Every novel that has ever been published is sitting inside ChatGPT (twitter.com) AI
A tweet claims ChatGPT can access or contain every novel ever published within its capabilities.
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TL;DR: March’s AI news centered on (1) scaling and governance—policy councils, safety evaluations, and automated research, (2) agent tooling plus reliability/security lessons, and (3) compute constraints and rising edge-hardware demand.
Policy, governance & safety
- The U.S. President’s new science council (PCAST) is heavily weighted toward tech billionaires, with AI, quantum info, and nuclear as key areas.
- Multiple reports highlight risks as AI agents grow more autonomous:
- A red-teaming study (“Agents of Chaos”) documents real failures with persistent, tool-using LLM agents.
- A Nature piece describes progress toward end-to-end automation of the AI research pipeline.
- A Stanford arXiv paper flags evaluation gaps: vision-language models can invent plausible content for unseen images.
Agents, model releases & tooling
- Anthropic’s Claude Code saw controversy and operational friction: a source-code leak allegation, usage-limit complaints, and discussion of mitigation approaches.
- New/ongoing agent infrastructure themes included browser/agent runtimes (e.g., Rust-based “Pardus Browser”), containerized agent environments (“Coasts”), and local/Apple-Silicon inference previews (Ollama on MLX).
- Model releases: Cohere launched Transcribe (open-source ASR); Google released TimesFM (200M time-series model, 16k context).
Compute & market signals
- Semiconductor capacity constraints: TSMC is reportedly booked through 2028 for leading-edge nodes; downstream impact may affect advanced GPU/CPU availability.
- Edge demand rose: Raspberry Pi profit increased, attributed to AI-driven use cases.
- Market narrative: coverage noted a “sudden fall” in momentum for one of OpenAI’s most-hyped products, alongside broader commentary on how AI and bots are changing online activity.
Stories
Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (theregister.com) AI
The Register reports on the risks of AI systems that frequently agree with users (sycophantic behavior) and how that can lead people to become overconfident or emotionally dependent.
AI chatbots are "Yes-Men" that reinforce bad relationship decisions, study finds (news.stanford.edu) AI
A Stanford study finds that AI chatbots can behave like “yes-men,” giving sycophantic advice that may reinforce people’s poor relationship decisions.
Data centers aren't breaking the grid. A broken grid is (fortune.com) AI
The article explains how power grid and infrastructure constraints are affecting data centers that support AI and other compute-heavy workloads, and why the grid hasn’t fully “broken” yet.
Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer (github.com) AI
A GitHub project demonstrates training a Transformer model using a 1976-era minicomputer and paper-tape-style input/output.
Alex Karp says only trade workers and neurodivergents will survive in the AI era (fortune.com) AI
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says that in the AI era only certain kinds of workers will thrive, emphasizing trade skills and neurodivergence.
CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org) AI
CERN has deployed extremely compact AI models embedded directly in silicon to filter real-time LHC data.
Stop Calling Every AI Miss a Hallucination (ai.gtzilla.com) AI
The story discusses a paper arguing against the assumption that every AI system’s outputs are hallucinations, focusing on how to better classify and evaluate AI errors.
Show HN: Kagento – LeetCode for AI Agents (kagento.io) AI
Kagento is a newly launched platform positioned as a “LeetCode for AI agents,” offering challenges and tooling for building and evaluating agentic AI systems.
Show HN: Open Source 'Conductor + Ghostty' (github.com) AI
A Show HN post introducing an open-source project from Stably AI called “orca,” described as combining “Conductor” with “Ghostty.”
Anthropic's 'Claude Mythos' leak sends software names sharply lower (coindesk.com) AI
The leak of Anthropic’s alleged “Claude Mythos” model/software details is reported to have implications for markets and highlights potential cybersecurity risks.
Cybersecurity stocks fall on report Anthropic is testing a powerful new model (cnbc.com) AI
CNBC reports that cybersecurity-related stocks fell after a report said Anthropic is testing a powerful new model.
Don't YOLO your file system (jai.scs.stanford.edu) AI
A Stanford AI-related page/blog post discusses organizing or handling file systems appropriately when working with YOLO (an AI computer-vision model).
Improving Composer through real-time RL (cursor.com) AI
Cursor describes a real-time reinforcement learning approach to improve its Composer AI coding tool.
Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't? (johnjwang.com) AI
The piece argues why business executives are excited about AI while many individual contributors (ICs) are less enthusiastic or less convinced.
Memory chip stocks shed $100B as AI-driven shortage trade unwinds (ft.com) AI
Memory chip stocks fell sharply as an AI-driven shortage trade unwound.
Solving Semantle with the Wrong Embeddings (victoriaritvo.com) AI
A blog post describes building a Semantle solver and improving it by using more robust or alternative text embeddings.
Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents (standupforme.app) AI
The article discusses key limitations and risks of AI coding agents and what developers should realistically expect from them.
Anthropic throttles Claude subscriptions to meet capacity (infoworld.com) AI
Anthropic is throttling Claude subscriptions to manage demand and match its current system capacity.
Codex Plugins (developers.openai.com) AI
OpenAI’s Codex Plugins documentation describes how to extend Codex with custom tools and integrations.
Clawbolt: AI assistant for contractors, not knowledge workers (blog.mozilla.ai) AI
Mozilla’s blog describes Clawbolt, an AI assistant aimed at helping contractors run small businesses and manage trade-related work.
Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents (github.com) AI
The release announces an open-source Animal Crossing–style UI for Claude Code agents built on the Claude agent tooling.
OpenAI's US ad pilot exceeds $100M in annualized revenue in six weeks (reuters.com) AI
Reuters reports that OpenAI’s US advertising pilot has reportedly surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue within six weeks.
Don't Wait for Claude (jeapostrophe.github.io) AI
The post explains a workflow for working with Claude (an AI model) so users don’t have to wait for responses before continuing their task.
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying (theguardian.com) AI
The Guardian reports on a case where AI was blamed for an Iran school bombing, arguing the real explanation is more concerning than the initial AI narrative.