The 10 most important AI stories of March 12, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Anthropic's latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, rather than in its side panel. As an example, Anthropic says a conversation about […]
The Pentagon officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk last week, but the DOD is still using Claude for the war in Iran.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with a handful of lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to discuss the company's work with the Defense Department.
Meta's latest generations of its MTIA series of in-house chips for artificial intelligence will help support the company's massive data center expansion plans.
Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products. The tech giant pushed back the timeline after spending billions to be on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. — NYT
A couple of weeks ago, Google and Samsung announced a big Gemini development coming to their newest devices: task automation. Starting with food delivery and rideshare apps, Gemini would be able to use certain apps on your behalf in a virtual window to take care of things like ordering dinner or getting a car to […]
Perplexity says AI access to your files is in "secure environment with clear safeguards."
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Systems from Palantir and Anthropic are helping to turn torrents of battlefield data into thousands of strikes.
The US military might use generative AI systems to rank lists of targets and make recommendations—which would be vetted by humans—about which to strike first, according to a Defense Department official with knowledge of the matter.
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