AI Industry & Culture
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$600 Million for 16 Engineers: Why Netflix Made Its Second-Largest Acquisition on Ben Affleck’s AI Startup
Netflix has never been big on acquisitions. In its 28-year history, the company has made only a handful of notable purchases. So when Bloomberg reported on March 11 that Netflix could pay up to $600 million for InterPositive — a 16-person AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck — the entertainment and tech worlds both… Continue reading
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A Fruit Fly’s Entire Brain Has Been Uploaded to a Computer — and It Can Walk, Groom, and Forage
A startup called Eon Systems PBC claims to have achieved something neuroscience has been chasing for decades: a complete brain emulation of a living organism, connected to a virtual body, producing real behaviors. The organism is a fruit fly. The brain has 125,000 neurons. And the behaviors — walking, grooming, foraging — emerged entirely from… Continue reading
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Google Is Deploying Gemini AI Agents to 3 Million Pentagon Employees — Here’s What That Means
Google just landed one of the largest government AI contracts in history: Gemini-powered AI agents rolling out across the entire Department of Defense workforce. The announcement, which dropped on March 10, 2026, comes at a particularly charged moment — just one day after Anthropic sued the Trump administration over being labeled a “supply chain risk”… Continue reading
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Amazon vs. Perplexity Comet: The Court Ruling That Could Define the Future of AI Shopping Agents
A federal judge in San Francisco just handed Amazon a preliminary injunction against Perplexity’s Comet browser — blocking its AI agent from shopping on Amazon on behalf of users. It’s the first major legal test of agentic commerce, and the ruling has implications far beyond one browser and one retailer. What Happened On March 10,… Continue reading
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ChatGPT Interactive Visuals Just Dropped — OpenAI Wants 140 Million Weekly Learners to Ditch Static Explanations
OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into something closer to a hands-on science lab than a chatbot. On March 10, 2026, the company rolled out interactive visuals — dynamic, slider-driven modules that let you manipulate math and science formulas in real time. Ask about the Pythagorean theorem, and instead of a wall of text, you get a… Continue reading
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AMI Labs: Yann LeCun Just Raised $1.03 Billion to Prove LLMs Are a Dead End
Yann LeCun has spent the last two years telling anyone who would listen that large language models are fundamentally limited. Now he has $1.03 billion to prove it. The Turing Award winner’s new startup, AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence), just closed one of the largest seed rounds in AI history, valued at $3.5 billion pre-money.… Continue reading
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Grammarly AI Expert Review: Getting Feedback From Dead Scholars They Never Agreed To Give
So here’s a wild one. Grammarly — which now operates under the Superhuman brand after a rebrand in late 2025 — rolled out a feature called “Expert Review” that lets you pick a real-world scholar or writer to “review” your manuscript. Sounds cool in theory, right? Except they forgot one tiny detail: actually asking those… Continue reading
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