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DoorDash's new standalone app turns its 8 million delivery couriers into paid AI trainers, paying them to film household tasks and record speech to feed AI and robotics models.
Perplexity launched a health data suite that connects Apple Health, electronic health records from 1.7 million providers, and wearables like Fitbit and Ultrahuman directly to its AI agent.
Adobe has opened Firefly Custom Models to public beta, letting any creator train AI on their own images to generate style-consistent content at scale.
Lightricks open-sourced LTX-2.3, a 22-billion-parameter video generation model that produces 4K clips with synchronized audio entirely on consumer hardware.
Andreessen Horowitz leads a $43M Series A in Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments where AI agents practice real workplace tasks before going live.
The SEC has formally approved Nasdaq's proposal to let Russell 1000 stocks and major ETFs trade in tokenized form on blockchain, a landmark step toward integrating blockchain infrastructure into US equity markets.
Singaporean startup Sharpa Robotics demonstrated its humanoid robot North inserting a GPU into a PCIe slot with submillimeter precision — and Jensen Huang highlighted it in his GTC keynote.
Pittsburgh startup Skild AI is deploying its generalized robot brain on Foxconn's assembly lines building NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs — marking the first public mass-deployment of its omni-bodied AI model.
Val Kilmer's estate has approved an AI-generated version of the late actor for the indie film 'As Deep As The Grave,' using family-provided photos and audio for a role he was cast in before his death.
Cursor's Composer 2 is trained via reinforcement learning to compress its own context, enabling it to handle hundreds of coding actions without losing critical information.
Edra, founded by two former Palantir engineers, closes a $30M Series A to automatically build and maintain living knowledge bases that give AI agents real company context.
NVIDIA, T-Mobile, and Nokia are building an AI-RAN network that runs physical AI applications — robots, self-driving cars, smart cities — directly from cell towers.
The Ethereum Foundation deployed another 3,400 ETH into Morpho's DeFi vaults, bringing its total commitment to ~$19M and signaling a clear shift away from selling ETH to fund operations.
X Square Robot and 58.com have launched China's first commercial home cleaning robot service in Shenzhen, pairing professional cleaners with autonomous robots on real consumer bookings.
Visa Crypto Labs has shipped a command-line interface in closed beta that lets AI agents and automated bots make card payments without API keys or human approval.
Crucix aggregates 27 open intelligence feeds - from NASA satellite fires to radiation monitors to conflict data - into a self-hosted Jarvis-style dashboard with LLM-powered alerts.
Microsoft's VS Code 1.112 introduces three agent permission levels, including a full Autopilot mode that lets Copilot complete tasks autonomously without approval prompts.
Google DeepMind released a cognitive taxonomy framework for tracking progress toward AGI, backed by a $200K Kaggle hackathon to build real evaluations.
Xiaomi officially launched the MiMo-V2 series on March 18, revealing that the mysterious 'Hunter Alpha' and 'Healer Alpha' models on OpenRouter were its own unreleased frontier AI — now globally available via API at competitive pricing.
Perplexity's AI-powered Comet browser is now available for iPhone, completing its rollout across Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS — free to download with Pro plans from $20/month.
Unsloth AI releases Studio, a free open-source web interface that lets users train and run large language models locally with 2x speed and 70% less VRAM.
Walt Disney Imagineering debuted a free-roaming robotic Olaf at NVIDIA GTC 2026, built with DeepMind and NVIDIA's physics engine — set to greet guests at Disneyland Paris on March 29.
IBM completes its $11 billion all-cash acquisition of Confluent, bringing real-time data streaming into its AI platform to help enterprise AI agents act on live information.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC's Jim Cramer that OpenClaw is 'definitely the next ChatGPT,' capping a GTC 2026 week in which Nvidia placed the open-source agent platform at the center of its product vision.
A trillion-parameter model with a 1M token context window appeared anonymously on OpenRouter on March 11 — with strong clues pointing toward DeepSeek's next generation.
After months of dual regulatory hurdles, Nvidia has cleared both US and Chinese approvals to ship H200 AI chips to China, and is also adapting its Groq inference chip for the Chinese market.
The UK government has reversed its plan to let AI companies train on copyrighted works by default, saying it 'no longer has a preferred option' after sustained pushback from artists and the creative sector.
DoorDash has absorbed the Metis AI team into a new internal research division, aiming to build agentic commerce and physical intelligence for local delivery.
Stripe and Paradigm's payments-focused Layer 1 goes live alongside an open standard for autonomous machine-to-machine transactions, positioning Tempo as the settlement rail for an AI-native economy.
MiniMax releases M2.7, an open-source agent model that participated in its own reinforcement learning — running 100+ autonomous optimization rounds to improve its own training pipeline.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, its most capable small models yet, targeting subagents, coding assistants, and multimodal applications where speed and cost outweigh raw capability.
AutoResearchClaw automates the entire academic research workflow - from literature review to sandbox experiments to LaTeX paper - across 23 autonomous stages. The project hit 5,700 GitHub stars in three days.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Princeton release Mamba-3, a state space model that achieves better accuracy and hardware efficiency than Transformers under an Apache 2.0 license.
Mistral AI has launched Forge, an enterprise platform that lets companies train frontier-grade AI models on proprietary data — going beyond fine-tuning to full model training from scratch.
Google evolved its Stitch design tool into an AI-native canvas where anyone can describe business goals in natural language and get high-fidelity UI — no wireframes required.
The SEC issued landmark interpretive guidance declaring most crypto assets fall outside securities law, introducing a five-part taxonomy and ending over a decade of regulatory ambiguity.
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics landed a five-year, $71M Navy contract to deploy wall-climbing robots and AI that cut ship inspection time by up to 50x.
Meta-acquired Manus launched a desktop app that lets its AI agent operate directly on local machines, running terminal commands to manage files and build apps — competing head-on with OpenClaw.
Agility Robotics' Digit is pulling full eight-hour shifts at a Schaeffler auto parts plant in Cheraw, SC — operating a stamping press while a human contractor watches from outside a plexiglass cage.
Crypto gift card platform Bitrefill disclosed a March 1 cyberattack attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, which stole 18,500 purchase records and drained some company wallets.
Three Tennessee teenagers, including two minors, filed the first class-action lawsuit by minors against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging its Grok AI model was used through a third-party app to generate nonconsensual sexual images of them.
OpenAI has partnered with Amazon Web Services to sell its AI models to US defense and government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, stepping onto Anthropic's home turf.
GitGuardian's 2026 report finds 28.65 million hardcoded secrets on public GitHub last year — AI-service credential leaks surged 81%, and MCP config files are emerging as a fresh attack surface.
Indian biotech PopVax has manufactured a clinical batch of PVX-001, an open-source AI-designed COVID-19 vaccine funded by Vitalik Buterin's Balvi and the Gates Foundation, ahead of Phase I trials in Australia.
A new consensus client feature called the Fast Confirmation Rule reduces Ethereum L1 deposit times to a single slot — about 13 seconds — with no hard fork required.
Senators Blackburn and Welch are calling for an immediate shutdown of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator after it produced unauthorized likenesses of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Stranger Things characters.
The CFTC issued a no-action letter allowing Phantom's self-custodial wallet to connect users directly to regulated futures markets without registering as an introducing broker.
Nvidia's NemoClaw stack adds enterprise-grade security and privacy controls to OpenClaw, letting companies deploy AI agents in production with a single command.
Aster launches its privacy-first Layer 1 mainnet, embedding ZK encryption and stealth addresses at the execution layer to eliminate on-chain position hunting in DeFi.
PayPal has expanded its dollar-backed stablecoin PYUSD to users in 70 countries, enabling faster cross-border transfers and near-instant merchant settlement worldwide.