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TechCrunch and a GlobeNewswire-distributed company announcement say ComfyUI has raised $30 million at a $500 million valuation as demand grows for more controllable AI media workflows.
Google and Anthropic said Google will invest $10 billion up front, with up to $30 billion more tied to milestones, extending a partnership that already includes large TPU compute commitments.
The Ethereum Foundation said it sold 10,000 ETH to BitMine in an over-the-counter deal worth about $23.9 million to help fund research, ecosystem development, and grants.
Meta says it will deploy AWS Graviton processors at scale, starting with tens of millions of cores for CPU-heavy agentic AI workloads.
NVIDIA says more than 10,000 employees are already using GPT-5.5-powered Codex, offering a concrete look at how a large company is packaging coding agents for internal use.
Vercel has added DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash to AI Gateway, giving developers a same-day path to route the new 1M-context models through Vercel's unified control layer.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched a government money market fund tailored to payment stablecoin issuers seeking an eligible reserve vehicle.
Wisconsin filed three lawsuits arguing sports-related event contracts offered by prediction market platforms amount to illegal gambling under state law.
Google's AI Edge Gallery 1.0.12 adds an NPU mode for Gemma 3 1B on supported Qualcomm phones, giving developers a simpler way to test LiteRT-backed local inference.
Sierra said it has acquired Paris-based Fragment, a YC-backed startup focused on AI-assisted operations software, as the enterprise agent company expands further into Europe.
Aave says service providers are coordinating a DeFi United relief effort to restore rsETH backing, starting with a Lido proposal for up to 2,500 stETH and a separate 5,000 ETH pledge from Stani Kulechov.
OpenAI has started rolling out GPT-5.5 to paid ChatGPT and Codex users, positioning the model as a stronger tool for coding, computer use, and research-heavy work.
Era says it is building the intelligence layer for physical devices, and TechCrunch reports the startup has raised $11 million to date.
Tether said it froze more than $344 million in USDT across two Tron wallets in coordination with OFAC and U.S. law enforcement after authorities flagged the addresses.
Adm. Samuel Paparo told a House panel that INDOPACOM is running a Bitcoin node for monitoring and operational tests focused on securing networks, not for mining.
Meta says parents supervising Teen Accounts can now see the general topics their teens asked Meta AI about over the past week across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.
Input Output has posted nine Cardano treasury proposals totaling about ₳162.1 million, led by a Leios scaling package and the Pogun Bitcoin DeFi initiative.
Google has launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as the new control layer for enterprise agents, with built-in governance tooling and support for Anthropic's Claude models.
OpenAI says ChatGPT teams can now build shared workspace agents that run long workflows across tools, Slack, and internal approvals.
U.S. bank trade groups are pushing Treasury and the FDIC to slow overlapping GENIUS Act rulemakings, arguing institutions cannot evaluate the proposals cleanly until the OCC finalizes its own framework.
Nasdaq began listing GSR’s Crypto Core3 ETF under ticker BESO on April 22, giving investors a new regulated fund tied to bitcoin, ether, and solana.
Vercel has added OpenAI's gpt-image-2 to AI Gateway, letting teams route image generation and editing through the same layer they use for model access, usage tracking, and failover.
Google says its eighth-generation TPU line splits into TPU 8i for fast agent-style inference and TPU 8t for large-scale training on a massive shared memory pool.
DefiLlama data shows Spark added roughly $870 million while Aave lost more than $10 billion after the Kelp DAO rsETH incident froze markets and pushed users toward simpler DeFi exposure.
Volo says an exploit drained roughly $3.5 million from three Sui-based vaults holding WBTC, XAUm, and USDC, while the protocol says other vaults remain unaffected.
Meta says it will capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and some screenshots from certain employee work apps to improve AI agents that can use computers.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 adds web-grounded thinking, stronger multilingual text rendering, and up to 2K output as it rolls out across ChatGPT and Codex.
NeoCognition has emerged from stealth with a $40 million seed round, pitching enterprise agents that learn the structure of a work environment and specialize over time.
Core Scientific said it plans to offer $3.3 billion of senior secured notes due 2031, using the financing to repay bridge debt and help keep several AI data center projects on schedule.
Reuters reports Clarifai deleted nearly 3 million OkCupid photos and related facial-recognition models after an FTC case over how the dating app shared user data in 2014.
Aavescan data shows Aave's Ethereum V3 WETH, USDT and USDC reserves were fully borrowed on April 22 in Seoul, leaving little to no idle liquidity in those pools after the Kelp DAO rsETH shock.
Nomura and Laser Digital say 79% of Japanese institutions already considering crypto expect to invest within three years, usually at portfolio weights between 2% and under 5%.
Arbitrum says its Security Council has frozen 30,766 ETH tied to the Kelp DAO exploit, moving the funds into a governance-controlled intermediary wallet.
Aave service providers say the protocol's exposure from the Kelp DAO rsETH incident ranges from about $123.7 million to $230.1 million, depending on how losses are allocated across chains.
Amazon said it will invest $5 billion in Anthropic immediately, with up to $20 billion more tied to milestones, as Anthropic commits to spend over $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next decade.
LayerZero says it will stop supporting 1-of-1 verifier setups after the Kelp DAO exploit, while Kelp disputes who is responsible for the bridge configuration.
Git 2.54 introduces an experimental git history command, lets hooks be defined in config files, and makes geometric maintenance the default for manual runs.
Deezer says nearly 75,000 fully AI-generated tracks now hit its platform each day, a sharp rise that is reshaping music moderation and royalty protection.
DefiLlama data shows Aave's total value locked fell by about $8.45 billion in two days after Kelp DAO paused rsETH contracts and Aave froze the affected markets.
Vercel says a third-party AI tool compromise led to unauthorized access to internal systems, prompting teams that run crypto frontends on the platform to review logs and rotate exposed credentials.
An autonomous humanoid robot from Honor officially won Beijing E-Town's 2026 robot half marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds under the event's published weighted scoring rules.
Neo co-founders Da Hongfei and Erik Zhang have published competing governance reform plans, exposing how much of the chain's stewardship still depends on founder-controlled structures.
Alcoa says its Massena East smelter site is the most advanced of its idled-asset monetization projects, while Bloomberg and CoinDesk report NYDIG is the likely buyer for a bitcoin mining and data center buildout.
Kelp DAO paused rsETH contracts after suspicious cross-chain activity, while Aave froze rsETH markets and outside reporting pegged the apparent exploit at about $292 million.
Cerebras has publicly filed again for a Nasdaq IPO, saying it plans to trade as CBRS as the AI infrastructure company returns to the market after withdrawing its earlier attempt.
Wrapped XRP is now available on Solana through Hex Trust and LayerZero, giving XRP holders a new path into Solana trading and liquidity apps without selling the underlying asset.
Google says MaxText can now run supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning workflows on single-host TPU setups, lowering the hardware bar for post-training open models.
Anthropic says a team of Claude Opus 4.6 agents outperformed a human baseline on a weak-to-strong supervision benchmark, while still falling short of a clear production-scale breakthrough.
Sen. Thom Tillis no longer expects to release the Clarity Act's revised stablecoin yield text this week, extending a dispute that is still holding up the broader bill.
TechCrunch and WIRED report that Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company folds Prism and other science work into teams tied more closely to Codex.