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March 16, 2026

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5 stories · By @marcopapa99 · CS Faculty building with AI daily
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NVIDIA GTC 2026 Kicks Off

The San Jose AI extravaganza starts today. Expect massive reveals in physical and agentic AI, plus whatever Jensen has up his sleeve for "AI factories." This is where the physical world meets the silicon.

Source: nvidia.com →
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OpenAI Drops GPT-5.4

The new frontier model is here, touting absurd efficiency and reasoning upgrades. They’re clearly fighting to keep the crown, but the real test is how it handles actual production codebases.

Source: openai.com →
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Steipete’s Mention-Blocker

A perfect example of "small AI" done right. Using a 5-minute cron to clean up Twitter mentions isn't flashy, but it’s real utility that makes the web pleasant again. We need more of this, less of the hype.

Source: x.com →
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Google Scraps AI Health Advice

After months of AI Overviews vomiting bad medical info, Google finally pulled the plug. Proves that "move fast and break things" doesn’t play when you’re dealing with human health. Accountability is finally hitting the LLMs.

Source: theguardian.com →
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Productivity vs. Layoffs

Atlassian just cut 10% of staff, citing AI-driven gains. The uncomfortable truth: companies will bank these gains as profit unless we start pushing for shorter working hours to match the new output reality.

Source: theguardian.com →
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