Vannarot Roeung
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ElevenLabs Adds Remix, Lyric Sync, and Stems to Eleven Music
ElevenLabs shipped major updates to Eleven Music including public song discovery and remixing, precise lyric timestamps, an inpainting API, and stem separation.
NVIDIA GTC 2026 Kicks Off Monday: What to Expect
NVIDIA's GTC 2026 conference begins Monday, March 16, in San Jose, with CEO Jensen Huang delivering the keynote at 11 a.m. PT
Meta Plans 16,000 Layoffs to Fund AI Infrastructure
Meta is reportedly planning to cut up to 20 percent of its 79,000-person workforce, which would eliminate roughly 16,000 jobs. The cuts are tied to the company's $600 billion AI infrastructure investment, which is consuming capital faster than its current headcount structure can sustain
Spielberg Says He Has Never Used AI in His Films
Steven Spielberg made a definitive statement about artificial intelligence during his appearance at SXSW 2026 on March 13: he has never used AI in any of his films
Anthropic Drops Long-Context Premium: 1M Tokens at Standard Price
Anthropic announced on March 13 that its full 1 million token context window is now generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 at standard API pricing. The company eliminated the long-context surcharge that previously added up to 100% to the cost of requests exceeding 200,000 tokens
The AI Coding War: What xAI's Rebuild Means for Creators
When Elon Musk publicly admitted on March 13 that "xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up," he confirmed what the numbers already showed: the AI coding assistant market has clear winners, and Grok is not among them
GDC 2026 AI Recap: Local AI Goes Mainstream
For years, the most powerful AI creative tools lived in the cloud. You uploaded your prompts, waited for a remote GPU cluster to process them, and downloaded the results
EU AI Act Adds Ban on AI Nudification Tools
The European Union Council released its amended AI Act proposal on March 13, 2026, adding an explicit prohibition on AI nudification tools and non-consensual intimate imagery. A committee vote is scheduled for March 18 before the proposal advances to parliamentary and Council approval stages
Musk Admits xAI 'Not Built Right,' Starts Over
Elon Musk stated on March 13, 2026 that "xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up." The admission came as 10 of the company's 12 original co-founders have departed, and xAI is now recruiting engineers from Cursor to rebuild its AI coding tools
Amazon Investigates AI Coding-Linked Service Outages
Amazon is reviewing service outages tied to AI-assisted coding tools after disruptions hit thousands of customers. Here is what it means for creators relying on AI coding.
NVIDIA Cosmos 2.5 Adds Synthetic Video and Physical AI
NVIDIA releases Cosmos 2.5 world foundation models for synthetic data generation and physical AI reasoning, now available on Hugging Face.
Canva Magic Layers Turns AI Images Into Editable Designs
Canva launched Magic Layers on March 13, 2026, a beta feature that converts flat AI-generated images into fully editable multi-layer designs
Lovable Hits $400M ARR With Just 146 Employees
Lovable, the vibe coding platform that lets users build applications through natural language commands, reached $400 million in annual recurring revenue in February 2026. The company did it with just 146 employees and 8 million users, adding $100 million in revenue in a single month
Meta Delays Avocado AI Model to May After Falling Behind
Meta has delayed the launch of its next-generation AI model, codenamed "Avocado," from March to at least May 2026. Internal testing revealed the model falls short of competitors from Google and OpenAI, landing somewhere between Google's Gemini 2.5 and Gemini 3 in performance
Google Maps Adds Gemini AI and 3D Navigation
Google launched Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation on March 12, 2026, bringing Gemini AI to Google Maps for the first time. Ask Maps lets users ask complex conversational questions, and Immersive Navigation replaces flat 2D directions with photorealistic 3D views of the road ahead
The $60B AI Coding Race: What It Means for Creators
Cursor seeks $50B, Replit raises at $9B, Lovable hits $400M ARR. Here is what the AI coding war means for creative professionals.
Cursor Targets $50B Valuation as AI Coding Revenue Hits $2B
Cursor, the AI coding assistant built on Claude and GPT models, is in talks for a new funding round at a $50 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported on March 12, 2026. The company crossed $2 billion in annualized revenue in February, doubling its revenue run rate in three months
Google Releases Gemma 3: Open Multimodal Models Up to 27B
Google released Gemma 3 on March 12, 2026, a family of open-weight multimodal models in four sizes (1B, 4B, 12B, 27B) built on Gemini 2.0 technology. The models support 128k token context, 140+ languages, and image-plus-text input, with open weights on Hugging Face and Kaggle
Anthropic Invests $100M in Claude Partner Network
Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network on March 12, 2026, committing $100 million in 2026 funding to enlist major consulting firms as enterprise AI deployment partners
OpenAI Brings Sora Video Generation Into ChatGPT
OpenAI is planning to integrate its Sora AI video generator directly into ChatGPT, according to a report from The Information. The move would bring AI video creation capabilities to ChatGPT's hundreds of millions of active users, dramatically expanding Sora's reach beyond its standalone app
Runway Labs Takes AI Video Beyond Filmmaking
Runway launched an internal incubator called Runway Labs on March 12, 2026, to explore applications of its generative video and world model technology outside filmmaking
Perplexity's Always-On AI Agent: What It Means for Creators
Every AI assistant you have used so far has one fundamental limitation: it forgets you exist the moment you close the tab. Perplexity wants to change that
Apple's M5 Max Changes the Math on Local AI for Creators
The MacBook Pro M5 Max can run a 70-billion parameter language model at 18 to 25 tokens per second, generate a FLUX image 3.8 times faster than its predecessor, and fit everything in 128GB of unified memory without offloading to the CPU
Anthropic Launches Institute to Study AI's Societal Impact
Anthropic launched The Anthropic Institute on March 11, 2026, a new research organization focused on studying how advanced AI is reshaping jobs, economies, legal systems, and society at large