AI’s arms race—companies racing for talent, GPUs, models and customers—is straining infrastructure and prompting reorganizations. Simultaneously, legal, ethical, and regulatory tensions are escalating as firms monetize AI features, deploy agents, and courts and governments move to limit or enable uses.
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Simon Willison: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (Mar. 13, 2026)
Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now support 1M-token contexts, standard pricing, and no long‑context premium. -
WSJ: Musk Says xAI Must Be Rebuilt as Co-Founders Exit (Mar. 13, 2026)
xAI’s founding team is leaving as Elon Musk orders multiple reorganizations, after merging xAI into SpaceX, hiring new talent, integrating it with Tesla, and pushing to improve coding. -
NY Times: Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns (Mar. 12, 2026)
Meta delayed Avocado after tests showed it trailed rivals like Google’s Gemini 3.0 in reasoning, coding, and writing. It pushed the release to May, is considering licensing Gemini, and is reorganizing its A.I. efforts. -
WSJ: Amazon’s Win Against Perplexity Kicks AI Shopping Wars Into High Gear (Mar. 11, 2026)
A judge barred Perplexity’s AI agent from using Amazon’s password-protected pages to shop for users while the case continues. Retailers, including Amazon, Walmart, and Target, are rushing to protect ad revenue, build AI tools, and control shopping bots. -
WIRED: Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive (Mar. 4, 2026)
Grammarly, now part of Superhuman, added AI tools like an “Expert Review” that mimics living and dead writers, scholars, and celebrities. Critics call it unethical. I think it’s a gimmick for a company with a dim future. -
WSJ: FedEx Is Planning an AI Agent Workforce (Mar. 13, 2026)
FedEx is building AI agents to automate operations, aiming to put AI in over half of workflows by 2028, while consolidating data, modernizing systems, and training staff. -
WSJ: China’s ByteDance Gets Access to Top Nvidia AI Chips (Mar. 12, 2026)
ByteDance is buying hundreds of Nvidia Blackwell systems through Aolani Cloud in Malaysia, about 36,000 B200 chips, to boost AI research and global products. -
WSJ: How the OpenAI-Anthropic Feud Could Warp the Future of AI (Mar. 7, 2026)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have escalated a public feud, trading barbs as they compete for users, talent, and IPO dollars. -
Western Montana News: Montana Leads the Nation with Groundbreaking Right to Compute Act – Western Montana News (Apr. 21, 2025)
Montana passed SB 212, the Right to Compute Act, making it the first state to guarantee citizens’ rights to own, access, and use computational and AI tools. The law limits government regulation, and requires safety, shutdown, and annual risk reviews. -
CNBC: Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt (Mar. 9, 2026)
AI chips are advancing faster than data centers can be finished, so OpenAI paused expansion at Oracle’s Abilene Stargate to await newer Nvidia GPUs.