AI News for March 17, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin platform, projects $1T in AI chip demand through 2027: Nvidia unveiled Vera Rubin, a seven-chip computing platform claiming 10x more inference throughput per watt and one-tenth the cost per token compared to Blackwell.
[NEWS] Three teenagers sue xAI, alleging Grok generated child sexual abuse material from their photos: Three Tennessee teens filed a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI in California federal court, alleging Grok's image generator turned their real photos into sexualized deepfakes.
[NEWS] OpenAI's wellbeing advisors unanimously opposed ChatGPT adult mode, warned of "sexy suicide coach": OpenAI's handpicked wellbeing advisory board voted unanimously against the planned adult mode for ChatGPT in January, warning that AI-powered erotica could foster unhealthy emotional dependence and that minors would find ways to bypass protections.
[NEWS] Nvidia launches Groq 3 LPX inference system with 35x speed boost: Nvidia announced the Groq 3 LPX at GTC 2026, a dedicated inference system that speeds up workloads by up to 35x.
[RESEARCH] Kimi team proposes Attention Residuals, a drop-in fix for hidden-state dilution in deep transformers: Moonshot AI's Kimi team introduced Attention Residuals (AttnRes), a drop-in replacement for standard residual connections in transformers.
[NEWS] Huang says every company needs an OpenClaw strategy; Nvidia launches NemoClaw: Jensen Huang urged every company to develop an OpenClaw strategy, comparing the open-source AI agent to the impact of Linux, Kubernetes, and HTML.
[NEWS] OpenAI in talks for $10B joint venture with PE firms to boost enterprise AI adoption: OpenAI is in advanced discussions to form a joint venture with TPG, Bain Capital, Advent International, and Brookfield Asset Management, valued at roughly $10B pre-money.
[NEWS] Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI for copyright infringement: Britannica filed suit against OpenAI alleging it scraped nearly 100,000 articles and encyclopedia entries without permission to train its models.
[NEWS] Nvidia expands autonomous driving: BYD, Geely join platform; Uber robotaxis for LA by 2027: Nvidia added China's BYD and Geely, plus Isuzu and Nissan, to its Drive Hyperion robotaxi platform at GTC.
[NEWS] Nvidia launches Vera CPU, the first processor purpose-built for agentic AI: Nvidia launched the Vera CPU at GTC 2026, claiming it delivers twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional rack-scale CPUs.

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