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A new White House executive order asks the Federal Reserve to evaluate whether nonbank fintech and digital-asset firms can get more direct access to Reserve Bank payment accounts and services.
Google moved its Tensor ML SDK into beta, tying Pixel 10 TPU deployment to LiteRT and a model garden for on-device AI apps.
Google DeepMind says its Genie 3 world model can generate real-time interactive environments grounded in Google Maps Street View data, while still warning that exact real-world location simulation remains limited.
Vercel says Claude Managed Agents can now run tool calls inside Vercel Sandbox sessions with Firecracker isolation and firewall-brokered credentials.
Echo Protocol says a compromised admin key on its Monad eBTC deployment led to unauthorized minting and about $816,000 in impacted funds.
SandboxAQ says its first LLM-to-LQM integration is live, giving researchers natural-language access to its AQCat Adsorption Spin model for catalyst screening.
Minnesota's new Chapter 93 lets state-chartered banks and credit unions offer virtual-currency custody starting August 1, provided they give notice and keep customer assets segregated.
The Senate Banking Committee advanced H.R. 3633 in a 15-9 vote, moving the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act toward the Senate floor with its stablecoin-yield limits and broader market-structure framework intact.
Official Firedancer docs and release notes show Solana's rollout is advancing through mainnet-ready Frankendancer builds while the full from-scratch validator still has no public release.
Vercel has added a provider-sorting option to AI Gateway so developers can rank model backends by cost, time to first token, or throughput at request time.
Google has added Genkit middleware for retries, model fallbacks, tool approval, skills, and scoped filesystem access as it pushes the framework toward production agent workloads.
IREN closed a $3.0 billion convertible senior notes offering, giving the AI cloud provider fresh capital for working capital and broader corporate needs as it expands data center and GPU capacity.
Vercel now lets developers describe custom firewall rules in natural language, then review the generated WAF configuration in the dashboard or through its CLI flow.
Google and Arm published a new LiteRT-based workflow for running Stability AI's Stable Audio Open Small locally, including quantization guidance and benchmark data for Arm CPUs.
Google has added a middleware layer to Genkit so agent developers can attach retries, model fallbacks, tool approval, filesystem access, and other controls around generation calls.
Google has published a concrete ADK example showing how long-running agents can persist state, sleep through idle periods, and resume from external events.
Solana’s proposed Alpenglow consensus overhaul is now running on a community test cluster, giving validators a live environment to test the new design before any mainnet rollout.
Vercel has added natural-language generation for WAF custom rules and new CLI controls for reviewing and publishing firewall changes.
CMS says its 10-year ACCESS model will pay for technology-supported chronic-care programs on outcomes, a structure some AI care startups see as a long-missing reimbursement path.
A new SEC filing shows JPMorgan preparing an Ethereum-based tokenized money market fund that holds Treasuries and overnight repo while routing token operations through Kinexys.
The Ethereum Foundation and wallet-security partners launched a clear-signing framework built around draft ERC-7730 to make transaction approvals readable before users sign.
Galaxy and Sharplink say they plan to launch a $125 million fund that would deploy part of Sharplink's staked ETH treasury into DeFi yield strategies under a non-binding MOU.
Google says its redesigned Finance beta is rolling out across Europe with local language support, adding AI research, live earnings transcripts, and richer charting tools.
Vercel says its Sandbox firewall can now proxy selected outbound requests and filter them with path, method, query, and header matchers.
The Stratum V2 working group added seven new members, and five of the newly participating operators currently account for about three quarters of recent Bitcoin mining pool share.
Google highlighted UCSD research showing DFlash running inside the vLLM TPU stack with a 3.13x average throughput gain on TPU v5p benchmarks.
BlackRock has filed SEC paperwork for a new tokenized stablecoin reserve fund and an onchain share class for an existing Treasury liquidity fund.
A New York federal judge modified the restraining notice on Arbitrum's frozen rsETH exploit funds so an onchain transfer to an Aave LLC-controlled wallet can proceed without voiding the underlying claim.
Cloudflare paired a 34% year-over-year revenue jump with a plan to cut roughly 1,100 employees, saying its own heavy use of AI has changed how the company operates.
Payward, Kraken's parent company, has applied for an OCC national trust company charter that would create a federally regulated digital-asset custody entity alongside its Wyoming bank.
Anthropic has added a research-preview dreaming system plus new outcomes, multiagent orchestration, and webhook features to Claude Managed Agents.
Arbitrum voters approved releasing 30,765.67 ETH frozen after the rsETH exploit, but the constitutional proposal still faces waiting periods and an active court fight.
OpenAI has added three new Realtime API audio models for voice agents, live translation, and low-latency transcription.
GitHub says its internal agentic workflows became materially cheaper after adding token auditing, trimming unused MCP tools, and moving deterministic GitHub reads into CLI steps.
Kodiak AI said it has secured $100 million in PIPE financing priced at $6.50 a share, while reporting Q1 revenue growth and expanded paid driverless truck operations.
Coinbase reported a weaker first quarter as trading volume fell, but stablecoin, subscription, and derivatives businesses continued to soften the blow.
AWS has launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments in preview, letting AI agents pay for APIs, MCP servers, and web content through x402 with Coinbase and Stripe wallet support.
Google says its Gemini-powered Health Coach will leave preview on May 19 as part of the rebranded Google Health Premium subscription.
Solv Protocol says it is deprecating LayerZero support for several SolvBTC bridges and standardizing on Chainlink CCIP after a new security review.
Bitwise will become investment manager of Superstate's USCC on June 1, while the fund stays on Superstate's tokenized FundOS rails across Ethereum, Solana, and Plume.
Payward, Kraken’s parent company, said it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Reap, adding stablecoin-native card issuing and cross-border payments infrastructure to its B2B platform.
Core Scientific reported that colocation revenue rose to $77.5 million in Q1, surpassing its self-mining business as the company keeps redirecting power and capital toward AI data center contracts.
BNY is taking its digital-asset custody strategy into Abu Dhabi, with bitcoin and ether first as the bank deepens its regulated presence in ADGM.
Google says Chrome's multi-gigabyte weights.bin download is the Gemini Nano model for on-device AI, and points users to a new setting that can disable and remove it.
Snap says it amicably ended its Perplexity relationship in Q1, removing expected revenue from the planned AI search integration inside Snapchat.
Bloomberg reported Microsoft is considering whether to delay or abandon its 2030 hourly clean-power matching target as AI data center growth strains energy planning, while the company says it still aims to maintain annual matching.
Anthropic says a new SpaceX compute agreement will bring more than 300 megawatts of capacity from Colossus 1 online within a month, alongside higher Claude usage limits.
Braintrust says it contained a security incident involving unauthorized AWS account access and asked customers to rotate any API keys stored with the platform.
Google is rolling out five updates to AI Mode and AI Overviews, including previews from public discussions, inline citations, and highlighted links for users' news subscriptions.
Genesis AI has introduced its GENE-26.5 robotics model alongside a human-scale robotic hand and glove system aimed at collecting higher-quality manipulation data.