🌅 AI Daily Digest — March 29, 2026

Data Pulse

• 9 news articles
• 5 trending models
• 5 research papers
• Cheapest GPU: RTX 5070 Ti at $0.02/hr
• 3 new AI jobs

Today's News

• Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing — Anthropic’s Claude chatbot is experiencing a surge in popularity among paying users, with subscription numbers more than doubling this year. The growth highlights increasing demand for Claude’s capabilities in commercial applications.
• Artificial intelligence used to teach private school kids — Ascend Academy, a Chicago-based private school, is replacing human teachers with a proprietary AI system, sparking controversy over educational methods. The approach raises questions about the role of technology in classroom instruction.
• Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds — Bluesky Social PBC launched Attie, an AI-powered app enabling users to create highly customized feeds. The tool leverages artificial intelligence to enhance user content curation.
• Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI — xAI, founded by Elon Musk in 2023, has lost its final original co-founder, marking a significant shift in the company’s leadership. The departure signals the end of its founding team.
• Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable — Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an update to its multimodal models aimed at improving audio AI performance. The update enhances reliability and naturalness in audio processing.
• Say No to Congress using AI to mass surveil US Citizens and oppose the extension of the FISA Act — Civil liberties groups are opposing the potential FISA Act extension, citing concerns about AI-driven mass surveillance. The coalition warns of expanded government monitoring capabilities.
• TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression — Google Research introduced TurboQuant, a memory compression algorithm that reduces LLM memory usage while boosting performance. The tool aims to optimize large language model efficiency.
• Why OpenAI killed Sora — OpenAI abruptly shuttered its Sora text-to-video generation application and reversed plans to integrate video generation capabilities into ChatGPT. The company also announced the winding down of a $1 billion partnership with Disney and restructuring of executive roles.

Trending Models

Model	Task	Likes
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	text-generation	5628
openai/gpt-oss-20b	text-generation	4485
Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	text-generation	1165
openai/gpt-oss-120b	text-generation	4621
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1	text-generation	13107

Research

• Drive My Way: Preference Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model for Personali — Zehao Wang, Huaide Jiang, Shuaiwu Dong. Human driving behavior is inherently personal, which is shaped by long-term habits and influenced by short-term intentions.
• Vega: Learning to Drive with Natural Language Instructions — Sicheng Zuo, Yuxuan Li, Wenzhao Zheng. Vision-language-action models have reshaped autonomous driving to incorporate languages into the decision-making process.
• Training the Knowledge Base through Evidence Distillation and Write-Back Enrichm — Yuxing Lu, Xukai Zhao, Wei Wu. The knowledge base in a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system is typically assembled once and never revised, even though the facts a query requires are often fragmented across documents and buri...
• PackForcing: Short Video Training Suffices for Long Video Sampling and Long Cont — Xiaofeng Mao, Shaohao Rui, Kaining Ying. Autoregressive video diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress, yet they remain bottlenecked by intractable linear KV-cache growth, temporal repetition, and compounding errors during long...
• PixelSmile: Toward Fine-Grained Facial Expression Editing — Jiabin Hua, Hengyuan Xu, Aojie Li. Fine-grained facial expression editing has long been limited by intrinsic semantic overlap.

GPU Deals

GPU	Price	Provider
RTX 5070 Ti	$0.02/hr	Vast.ai
Tesla V100	$0.02/hr	Vast.ai
RTX 3090	$0.05/hr	Vast.ai

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AI Jobs

• Software Engineer Reliability at OpenAI (San Francisco)
• Senior Manager Strategic Partner Marketing at Vanta (Remote)
• Senior Staff Software Engineer AI Customer Operati at Monzo (Cardiff, London)

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Community Events

New this week:

• Google I/O 2026 (Mountain View, USA)
• ICLR 2026 (Online)
• Papers We Love: AI Edition (Online)
• MLOps Community Weekly Meetup (Online (Zoom))

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