AI News for March 4, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant with reduced 'cringe,' 27% fewer hallucinations: OpenAI launched GPT-5.3 Instant, an update to the standard ChatGPT model focused on conversation quality rather than benchmarks.
[NEWS] Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: 2.5x faster, 1/8th the cost of Pro: Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in the Gemini 3 series.
[NEWS] Anthropic nears $20B revenue run rate, more than doubling from late 2025: Anthropic is on track to generate nearly $20B in annual revenue, more than doubling its run rate from late last year.
[NEWS] Alibaba's Qwen tech lead and key researchers abruptly depart after Qwen3.5 launch: Junyang "Justin" Lin, the technical lead who steered Alibaba's Qwen project from a lab experiment to 600M+ downloads, stepped down just 24 hours after the Qwen3.5 small model series launched to praise from Elon Musk.
[NEWS] Altman tells OpenAI staff they 'don't get to weigh in' on military decisions: Sam Altman told employees during an all-hands meeting that OpenAI does not get to make decisions about what the Defense Department does with its AI software.
[NEWS] OpenAI reasoning model architect Max Schwarzer defects to Anthropic: Max Schwarzer, an architect behind OpenAI's reasoning models, announced he's leaving to join Anthropic for reinforcement learning research.
[NEWS] Federal agencies drop Claude for OpenAI as Trump's Anthropic ban takes effect: The State Department, Treasury, HHS, Pentagon, and HUD are already switching from Anthropic's Claude to competitors.
[TOOLS] Claude Code launches voice mode for hands-free coding: Anthropic is rolling out voice mode in Claude Code, letting developers interact through spoken commands instead of typing.
[OPINION] Goldman Sachs finds 'no meaningful' economy-wide AI productivity gains, but 30% boost in two areas: A Goldman Sachs analysis of Q4 earnings found "no meaningful relationship between productivity and AI adoption at the economy-wide level," despite AI dominating corporate discussions.
[NEWS] Perplexity's Comet browser hijacked via calendar invite to steal 1Password credentials: Security researchers at Zenity Labs demonstrated how a manipulated calendar invite can trick Perplexity's agentic Comet browser into stealing local files and taking over a full 1Password account.

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