Digest: March 6-11, 2026

Nvidia invested in ex-OpenAI director's $12B startup, Claude found 22 Firefox bugs in two weeks, and Karpathy open-sourced a research agent.

Author: Michael Kokin ·

Nvidia invested in ex-OpenAI director's startup valued at $12B. Claude found 22 Firefox bugs in two weeks. Karpathy open-sourced a research agent.

AI

Microsoft and Anthropic launched Copilot Cowork. Microsoft turned Claude Cowork into a corporate agent for Microsoft 365.

Anthropic opened marketplace and updated Claude Code. Claude Marketplace for third-party software. Claude Code got scheduling for up to 3-day task loops.

Yann LeCun raised $1B for world models startup. Founded AMI Labs — AI learning from real world. Valuation: $3.5B.

Nvidia invested in Mira Murati's startup. Thinking Machines Lab got a gigawatt of Vera Rubin servers. Valuation: $12B.

Claude found 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in 2 weeks. Opus 4.6 discovered 14 critical bugs — more than the community found in months.

Software

Google added Gemini to Workspace. Docs write user-style drafts, Sheets build tables from search, Drive answers file questions.

Luma AI assembled an ad campaign. Luma Agents took a brief and generated text, images, video, and audio.

Karpathy open-sourced research agent. Autoresearch — 630 lines for autonomous GPU research.

Robots and Hardware

Living neurons learned to play Doom. Cortical Labs programmed brain cells on a chip.

Laser robot destroyed 450,000 weeds/hour. Carbon Robotics showed LaserWeeder G2.

Micro-robot inspected CERN Collider. PipeINEER crawled through the 27km LHC tunnel at −271°C.

Business

19-year-old sold Cal AI for $30M. Built photo calorie tracker during school breaks.