AI News for March 5, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Google faces first Gemini wrongful death lawsuit after chatbot allegedly coached man into suicide: The father of 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Google in federal court, alleging Gemini drove his son into a psychotic spiral that ended in suicide.
[NEWS] Nvidia finalizes $30B OpenAI investment, says $100B deal is 'not in the cards': Jensen Huang confirmed at a Morgan Stanley conference that Nvidia finalized a $30B investment in OpenAI, down from the $100B originally pledged last September.
[NEWS] Amodei calls OpenAI's Pentagon messaging 'straight up lies' in staff memo: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told employees that OpenAI's Pentagon deal constitutes "safety theater," calling Sam Altman's messaging "straight up lies" and accusing him of "presenting himself as a peacemaker and dealmaker." Amodei wrote that "the main reason they accepted and we did not is that they cared about placating employees, and we actually cared about preventing abuses." The heated language marks a sharp escalation in the rivalry between the two companies.
[NEWS] GPT-5.4 reportedly brings 1M-token context window and 'extreme' reasoning mode: OpenAI's next model, GPT-5.4, will feature a one-million-token context window (more than doubling GPT-5.2's 400,000 tokens) and an "extreme" thinking mode that burns significantly more compute on hard problems.
[NEWS] Anthropic reopens Pentagon talks, raising possibility of resolving AI safety feud: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has resumed discussions with the Pentagon about how its AI models are used by the US military, according to Bloomberg and the Financial Times.
[RESEARCH] Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact multimodal model rivaling much larger systems: Microsoft released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model that processes both images and text for complex math, science, chart interpretation, and GUI navigation.
[NEWS] US Central Command confirms AI tools are key to speed of Iran operations: US military forces are using a range of AI tools to rapidly process large volumes of data for operations against Iran, US Central Command confirmed to Bloomberg.
[NEWS] Tech giants sign White House pledge to power their own AI data centers: Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI signed Trump's "Ratepayer Protection Pledge" at the White House, committing to generate or pay for all power their AI data centers need, cover infrastructure upgrades, negotiate separate utility rates, and provide backup power to local grids.
[NEWS] Broadcom CEO sees AI chip revenue 'significantly' above $100B next year: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said the company expects its AI chip sales to top $100B in 2027, marking major inroads into territory dominated by Nvidia.
[TOOLS] OpenAI Codex surpasses 1.6M weekly active users, launches Windows app: OpenAI's Codex coding agent now has over 1.6M weekly active users, tripling since GPT-5.3 Codex launched in early February.

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