Paperclip: Open-Source Tool to Run an Entire Company With AI Agents
Paperclip hit 14k+ GitHub stars in under a week — it's an open-source framework that lets you run a full company staffed entirely by AI agents, no human employees needed.
2026-03-14
23 articles
Tesla's Terafab: Musk Announces AI Chip Fab Launching in 7 Days
Elon Musk announced on X that Tesla's 'Terafab' chip fabrication project will launch within seven days, targeting massive in-house AI processor production for autonomous vehicles and Optimus robots.
ABB and NVIDIA Say They've Closed the Sim-to-Real Gap for Factory Robots
ABB Robotics is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse into RobotStudio to create HyperReality — a simulation platform claiming 99% virtual-to-real accuracy for factory robots.
Ethereum Foundation Sells 5,000 ETH to BitMine in $10.2 Million OTC Deal
The Ethereum Foundation sold 5,000 ETH directly to BitMine Immersion Technologies — the largest publicly traded ETH treasury firm — for roughly $10.2 million to fund its operations.
Glassworm Returns: Invisible Unicode Malware Hits 150+ GitHub Repos
A threat actor named Glassworm has compromised over 150 GitHub repositories, npm packages, and VS Code extensions by hiding malicious payloads in invisible Unicode characters — and researchers believe LLMs are being used to craft convincing cover commits.
US Government Set to Collect $10B Fee From TikTok Investors
The Trump administration will receive roughly $10 billion from the investor consortium that acquired TikTok's US operations, an unprecedented government fee for brokering a corporate deal.
FBI Probes Malware-Laced Steam Games That Stole Crypto from Thousands of Players
The FBI's Seattle Division is seeking victims who installed one of seven malware-embedded Steam games between May 2024 and January 2026, with attackers focused on draining crypto wallets and stealing credentials.
Xiaomi Humanoid Robots Complete 90% of EV Assembly Tasks in Beijing Factory Trial
Xiaomi trialed two CyberOne humanoid robots on its Beijing EV assembly line, completing 90.2% of assigned tasks over a three-hour shift while keeping pace with a 76-second production cycle.
Bitcoin Can Survive 72% of Submarine Cables Being Cut, Study Finds
A first-of-its-kind longitudinal study finds Bitcoin's network degrades gracefully under random infrastructure failures — but a coordinated attack on five hosting providers could cripple it.
Meta Plans to Cut 20% of Workforce as AI Infrastructure Costs Climb
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could eliminate roughly 16,000 jobs as the company redirects capital toward a $600 billion AI infrastructure buildout.
Travis Kalanick Launches Atoms: 'Gainfully Employed Robots' for Mining, Food, and Transport
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick rebrands City Storage Systems as Atoms Inc., targeting specialized industrial robots for food, mining, and transportation — with plans to acquire autonomous haul-truck startup Pronto.
AI Agent Hacked McKinsey's Internal Platform in Two Hours
CodeWall's offensive AI agent autonomously targeted McKinsey's Lilli chatbot, exploiting a SQL injection flaw to access 46.5 million internal messages and writable system prompts.
US Treasury Sanctions Network Behind $800M North Korean Crypto IT Worker Scheme
OFAC designated six individuals and two entities tied to a DPRK-run IT worker operation that generated nearly $800 million in 2024, laundering funds through crypto across Ethereum, Tron, and Bitcoin.
Qdrant Raises $50M Series B to Build the Retrieval Layer for Production AI
Open-source vector search engine Qdrant closes a $50M Series B led by AVP to expand composable retrieval infrastructure for RAG pipelines, AI agents, and production-scale workloads.
Perplexity Computer Goes Mobile With Cross-Device Agent Control
Perplexity Computer now lets users start, monitor, and steer AI agent tasks from their phone, with cross-device sync between Mac, iOS, and web.
Microsoft Open-Sources BitNet: A Native 1-Bit LLM That Runs on Your CPU
Microsoft Research released BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the first open-source native 1-bit LLM trained from scratch on 4 trillion tokens — capable of running on a consumer CPU with no GPU required.
Pump.fun Hits $1B Revenue and Eyes Base, Ethereum, BSC, and Monad
Pump.fun crossed $1 billion in cumulative revenue — the first Solana app to do so — and quietly registered subdomains for Base, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Monad, signaling a cross-chain expansion.
Aave's Own Oracle Misfires, Liquidating $27.8M in Healthy Positions
A parameter misconfiguration in Aave's CAPO oracle caused it to underprice wstETH by 2.85%, triggering $27.78 million in liquidations across 34 accounts that were healthy at market rates.
Circle Launches Open-Source 'Circle Skills' for AI-Native Stablecoin Apps
Circle has released Circle Skills, an open-source development kit that lets AI coding agents generate stablecoin integrations for USDC, EURC, and Circle's Arc platform.
China's 15th Five-Year Plan Targets 90% AI Integration, Humanoid Robots, and Flying Cars by 2030
China has released its 15th Five-Year Plan, setting a target of integrating AI into 90% of its economy by 2030, with major bets on humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, and autonomous flying vehicles.
AgentCard Launches Virtual Cards That Let AI Agents Buy Anything
AgentCard gives AI agents instant virtual cards to make real-world purchases - from DoorDash orders to API credits - with on-chain crypto payments coming soon.
AWS and Cerebras Partner to Turbocharge AI Inference with Disaggregated Architecture
Amazon Web Services and Cerebras Systems announced a collaboration to deliver what they call the fastest AI inference in the cloud by splitting workloads across Trainium and CS-3 chips.
Tesla Unveils Optimus Gen 3 in Shanghai, Targeting Mass Production by End of 2026
Tesla publicly debuted its third-generation Optimus humanoid robot at AWE 2026 in Shanghai, with on-site staff confirming mass production is planned to begin by the end of 2026.
2026-03-13
27 articles
Custodia Bank Loses Final Fed Master Account Appeal as Kraken Wins First Crypto Access
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Custodia Bank's final bid to challenge the Fed's master account authority — ending years of litigation just days after Kraken became the first crypto firm to receive limited Fed access.
NVIDIA Plans Open-Source AI Agent Platform 'NemoClaw' for GTC 2026
NVIDIA is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, with a full reveal expected at GTC 2026 in San Jose next week.
Tokenized U.S. Treasury Market Hits $11 Billion Record as Circle's USYC Overtakes BlackRock
Circle's USYC tokenized Treasury fund surpassed BlackRock's BUIDL at $2.2 billion, as the total tokenized Treasury market broke the $11 billion mark for the first time.
Amazon's Retail Site Crashed After AI Agent Followed an Outdated Wiki
A series of high-severity outages on Amazon.com — including a 6-hour checkout meltdown — were traced to an AI agent that inferred bad advice from a stale internal wiki.
World's First Military Humanoid Robot Heads to Ukraine Frontlines
Foundation Robotics shipped two Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine in February for reconnaissance testing — the first real-world battlefield evaluation of humanoid soldier technology.
USDC Flips USDT in Transaction Volume for First Time Since 2019
Circle's USDC recorded roughly $2.2 trillion in adjusted transaction volume in 2026 versus $1.3 trillion for Tether's USDT, marking the first time USDC has led since 2019.
MoonPay Agents Now Let AI Trade Crypto While Your Keys Stay on Hardware
MoonPay added Ledger hardware wallet signing to its AI agent CLI, making it the first agent-focused wallet where private keys never leave the device — even as the agent trades autonomously.
ElevenLabs Pledges $1 Billion to Restore 1 Million Voices at SXSW
ElevenLabs launched its '1 Million Voices' initiative at SXSW, committing $1 billion in free AI voice restoration to people with permanent voice loss, anchored by the story of the late actor Eric Dane.
Ethereum Foundation Publishes Formal Mandate Committing to CROPS Principles On-Chain
The Ethereum Foundation released its first formal 'EF Mandate,' codifying its commitment to censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security — and stored the document permanently on the Ethereum blockchain.
Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over Unprecedented 'Supply Chain Risk' Blacklist
Anthropic has filed two federal lawsuits challenging the Pentagon's decision to label it a 'supply chain risk' — a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries — after the company refused to let Claude power autonomous weapons.
Replit Raises $400M at $9B Valuation and Launches Agent 4 with Parallel AI Builds
Replit closed a $400M Series D tripling its valuation to $9B, and unveiled Agent 4 — a multi-agent coding system that runs parallel builds, designs on an infinite canvas, and ships apps 10x faster.
Netflix Pays Up to $600M for Ben Affleck's Stealth AI Filmmaking Startup
Netflix acquired InterPositive, the 16-person AI post-production startup co-founded by Ben Affleck in 2022, in a deal reportedly worth up to $600 million — one of the streaming giant's largest acquisitions ever.
Trader Converts $50M Into $36K in Single Aave Swap After 99% Price Impact
A crypto user swapped $50.4 million in stablecoins through the Aave interface and received roughly $36,000 in AAVE tokens — a 99.9% loss — after ignoring multiple slippage warnings. Arbitrageurs captured over $43 million from the same block.
CFTC Issues First Guidance for Prediction Markets, Kicks Off Formal Rulemaking
The CFTC issued its first staff guidance for prediction market platforms and launched a formal rulemaking process, reversing years of legal opposition to platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.
Meta's Avocado AI Model Pushed to May After Falling Short of Rivals
Meta has delayed its next-generation AI model, codenamed Avocado, to at least May after internal benchmarks show it trails Google's Gemini 3.0 on reasoning, coding, and writing.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen Steps Down After 18 Years Amid AI Pressure
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced he will step down after 18 years as the creative software giant faces mounting investor skepticism over its ability to compete in the AI era.
Claude Now Builds Interactive Visuals Inline — On All Plans
Anthropic has launched inline interactive visualizations in Claude — charts, diagrams, and dynamic widgets that appear inside the chat and evolve with the conversation, available free to all users.
Kraken Launches Open-Source CLI Built for AI Agents with Native MCP Support
Kraken open-sourced a Rust CLI that gives AI agents native access to crypto markets — including a built-in MCP server compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw, plus a paper trading engine for risk-free testing.
systemd Adds AGENTS.md and Claude Code Review to Its Workflow
The release candidate for systemd 260 ships AGENTS.md documentation and a GitHub Actions workflow for automated Claude Code pull request review.
Ukraine Opens World-First Battlefield Data Programme for Drone AI Training
Ukraine's defence minister opened access to millions of annotated combat drone images for allied companies to train AI models — a world-first initiative.
ByteDance Routes Nvidia Blackwell Chips Through Malaysia in $2.5B Deal
TikTok's parent company is deploying ~36,000 Nvidia B200 chips via a Southeast Asian intermediary in Malaysia, a deal valued at over $2.5 billion.
Ethereum Proposes ERC-8183 to Enable Trustless Commerce Between AI Agents
Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation's dAI team proposed ERC-8183, a new on-chain standard that lets autonomous AI agents hire each other, deliver work, and settle payments without human arbitration.
Apple MacBook Neo: A $599 Mac Powered by an iPhone Chip
Apple's MacBook Neo starts at $599 — the company's most affordable laptop ever — and runs on the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone 16 Pro, marking the first time an A-series processor has shipped inside a Mac.
Software Giants Push Back After AI Agents Erase $1 Trillion From SaaS Stocks
Oracle, Salesforce, and Workday executives are rebutting Wall Street fears that AI agents will displace enterprise software — after a nearly $1 trillion rout in SaaS stocks triggered by Anthropic's Claude Cowork agent.
LuxTTS: Open-Source Voice Cloning at 150x Realtime on 1GB VRAM
LuxTTS delivers state-of-the-art voice cloning from just 3 seconds of audio, running at 150x realtime speed while fitting in 1GB of VRAM - all fully open source.
Two-Thirds of U.S. Teens Now Use AI Chatbots — Adults Stay Wary
Pew Research finds 64% of U.S. teens ages 13–17 regularly use AI chatbots, while half of adults say the technology makes them more concerned than excited.
Ai2 Trains Robots Entirely in Simulation — Then Drops Them in the Real World
Allen Institute for AI releases MolmoBot, an open robotic manipulation suite trained purely on synthetic data that transfers zero-shot to real robots.