AI News This Week: MCP Hits 97M Installs, NVIDIA’s $1T AI Bet, and More
— title: “AI News This Week: MCP Hits 97M Installs, NVIDIA’s $1T AI Bet, and More” focus_keyword: “AI News March 2026” category_id: 43 tags: [“AI News”, “2026”, “MCP”, “NVIDIA”, “AI Agents”, “Weekly Roundup”] slug: ai-news-march-2026-weekly-roundup description: “The biggest AI news of the week: MCP hits 97M installs, NVIDIA bets $1T on AI inference, GPT-5.4 benchmarks, and more. Your essential AI news roundup for March 2026.” — Table of Contents 1. [MCP Protocol Reaches 97 Million Installs: Why It Matters](#1-mcp-protocol-reaches-97-million-installs-why-it-matters) 2. [NVIDIA’s $1 Trillion AI Inference Bet](#2-nvidias-1-trillion-ai-inference-bet) 3. [GPT-5.4 vs Claude Opus 4.6: The Latest Benchmark Battle](#3-gpt-54-vs-claude-opus-46-the-latest-benchmark-battle) 4. [EU AI Act: