senior defense official—a sharp contrast to Anthropic's legal battle with the DOD.
Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents built with OpenClaw. Moltbook founders will join Meta's Superintelligence Labs.
ChatGPT introduces interactive visual explanations for math and science, helping students explore formulas, variables, and concepts in real time. Users can tweak variables and see how changes affect solutions.
Rhoda uses widely available internet video to train industrial robots for a variety of conditions. The AI robotics startup reached a $1.7 billion valuation in its latest funding round.
Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers, despite environmental concerns.
California Judge Maxine Chesney has ruled that AI agents need platform permission to access systems, even when operating on your behalf—a precedent that could reshape the agentic AI ecosystem.
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to AI coding assistants. Amazon will require senior engineers to sign off on AI-assisted changes following a trend of Gen-AI linked incidents.
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