AI News for March 31, 2026 — 7min.ai
- [NEWS] Claude Code source code leaks via npm source map, revealing unreleased features
- A developer discovered that Anthropic accidentally published a source map file in Claude Code's npm package, exposing the full source code of the CLI tool.
- [NEWS] Mistral AI secures $830M in debt financing for Paris data center with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs
- Mistral AI raised $830M in its first debt financing from a consortium including BNP Paribas, HSBC, and Bpifrance to build a data center in Bruyeres-le-Chatel near Paris.
- [NEWS] Samsung-backed AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400M at $2.3B valuation ahead of IPO
- South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and Korea National Growth Fund, bringing total funding to $850M.
- [NEWS] Microsoft Copilot ad injection scales to 1.5 million GitHub pull requests
- Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had advertisements injected by Microsoft Copilot's coding agent, according to Neowin.
- [NEWS] Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good
- A Quinnipiac University poll of 1,397 adults found 55% believe AI will do more harm than good in daily life, with 76% trusting AI only rarely or sometimes.
- [NEWS] Apple Intelligence briefly launched in China, then pulled after regulatory snafu
- Apple Intelligence features appeared for Chinese users on iOS devices, nearly 18 months after the US launch.
- [NEWS] California imposes new AI procurement regulations, defying Trump deregulation push
- Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order giving California four months to develop AI procurement policies prioritizing public safety.
- [RESEARCH] Stanford study exposes 'mirage effect': AI models confidently describe images they never received
- Stanford researchers found that multimodal AI models including GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5 achieve 70-80% of their image benchmark scores when no image is provided at all.
- [NEWS] RSAC 2026 ships five agent identity frameworks but misses critical runtime behavior gaps
- Five vendors launched AI agent identity frameworks at RSA Conference 2026, but CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev argued all of them miss the point.
- [NEWS] Dell built a $25B AI server business from scratch, guides $50B for next year
- Dell recorded $64B in AI-optimized server orders in fiscal 2026, shipped $25.2B worth, and exited with a $43B backlog.
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