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Shareholders filed a federal class action accusing Gemini and the Winklevoss twins of concealing a major pivot to prediction markets ahead of the exchange's 2025 IPO, as stock collapses 85%.
Blue Origin's 'Project Sunrise' proposes a constellation of up to 51,600 solar-powered satellites to handle AI compute in orbit, joining SpaceX and others in a race to move data centers into space.
The preprint server where every AI breakthrough gets published first is leaving Cornell University after 35 years and will operate as a standalone nonprofit starting July 1, 2026.
Coinbase launched stock perpetual futures for the Magnificent 7 and major ETFs on March 20, enabling 24/7 leveraged trading settled in USDC for international traders.
Stripe and Tempo have launched the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard that lets AI agents pay for APIs and services autonomously — in fiat or stablecoins — without human intervention.
The anonymous 'Hunter Alpha' model that topped OpenRouter's charts with over 1 trillion tokens of usage has been revealed as Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro — a 1T-parameter, 1M-context agent model that the developer community mistook for DeepSeek V4.
Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics filed for a $610 million IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market after shipping 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025 — the most of any company globally.
Perplexity Health connects AI to personal medical records, wearables, and Apple Health, letting users query their own health data via Perplexity Computer.
TechCrunch got an exclusive tour of Amazon's Austin chip lab, where Trainium2 already runs over 1 million chips for Anthropic's Claude and is set to provide 2 gigawatts of compute for OpenAI.
Microsoft's in-house AI image model reaches #3 on Arena.ai's text-to-image rankings, trailing only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out on Copilot and Bing Image Creator.
Researchers from CMU, Princeton, Cartesia AI, and Together AI released Mamba-3, a state space model that runs 7x faster than Llama 3.2-1B at long sequences while outperforming Transformer baselines on language modeling benchmarks.
Amazon is developing a new AI-first smartphone codenamed 'Transformer,' its first phone since the Fire Phone flopped in 2014.
Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks reached an agreement in principle on stablecoin yield rules, potentially unblocking the long-stalled Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline replacements in traditional search results, sometimes changing the meaning of articles without any visible indication.
Anthropic launched Claude Code Channels in research preview, letting developers remotely control their local coding agent from Telegram or Discord via MCP plugins.
Researchers at Google, Lookout, and iVerify have jointly disclosed DarkSword, an iOS full-chain exploit kit active since November 2025 that directly targets cryptocurrency wallet apps.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices has officially licensed its flagship index to Trade[XYZ] for 24/7 perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid — the first time a major equity benchmark has been brought on-chain with institutional backing.
An AI agent at Meta exposed massive amounts of sensitive user and company data to unauthorized employees for two hours after giving flawed advice that an engineer implemented.
Prediction market platform Kalshi closes a $1 billion round led by Coatue Management, doubling its valuation from $11 billion to $22 billion in under 90 days.
Tesla officially kicked off its Terafab project today — a bid to build a domestic chip fabrication plant for its AI5 and future chips powering FSD and Optimus.
Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Zurich-based startup whose four-legged wheeled robot can navigate stairs and uneven surfaces to deliver packages directly to doorsteps.
Paul Conyngham used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog Rosie — and it worked.
Google Labs has overhauled Stitch into an AI-native design canvas that generates high-fidelity UI from natural language — sending Figma shares down 8%.
Runway and NVIDIA demonstrated a real-time video generation model at GTC 2026 that produces the first HD frame in under 100 milliseconds — faster than a human blink.
Morgan Stanley has amended its spot Bitcoin ETF application with the SEC, locking in the ticker MSBT for NYSE Arca and naming Coinbase as custodian.
Coinbase Asset Management and Apex Group launch a tokenized share class of the Bitcoin Yield Fund on Base, embedding compliance directly into ERC-3643 smart contracts.
A developer spotted Cursor's internal model ID revealing Composer 2 is built on Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5. Moonshot says Cursor violated its attribution license.
WordPress.com now allows AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to draft, edit, and publish content directly on user sites through the Model Context Protocol.
Apple has blocked AI vibe coding apps including Replit and Vibecode from releasing App Store updates, citing rules against self-modifying code.
The White House sent Congress its first federal AI framework, calling for a single national standard to replace a patchwork of state laws, plus age-gating requirements for minors.
Cloudflare Workers AI now runs frontier open-source models — beginning with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 — completing the stack for building and deploying agents entirely on Cloudflare's platform.
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol gains cart management, real-time catalog access, and identity linking — letting AI agents shop like humans across thousands of retailers.
A humanoid robot at Haidilao's Cupertino location went viral after staff accidentally triggered its 'crazy dance' mode, causing the robot to fling tableware and require three employees to restrain it.
MiniMax's new M2.7 model handled 30-50% of its own reinforcement learning development workflow — an early signal of recursive AI self-improvement.
LangChain released Open SWE, an open-source framework that packages the architectural patterns behind Stripe, Ramp, and Coinbase's internal coding agents — and it hit GitHub trending within hours.
World Liberty Financial released an open-source SDK that lets AI agents hold, move, and spend USD1 stablecoin across EVM chains with built-in policy controls and optional human approval.
Ramp's March 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic growing from one-in-25 to one-in-four businesses in a year, while OpenAI saw its biggest-ever monthly subscription drop.
Coinbase's x402 payment protocol now supports all ERC-20 tokens, wallet-based sign-in, and a new MCP package that lets developers monetize AI tools directly.
Cognition Labs has shipped multi-agent orchestration for Devin: the AI software engineer can now spawn and coordinate parallel copies of itself, each running in an isolated VM.
OpenAI is consolidating its ChatGPT app, Codex coding assistant, and Atlas AI browser into a single desktop superapp, with a focus on agentic AI capabilities.
Jeff Bezos is in early discussions to raise a $100 billion fund to buy manufacturing companies and automate them using AI, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal.
Chinese AI robotics company Galbot has demonstrated a humanoid robot sustaining live tennis rallies against a human using only a few hours of imperfect motion-capture data.
OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent with a red lobster logo, has exploded in popularity across China — with Baidu, Tencent, and local governments all racing to get citizens 'raising lobsters.'
Bittensor Subnet 3 (Templar) trained Covenant-72B — a 72-billion parameter model on 1.1 trillion tokens — using only commodity internet hardware with no centralized cluster. The post hit 1.7M views and prompted mainstream attention at GTC 2026.
Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer who brought end-to-end encryption to WhatsApp, announced his encrypted AI platform Confer will integrate its privacy technology into Meta AI.
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty — three of Python's most popular developer tools — to accelerate its Codex AI coding platform.
The DOJ arrested Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and charged three people with running a $2.5 billion scheme to illegally divert Nvidia AI servers to China using fake documentation and dummy hardware to fool auditors.
Google has quietly started beta testing a dedicated Gemini app for macOS, featuring screen-reading Desktop Intelligence to compete with ChatGPT and Claude's native Mac apps.
Google has upgraded AI Studio with a production-ready vibe coding experience powered by its Antigravity coding agent and native Firebase integration.
Squad is an open source project that spins up a persistent multi-agent coding team — lead, frontend, backend, and tester — directly inside any repository.