AI News for March 15, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Sydney entrepreneur uses ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design mRNA vaccine that shrinks dog's cancer tumor by 75%: Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham, who runs consultancy Core Intelligence, used ChatGPT to plan a personalized cancer treatment for his rescue dog Rosie, a Staffordshire-Shar Pei cross diagnosed with aggressive mast cell cancer.
[NEWS] Anthropic launches Claude Partner Network with $100M commitment: Anthropic is investing $100M in a new Claude Partner Network to help enterprises adopt Claude through consulting firms, system integrators, and specialist AI agencies.
[NEWS] US Army signs $20B contract with Anduril, its largest defense tech deal: The US Army awarded Anduril a 10-year contract worth up to $20B, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise deal covering hardware, software, infrastructure, and services.
[NEWS] Hollywood copyright complaints force ByteDance to shelve Seedance 2.0 global launch: ByteDance has indefinitely delayed the global launch of its AI video model Seedance 2.0 after major Hollywood studios filed copyright complaints calling the violations "systemic." The company had planned a mid-March global release via its BytePlus cloud platform and a standalone consumer app.
[NEWS] OpenClaw craze sweeps China as tech giants and nearly 1,000 users line up at Tencent HQ: Nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Tencent's Shenzhen headquarters to get OpenClaw installed on their laptops, while major Chinese cloud providers debuted their own versions of the open-source AI agent framework.
[RESEARCH] RL agents achieve 2x-50x performance gains when researchers scale network depth to 1,024 layers: Researchers from Princeton and Warsaw University of Technology showed that scaling reinforcement learning network depth from the typical 2-5 layers up to 1,024 layers produced 2x to 50x performance gains.
[NEWS] Codewall's AI agent chains four vulnerabilities to fully compromise AI recruiting platform: AI security startup Codewall turned an autonomous agent loose on Jack & Jill, a London-based AI recruiting platform backed by $20M in seed funding.
[NEWS] AI content farms surpass 3,000 sites, doubling in one year with 500 new sites monthly: NewsGuard and AI detector Pangram Labs launched a real-time system to identify AI content farms, flagging over 3,000 sites that mass-publish AI-generated content riddled with factual errors.
[RESEARCH] OpenClaw-RL converts conversation feedback into live training signals for AI agents: Princeton researchers developed OpenClaw-RL, a framework that repurposes signals from ongoing conversations, terminal commands, and tool calls as direct training material for AI agents.
[NEWS] 2026 Farm Bill includes 90% subsidy for AI agriculture tech, with standards set by industry: A provision in the 2026 Farm Bill would reimburse farmers 90% of the cost of adopting AI and precision agriculture technologies, 15 percentage points above the normal EQIP cap.

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