Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
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AI News for 2026-03-26
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Last updated: 26/3/2026, 6:43:51 am (IST)
Prologis CEO Sees Prolonged AI, Data Center Tailwinds
Prologis CEO Dan Letter joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the state of global logistics and shipping as geopolitics and associated risk impacts the firm's customer base. However, Prologis is optimistic about its data center business. Letter says the company's strong relationship with hyp...
The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead
Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.
Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
MIT Sea Grant works with the Woodwell Climate Research Center and other collaborators to demonstrate a deep learning-based system for fish monitoring.
Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’
Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.
Google launches AI music generator Lyria 3 Pro, says it was trained on data it has the right to use
Google is making AI music longer and more widely available: Lyria 3 Pro generates songs up to three minutes long, complete with verses, choruses, and bridges. Google says the model was trained on content it has the right to use. That sets it apart from rival music generator Suno, which is facing leg...
Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out. The post Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy appeared first on Th...
The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary
AI is the defining technology of our time, quickly becoming core business infrastructure. It’s fueled by a diverse ecosystem of models: large and small, open and proprietary, generalist and specialist. This variety is essential for a future where every application will be powered by AI, every countr...
Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child
The first lady sees AI and robotics playing a prominent role in the future of American education.
There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos
With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.
Microsoft's diversity chief is leaving as company continues 'AI-powered transformation'
Hiring and retaining top talent is becoming more critical as Microsoft seeks to develop top-class artificial intelligence models and products.
AI2's fully open web agent MolmoWeb navigates the web using only screenshots
AI2 releases MolmoWeb, a fully open web agent that navigates websites using only screenshots. Despite having just 4 and 8 billion parameters, the models beat several larger proprietary systems on standard benchmarks. The article AI2's fully open web agent MolmoWeb navigates the web using only screen...
Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction
Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced companion legislation to halt construction on new data centers until Congress passes comprehensive AI regulation.
Vibe Coding a Private AI Financial Analyst with Python and Local LLMs
Learn to build an AI data analyst with Python: analyzes data, detects anomalies, and generates predictions using local LLMs.
Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more
Introducing Lyria 3 Pro, which unlocks longer tracks with structural awareness. We’re also bringing Lyria to more Google products and surfaces.
QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers
At QCon London 2026, Ivan Zarea, Director of Platform Engineering at Netlify, discussed the impact of AI on web development, noting a surge in non-traditional developers among the 11 million users on the platform. He presented three pillars for developer tools: developing expertise, honing taste, an...
Building Declarative Data Pipelines with Snowflake Dynamic Tables: A Workshop Deep Dive
Traditional data pipeline development often requires extensive procedural code to define how data should be transformed and moved between stages. The declarative approach flips this paradigm by allowing data engineers to specify what the end result should be rather than prescribing every step of how...
Arm breaks from its licensing-only model with first in-house chip built for AI data centers
For the first time in its 35-year history, Arm has manufactured its own chip, expanding beyond its long-standing business model of licensing chip designs to companies like Apple and Nvidia. The article Arm breaks from its licensing-only model with first in-house chip built for AI data centers appear...
Following Up on Like-for-Like for Stores: Handling PY
My last article was about implementing Like-for-Like (L4L) for Stores. After discussing my solution with my peers and clients, I encountered an interesting issue that brought additional requirements to my first solution. This is what I want to discuss here. The post Following Up on Like-for-Like for...
Ocorian: Family offices turn to AI for financial data insights
To gain financial data insights, the majority of family offices now turn to AI, according to new research from Ocorian. The global study reveals 86 percent of these private wealth groups are utilising AI to improve their daily operations and data analysis. Representing a combined wealth of $119.37 b...
OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
As the ChatGPT-maker eyes an IPO, it's ditching Sora in favor of a unified AI assistant and enterprise coding tools.
Uber Launches IngestionNext: Streaming-First Data Lake Cuts Latency and Compute by 25%
Uber launches IngestionNext, a streaming-first data lake ingestion platform that reduces data latency from hours to minutes and cuts compute usage by 25%. Built on Kafka, Flink, and Apache Hudi, it supports thousands of datasets, enabling faster analytics, experimentation, and machine learning workl...
The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned This Month
Proactivity, blocking, and planning The post The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned This Month appeared first on Towards Data Science.
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly teases a "very strong" model internally that can "really accelerate the economy"
OpenAI has reportedly finished pretraining its next major AI model, codenamed "Spud." CEO Sam Altman says it can "really accelerate the economy." The article OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly teases a "very strong" model internally that can "really accelerate the economy" appeared first on The Decode...
5 Useful DIY Python Functions for Error Handling
Debugging Python doesn’t need to be complicated. These 5 DIY functions simplify error handling and improve code reliability.
Building Human-In-The-Loop Agentic Workflows
Understanding how to set up human-in-the-loop (HITL) agentic workflows in LangGraph The post Building Human-In-The-Loop Agentic Workflows appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Podcast: [Video Podcast] Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Early Operating Models for Autonomous Agents
In this episode, Shweta Vohra and Joseph Stein explore what changes when software systems start planning, acting, and making decisions on their own. The conversation distinguishes truly agentic use cases from traditional automation and looks at how architects and engineers should think about boundar...
Blowing Off Steam: How Power-Flexible AI Factories Can Stabilize the Global Energy Grid
At the half-time whistle of the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between England and Germany, millions of viewers stepped away from their screens in the U.K. to do the same thing at the same time — turn on their kettles. National Grid, which provides electricity for England and Wales, saw a...
Disney pulls out of OpenAI partnership after Sora app and API gets killed just months after launch
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora app and API. Disney is now walking away from the billion-dollar deal the two companies signed just last December. The article Disney pulls out of OpenAI partnership after Sora app and API gets killed just months after launch appeared first on The Decoder.
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