AI News for March 12, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Amazon employees say company pushes AI use even when it slows work: Multiple current and former Amazon employees told The Guardian the company pressures staff to use AI across all work, even when internal tools like Kiro hallucinate and generate flawed code.
[NEWS] Atlassian cuts 1,600 jobs, cites AI shift as key factor: Atlassian is laying off roughly 1,600 workers (10% of its workforce) as it restructures for what CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes called the "AI era." About 900 of the affected roles are in R&D, with cuts spanning North America (640), Australia (480), and India (250).
[NEWS] Cursor in talks for $50B valuation, nearly double its fall round: AI coding startup Cursor is negotiating a funding round at roughly $50B, nearly double the valuation it secured last fall.
[TOOLS] Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Super, a hybrid model for agentic workloads: Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter open-weights model that merges three architectures: Mamba-2 state-space layers, Transformer attention, and a novel Latent Mixture-of-Experts design.
[NEWS] Meta to deploy four new in-house AI chip generations by end of 2027: Meta plans to roll out four new generations of its custom MTIA silicon by end of 2027 to power its expanding AI workloads.
[NEWS] Replit raises $400M at $9B valuation, tripling in six months: Replit closed a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation, tripling from $3B just six months ago.
[NEWS] OpenAI plans to integrate Sora video generator into ChatGPT: OpenAI is reportedly planning to bring its Sora video generator directly into ChatGPT, mirroring last year's addition of image generation to the chatbot.
[NEWS] Anthropic launches Anthropic Institute think tank amid Pentagon fight: Anthropic created the Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank combining its Frontier Red Team, Societal Impacts, and economics research groups.
[NEWS] Nvidia invests $2B in AI data center specialist Nebius: Nvidia will invest $2B in Nebius Group as part of a strategic partnership to develop AI data centers.
[NEWS] Grammarly faces class-action lawsuit over AI 'expert review' cloning identities: Journalist Julia Angwin filed a class-action complaint against Superhuman (Grammarly's parent) after discovering Grammarly's "Expert Review" AI feature used real people's identities without consent.

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