Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics and hardware, resigned on March 7 over the company's deal to deploy AI inside Pentagon classified networks, citing concerns about autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance without judicial oversight. Altman called the original deal "opportunistic and sloppy" and revised terms after the backlash. The fallout triggered #CancelChatGPT trending on X, and puts every AI founder on notice. (TechCrunch) 

Science Corp., led by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak, closed a $230M Series C at a $1.5B valuation to bring its brain-computer interface to market. The implant targets vision restoration in blind patients, with a CE mark application already filed in the EU and approval expected mid-2026, which would make it the first BCI with a commercial product, beating Neuralink to market. Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator backed the round. (Axios)

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Andrej Karpathy open-sourced Autoresearch, a 630-line Python tool that lets an AI agent run about 100 ML experiments overnight on a single GPU. Give it a goal; it loops every 5 minutes, keeps what improves, drops what doesn't, and hands you results by morning. No distributed compute, no external dependencies. The whole thing is one file. Free. (MarkTechPost)

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 with native computer-use capabilities (the first general-purpose frontier model that can click through apps, operate software, and run multi-step workflows autonomously). It set records on OSWorld-Verified and WebArena benchmarks, and its responses are 33% less likely to contain false claims than GPT-5.2. Already live in GitHub Copilot and rolling out across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. (TechCrunch) 

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