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BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust (ETHB) began trading on Nasdaq on March 12, combining spot ETH exposure with onchain staking rewards — a regulatory first for the world's largest asset manager.
Optimism's core development firm cuts 20 staff to do 'fewer things exceptionally well' — not a financial crisis, says CEO.
UK self-driving startup Wayve has teamed up with Uber and Nissan to pilot autonomous taxi services in Tokyo by late 2026, marking Uber's first AV partnership in Japan.
Sunday hits unicorn status with a $165M Series B to deploy its household robot Memo — designed to do laundry, clear dishes, and handle everyday chores — to real homes by late 2026.
At its first-ever Ask 2026 developer conference, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer — software that transforms a Mac mini into an always-on AI agent that orchestrates 20 frontier models to execute tasks around the clock.
Hume AI released TADA, an open-source text-to-speech model with a novel architecture that synchronizes text and audio one-to-one, eliminating hallucinations and running 5x faster than comparable systems.
Base is moving its app platform off Farcaster's mini-app spec and Neynar infrastructure by April 9, replacing it with standard web tooling and a new Base.dev developer dashboard.
Bumble unveiled Bee, an in-house AI model that learns users' values and goals through private conversations to find compatible matches — and plans to test removing the swipe entirely.
Banco Santander and Visa completed AI-agent-driven purchase transactions across five Latin American markets — the first end-to-end agentic commerce pilots in the region.
After attending Real World Crypto, Vitalik Buterin argues Ethereum's deepest value isn't smart contracts — it's serving as a censorship-resistant, globally shared public bulletin board.
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a 2018 TechCrunch Battlefield winner that pioneered AI customer service before ChatGPT existed, to build agents that learn and improve autonomously from every interaction.
Polkadot's runtime upgrade v2.1.0 went live today, writing a 2.1 billion DOT hard cap into the protocol and launching a new Dynamic Allocation Pool — the network's biggest economic overhaul since launch.
Apple's iPhone 17e went on sale March 11 at $599, marking the first time MagSafe wireless charging has appeared on the company's entry-level iPhone — alongside an A19 chip and a 48MP camera.
Anthropic's new Code Review feature deploys a team of parallel AI agents on every pull request to catch logic errors before they hit production, targeting enterprise teams flooded by AI-generated code.
Elon Musk announced 'Macrohard'—a joint Tesla-xAI AI agent project—just hours after Business Insider reported the effort had stalled internally amid leadership turnover.
Microsoft's 'Wave 3' Copilot update introduces Copilot Cowork, a multi-step AI agent built in collaboration with Anthropic that autonomously executes tasks across Outlook, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint.
OpenAI is reportedly developing its own code repository platform after repeated GitHub outages left engineers unable to commit code for hours at a time.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warns that AI agents holding crypto wallets are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks hidden inside ENS profiles — a threat that no current solution fully solves.
Meta revealed four new MTIA processors built on RISC-V architecture and manufactured by TSMC, designed to power AI inference and recommendation systems across Facebook and Instagram.
Amazon imposed new code-review safeguards after a series of e-commerce outages, with at least one disruption traced to its own AI coding assistant Q.
Amid its legal battle with the Pentagon, Anthropic launched the Anthropic Institute — a new internal think tank of 30 researchers focused on AI's impact on jobs, economies, and democratic control.
CENTCOM commander confirmed AI tools including Palantir's Maven Smart System—built on Anthropic's Claude—are accelerating targeting processes in Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
Niantic Spatial is putting its 30-billion-image map of the world — built from years of Pokémon Go players scanning city streets — to work inside Coco Robotics' sidewalk delivery fleet.
NVIDIA and Thinking Machines announced a strategic infrastructure partnership: a 1-gigawatt DGX Cloud cluster and early deployment of NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems for a new frontier-model platform.
Cortical Labs launches the world's first Biological Data Centre in Melbourne with 120 internet-connected CL1 units — and developers are already using living neurons to play DOOM through the Cortical Cloud API.
Mind Robotics, founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, closed a $500M Series A co-led by Accel and a16z, reaching a $2B valuation as it bets on AI-trained industrial robots over humanoids.
Apple's M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro went on sale today, featuring Neural Accelerators in every GPU core and a claimed 4× boost in AI compute over the previous generation.
Nvidia launched Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter open-weight model delivering 5x higher throughput for multi-agent AI systems, alongside a revealed $26 billion five-year investment in open-weight AI development.
Galileo's new Agent Control platform lets enterprises write guardrails once and deploy them across all AI agents, released under Apache 2.0.
NVIDIA's annual developer conference kicks off March 16 in San Jose, with CEO Jensen Huang promising chips 'the world has never seen before' and a full-stack agentic AI roadmap.
Baidu AI Cloud has launched DuClaw, a hosted OpenClaw service that lets anyone spin up an AI agent in a browser with no deployment experience required, priced at RMB 17.8 (~$2.50) per month for first-time users.
Grammarly's 'Expert Review' feature generates AI feedback using real writers' names without consent, sparking backlash and a new term: sloppelganger.
OpenAI says ChatGPT now uses dynamic visuals and adaptive explanations for math and science learning across Free, Plus, Pro, and Team plans.
Nvidia announced a $2 billion strategic investment in Nebius Group to develop next-generation hyperscale AI cloud infrastructure, sending NBIS stock up 14%.
At HIMSS 2026, Epic Systems unveiled Agent Factory and the Curiosity foundation model family, while reporting that over 85% of its customers now actively use its AI suite.
Google finalized its Wiz acquisition on March 11, 2026, and says the combined platform will use AI to detect and respond to threats across multicloud environments.
Rhoda AI emerged from 18 months in stealth with $450 million in funding and FutureVision, a robot intelligence platform that learns to anticipate the physical world by studying hundreds of millions of internet videos.
Google introduced Gemini Embedding 2 in public preview, extending embedding support across text and media workflows for search, recommendations, and retrieval tasks.
Zoox and Uber announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy Zoox's fully electric robotaxis on the Uber platform in Las Vegas this summer — marking Zoox's first deal with a third-party ride-hailing service.
Google launched eight Gemini-powered AI agents on GenAI.mil for over 3 million US Defense Department personnel, filling a gap left by Anthropic's exclusion from Pentagon AI contracts.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Perplexity's Comet AI browser from Amazon's platform, ruling the startup accessed the e-commerce giant's systems without authorization.
Nasdaq and Kraken announced the Equities Transformation Gateway, a blockchain bridge designed to let investors trade tokenized blue-chip stocks around the clock with near-instant settlement.
Amazon expanded its agentic Health AI assistant from One Medical exclusivity to Amazon.com and the app, giving all U.S. users access and Prime members up to five free consultations.
Beijing moves to block OpenClaw AI installations on government and state enterprise devices, citing data security risks from the autonomous agent platform.
Andrej Karpathy open-sourced a 630-line Python tool that lets AI agents autonomously run hundreds of machine learning experiments on a single GPU while you sleep.
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Nvidia that includes deploying at least one gigawatt of Vera Rubin GPU systems starting in 2027.
Anthropic announced a new Sydney office on March 10, 2026, expanding hiring and enterprise support across Australia and New Zealand.
Google rolled out major Gemini AI updates to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, letting users generate full documents and spreadsheets from email and file context.
Impeccable is surging on GitHub with roughly 3,800 stars and a design-focused skill pack for Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Copilot that tries to make AI-generated interfaces look less generic.
Arduino's new VENTUNO Q packs a 40 TOPS AI processor and a real-time microcontroller onto one board, targeting developers building autonomous robots and offline AI systems.