Global Geneva: NuseReal news about AI

GLOBAL GENEVA INSIGHTS: AI health check — cryptocurrencies: the patient is still very sick (LINK)

OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI — 31 March 2026 (LINK)

Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x: makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods — 25 March 2026 (LINK)

American fraudster earns eight million dollars from music streaming platforms with thousands of AI songs that no human has ever listened to — 21 March 2026 (LINK)

— Michael Smith, 54, of Cornelius, North Carolina, admitted one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. He will learn his sentence in July. Smith also agreed to pay back royalties of $8,091,843.64 obtained fraudulently. Smith set up thousands of accounts on streaming platforms and created software to continuously stream hundreds of thousands of fake songs that he generated via AI.

Alibaba launches AI platform for enterprises as agent craze sweeps China — 17 March 2026 (LINK)

Book just became the first to get canceled for AI: allegations of AI-generated text have caused Hachette to scrap the US release of Mia Ballard's Shy Girl — 20 March 2026 (LINK)

Nieman Lab: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study) — 19 March 2026 (LINK)

Encyclopedia Britannica is the latest giant to sue OpenAI — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

Elon Musk orders sweeping layoffs as xAI fails to catch on — 12 March 2026 (LINK)

OpenAI robotics chief quits over AI’s potential use for war and surveillance — 8 March 2026 (LINK)

Anthropic's Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks — 6 March 2026 (LINK)

Anthropic supply chain risk, says Pentagon: company says it will sue — 5 March 2026 (LINK)

— BBC: The Pentagon's designation is the first time a US company has been labelled a supply chain risk, which means the government considers Anthropic not secure enough for it to use. It has led Anthropic, which has refused to give defence agencies unfettered access to its AI tools over concerns of mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, to move towards challenging the decision in court.

OpenAI loses 1.5 million subscribers in less than 48 hours after CEO Sam Altman says yes to the deal that Anthropic rejected — 5 March 2026 (LINK)

AI and ChatGPT headlines March-April 2026