Zuck & Huang join Trump

Plus, Google bets on AI music

March 27, 2026

Welcome back! Reddit is cracking down on bots. CEO Steve Huffman announced the platform will start asking accounts with "automated" or "fishy behavior" to verify they're human—using methods like fingerprint scans or third-party ID services. Accounts that can't prove there's a person behind them may be restricted. 

Huffman says these checks "will be rare and will not apply to most users," but the move signals how seriously platforms are taking the rise of AI agents—and the challenge of telling humans and machines apart.

Google Launches Lyria 3 Pro for Longer AI-Generated Music

Via Google Blog

Google released Lyria 3 Pro on Wednesday, a music generation model that lets users create tracks up to three minutes long—up from the 30-second limit of its predecessor.

What's new: Beyond longer tracks, the Pro model offers more creative control. Users can specify intros, verses, choruses, and bridges in their prompts, as the model now understands track structure. If you name an artist, it takes "broad inspiration" from their style without mimicking them directly. All tracks are watermarked with SynthID to indicate AI was used.

Where it's available: Lyria 3 Pro is rolling out in the Gemini app for paid subscribers, Google Vids, and ProducerAI (the GenAI music production tool Google acquired last month). It's also coming to enterprise tools via Vertex AI, the Gemini API, and AI Studio.

Why it matters: AI is pushing further into audio-visual creation—but staying power is the question. OpenAI just shut down Sora after six months of moderation chaos and declining downloads. Google is betting that music generation, with clearer guardrails and enterprise use cases, might stick around longer than AI video social feeds.

Zuckerberg, Huang, and More Join Trump's New Tech Council

President Trump is assembling a tech-heavy advisory panel, and the first four members are some of the biggest names in AI: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

What the panel will do: The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will advise on AI policy, the economy, education, and national security. It will start with 13 members but could grow to 24.

The context: Trump appointed a similar panel during his first term, but it didn't include as many tech executives. This version is stacked with leaders who have deep ties to the AI industry—and in some cases, to the administration itself. Zuckerberg and Brin both attended Trump's 2025 inauguration, and Ellison's Oracle was central to Trump's TikTok deal earlier this year to avoid a federal ban of the platform.

The bigger picture: The relationship between tech and government is a confusing one right now. While Anthropic, backed by its tech peers, is at war with the Pentagon, this tech panel has the industry's most powerful executives cozying up to the White House—for better or worse.

Meta Lays Off Hundreds in Pivot to AI

Meta is laying off several hundred employees across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations. Some impacted workers are being offered new roles that may require relocation.

What's happening: The cuts are part of Meta's broader pivot toward AI ⤵️

  • The company plans to invest $600 billion in data center infrastructure by 2028 and recently acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents. 

  • A Wall Street Journal report noted that Zuckerberg himself is now using an AI agent to gather information internally, bypassing traditional layers of the organization. 

  • Meanwhile, Meta announced a new company-wide initiative called Meta Small Business, led by President Dina Powell McCormick, to support entrepreneurship and drive AI adoption among small businesses.

The bigger picture: As frontier labs refocus their priorities, workers aren't immune to the changes. The same week Meta is laying off hundreds, it's handing stock option packages to top executives and doubling down on AI infrastructure. The message is clear: if you're not building AI, you may not be building at Meta much longer.

AI agents that run your TikTok Shop

Via Agentative

Agentative uses autonomous AI agents to automate TikTok Shop and multi-platform e-commerce operations—order management, inventory, affiliate discovery, customer service, and AI-driven marketing.

How you can use it

  • Discover and manage affiliates without manual outreach

  • Run AI-powered customer support chatbots

  • Get demand forecasts and pricing recommendations in real time

Pricing: Paid

Generative dashboards from plain-language prompts

Via Fusedash

Fusedash builds interactive KPI dashboards, charts, and reports from CSVs, APIs, or live data using any MCP-compatible model.

How you can use it

  • Generate dashboards from plain-language questions

  • Connect your preferred AI model (GPT, Claude, etc.)

  • Get real-time alerts and chart-backed answers

  • Keep data in-workspace with token-based AI actions

Pricing: Paid

Jobs, announcements, and big ideas

  • Anthropic secured a court injunction in its legal dispute with the Trump administration over military AI usage.

  • Internal Anthropic CMS leak revealed details about upcoming models and plans for a CEO event.

  • David Sacks is leaving his White House AI and crypto czar role to join Donald Trump’s tech advisory council.

  • Google added a feature to Gemini that lets users import memories and chat history from other AI assistants.

  • Suno released its v5.5 music generation update with more expressive and personalized AI composition tools.

  • OpenAI has indefinitely paused plans to release an adult-mode erotic chatbot for ChatGPT.

The REAL issue with data centers. Here’s what no one else is talking about right now.

That’s a wrap! See you next week for more.

—Matt (FutureTools.io)