AI News for March 22, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Musk unveils Terafab: Tesla-SpaceX joint chip factory launching in Austin: Elon Musk announced the Terafab, a joint venture between Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture chips in-house for robotaxis, Optimus robots, and AI satellites.
[NEWS] OpenAI plans to nearly double headcount to 8,000 by year-end: OpenAI will grow from roughly 4,500 to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, with most new hires going into product development, engineering, research, and sales.
[OPINION] Karpathy: hasn't written a line of code since December, in 'state of psychosis' about what's possible: OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy said on the No Priors podcast that he hasn't typed a line of code since December, reversing from 80% manual coding to 80% AI-delegated in just months.
[TOOLS] Gemini task automation on Pixel 10: slow, clunky, and 'impressive as hell': Google's new Gemini task automation lets the AI take control of apps on Pixel 10 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra, handling food delivery and rideshare orders autonomously.
[OPINION] Terence Tao: AI drives idea generation cost to near zero, shifts bottleneck to verification: Fields Medal-winning mathematician Terence Tao compared AI's impact on mathematical practice to the automobile's disruption of cities.
[NEWS] FBI admits buying Americans' location data as Anthropic refuses DoD mass surveillance use of Claude: FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed under oath to a Senate committee that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data on Americans, sidestepping Fourth Amendment warrant requirements.
[NEWS] AI enables rise of one-person companies in China and the US: A cosmetics seller in Jiangsu, China, "hired" four AI employees using the OpenClaw framework to manage customer service, sales quotes, order tracking, and operations.
[OPINION] Hinton warns tech companies prioritize short-term profits over AI's endgame: Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told Fortune that AI development is driven by "short-term profits" for company owners, while researchers focus on solving immediate problems rather than considering humanity's future.
[NEWS] OpenClaw's 'ChatGPT moment' sparks concern AI models are becoming commodities: OpenClaw's viral adoption is raising alarms that AI models are becoming interchangeable commodities, threatening the moat-based business strategies of major AI labs.
[NEWS] Iran war helium shortage threatens chip supply chains fueling AI boom: Qatar supplies a third of the world's helium, a critical input for chipmaking, but Iranian strikes on the Ras Laffan LNG facility forced production halts and a 14% cut to annual helium exports.

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