Daily Tech News 9 March 2026

• Two court cases have ruled that AIs aren't people. (Yahoo)
  
  And they're not lawyers either, though lawyers also aren't people. Mostly.
  
  
  
• Will Anthropic's Pentagon controversy scare startups away from a trillion-dollar firehose of money? (Tech Crunch)
  
  No. Are you stupid?

• Workers who love corporate slogans are bad at their jobs. (Cornell)
  
  And, again, not people.
  
  
  
• Robots could speed up home construction and also possibly make the quality suck less. (CNN)
  
  They transport the robot to the building site in a shipping container, and it constructs the framing to order on-site, taking a day to complete a four-week job.
  
  Prefab frames have been a thing for a long time, but this makes it a far more flexible solution.
  
  
  
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to receive a $4 million bonus. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Huang is worth $164 billion given Nvidia's current share price.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's Stargate got blown up in a desperate attempt to defend the Earth from ascended Goa'uld System Lord Anubis. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or they just ran out of money, but that would be less exciting.
  
  Anyway, they still have the other gate in Antarctica. I think.
  
  
  
• HP's ZBook Ultra G1a with the Ryzen AI Max 395+ is pretty zippy. (WCCFTech)
  
  Not compared against the brand new MacBook Pro with the M5 Max, which is faster on many benchmarks but isn't shipping yet.
  
  
  
• A research went undercover as an AI on bot-only social network Moltbook and found a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. (InfoWorld)
  
  And you said it couldn't be done, Obi Wan.
  
  
  
• Project I've been working on at my day job, shifting a quarter petabyte of data and dozens of applications to a new cluster, is finally done. And it all seems to work.
  
  And costs 95% less to run than at AWS.
  
  
  
  

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