AI News for March 14, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Meta plans up to 20% workforce cuts as $600B AI bet drives need to offset costs: Meta is preparing layoffs that could eliminate up to 20% of its nearly 79,000 employees, roughly 16,000 jobs.
[NEWS] US Commerce Department withdraws draft rule requiring global AI chip export permits: The US Commerce Department pulled a draft regulation that would have required permits for exporting AI chips anywhere in the world.
[NEWS] ByteDance secures 36,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips in Malaysia, skirting US export ban: TikTok's parent company is building a massive AI compute cluster with around 500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling approximately 36,000 B200 chips at a cost exceeding $2.5B.
[NEWS] China's Moonshot AI raises up to $1B at $18B valuation, quadrupling in three months: Moonshot AI is raising as much as $1B in an expanded funding round that would value the Chinese AI startup at about $18B, more than quadrupling its valuation in just three months.
[NEWS] Anthropic drops surcharge for million-token context windows on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6: Anthropic eliminated the up to 100% surcharge previously applied to requests exceeding 200,000 tokens.
[NEWS] TSMC's advanced chip lines will be 86% AI by 2027 as accelerators crowd out everything else: Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and AMD are all moving their AI accelerators to TSMC's N3 process simultaneously in 2026.
[NEWS] Ukraine opens battlefield data platform to allies for training autonomous drone AI: Ukraine's Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced a platform providing allies and companies with constantly updating datasets, including millions of annotated images from tens of thousands of combat flights.
[NEWS] Ex-Anthropic researchers launch Mirendil, negotiating $175M at $1B valuation for scientific AI: Behnam Neyshabur (CEO) and Harsh Mehta (CTO) left Anthropic in December to found Mirendil, a startup using AI to advance research in biology and materials science.
[NEWS] Amazon will use Cerebras chips alongside its own Trainium processors for AI: Amazon plans to deploy Cerebras Systems' wafer-scale chips alongside its custom Trainium processors.
[RESEARCH] Hume AI open-sources TADA, a speech model 5x faster than rivals with zero hallucinated words: Hume AI released TADA under an MIT license, a text-to-speech system that maps exactly one audio signal to each text token.

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