AI News — Monday, March 16, 2026

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Innate (YC F24) – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents

Innate launches a platform making home robots programmable with the ease of AI agents, potentially revolutionizing domestic robotics.

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symphony: OpenAI's orchestrator of autonomous dev agents

OpenAI has open-sourced 'symphony', an orchestration framework designed to manage and coordinate multiple autonomous development agents.

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Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic's new Cowork desktop agent for Claude allows users to interact with and perform tasks on their local files without requiring any coding.

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Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform

Sourcetable introduces an AI-powered spreadsheet and data platform that enables users to manage and analyze data using natural language.

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Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

Dedalus Labs is building a platform akin to Vercel, providing infrastructure for deploying and managing AI agents at scale.

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Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway has raised $100 million in funding to develop AI-native cloud infrastructure, positioning itself as a competitor to established cloud providers like AWS.

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Dropbase AI – A Prompt-Based Python Web App Builder

Dropbase AI is an open-source tool that allows users to build Python web applications by simply providing natural language prompts.

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Vellum (YC W23) – Dev Platform for LLM Apps

Vellum offers a comprehensive development platform designed to help engineers build, evaluate, and deploy large language model applications.

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Spatial-TTT: Streaming Visual-based Spatial Intelligence with Test-Time Training

This research presents a novel approach for real-time visual-based spatial intelligence that continuously adapts models during inference.

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IndexCache: Accelerating Sparse Attention via Cross-Layer Index Reuse

A new research paper introduces IndexCache, a method to significantly accelerate sparse attention mechanisms in LLMs by reusing indices across layers.

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Video-Based Reward Modeling for Computer-Use Agents

This study explores the use of video data to construct effective reward models for AI agents that interact with computer interfaces, improving task learning.

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ShotVerse: Advancing Cinematic Camera Control for Text-Driven Multi-Shot Video Creation

ShotVerse proposes a framework that enables text-driven generation of multi-shot videos with sophisticated cinematic camera control.

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DreamVideo-Omni: Omni-Motion Controlled Multi-Subject Video Customization with Latent Identity Reinforcement Learning

This research introduces DreamVideo-Omni, a method for generating customized multi-subject videos with precise omni-motion control and consistent identity.

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Inkeep (YC W23) – Copilot for Support (think Cursor for help desks)

Inkeep introduces an AI-powered copilot specifically tailored to enhance productivity and efficiency for support and help desk teams.

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Strategic Navigation or Stochastic Search? How Agents and Humans Reason Over Document Collections

Researchers investigate the distinct strategies AI agents and humans employ when navigating and extracting information from large document collections.

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