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AI News Daily — March 24, 2026 Your daily briefing on the models, tools, and moves shaping the AI industry. March 24, 2026 — Seven stories today spanning a live courtroom battle, Apple's AI ambitions, a persistent personal AI on your desk, Google's user milestone, Meta's fresh talent push into agents, Oracle's massive enterprise AI rollout, and a deprecation deadline you can't ignore. ⚖️ Anthropic vs. Pentagon — The Hearing Is Happening Today Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco is hearing Anthropic's motion for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Defense's supply-chain risk designation — right now, as of this morning. The stakes could not be higher: a win restores Anthropic's access to federal contracts and sets a major First Amendment precedent in the relationship between AI companies and the U.S. government. New court filings dropped over the weekend with a surprising twist: internal Pentagon communications showed the DoD privately told Anthropic the two sides were "very c