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On 9 March 2026, AI lab Anthropic sued in California federal court and the D.C. Circuit to block a February Trump-era order that blacklisted the company and barred U.S. agencies and defense contractors from using its Claude model after it refused to lift guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Between 9-10 Mar 2026 Microsoft rolled out the Work IQ data-context engine, launched a $99-per-user Microsoft 365 E7 plan, and released “Wave 3” Copilot updates that let users run multi-step, reviewable AI actions across Office, Dynamics 365, Power Apps and third-party APIs.
After US-Israeli strikes on 28 Feb 2026, sustained GPS/GNSS jamming and spoofing across the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz has blinded civilian receivers, leaving about 1,000 vessels and numerous commercial flights broadcasting false positions within a week.
Peer-reviewed papers released 6–9 March 2026 reveal that NASA’s 570 kg DART impact in Sept 2022 shortened the Didymos-Dimorphos pair’s 770-day orbit around the Sun by 0.15 s and, separately, image re-processing exposes slow-moving debris (“cosmic snowballs”) shuttling between the two asteroids.
On 8 March 2026, torrential rains drove the Katherine and Daly rivers to their highest levels since 1998, compelling authorities to evacuate more than 1,000 residents and warn that displaced crocodiles were roaming flood-waters.
On 6 Mar 2026 scientists reported that NASA’s 2022 DART collision slowed the binary asteroid’s 770-day heliocentric orbit by 0.15 s (11.7 µm/s), the first recorded human-made alteration of a natural object’s path around the Sun.
On 6 Mar 2026, BYD disclosed a lithium-iron-phosphate Blade Battery 2.0 that can jump from 10 % to 70 % state-of-charge in five minutes when attached to its new 1,500 kW “Flash” chargers, and pledged to seed 20,000 of these stations across China by end-2026.
On 8 Mar 2026, just 10 days after OpenAI inked a deal to run its models inside the Pentagon’s classified networks, robotics head Caitlin Kalinowski resigned, calling the agreement rushed and lacking safeguards against domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
On 6 Mar 2026 OpenAI swapped out GPT-5.2 for GPT-5.4 across ChatGPT, API, Codex and GitHub Copilot, introducing native computer-use, a one-million-token window, and a new Tool Search that trims token costs by nearly half.
On 6 March 2026 Jakarta signed a rule requiring all “high-risk” platforms to deactivate Indonesian users under 16 beginning 28 March 2026.
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