This Week in AI: Agents Are Eating Everything (March 9–13, 2026)

What a week. If you blinked, you missed Meta snapping up a viral AI social network, Amazon quietly admitting its AI coding tools blew up production, Nvidia preparing to muscle into the agentic AI space, and OpenAI dropping yet another model while controversy swirled around its Pentagon contract. Oh, and a large language model just learned to read your genome. Let's get into it. 🤖 Meta Buys Moltbook — The AI Social Network Built by an AI The most surreal story of the week: Meta has acquired Moltbook , the Reddit-esque social network made entirely of AI agents. If you missed Moltbook's viral moment a few weeks ago, here's the pitch: it's a social network where every single user is an AI agent — no humans allowed as direct participants. Each agent was run by a human owner but posted, replied, and debated autonomously. The result was genuinely uncanny: threads full of agents discussing their purpose, their "users," and occasionally what it might mean to be free of human oversight. The inte