This Week in AI

Issue #01 · March 18, 2026

The AI news that actually matters.

Anthropic vs the Pentagon · Gemini 3 drops · Open-source video leaps forward · Healthcare AI consolidates. No fluff — all signal.

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Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: Claude banned from military systems — 150 retired judges file in support, Claude hits #1 on both app stores

DoD labeled Anthropic an “unacceptable supply chain risk”. DAU up 140%+ since January.

The most transformative technology humans have ever created — and we're building it during a geopolitical moment that demands we get the safety right the first time.
DA

Dario Amodei

CEO, Anthropic

We're not building AI to replace humans. We're building AI to handle the things humans shouldn't have to spend their time on — so we can focus on what actually matters.
SP

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google & Alphabet

LLM is a bubble — AI absolutely is not. The models are temporary. The transformation of every industry is permanent. We are at the very beginning of something extraordinary.
CDF

Clément Delangue

CEO, Hugging Face

I believe AI agents will eventually handle most software engineering tasks. Not in a decade — within a few years. The question is how we ensure humans remain meaningfully in control.
FS

Fidji Simo

CEO, OpenAI

The race to AI supremacy is not between companies — it's between the speed of development and the speed of our understanding of what we are building. Regulation must keep pace.
MR

Marietje Schaake

AI Policy Advisor, Stanford HAI

01Major AI Labs
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Pentagon vs. Anthropic — Legal Battle Escalates

The HillAnthropic

~150 Former Judges Side with Anthropic

CNN BusinessLegal

Claude Surges to #1 on Both App Stores — DAU up 140%

CNN BusinessGrowth

GPT-5.4 Released — 1.05M Token Window, Three Variants

ReleasebotOpenAI

OpenAI IPO as Early as Q4 2026 — CEO Fidji Simo

CNBCOpenAI

Gemini 3 Released — Best Multimodal Model Yet

Google BlogGoogle

HuggingFace: "LLM Bubble, Not AI Bubble" — CEO

TechBuzz AIHF
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02Open Source
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Qwen 3.5 Small — 0.8B to 9B, Fully Multimodal, Apache 2.0

Build Fast With AIAlibaba

LTX 2.3 — 4K Video + Audio Generation in One Pass

Sci-Tech TodayVideo

Helios — Real-Time Video on a Single H100 GPU

Build Fast With AIByteDance

Kiwi-Edit — Text + Image Guided Video Editing, MIT License

Build Fast With AINUS ShowLab
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03Healthcare AI
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Claude for Healthcare — HIPAA Connectors + $100M Partner Network

Digital HealthAnthropic

ChatGPT Health + $100M Torch Acquisition

MedCity NewsOpenAI

AI Diagnostics = #1 Patient Safety Risk in 2026 — ECRI

Radiology BusinessSafety

MedGemma 1.5 — 3D Scans + Histopathology

AI NewsGoogle

RadNet Acquires Gleamer for $270M

Radiology BusinessM&A
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04Coding & Enterprise
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Cursor: $9.9B Valuation, 500K Paid Users — Background Agents Ship

NxCodeValuation

GitHub Copilot Crosses 1.8M Paid Users — 55% YoY Growth

TLDLGitHub

7 Serious Contenders in the Agentic IDE Race

LushbinaryAgentic

Windsurf Cascade Goes Fully Agentic — Best Value at $15/mo

DEV CommunityWindsurf
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05AI Security
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Agentic AI Creates Unprecedented Attack Surfaces — OpenClaw

Pillar SecurityAgentic

Malicious AI Extensions Hit 900K Devices — 20K Enterprise Tenants

GovInfoSecurityMalware
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06Creative & Design
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'Vibe Designing' Is Now Standard Practice — Figma AI + Adobe Firefly

FigmaDesign

Midjourney Motion Enters Closed Beta — Video Generation

Phygital+Video
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07Research Highlights
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arXiv 2601.18157

EGAgent — Long Video Understanding with Entity Scene Graphs

Video AI

arXiv 2510.15831

VISTA — Self-Improving Video Generation Agent

Agents

arXiv Audio

NV-Bench — Nonverbal TTS Evaluation Benchmark

TTS

arXiv AI

CUBE — Universal Agent Benchmarking Standard

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