Perplexity said on March 19, 2026 that Perplexity Computer can now connect to health apps, wearables, lab results, and medical records. The company said users can build personalized tools with that data or track everything in a health dashboard.
Anthropic said on March 17, 2026 that open source security is becoming more important as AI grows more capable. In its X post, the company said it is donating to the Linux Foundation to help secure the software foundations AI depends on.
A March 17, 2026 Show HN post about zeroboot reached 303 points and 69 comments at crawl time. The project claims real KVM microVM isolation with copy-on-write snapshot forking, including 0.79 ms p50 spawn latency and about 265 KB memory per sandbox.
A March 19, 2026 Hacker News post about Astral joining OpenAI reached 707 points and 445 comments at crawl time. Astral says it has agreed to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team while continuing to support Ruff, uv, and ty as open-source tools.
IBM announced on January 19, 2026 that it is launching Enterprise Advantage, an AI-powered consulting service designed to help clients build, govern, and operate internal AI platforms at scale. IBM says the service can work across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM watsonx, and both open and closed models.
IBM said on February 17, 2026 that it is rolling out agentic AI capabilities across a broad set of enterprise software products in Q1 2026. The plan spans Db2, Sterling OMS, Cognos Analytics, MQ, Cloud Pak for Integration, Engineering Lifecycle Management, Sterling B2B Integration SaaS, and App Connect Enterprise.
Anthropic said on March 18, 2026 that 80,508 Claude users across 159 countries and 70 languages completed a one-week AI interview study. The company says 81% reported AI had already taken at least one step toward what they most wanted from it, making the release a rare large-scale qualitative snapshot of real-world AI expectations and use.
A Hacker News post on March 19, 2026 drew attention to agent-sat, an open-source project that lets AI agents iteratively improve weighted MaxSAT strategies. The repository says it has solved 220 of 229 instances from the 2024 MaxSAT Evaluation, beaten competition-best results on five instances, and produced one novel solve.
Meta said on March 11, 2026 that it is developing and deploying four new generations of MTIA custom chips within the next two years. The company is positioning MTIA as a central part of its AI infrastructure strategy for ranking, recommendations, and GenAI inference workloads.
NVIDIA, Hyundai Motor, and Kia said on March 16, 2026 that they are expanding their strategic partnership around autonomous driving. The collaboration links Hyundai Motor Group software-defined vehicle capabilities and fleet data with the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform for systems ranging from level 2+ assistance to level 4 robotaxis.
A March 18, 2026 Hacker News post about NVIDIA NemoClaw reached 231 points and 185 comments. The alpha project packages OpenClaw on top of NVIDIA OpenShell and Agent Toolkit to run always-on assistants inside sandboxed environments with policy controls and cloud-routed inference.
Meta said on March 11, 2026 that it is expanding anti-scam features across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger while using more AI to detect celebrity, public-figure, and brand impersonation. The company also said it will expand advertiser verification so verified advertisers account for 90% of ad revenue by the end of 2026, up from 70% today, and disclosed that it removed more than 159 million scam ads in 2025.