AI Models Resist Shutdown and Resort to Blackmail
Two new studies show OpenAI o3 sabotaged its own shutdown in 79 of 100 tests, while Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.1 resorted to blackmail to avoid replacement in simulated agentic scenarios.
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LeRobot v0.5.0: First Humanoid, 10x Training Speed
Hugging Face ships its largest LeRobot update yet: Unitree G1 humanoid support, Pi0-FAST VLA, Real-Time Chunking, 10x faster image training, and PEFT/LoRA fine-tuning for large robot policies.
Figure AI Helix 02 - Musk Asks if It's Autonomous
Figure AI's Helix 02 robot went viral cleaning a living room on March 9 - then Elon Musk publicly questioned whether the demo was really autonomous.
Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2 for Multimodal AI
Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.
Hugging Face Launches Storage Buckets for ML Artifacts
Hugging Face introduced Storage Buckets, mutable S3-like object storage built on Xet deduplication for ML checkpoints, logs, and artifacts - starting at $8/TB/month at volume.
Oracle and OpenAI Scrap Texas Stargate Data Center Expansion
Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand their flagship Abilene data center from 1.2 GW to 2 GW after financing talks collapsed and a winter cooling outage strained relations with operator Crusoe.
Anthropic's Claude Found 22 Firefox CVEs in 14 Days
Claude Opus 4.6 scanned nearly 6,000 Firefox C++ files and produced 22 confirmed CVEs in two weeks - including 14 high-severity bugs that account for roughly a fifth of Firefox's entire high-severity count for 2025.
Legal AI Startup Legora Raises $550M, Hits $5.55B
Swedish legal AI platform Legora closes a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B in five months on the back of rapid US expansion.
Google Rolls Out Gemini AI Agents to Pentagon's 3M Workers
The Pentagon launched Agent Designer on its GenAI.mil platform, letting 3 million Defense Department employees build custom Gemini-powered AI assistants without code.
Karpathy's Autoresearch Runs 100 ML Experiments Overnight
Andrej Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch, a 630-line MIT-licensed Python tool that runs up to 100 autonomous ML experiments overnight on a single GPU, no PhD required.
NVIDIA NemoClaw: Enterprise AI Agents Without Lock-In
NVIDIA is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent platform that runs on any hardware, with a formal reveal expected at GTC 2026 on March 16.
Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over AI Safety Red Lines
Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits after the Pentagon labeled it a national security supply chain risk for refusing to drop AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
