Adobe Firefly Opens Custom Model Training to All Artists
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.
2026-03-19
17 articles
Lightricks Releases LTX-2.3: Open-Source 4K Video Model With Synchronized Audio
Lightricks open-sourced LTX-2.3, a 22-billion-parameter video generation model that produces 4K clips with synchronized audio entirely on consumer hardware.
Deeptune Raises $43M from a16z to Build Flight Simulators for AI Agents
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.
SEC Approves Nasdaq's Tokenized Stock Trading on Blockchain
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.
Sharpa Robotics' Humanoid Assembles a PC at NVIDIA GTC
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.
Skild AI's Robot Brain Goes Live on Foxconn's Blackwell GPU Assembly Lines
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 Will Act in a New Film — Posthumously, via AI
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 Unveils Composer 2: A Coding Agent That Summarizes Itself
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.
Palantir Veterans Raise $30M from Sequoia to Build Self-Updating AI Knowledge Bases
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 and T-Mobile Want to Turn Every Cell Tower into an AI Brain
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.
Ethereum Foundation Doubles Down on Morpho, Deploys Another $7.5M in ETH
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.
China Deploys Its First Home Cleaning Robot Service via 58.com
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 Launches CLI Tool Letting AI Agents Pay With Cards
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: Open-Source OSINT Intelligence Terminal Pulls 27 Real-Time Data Sources Into One Dashboard
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.
VS Code 1.112 Ships Autopilot Mode for Fully Autonomous Coding Agents
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.
DeepMind Proposes Scientific Framework to Measure AGI — and Launches $200K Hackathon to Test It
Google DeepMind released a cognitive taxonomy framework for tracking progress toward AGI, backed by a $200K Kaggle hackathon to build real evaluations.
Xiaomi Officially Launches MiMo-V2: The Mystery Behind Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha Is Solved
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.
2026-03-18
27 articles
Perplexity Comet Lands on iPhone
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 Studio Launches as Open-Source Web UI for Local LLM Training and Inference
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.
Disney's AI-Powered Olaf Robot Wows NVIDIA GTC, Heads to Disneyland Paris
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 Closes $11B Confluent Deal to Feed Real-Time Data to AI Agents
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.
Jensen Huang Calls OpenClaw 'The Next ChatGPT' on CNBC
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.
Mystery AI Model 'Hunter Alpha' Appears on OpenRouter — Is This DeepSeek V4?
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.
Nvidia Wins Beijing Approval to Resume H200 Chip Sales in China
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.
UK Drops AI Copyright Opt-Out Plan After Creative Industry Backlash
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 Acqui-Hires YC Startup Metis to Build AI Research Division
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 Launch Tempo Mainnet With Open Machine Payment Protocol for AI Agents
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 M2.7 Is the First AI Model to Help Train Itself
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 Releases GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano: Faster, Cheaper Models for High-Volume Workloads
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: Open-Source AI Pipeline That Turns a Research Idea Into a Conference-Ready Paper
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.
Mamba-3 Goes Open Source With Inference-First Design That Outperforms Transformers
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 Launches Forge: Train Custom AI Models From Scratch on Your Own Data
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 Stitch Introduces 'Vibe Design': AI-Native Canvas Turns Intent Into UI
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.
SEC Declares Most Crypto Assets Not Securities, Issues Five-Category Framework
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.
Gecko Robotics Wins $71M Navy Deal to Deploy AI Ship-Inspection Robots
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.
Manus Brings Its AI Agent to Your Desktop with 'My Computer'
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.
Humanoid Robot Digit Is Now Working 8-Hour Factory Shifts in South Carolina
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.
North Korea's Lazarus Group Hacked Bitrefill, Stole 18,500 Purchase Records
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.
Tennessee Teens Sue xAI Over Grok-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
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 Signs AWS Deal to Bring AI Into US Government Classified Networks
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.
AI Coding Boom Drives Record Secrets Leak: 29M Credentials Exposed on GitHub in 2025
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.
Vitalik's Balvi-Funded PopVax Manufactures Clinical Batch of Open-Source COVID Vaccine
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.
Ethereum's Fast Confirmation Rule Cuts L1 Deposit Times to 13 Seconds
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.
US Senators Demand ByteDance Shut Down Seedance 2.0 After Hollywood Copyright Clash
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.
2026-03-17
6 articles
CFTC Grants Phantom Wallet First-of-Its-Kind Derivatives Access Without Broker Registration
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 Launches NemoClaw to Make OpenClaw Enterprise-Ready
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 Chain Launches Privacy-First Layer 1 for Decentralized Trading
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 Brings PYUSD to 70 Markets as Stablecoin Goes Global
PayPal has expanded its dollar-backed stablecoin PYUSD to users in 70 countries, enabling faster cross-border transfers and near-instant merchant settlement worldwide.
Mastercard Makes Its Biggest Crypto Bet with $1.8B BVNK Acquisition
Mastercard agreed to acquire London-based stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, its largest crypto deal to date.
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.