Covering the week of March 16, 2026
The AI Round-up: Year 4, Issue 10
I know what you’re doing. Trying to look busy while keep tabs on March Madness.
I got you. This is something you can skim while watching which of your teams gets blown up next.
It’s also a shorter edition because, well, I want to watch the games too!
Let’s get to it.
11ish stories – Here we go.
Story 1: Breaking – White House releases national AI framework (Yahoo)
If by frameworks…you mean an absence of them…then yes, they’re here.
Story 2: NemoClaw is building the agentic operating system. (Shelly Palmer)
What is building the what?
Ok, I’m confused. I’m lost on this one…but if Nvidia owns NemoClaw and Shelly is writing about it, calling it one of the “most important AI announcements of the year” then I’m listening. I just don’t know what I’m listening to yet.
Oh, and this just came across my LinkedIn feed from Andrew Au…he’s basically saying the same thing.
I have a feeling we’ll be talking more about this. Stay tuned.
Story 3: Not a fad.
Nvidia says it expects to make $1 trillion in AI chips. (Bloomberg)
Story 4: Jensen Huang announced a lot of other things too. (CNBC)
From tokens as part of a salary to the number of agents he will employ v. people…he shook some things up.
Thankfully we have frameworks to regulate him!
Story 5: Can you spot AI writing?
You can?? Good for you!!! Read more – about the 7 key tells – in this article. (PC Mag)
Story 6: A report on what people want from their AI. (Anthropic)
I can tell you what they don’t want – less thinking. From the report:
“I don't think as much as I used to. I struggle to put the ideas I do have into words.”
The report is based on 81,000 individual interviews. And worth your time to check out. I did pull a heavier quote but there were a lot of positive ones too. Which, in reality, is the perfect breakdown of AI today – some good. Some bad.
Story 7: Speaking of Anthropic…it’s winning. (Axios)
73% of companies making a first time AI purchase/spend are choosing Anthropic. Mainly because Claude is awesome.
Story 8: The Coming Wave…of a shake-up.
Mustafa Suleyman may be under the microscope as Microsoft makes some changes to the AI leadership team. (CNBC)
Story 9: xAI has a shake-up…I guess?...of its own. (Financial Times)
Elon Musk’s version of a shake-up is a push-out…but nonetheless…there are only two of the original 12 founding members of xAI left. Weird. Grok seemed to have so much promise.
I mean, maybe stop making it easy to sexually harass people on your platform? (The Guardian)
Story 10: The surprise of the week. (MSN)
The AI video tool Seedance 2.0 launch has been halted due to copyright issues.
Story 11: ChatGPT – the good stuff is now free. (Engadget)
They released a new, better model in March…and now they’ve made some of it free.
6 Nopes.
1. Val Kilmer – who died last year – to be in a new movie, thanks to AI. (Variety)
2. OpenAI’s adult mode is freaking out its advisers. (WSJ)
3. Meta’s AI triggers large security breach, leaking sensitive info to employees. (The Guardian)
4. The Pentagon is planning on letting AI companies train on classified data. Should be fine. (MIT)
5. Humans who research and select targets are to blame for the Iran school strike, not AI. (Semafor)
6. AI usage by doctors has doubled as confidence in AI increases. (AMA)
-Ben
As a reminder, this is a round-up of the biggest stories, often hitting multiple newsletters I receive/review. The sources are many … which I’m happy to read on your behalf. Let me know if there’s one you’d like me to track or have questions about a topic you’re not seeing here.