Latest news from the AI world
April 1, 2026: Claude Code v2.1.89 with NO_FLICKER and Computer Use, Copilot CLI /fleet for parallel agents, Perplexity Computer integrated into Slack, Codex CLI 0.118.0, Z.ai's GLM-5V-Turbo, GrandCode beats Codeforces, Runway Builders, and two April Fools' jokes.
March 31, 2026: OpenAI closes a record financing round at a $852 billion valuation, Qwen launches its native omnimodal model, and Boris Cherny reveals little-known features of Claude Code.
Week of Mar 26–28, 2026: Luma launches Uni-1 (unified visual reasoning), Perplexity powers Samsung Browsing Assist (1B+ devices), Claude Code v2.1.86 brings ~15 major fixes, GitHub Copilot CLI adds agent-driven unit test generation.
March 27, 2026: Amsterdam court fines xAI for non-consensual nudification (€100,000/day), Gemini 3.1 Flash Live real-time audio in 90+ languages, Codex plugins for Slack/Figma/Notion, Claude Code v2.1.85 and auto mode, Cohere Transcribe #1 ASR, Suno v5.5, Voxtral TTS.
March 25–26, 2026: Claude integrates work tools on mobile (Figma, Canva, Amplitude), Claude Code starts 2.8x faster thanks to 60 days of Bun optimizations, GitHub Copilot changes its interaction data policy with an opt-out to enable before April 24, and Lyria 3 Pro generates music tracks up to 3 minutes.
March 24, 2026: Claude Code launches auto mode with an action classifier, ChatGPT adds visual shopping with the Agentic Commerce Protocol, and xAI opens Grok Imagine to multi-image video generation on API.
Midjourney V8 Alpha 5x faster in native 2K, OpenAI buys Astral (uv, Ruff) for Codex, NVIDIA OpenShell open source runtime for autonomous agents. Week of March 18-23, 2026.
March 17, 2026: OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano with benchmarks close to the full model, Mistral and Perplexity join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition at GTC 2026, and Perplexity opens Comet to enterprise teams with MDM governance.
March 12–14, 2026: Anthropic opens the 1M token context window generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, Genspark unveils AI Workspace 3.0 with its agent Claw and $385M raised, Perplexity Computer arrives on smartphones.
March 12, 2026: Claude generates interactive charts and diagrams inline in conversation across all plans, OpenAI opens the Video API with Sora 2 to developers, and Google Maps receives its biggest overhaul in ten years thanks to Gemini.
March 11, 2026: Anthropic creates an interdisciplinary institute led by Jack Clark, Perplexity launches its Computer vision with 4 APIs, OpenAI equips the Responses API with a full computing environment for agents, and Meta publishes 4 generations of MTIA chips.
March 10, 2026: Claude Code launches Code Review in research preview, OpenAI acquires Promptfoo for enterprise AI security, Runway opens its GWM-1 Characters video agents API.