AI News for March 29, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Musk's last xAI cofounder departs, leaving zero of the original 11: Ross Nordeen, the final remaining xAI cofounder besides Elon Musk, left the company this week.
[NEWS] Anthropic's Claude paid subscriptions surge to record highs: An analysis of billions of anonymized credit card transactions shows Claude gaining paid subscribers at record pace.
[RESEARCH] Meta researchers build 'hyperagents' that improve at improving themselves: Researchers at Meta, the University of British Columbia, and other institutions developed hyperagents: AI systems that optimize not just task performance but the very mechanism they use to get better.
[NEWS] SAG-AFTRA bargains for 'Tilly Tax' to make AI actors cost as much as real ones: SAG-AFTRA is pushing for a fee on AI-generated "synthetic" performers in its ongoing contract negotiations with Hollywood studios.
[RESEARCH] CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon chips for real-time LHC data filtering: CERN has deployed ultra-compact AI models physically implemented in FPGAs and ASICs to filter the 40,000 exabytes per year of collision data generated by the Large Hadron Collider.
[TOOLS] Bluesky launches Attie, an AI app for building custom feeds powered by Claude: Bluesky unveiled Attie, a standalone AI app that lets users build custom social media feeds using natural language.
[TOOLS] Google's Gemini API Agent Skill boosts coding task success from 28% to 97%: Google built an "Agent Skill" for the Gemini API that feeds coding agents up-to-date information about current models, SDKs, and sample code.
[NEWS] AI super PACs win 10 of 11 congressional races they backed: Two rival AI-backed super PAC networks, Leading the Future and Public First, spent nearly $7M combined across 11 congressional primaries this month.
[NEWS] Alibaba to deploy AI 'digital workforce' agents for millions of Taobao and Tmall merchants: Alibaba will launch agentic AI services for millions of merchants on Taobao and Tmall by end of March.
[OPINION] The Great AI Deskilling: workers getting faster but losing core abilities: A 25-year software consultant livestreamed himself building an app entirely with AI.

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