OpenAI's Robotics Lead Quits Over Pentagon Deal, Claude Hacks Firefox, AI at War

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of March 9th, 2026. OpenAI's robotics director Caitlin Kalinowski became the first senior executive to publicly resign over the Pentagon deal, citing the lack of guardrails around AI surveillance and lethal autonomy — and her exit hits differently than any App Store slide. Claude spent two weeks tearing through Firefox's codebase and uncovered 22 vulnerabilities, 14 of them high-severity, with patches already live for hundreds of millions of users. Plus, new reporting reveals how AI is actively reshaping modern warfare, a community workflow from a reader who built a fully autonomous morning planner connected to her calendar, and more.