Latest news from the AI world
March 8, 2026: Claude Code v2.1.71 introduces /loop to schedule recurring tasks, GitHub Copilot VS Code v1.110 brings agent plugins and browser agent tools, Pika launches AI Selves for video digital twins, and Luma unveils its creative agents.
March 6, 2026: Anthropic and Mozilla reveal 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox thanks to Opus 4.6, OpenAI launches Codex Security with 14 CVEs detected in open source projects, and Kling 3.0 rolls out Motion Control globally.
Week of March 3–5, 2026: OpenAI's GPT-5.4 launches native computer use and reaches 75% on OSWorld, NotebookLM generates immersive videos with Gemini as director, Codex arrives on Windows, and GitHub enables Copilot Memory by default.
March 3, 2026: Claude Code launches Voice Mode (push-to-talk, free), GPT-5.3 Instant replaces GPT-5.2 in ChatGPT with hallucinations down 26.8%, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite in preview. Teaser GPT-5.4, FLUX.2 [pro] 2x faster, ElevenLabs at MWC.
March 2, 2026: Claude Code v2.1.63 delivers /simplify, HTTP hooks and 8 memory fixes, OpenAI signs a classified AI agreement with the Pentagon, Anthropic refuses mass surveillance and threatens to sue. Also: Claude Memory on the free plan, Qwen 3.5 Small Series, Gemini CLI v0.31.0, and deprecations of Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1 in Copilot.
February 27, 2026: OpenAI announces a $110 billion round with SoftBank, NVIDIA and Amazon, an exclusive AWS cloud partnership, Gemini Drop with Lyria 3 and Nano Banana 2, and GitHub launches Agentic Workflows in Markdown.
26 February 2026: Dario Amodei publishes a statement on Anthropic's limits vis‑à‑vis the U.S. Department of War, Perplexity obtains OS-level access on the Samsung Galaxy S26, Claude and Codex go GA for Copilot Business and Pro, NVIDIA unveils LillyPod with 1,016 Blackwell Ultra GPUs.
February 25, 2026: Anthropic buys Vercept to accelerate computer use (Claude Sonnet 4.6 at 72.5% on OSWorld), Perplexity launches Computer — an autonomous multi-model orchestrator, GitHub Copilot CLI goes generally available with MCP and agents support.
February 24, 2026: Anthropic publishes the third version of its Responsible Scaling Policy with a public Frontier Safety Roadmap and quarterly Risk Reports; GPT-5.3-Codex moves to general availability via the Responses API; Meta signs a multi-year AMD deal for ~6 GW of GPU capacity; Qwen 3.5 Medium launches 4 MoE models including a 35B that outperforms the 235B giant; Claude Code v2.1.51 introduces Remote Control from mobile.
February 23, 2026: Anthropic reveals that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax extracted 16 million exchanges via 24,000 fraudulent accounts to distill Claude; OpenAI drops SWE-bench Verified (59.4% defective tests) and recommends SWE-bench Pro; gpt-realtime-1.5, WebSockets in the Responses API, Veo 3.1 templates and Pika AI Selves.
Claude Code v2.1.49-2.1.50 extends multi-worktree agents and fixes 6 memory leaks, GitHub Copilot introduces cross-session persistent memory, and ElevenLabs cuts TTS latency by 40% on February 22, 2026.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Security in preview (500+ vulnerabilities detected in open source), Runway becomes a multi-model hub, and GitHub Copilot extends its model picker to Business/Enterprise on February 20, 2026.