March 2 – 8, 2026
The AI stories that shaped the week
Activist groups Pause AI and Pull the Plug organised what was described as the largest anti-AI protest yet in London, with demonstrators raising concerns about misinformation, deepfakes, and existential risks from AI.
Read source →Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok 4.20 Beta 2 targeting core reliability — improved instruction-following, reduced hallucinations, better LaTeX typesetting, and increased image search accuracy. The update follows the initial Grok 4.20 beta released in February.
Read source →X announced it would suspend creators from its revenue-sharing programme for 90 days (permanent ban for repeat offenders) if they post unlabelled AI-generated videos of armed conflicts. The platform will use AI detection tools and Community Notes to identify violations.
Read source →OpenAI released GPT-5.4 in three variants: Standard, Thinking (for reasoning), and Pro (maximum capability). The API supports a 1.05 million token context window — the largest OpenAI has offered commercially — enabling processing of entire books or codebases in a single prompt.
Read source →A Russian-speaking threat actor used commercial AI tools including Claude and DeepSeek to generate attack scripts and exploitation plans, successfully compromising over 600 FortiGate firewall devices across 55 countries.
Read source →Oracle announced plans to cut 20,000–30,000 employees across multiple divisions, with the goal of redirecting $8–10 billion toward AI infrastructure and capabilities.
Read source →Following OpenAI's Pentagon partnership announcement, 2.5 million users cancelled subscriptions or publicly pledged to boycott. ChatGPT app uninstalls in the US jumped 295% day-over-day, with one-star reviews surging 775%.
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