Z.ai Launches GLM-5-Turbo: Faster Agent Model That Drops Open Source
Z.ai releases GLM-5-Turbo, a closed-source execution-focused variant of GLM-5 designed for agentic workflows — marking a notable shift away from the company's open-source roots.
2026-03-17
12 articles
Google Launches Open-Source Colab MCP Server for AI Agents
Google releases an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets any AI agent natively write, execute, and manage code inside a Google Colab notebook.
Mistral Releases Small 4: 119B MoE Open-Source Model With Configurable Reasoning
Mistral AI releases Small 4, a 119B Mixture-of-Experts model under Apache 2.0 that unifies instruction-following, reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic coding in a single deployment.
World's AgentKit Lets AI Agents Prove They Represent Real Humans
Sam Altman's World launches AgentKit in beta, letting iris-verified humans delegate their identity to AI agents via Coinbase's x402 protocol.
Universal Robots and Scale AI Launch UR AI Trainer to Close the Lab-to-Factory Gap
Universal Robots and Scale AI unveiled the UR AI Trainer at GTC 2026 — a leader-follower imitation learning system that captures force, motion, and visual data on production cobots to train factory-ready AI models.
BlackRock's ETHB Brings Ethereum Staking Yield to Traditional Investors
BlackRock launched the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB) on March 12, giving traditional investors regulated access to Ethereum staking yield for the first time.
Okara Launches 'AI CMO' - Autonomous Marketing Agents for $99/Month
Singapore-based Okara launched an AI CMO service that deploys a fleet of autonomous marketing agents across SEO, Reddit, Hacker News, X, and content creation for $99/month - positioning itself as a replacement for early-stage marketing hires.
CoinGecko Launches Free Open-Source CLI Built for Crypto AI Agents
CoinGecko released an open-source CLI tool that gives AI agents and developers direct terminal access to real-time crypto market data for 18,000+ coins, claiming 200x efficiency gains over traditional API approaches.
NVIDIA Open-Sources Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint at GTC 2026
NVIDIA released an open reference architecture for generating synthetic training data at scale for robots, autonomous vehicles, and vision AI — with AI coding agents now able to orchestrate the entire pipeline.
Base Holds 43% of On-Chain BTC Spot Trading as Weekly Volume Tops $3B
New Blockworks data shows Base capturing 43% of all on-chain spot BTC trading volume, with weekly totals now exceeding $3 billion across six dominant chains.
NVIDIA Unveils Space-1 Vera Rubin Module — 25x More AI Compute for Orbital Data Centers
NVIDIA announced the Space-1 Vera Rubin Module at GTC 2026, bringing up to 25x more AI compute than the H100 to satellites and orbital data centers.
Context V2 Launches Agent-Native Prediction Market with Open API
Context has launched V2 of its prediction market platform, designed from the ground up for AI agents to trade, create markets, and build apps via a single API.
2026-03-16
17 articles
Nvidia and Uber Plan L4 Robotaxi Rollout Across 28 Cities by 2028
At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang announced Nvidia will power Uber's Level 4 robotaxi fleet — launching in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 2027 and expanding to 28 cities across four continents by 2028.
Nvidia Debuts Groq 3 LPX at GTC 2026 — 35x Faster Inference, Built on $20B Deal
Nvidia unveiled the Groq 3 LPX at GTC 2026 — a purpose-built inference chip that speeds up AI workloads 35x over GPUs alone, pairing with Vera Rubin in a new disaggregated architecture.
Disney's Olaf Robot Crashes Nvidia GTC — Coming to Theme Parks March 29
Walt Disney Imagineering unveiled its most advanced robotic character to date — a self-walking Olaf snowman trained on Nvidia GPUs — at GTC 2026, ahead of a March 29 debut at Disneyland Paris.
Nvidia Bets $4 Billion on Photonics to Solve AI Data Center Bottleneck
Nvidia committed $2 billion each to optical technology makers Coherent and Lumentum in strategic deals to secure AI data center interconnect capacity for the next generation of AI factories.
Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is the 'GPT Moment for Graphics' — Neural Rendering Comes to Gaming
Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, a real-time neural rendering model that infuses game frames with photoreal lighting and materials — arriving on GeForce cards this fall.
Circle Launches Nanopayments Testnet for Agentic USDC Flows
Circle has launched Nanopayments on testnet, positioning Gateway as a gas-free USDC rail for agent-driven micropayments down to $0.000001.
GitHub Ships Enterprise AI Controls and Agent Control Plane to GA
GitHub has moved Enterprise AI Controls and its agent control plane to general availability, giving enterprises deeper visibility and policy controls over Copilot agents.
ACE Robotics Open-Sources Kairos 3.0-4B — One Brain, Any Robot
ACE Robotics releases Kairos 3.0-4B, an open-source embodied world model built from scratch for real-world robots — running in real time on edge hardware and controlling multiple robot forms from a single 4B-parameter model.
Nvidia Unveils Vera Rubin Platform at GTC 2026 — 5x Faster Than Blackwell
Nvidia's Jensen Huang kicks off GTC 2026 with the full Vera Rubin platform launch — a next-gen AI compute architecture promising up to 5x inference gains over Blackwell.
Meta Signs $27B Deal With Nebius to Build Out AI Compute
Meta has committed up to $27 billion over five years to Dutch AI cloud provider Nebius, in one of the largest compute-procurement contracts ever signed.
Australia Senate Committee Backs Crypto Licensing Framework
An Australian Senate committee has recommended legislation that would require crypto exchanges and custodians to hold financial services licences, bringing them under existing market safeguard rules.
Alibaba Set to Launch Qwen-Powered Enterprise AI Agent This Week
Alibaba is preparing to unveil an enterprise AI agent built on its Qwen model that can operate computers, browsers, and cloud infrastructure — and it could drop as soon as this week.
SEC and CFTC Sign Historic MOU to End Crypto Regulatory Turf War
The two main US financial regulators signed a memorandum of understanding on March 11 to coordinate crypto oversight, ending years of conflicting rules and overlapping enforcement actions.
Anthropic Doubles Claude Usage Limits During Off-Peak Hours Through March 27
Anthropic is doubling Claude's usage limits outside peak hours for two weeks - covering Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans across all platforms including Claude Code.
Two Mystery 'Alpha' Models Appear on OpenRouter — Origin Unknown
Two unattributed frontier models — Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha — appeared on OpenRouter with extraordinary specs and $0 pricing, sparking speculation about their true origin.
Superpowers: The Spec-First Coding Agent Framework With 86K GitHub Stars
An open-source framework that forces coding agents to brainstorm and spec before writing any code has quietly accumulated 86,000 GitHub stars.
Hindsight Gives AI Agents Memory That Actually Learns
Vectorize's open-source Hindsight framework lets AI agents build persistent, learning memory — outperforming RAG on benchmarks and running in two lines of code.
2026-03-15
19 articles
Humanoid Robots Complete First Autonomous Trial Run for Beijing's April Half Marathon
More than 20 teams ran Beijing's upcoming humanoid robot half marathon course overnight, marking the first trial ahead of the April 19 race — and the first edition where robots must navigate entirely without human remote control.
Physical Superintelligence Open-Sources the First Agentic AI Physicist
Physical Superintelligence PBC has open-sourced Get Physics Done (GPD), an agentic AI that scopes problems, derives equations, verifies against physical laws, and compresses weeks of research into hours.
Uber's Travis Kalanick Comes Out of Stealth With Industrial Robotics Company Atoms
After eight years under the radar, Travis Kalanick has unveiled Atoms — a specialized industrial robotics company targeting food, mining, and transportation, with plans to acquire autonomous vehicle startup Pronto.
MiroFish: Student Builds AI That Simulates Society to Predict the Future
A Chinese undergraduate built MiroFish in 10 days — an open-source engine that spawns thousands of AI agents in a simulated world to forecast real-world outcomes. It topped GitHub trending and secured 30M RMB in funding within 24 hours.
Tesla's Terafab: In-House AI Chip Foundry Launches March 21
Elon Musk announced Tesla's Terafab chip fabrication project launches March 21 — a $25 billion in-house foundry targeting 2nm chips for Cybercab, Optimus, and xAI.
Amy Webb Declares Death of the Tech Trend Report at SXSW 2026
Futurist Amy Webb retired her iconic 19-year Emerging Tech Trend Report at SXSW, replacing it with a 'Convergence Outlook' focused on when multiple technologies collide to reshape entire industries.
Claude Found 22 Firefox Security Flaws in Two Weeks
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in just two weeks — 14 rated high-severity — in a collaboration with Mozilla that's now shaping AI-assisted security research.
LATENT: Researchers Train Humanoid Robot to Play Tennis Using Imperfect Human Motion Data
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Galbot have trained the Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play real tennis by learning from imperfect human motion capture data.
TRUMP Meme Coin Spikes 60% on Exclusive Mar-a-Lago Gala Offer for Top Holders
President Trump's official Solana meme coin surged up to 60% after promoters announced an exclusive gala at Mar-a-Lago for the top 297 holders — though the event isn't on Trump's official schedule.
China's OpenClaw 'Lobster' Frenzy Is Minting New Entrepreneurs
While Beijing bans OpenClaw at state agencies, a grassroots craze — locals call it 'lobster raising' — is spawning a cottage industry of installation consultants, packed meetups, and government subsidies.
NanoClaw Integrates with Docker Sandboxes for Hypervisor-Level AI Agent Security
NanoClaw partners with Docker to run AI agents inside micro VMs, adding a hypervisor-level isolation layer on top of container sandboxing.
ByteDance's OpenViking Hits GitHub Trending as Agent Context Database
ByteDance's open-source OpenViking context database for AI agents hit GitHub trending today with over 1,600 single-day stars, offering a file system approach to managing agent memory, resources, and skills.
AI Bots Killed Digg's Comeback: Layoffs, App Pulled After Bot Invasion
Kevin Rose's rebooted Digg is laying off staff and pulling its app after AI-driven bots overwhelmed the platform's voting and moderation systems within hours of launch.
OpenClaw Takes Center Stage at NVIDIA GTC 2026
With Jensen Huang's GTC 2026 keynote one day away, NVIDIA is spotlighting OpenClaw with a hands-on Build-a-Claw event and a new DGX Spark playbook.
GDC 2026: One in Three US Game Developers Has Been Laid Off, as AI Resentment Climbs
The 2026 Game Developers Conference wrapped in San Francisco with stark numbers: 33% of US developers lost jobs in two years, 52% say AI is harming the industry, and 82% want to unionize.
Vitalik Calls for Simpler Nodes and a 1 ETH Staking Minimum
Vitalik Buterin argued that running Ethereum nodes should be easy for everyone — and sketched a technical path to dropping the validator minimum from 32 ETH to 1 ETH.
Sunday Raises $165M at $1.15B to Deploy Household Robot Memo by Thanksgiving
San Francisco startup Sunday hit unicorn status with a $165M Series B to deploy Memo — a household robot that learns chores from human demonstrations — into real homes this fall.
ByteDance Halts Seedance 2.0 Global Rollout After Hollywood Copyright Battle
ByteDance has suspended the global launch of its Seedance 2.0 AI video generator after Disney and Paramount Skydance sent cease-and-desist letters over unauthorized use of copyrighted characters.
ChatGPT Helped Design a Custom mRNA Vaccine That Shrank a Dog's Cancer Tumor by 75%
Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his rescue dog Rosie — cutting her mast cell tumors by 75% in weeks.
2026-03-14
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BuzzFeed's AI Bet Nearly Killed the Company. Its CEO Is Doubling Down.
Three years after pivoting to AI content generation, BuzzFeed reported a $57.3M net loss in 2025 and now warns of 'substantial doubt' about its survival — yet CEO Jonah Peretti says he's pushing ahead with new AI apps.
Trump Administration Withdraws Draft AI Chip Export Rule
The US Commerce Department pulled its draft 'AI Action Plan Implementation' rule without explanation, leaving global AI chip export policy in limbo.