# AI News Digest - 2026-03-11

1. Amazon obtained a court order that blocked Perplexity's AI shopping agent.

2. Niantic Spatial partnered with Coco Robotics to deploy a visual positioning system trained on roughly 30 billion Pokémon Go and Ingress images that localized devices to within a few centimeters to improve last-mile delivery robot navigation.

3. OpenAI added interactive visualizations to ChatGPT for math and physics topics, enabling users to adjust variables and observe real-time graph updates, with more than 70 concepts available at launch.

4. MIT Technology Review reported that AI-enabled public intelligence dashboards had proliferated around the Iran conflict, many were assembled rapidly using AI tools and linked to prediction markets, and the report noted that the US military was using Anthropic's Claude while documenting instances of AI-generated inaccuracies such as fake satellite imagery.

5. UX Collective reported that AI feedback had made design teams faster at shipping work but had simultaneously made designers shallower, with accelerated output accompanied by slower professional growth.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/amazon-gets-court-order-blocking-perplexitys-ai-shopping-agent/](https://the-decoder.com/amazon-gets-court-order-blocking-perplexitys-ai-shopping-agent/)

[Amazon gets court order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agent](https://the-decoder.com/amazon-gets-court-order-blocking-perplexitys-ai-shopping-agent/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/)

[How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-now-explains-math-and-physics-with-interactive-visualizations/](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-now-explains-math-and-physics-with-interactive-visualizations/)

[ChatGPT now explains math and physics with interactive visualizations](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-now-explains-math-and-physics-with-interactive-visualizations/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/09/1134063/how-ai-is-turning-the-iran-conflict-into-theater/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/09/1134063/how-ai-is-turning-the-iran-conflict-into-theater/)

[How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/09/1134063/how-ai-is-turning-the-iran-conflict-into-theater/)

1. [https://uxdesign.cc/we-thought-ai-feedback-was-making-our-designers-faster-it-was-making-them-shallower-853e41b257fb?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4](https://uxdesign.cc/we-thought-ai-feedback-was-making-our-designers-faster-it-was-making-them-shallower-853e41b257fb?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4)

[We thought AI feedback was making our designers faster. It was making them shallower](https://uxdesign.cc/we-thought-ai-feedback-was-making-our-designers-faster-it-was-making-them-shallower-853e41b257fb?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4)

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