AI News for March 16, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Meta signs deal worth up to $27B with Nebius for AI infrastructure: Meta will pay as much as $27B over five years for AI infrastructure access from cloud provider Nebius Group.
[NEWS] Alibaba restructures around AI, creates unified business unit and enterprise agent service: Alibaba is setting up a new business unit to bring its sprawling AI services and development under a single umbrella, signaling its determination to profit from AI.
[NEWS] Hua Hong becomes second Chinese chipmaker to crack 7nm manufacturing for AI: Hua Hong Group subsidiary Huali Microelectronics is preparing 7nm chip production at its Shanghai factory, making it the second Chinese manufacturer with this capability after SMIC.
[NEWS] xAI hiring bankers and credit experts to teach Grok finance: Elon Musk's xAI is hiring bankers and private credit lenders to make Grok better at financial strategy, joining rival AI firms in building specialized tools for investment professionals.
[NEWS] Hon Hai profit miss raises concerns about AI server demand: Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) posted a 2.4% drop in quarterly profit, suggesting weakening demand for Nvidia servers that power the AI boom.
[NEWS] Karpathy vibe-codes AI labor market exposure analysis, high-paying jobs score worst: OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy used AI to gauge which U.S.
[NEWS] Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice: Google removed "What People Suggest," an AI search feature that gave users crowdsourced health tips from strangers around the world.
[NEWS] Ramp product chief: employees not vibe coding are 'probably underperforming': Ramp's CPO Geoff Charles said employees not using AI coding tools are "probably underperforming." The $32B fintech startup ranks AI proficiency across four levels: employees who "sometimes use ChatGPT" sit at level zero and "will most likely not be at the company." The top tier consists of "systems builders" who use AI to automate workflows.
[NEWS] AI companies hiring improv actors to train models on human emotion: Handshake, which provides training data to OpenAI and other labs, is hiring improv actors to train AI models on authentic emotional expression and character consistency.
[NEWS] White House AI czar David Sacks warns Iran war threatens AI supply chains: David Sacks, the White House AI and crypto czar, warned on the All In podcast that the US should "find the off-ramp" in Iran, citing risks to AI-critical supply chains.

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