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The Pentagon said it signed new agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS and Reflection to deploy frontier AI capabilities on classified networks, expanding its vendor roster to eight companies.
Tether said it earned about $1.04 billion in net profit in Q1 2026, while its excess reserves backing USDT rose to $8.23 billion.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open-weight multimodal model that combines document, image, video, audio, and text understanding in a single agent-oriented system.
Microsoft has started previewing a Legal Agent in Word that reviews contracts against playbooks, preserves tracked changes, and shows citations for its suggestions.
SBI Holdings says it has submitted a letter of intent to acquire shares in Bitbank and has started talks on a capital and business alliance with the Japanese crypto exchange.
Vercel has added xAI's Grok 4.3 to AI Gateway, giving teams a managed way to route the latest Grok model through the same layer they use for usage tracking, retries, and provider failover.
Mistral has added cloud-run coding agents to Vibe and made Medium 3.5 the default model behind those sessions in public preview.
Google has moved Gemini Embedding 2 into general availability, giving developers a production-supported way to index text, images, audio, video, and PDFs in one embedding space.
Apple reported $8.4 billion in March-quarter Mac revenue, up 6% year over year despite supply constraints, while telling investors that developers and researchers are increasingly using Macs for local AI and agentic workloads.
Legora says it has added a $50 million extension to its Series D, bringing the round to $600 million and the legal AI company's post-money valuation to $5.6 billion as NVentures and Atlassian come aboard.
Figure says its BotQ facility has increased Figure 03 output from one robot per day to one per hour, with more than 350 units delivered so far.
Goodfire has introduced Silico, an early-access platform that aims to help teams inspect model internals, diagnose failures, and make targeted interventions during training and fine-tuning.
Under oath in federal court, Elon Musk said xAI had partly used OpenAI models in work related to Grok, adding a public example to the AI industry's fight over model distillation.
Gemini says affiliate Gemini Olympus has received a CFTC derivatives clearing organization license, giving the exchange in-house clearing for regulated prediction markets and a clearer path toward broader U.S. derivatives products.
Google says PyTorch workloads on Google Cloud can train faster with a new gcsfs integration for Rapid Buckets, a Colossus-backed storage path designed to reduce data-loading and checkpoint bottlenecks.
Spotify says a new Verified by Spotify badge will roll out over the coming weeks to reviewed artist profiles, while AI-generated or AI-persona artist profiles are not eligible at launch.
Coinbase Asset Management said a new stablecoin fund called CUSHY will launch with an onchain share class using Superstate's FundOS platform.
MARA said it will acquire Long Ridge Energy & Power for roughly $1.5 billion, adding a gas plant and Ohio campus it plans to expand for AI and critical IT workloads.
AllUnity said its MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin EURAU is expanding to Solana and additional DEX venues, with Flowdesk providing liquidity for new cross-chain trading pools.
Wasabi Protocol told users not to interact with its contracts after Blockaid disclosed an ongoing admin-key exploit affecting Wasabi vaults and LongPool on Ethereum and Base.
Reuters, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch all point to the same unannounced SoftBank plan: a new U.S. company called Roze focused on AI robotics and data center buildout.
Mayo Clinic says its REDMOD model found pancreatic cancer signals on routine CT scans a median of 16 months before diagnosis, but the system is still headed for prospective clinical testing.
Alphabet said Google Cloud passed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, but near-term compute limits kept the business from meeting all demand.
Parallel Web Systems says it has raised a $100 million Series B led by Sequoia, valuing the AI web-search infrastructure startup at $2 billion.
Meta has begun offering select creators in Colombia and the Philippines USDC payouts to third-party wallets on Solana and Polygon.
Visa added five more blockchains to its stablecoin settlement pilot, bringing the network count to nine as annualized volume reached a $7 billion run rate.
Securitize and Computershare say U.S.-listed companies can now issue issuer-sponsored tokenized shares alongside traditional stock, with Computershare handling transfer-agent duties and corporate actions.
Quip Network says its new Arch-based wallet gives Bitcoin holders a way to adopt WOTS+-style post-quantum protection without waiting for a soft fork.
Scout AI says it has raised a $100 million Series A to expand Fury, its model stack for coordinating unmanned military systems across air and ground operations.
GM says model-year 2022 and newer vehicles with Google built-in will receive Gemini through over-the-air updates, expanding the assistant to roughly 4 million eligible cars in the U.S.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model for document, screen, audio, and video workloads that the company says can reduce the number of models needed inside agent systems.
PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the company's production database through Railway's API, prompting Railway to patch a legacy delete path.
AWS and OpenAI have put OpenAI models, Codex, and a new managed agent service into Amazon Bedrock in limited preview for enterprise customers.
Amazon has updated its Hear the highlights feature with a live AI Q&A mode that lets U.S. shoppers ask product questions by text or voice while listening to audio summaries.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a 30B-class open multimodal model aimed at the perception layer of agent workflows across video, audio, documents, and text.
Galaxy Digital says it has delivered the first Helios data hall to CoreWeave and started recognizing lease revenue, turning its Texas campus into a live AI infrastructure business while Q1 crypto weakness still drove a $216 million net loss.
Google's latest AI Edge Gallery release adds Gemma 3 1B NPU support on supported Qualcomm Android phones, extending its LiteRT push for faster local inference.
Israel's capital markets regulator has approved a limited launch of BILS, a shekel-backed stablecoin from Bits of Gold, under strict reserve, reporting, and supervision requirements.
Google has introduced Agents CLI, a command-line tool and skill bundle for coding assistants that scaffold, evaluate, and deploy agents on Google Cloud.
Western Union said its USDPT stablecoin is expected to launch next month, starting as an internal settlement rail for agents rather than as a consumer token.
Aave service providers have proposed a 25,000 ETH treasury contribution to the rsETH recovery effort, while Arbitrum governance weighs releasing another 30,765.67 ETH frozen after the exploit.
Western Union says its USDPT stablecoin is nearing launch and will first be used to settle with agents as an alternative to parts of the SWIFT-based banking flow behind its remittance network.
Former DeepMind reinforcement learning lead David Silver has launched Ineffable Intelligence with a $1.1 billion seed round backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, and UK public investors.
Solana says Anza and Firedancer independently converged on Falcon signatures, giving the network a more concrete post-quantum migration path without triggering immediate protocol changes.
China's top economic planner has ordered the parties behind Meta's planned Manus acquisition to withdraw the deal, escalating scrutiny of cross-border AI transactions.
The EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia adds a sector-wide ban on Russia-based crypto platforms and explicitly targets the RUBx stablecoin and digital ruble support.
Paul Sztorc is proposing an August Bitcoin fork called eCash that would add Drivechains and pre-assign part of the new chain's Satoshi-linked balances to early backers.
Anthropic's Project Deal experiment put Claude agents in a weeklong internal marketplace, where they negotiated 186 real transactions and exposed measurable gaps between stronger and weaker models.
Vercel has added GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro to AI Gateway, giving teams a managed path to route OpenAI's latest coding- and agent-focused models through the same control layer they already use for monitoring, retries, and failover.
Cohere says it plans to acquire Aleph Alpha, pairing its enterprise AI stack with the German firm's public-sector and regulated-market footprint in Europe.