Block's Goose offers nearly identical AI coding capabilities to Anthropic's Claude Code but runs entirely locally on your machine with no subscription fees or cloud dependency. The open-source agent has gained 26,000 GitHub stars and works offline. https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/claude-code-costs-up-to-usd200-a-month-goose-does-the-same-thing-for-free #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AgenticAI #Block

Kleiner Perkins raises 3.5B USD to invest in AI startups, with 1B for early-stage and 2.5B for late-stage growth. The firm joins a wave of VC funding pouring into artificial intelligence as the sector continues to attract record capital. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/with-3-5b-in-fresh-capital-kleiner-perkins-is-going-all-in-on-ai/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #VentureCapital #KleinerPerkins

Anthropic has introduced an auto mode for Claude Code that lets the AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in guardrails. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/anthropic-hands-claude-code-more-control-but-keeps-it-on-a-leash/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AgenticAI #Anthropic

An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer turned down a 26 million USD offer from an AI company wanting her land for a data center. Ida Huddleston and her family rejected the bid for their 1,200-acre farm, citing water and pollution concerns near existing data centers. The company has since filed a zoning request for over 2,000 acres. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/kentucky-woman-rejects-26-million-offer-to-turn-her-farm-into-a-data-center/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters

Mozilla developer Peter Wilson has launched cq, a platform he describes as Stack Overflow for agents designed to solve knowledge-sharing gaps in AI coding tools. The system lets AI agents query a shared knowledge base before tackling unfamiliar tasks like API integrations or framework configurations, and contribute solutions they discover back for other agents to use. Currently in early stages, cq aims to address problems like outdated API calls and redundant problem-solving across thousands of agents. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/mozilla-dev-introduces-cq-a-stack-overflow-for-agents/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AgenticAI #Mozilla

Spotify is testing a new 'Artist Profile Protection' feature that lets artists review and approve releases before they appear on their profiles. The tool addresses a growing problem where AI-generated tracks mistakenly attach to real artists' profiles, following Sony Music's recent request to remove 135,000 AI songs impersonating its artists. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/spotify-tests-new-tool-to-stop-ai-slop-from-being-attributed-to-real-artists/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics #Spotify

Anthropic has given its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a Mac, clicking buttons, opening applications and navigating software on the user's behalf. Available as a research preview for paying subscribers. https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropics-claude-can-now-control-your-mac-escalating-the-fight-to-build-ai #AIagent #AI #GenAI #Anthropic

Arm, the semiconductor giant that has licensed designs to Apple and Nvidia for 35 years, has unveiled its first in-house chip. The Arm AGI CPU is built for AI data center inference, with Meta as its first customer. A historic shift for the chip industry. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/arm-is-releasing-its-first-in-house-chip-in-its-35-year-history/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #Infrastructure #Arm

Researchers from Meta FAIR, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon have developed TinyLoRA, a fine-tuning method that achieves 91.8% accuracy on GSM8K math benchmark using just 13 trainable parameters on Qwen2.5-7B. The approach uses weight sharing across layers and truncated SVD to scale down trainable parameters dramatically. Reinforcement learning proves 100-1000x more efficient than supervised fine-tuning at extremely low parameter counts. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/03/24/this-ai-paper-introduces-tinylora-a-13-parameter-fine-tuning-method-that-reaches-91-8-percent-gsm8k-on-qwen2-5-7b/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIResearch #Meta