The 10 most important AI stories of March 25, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date. If you’re keeping score, Anthropic—the company founded…
Jury reaches a verdict in New Mexico trial in which the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.
The bill would halt the construction of new AI data centers around the US until "strong national safeguards" are put in place.
Harvey will use its fresh capital to expand its AI agents and grow its embedded legal engineering teams.
Kleiner Perkins has raised $3.5 billion to make bets on AI startups and current portfolio companies innovating across autonomy, transportation, professional services, and space. Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Chinese authorities have barred two Manus co-founders from leaving the country, the Financial Times reported, heightening scrutiny over Meta Platforms Inc.’s 2025 acquisition of the fast-rising agentic AI startup for $2 billion.
Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence company, xAI, plans to upgrade its AI video generator, seizing on an opening left by rival OpenAI’s decision this week to discontinue its Sora product.
The Information:Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models— Before we get to today's column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's major reorg, the company's new “Spud” model and its decision …
Arm CEO Rene Haas announced the Arm AGI CPU, partnering with AI giants Meta and OpenAI to tackle energy-efficient AI computing needs.
TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods.
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