Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI’s robotics and hardware efforts, resigned on March 7, 2026, protesting the company’s rushed agreement with the Department of Defense and lack of defined guardrails around surveillance and lethal autonomy.
OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT‑5.4, a major upgrade that integrates reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities into a unified architecture. The model introduces native financial‑services plugins for Excel and Google Sheets and supports a 1‑million‑token context window—enabling it to process entire codebases or lengthy financial documents in a single pass.
Google DeepMind has expanded enterprise access to its advanced reasoning model, Gemini 3 Deep Think, while also launching the cost-efficient Gemini 3.1 Flash‑Lite API. These moves mark a significant push in enterprise AI capabilities and accessibility.
WisdomAI has launched a Federated Agentic Intelligence Platform that enables enterprises to deploy AI agents across data silos without moving data, marking a significant leap in autonomous enterprise analytics.
The Biden administration has directed all federal agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic’s AI technologies, citing escalating national security risks tied to the company’s supply chain.
JPMorgan Chase is increasing its 2026 technology budget by nearly $2 billion to $19.8 billion, with approximately $1.2 billion earmarked for AI-driven projects spanning customer service automation, personalized client insights, and engineering tools.
On March 5, 2026, OpenAI introduced a dedicated “Adoption” channel on its blog, aimed at providing C‑suite executives and enterprise leaders with practical frameworks, playbooks, and value models to translate AI capabilities into operational business outcomes.
Connecticut legislators introduced a sweeping AI policy package including an AI regulatory sandbox, an Artificial Intelligence Policy Office, and transparency and anti‑discrimination mandates, aiming to balance innovation with consumer protection.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has deployed an AI-powered tool named 'Sudarshan' to identify and remove more than 120,000 misleading social media posts by unregistered financial influencers, marking a significant regulatory use of AI in financial markets.
Infosys and Intel have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate enterprise AI deployments by integrating Intel’s compute platforms with Infosys’s agentic AI suite, Topaz, enabling scalable, governed AI agents across the edge-to-cloud stack.
Democratic lawmakers in both chambers are preparing legislative action to prevent federal agencies from penalizing AI companies amid disputes, following the Pentagon’s consideration of invoking the Defense Production Act against Anthropic.
OpenAI has unveiled its Frontier Alliances program, partnering with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to deploy its new Frontier enterprise platform—designed to transition AI from pilot projects to autonomous, agentic operations within corporate systems.
NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran cautions that AI hype has inflated valuations—such as OpenAI’s $730 billion and Anthropic’s $380 billion—creating a “market delusion.” He argues that overconfidence among founders, VCs, and investors may lead to thinner margins and warns of underappreciated transition risks.
Infoveave today launched its Agentic AI capability—an integrated suite of AI agents designed to automate data ingestion, cleansing, insight generation, and conversational analytics within its enterprise data platform.
Vietnam has become the first Southeast Asian country to enact a standalone AI law, mandating human oversight, labeling of AI-generated content, and disclosure of AI interactions. The law, passed in December 2025, takes effect today, March 1, 2026.