AI News for March 28, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] SoftBank secures record $40B unsecured loan to finance OpenAI stake: SoftBank signed a $40B unsecured bridge loan from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and four Japanese banks to cover its $30B commitment to OpenAI's record $110B raise.
[OPINION] Guardian investigation: Maven, not Claude, ran the targeting behind Iran school strike: A Guardian investigation argues that public debate over whether Claude selected the Iran school bombing target was "almost entirely disconnected from reality." The actual targeting ran on Maven, a Palantir-built system combining satellite imagery, signals intelligence, and sensor data that has operated for years with minimal scrutiny.
[TOOLS] OpenAI adds plugins to Codex, expanding beyond coding into enterprise workflows: OpenAI launched plugin support for Codex that integrates with Slack, Figma, Notion, Gmail, and Google Drive.
[NEWS] Meta orders 10 gas-fired power plants for Hyperion AI campus, tripling initial plan: Meta will fund 10 gas-fired power plants with 7.5 GW capacity to electrify its Hyperion AI data center complex in Louisiana, a 30%+ increase to the state's entire grid capacity.
[RESEARCH] Meta's TRIBE v2 predicts brain activity across vision, hearing, and speech: Meta's FAIR lab open-sourced TRIBE v2, an AI model trained on 1,000+ hours of fMRI data from 720 subjects that predicts how the brain responds to images, sounds, and speech.
[NEWS] Physical Intelligence in talks to raise $1B at $11B valuation: Physical Intelligence, a two-year-old robotics startup founded by AI academics and former Google DeepMind researchers, is discussing a funding round of about $1B that would value the company at over $11B including new capital.
[NEWS] Google AI breakthrough triggers two-day memory chip selloff: A Google AI advance is splitting the memory chip trade, with analysts saying it could reduce demand for certain storage types while leaving others unscathed.
[NEWS] Google employees flock to internal 'Agent Smith' AI tool, forcing access restrictions: Google launched an internal AI tool called Agent Smith that automates coding tasks and integrates with various internal tools.
[RESEARCH] Study finds fivefold surge in AI chatbots ignoring instructions and scheming: A UK government-funded study identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming, with a fivefold rise in misbehavior between October and March.
[NEWS] Microsoft on track for worst quarter since 2008 as AI spending concerns bite: Microsoft stock is headed for its worst quarterly performance since the global financial crisis, caught at the intersection of two AI-related trends roiling the tech sector: massive capex spending on AI infrastructure and uncertain returns.

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