Global venture capital investment hit a record $189 billion in February 2026, with AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo accounting for the lion's share, according to a new Crunchbase report.

NVIDIA announces GTC 2026 will take place March 16–19 in San Jose, California, with CEO Jensen Huang delivering the keynote on the latest AI stack advancements, drawing 30,000+ attendees from 190 countries.

Apple announces new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models powered by the M5 chip, delivering up to 4x faster AI task performance, doubled starting storage, and Wi-Fi 7 support, with pre-orders opening March 4.

Optical interconnect startup Ayar Labs closes a $500 million funding round backed by NVIDIA and AMD, reaching a $3.75 billion valuation, as demand for high-speed AI data center networking accelerates.

Meta has signed a multimillion-dollar AI content licensing agreement with News Corp, granting access to the media giant's journalism archives to train its AI models, marking a major publisher-tech AI deal.

Anthropic's Claude AI experienced a major outage affecting Claude.ai and Claude Code login services on March 2, 2026, following a massive influx of users switching from ChatGPT after OpenAI's Pentagon deal.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3 Instant, a new model update targeting user experience improvements such as reducing condescending tone, preachy disclaimers, and unsolicited emotional reassurances in ChatGPT responses.

Anthropic rolls out a free memory feature for all Claude users and introduces a ChatGPT data import tool, capitalizing on a wave of users switching from OpenAI following the Pentagon deal controversy.

U.S. ChatGPT uninstalls jumped 295% day-over-day after OpenAI's Pentagon deal was announced, while Anthropic's Claude surged to the top of the U.S. App Store as users switched platforms over AI ethics concerns.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirms the company is amending its Department of Defense contract to add explicit limits on AI use for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, following intense public backlash.