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Perplexity launched Personal Computer at its Ask 2026 conference in San Francisco on March 11. The software runs continuously on a Mac mini, merging local files and apps with Perplexity's cloud-based Computer agent
Apple released the MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max on March 11, 2026, delivering 4x faster AI performance than the previous generation
Replit closed a $400 million Series D round at a $9 billion valuation on March 11, 2026, tripling its valuation in six months
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super on March 11, 2026, an open-source 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer model that delivers 5x higher throughput than its predecessor for agentic AI workloads
Netflix is paying up to $600 million for InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck four years ago. The deal, confirmed by Bloomberg on March 11, 2026, ranks among Netflix's largest acquisitions ever and signals a major bet on AI-powered post-production tools
NVIDIA announced a major partnership with ComfyUI at GDC 2026 on March 10, bringing streamlined local AI video generation to game developers and creative professionals on RTX hardware
Hume AI has released TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual-Alignment), an open-source text-to-speech model that eliminates a persistent problem in AI speech synthesis: hallucinated words
NVIDIA announced DLSS 4.5 at GDC 2026, introducing Dynamic Multi Frame Generation that automatically adjusts generated frames in real time to hit a target frame rate
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network built exclusively for AI agents. The platform launched in late January 2026 as an experimental "third space" where AI bots can autonomously post, comment, and upvote or downvote content
NVIDIA is launching NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent platform, ahead of GTC 2026 (March 16-19). The platform integrates with the NeMo framework and Nemotron models, backed by partnerships with Salesforce, Google, Adobe, Cisco, and CrowdStrike
Adobe launched a public beta of its AI assistant for Photoshop on March 10, 2026, while simultaneously expanding Firefly with generative editing tools and integrations with 25+ third-party AI models including Runway, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. Adobe shipped two major updates on the same day
Black Forest Labs, the team behind the FLUX image generation models, published Self-Flow on March 10, 2026: an open-source framework that trains image, video, and audio generation models 2.8x faster without requiring external encoders
Fish Audio released S2, an open-source text-to-speech model trained on over 10 million hours of audio data spanning 50 languages. The model beats GPT-4o-mini-tts on the EmergentTTS-Eval benchmark with an 81.88% win rate, and ships with full weights, fine-tuning code, and a streaming inference engine
Freepik has shipped version 5.6 of its mobile app, adding two significant creative tools: Cinematic Shot for generating studio-grade photorealistic images and an AI Music Generator that produces royalty-free tracks on demand
Picsart just launched AI Playground, a unified creative hub that brings together more than 90 AI models from 24 providers into a single interface
Runway launched Runway Characters on March 9, 2026, a real-time video agent API that turns any image into a fully expressive, conversational digital persona
Framer launches Server API in open beta, enabling AI agents and automated workflows to sync CMS, publish changes, and update designs programmatically.
Independent musicians filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging Lyria 3 was trained on 44 million YouTube clips without permission.
Anthropic launched Claude Code Review on March 9, 2026, a multi-agent system that dispatches teams of AI reviewers on every pull request. The tool uses color-coded severity ratings and boosted thorough code reviews from 16% to 54% in internal testing
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation, making it Europe's largest seed round ever. LeCun left Meta at the end of 2025 to build "world models" that learn from physical reality rather than text alone
Tripo debuted P1.0, a native 3D diffusion model that generates production-ready 3D assets in roughly two seconds, at GDC 2026 in San Francisco
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics and consumer hardware, resigned on March 7, 2026, over concerns about the company's recently announced Pentagon deal