AI News for March 26, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI teases 'Spud' model that CEO says can 'really accelerate the economy': OpenAI finished pretraining a new model codenamed Spud and expects to have a "very strong model" ready in weeks.
[NEWS] Trump names Zuckerberg, Huang, Ellison, and Brin to White House tech advisory panel: President Trump appointed Meta's Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Huang, Oracle's Ellison, and Google's Brin as the first members of PCAST, a 13-member council (expandable to 24) that will advise on AI policy.
[NEWS] Sanders and AOC introduce bill to ban new AI data center construction: Sen.
[NEWS] Jury finds Meta and Google liable in landmark tech addiction trial: A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google liable for designing products that harmed a 20-year-old plaintiff known as KGM, awarding $3 million in initial damages with punitive damages still to be decided.
[NEWS] Harvey raises $200M at $11B valuation as legal AI startup triples value in a year: Legal AI startup Harvey closed a $200M round co-led by GIC and Sequoia, valuing it at $11B.
[TOOLS] Google launches Lyria 3 Pro: AI music generation extended to 3-minute tracks: Google released Lyria 3 Pro, expanding AI music generation from 30-second clips to full 3-minute tracks with structural control over intros, verses, choruses, and bridges.
[RESEARCH] ARC-AGI-3 launches as first interactive reasoning benchmark for AI agents: ARC Prize released ARC-AGI-3, an interactive reasoning benchmark that measures AI intelligence by testing skill acquisition over time rather than static puzzle-solving.
[NEWS] Senate Democrats draft bills to codify Anthropic's AI red lines on autonomous weapons: Sen.
[NEWS] GitHub Copilot will use interaction data for model training starting April 24: GitHub announced that starting April 24, inputs, outputs, code snippets, and context from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will train AI models unless users opt out.
[RESEARCH] Google shortens Q Day deadline to 2029, urges industry to adopt post-quantum cryptography now: Google has moved its internal deadline for Q Day — when quantum computers can break public-key cryptography protecting banks, governments, and individuals — to 2029.

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