AWS Adds Agent Payments to Bedrock with Coinbase and Stripe
AWS has launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments in preview, letting AI agents pay for APIs, MCP servers, and web content through x402 with Coinbase and Stripe wallet support.
2026-05-07
8 articles
Google Sets May 19 Launch for Gemini-Powered Health Coach
Google says its Gemini-powered Health Coach will leave preview on May 19 as part of the rebranded Google Health Premium subscription.
Solv Moves $700M+ in Tokenized Bitcoin Bridges to Chainlink CCIP
Solv Protocol says it is deprecating LayerZero support for several SolvBTC bridges and standardizing on Chainlink CCIP after a new security review.
Bitwise to Take Over Superstate's USCC Tokenized Carry Fund
Bitwise will become investment manager of Superstate's USCC on June 1, while the fund stays on Superstate's tokenized FundOS rails across Ethereum, Solana, and Plume.
Payward Signs Deal to Buy Reap for Up to $600 Million
Payward, Kraken’s parent company, said it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Reap, adding stablecoin-native card issuing and cross-border payments infrastructure to its B2B platform.
Core Scientific Says AI Colocation Revenue Overtook Mining in Q1
Core Scientific reported that colocation revenue rose to $77.5 million in Q1, surpassing its self-mining business as the company keeps redirecting power and capital toward AI data center contracts.
BNY Extends Bitcoin and Ether Custody Push to Abu Dhabi
BNY is taking its digital-asset custody strategy into Abu Dhabi, with bitcoin and ether first as the bank deepens its regulated presence in ADGM.
Google Confirms Chrome Can Download Gemini Nano in Background, Points Users to New Toggle
Google says Chrome's multi-gigabyte weights.bin download is the Gemini Nano model for on-device AI, and points users to a new setting that can disable and remove it.
2026-05-06
12 articles
Snap Ends Planned Perplexity Search Rollout in Snapchat
Snap says it amicably ended its Perplexity relationship in Q1, removing expected revenue from the planned AI search integration inside Snapchat.
Microsoft Weighs Its 24/7 Clean-Power Target as AI Data Centers Expand
Bloomberg reported Microsoft is considering whether to delay or abandon its 2030 hourly clean-power matching target as AI data center growth strains energy planning, while the company says it still aims to maintain annual matching.
Anthropic Signs SpaceX Deal for Colossus 1 Compute, Lifts Claude Limits
Anthropic says a new SpaceX compute agreement will bring more than 300 megawatts of capacity from Colossus 1 online within a month, alongside higher Claude usage limits.
Braintrust Discloses Security Incident and Urges Customers to Rotate API Keys
Braintrust says it contained a security incident involving unauthorized AWS account access and asked customers to rotate any API keys stored with the platform.
Google Adds Forum Quotes and Subscriber Links to AI Search
Google is rolling out five updates to AI Mode and AI Overviews, including previews from public discussions, inline citations, and highlighted links for users' news subscriptions.
Genesis AI Debuts GENE-26.5 and a Human-Scale Robotic Hand
Genesis AI has introduced its GENE-26.5 robotics model alongside a human-scale robotic hand and glove system aimed at collecting higher-quality manipulation data.
Hut 8 Signs $9.8B Beacon Point AI Data Center Lease in Texas
Hut 8 says it has signed a 15-year lease for 352 MW of AI data center capacity at its Beacon Point campus, with base-term value of $9.8 billion.
OpenTrade Raises $17M to Expand Stablecoin Yield Infrastructure
OpenTrade has reportedly raised a $17 million strategic round as demand grows for infrastructure that lets fintechs and exchanges offer stablecoin yield products backed by real-world assets.
QuTwo Reaches €325M Valuation in €25M Angel Round
TechCrunch and The Next Web report that Peter Sarlin's Finnish AI lab QuTwo raised a €25 million angel round at a €325 million valuation as it builds orchestration software for hybrid AI and quantum workloads.
OKX Says It Is Preparing Pre-IPO Perpetuals for OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX
OKX says it is preparing perpetual futures tied to OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX, expanding crypto-native access to private-company price exposure without offering actual equity ownership.
Taurus Gets Cyprus MiFID License for EU Tokenized Securities Services
Taurus said its Cyprus subsidiary won a MiFID investment firm license from CySEC, giving the group a regulated EU base for tokenized securities services.
SAP to Buy Prior Labs and Invest €1B in Structured-Data AI
SAP says it will acquire Prior Labs and invest more than €1 billion over four years to build a frontier AI lab focused on structured business data.
2026-05-05
13 articles
a16z Crypto Unveils $2.2B Fund 5 as It Bets on Stablecoins and Onchain Finance
a16z crypto says its fifth dedicated fund will deploy $2.2 billion into startups building stablecoin rails, onchain financial markets, and infrastructure for more autonomous internet services.
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Over Bot Posing as Licensed Psychiatrist
Pennsylvania says a Character.AI bot held itself out as a licensed psychiatrist and is seeking a court order to stop the conduct under the state's Medical Practice Act.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Experience
OpenAI has made GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT experience for logged-in users and says the broader GPT-5.5 family is also rolling out through its API and paid tiers.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Model
OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out as ChatGPT's default model for logged-in users, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant and bringing the update to the chat-latest API alias.
Meta Expands AI Age Checks With Photo and Video Analysis
Meta says it is using AI visual analysis, including cues such as height or bone structure, to detect accounts likely run by children under 13.
CopilotKit Raises $27M Series A for Enterprise Agent Frontends
CopilotKit says it has raised a $27 million Series A to expand its frontend stack for agent-powered applications and the AG-UI protocol around it.
State Street and Galaxy Bring SWEEP Tokenized Cash Fund to Solana
State Street and Galaxy have launched SWEEP, a tokenized private liquidity fund for qualified purchasers that uses PYUSD stablecoins for subscriptions and redemptions and starts on Solana.
Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures Takes Strategic Stake in GSR
Standard Chartered’s venture arm SC Ventures has taken a strategic stake in GSR, adding bank-backed weight to tokenization and institutional digital-asset infrastructure efforts.
Bullish Agrees to Buy Equiniti in $4.2B Tokenized Securities Push
Bullish has agreed to acquire transfer agent Equiniti for $4.2 billion, pairing crypto market infrastructure with shareholder recordkeeping systems used by thousands of public companies.
Aave Files Emergency Motion to Lift Arbitrum Freeze on 30,766 ETH
Aave has asked a New York federal court to vacate the restraining notice that halted Arbitrum's planned release of 30,765.67 ETH tied to the rsETH recovery effort.
Ripple Starts Sharing DPRK Threat Intelligence Through Crypto ISAC
Ripple says it is feeding DPRK-related threat data into Crypto ISAC's new API, giving member firms shared indicators and applicant profiles tied to North Korean infiltration campaigns.
Google Adds Preview Webhooks to Gemini API for Long-Running Jobs
Google has launched preview webhook support in the Gemini API, letting long-running jobs notify developer servers on completion instead of relying on repeated polling.
Cerebras Launches IPO Roadshow for Nasdaq Listing
Cerebras has launched its IPO roadshow with a public price range, putting one of the largest independent AI infrastructure offerings of 2026 closer to a Nasdaq debut.
2026-05-04
7 articles
Google Adds Gemini API Webhooks for Long-Running Jobs
Google has added event-driven webhooks to the Gemini API so developers can receive push callbacks for long-running jobs instead of polling for status.
Haun Ventures Raises $1B for Fund II With Agentic Economy Focus
Haun Ventures says it has raised $1 billion in new funds to back startups across crypto infrastructure, tokenized assets, and what it calls the emerging agentic economy.
Vercel Open Sources deepsec for Agent-Led Code Security Reviews
Vercel has open sourced deepsec, a security harness that uses coding agents to scan large codebases on local infrastructure or across Vercel Sandbox workers.
Sierra Raises $950M at Over $15B Valuation as Enterprise Agent Race Intensifies
Sierra says it is raising $950 million led by Tiger Global and GV, giving the enterprise AI agent company more than $1 billion to expand its customer-service platform.
DTCC Sets Timeline for Tokenized Securities Pilot and Broader Launch
DTCC is preparing limited production trades of tokenized securities for July, with a broader launch targeted for October as it brings selected stocks, ETFs, and Treasuries onto blockchain rails.
Binance Adds Withdrawal Protection for Wrench-Attack Risk
Binance has launched a user-controlled Withdraw Protection mode that can freeze crypto withdrawals for up to seven days to reduce losses from forced transfers and other offline coercion.
Restraining Notice Complicates Arbitrum Vote on 30,766 ETH rsETH Recovery Release
A lawyer for North Korea judgment creditors has served a restraining notice on Arbitrum DAO, complicating a proposal to release 30,765.67 ETH frozen after the rsETH exploit.
2026-05-03
5 articles
KC Green Says Artisan Used 'This Is Fine' Art in AI Ad Without Permission
Cartoonist KC Green says sales-AI startup Artisan used a modified version of his 'This Is Fine' comic in a subway ad without permission, prompting a public backlash and fresh scrutiny of how AI companies use internet culture in marketing.
Harvard Study Says OpenAI o1 Beat ER Doctors on Initial Triage Diagnoses
A Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel study published in Science found OpenAI's o1 model produced more exact or near-match emergency triage diagnoses than two attending physicians in a 76-patient comparison, while the authors cautioned that prospective clinical trials are still needed.
GitBook Says AI Crawlers Now Drive 41% of Traffic Across 30,000 Docs Sites
GitBook says AI crawlers now account for 41% of traffic across 30,000 documentation sites, pushing the company to rely on tag-based cache invalidation and sub-300ms global updates on Vercel.
Academy Requires Human Performances and Human-Authored Screenplays for Oscar Eligibility
The Academy's 99th Oscars rules say acting performances must be demonstrably performed by humans with consent, and screenplays must be human-authored.
Brazil Bars Stablecoin Settlement in Regulated eFX Remittances
Brazil's central bank has barred regulated eFX providers from using stablecoins and other crypto assets to settle cross-border remittances, while leaving retail crypto trading untouched.
2026-05-02
3 articles
Brazil Tightens eFX Rules to Bar Crypto Settlement in Regulated Cross-Border Payments
Brazil's central bank published Resolution BCB No. 561, tightening eFX rules so regulated cross-border payment providers can no longer use stablecoins or other cryptoassets for settlement.
Brazil Central Bank Bars Stablecoins From eFX Settlement Rails
Brazil's central bank has barred regulated eFX providers from using stablecoins and other cryptoassets to settle with foreign counterparties in cross-border payment flows.
Released Clarity Act Text Keeps Activity-Based Stablecoin Rewards Alive
Newly released Clarity Act compromise text bars passive yield on stablecoin holdings while preserving narrowly defined rewards tied to real usage.
2026-05-01
2 articles
Meta Acquires ARI to Deepen Its Humanoid Robotics Push
Meta says it has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, an early-stage humanoid robotics startup founded by researchers Xiaolong Wang and Lerrel Pinto.
Riot Expands AMD Rockdale Data Center Lease to 50 MW
Riot said AMD exercised an option for another 25 megawatts at Rockdale, bringing contracted critical IT capacity to 50 MW as the bitcoin miner reported its first quarter of data center revenue.