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Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of four open models under Apache 2.0 that outperforms models 20x its size on industry benchmarks — with built-in vision, audio, and native agentic workflow support.
MLCommons released MLPerf Inference v6.0 with its most significant benchmark overhaul yet, adding the suite's first text-to-video generation test alongside DeepSeek-R1, GPT-OSS 120B, and Shopify VLM workloads.
New testnet results show replacing Solana's signatures with quantum-resistant alternatives slows the network by roughly 90% — exposing a fundamental tradeoff between security and the speed Solana built its reputation on.
Kyushu University researchers achieved 130% quantum yield in solar energy conversion using singlet fission, breaking the Shockley-Queisser limit that physicists once called an uncrossable ceiling.
Elliptic flagged the largest DeFi hack of 2026 as a likely DPRK-linked operation, while Circle faced backlash for not freezing $232 million in USDC during the exploit.
Google's quantum vulnerability whitepaper singled out Algorand as a real-world example of post-quantum cryptography in production, sending ALGO up 44% over the past week.
Researchers published the first systematic framework for 'AI agent traps' — adversarial content embedded in websites, emails, and data stores designed to manipulate autonomous agents into harmful behavior.
Utah approved a one-year pilot letting Legion Health's AI chatbot autonomously renew 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications without physician review.
Block Inc. is bringing back the Bitcoin faucet on April 6, dubbed 'Bitcoin Day,' allowing users to earn small amounts of BTC — reviving a 2010 tradition that originally distributed nearly 20,000 BTC for free.
Anvil Robotics closed a $5.5M seed round to build modular, open-source robots that ship in 48 hours — starting at $1,900 — making physical AI accessible to teams without nine-figure R&D budgets.
Anthropic is cutting off Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their plans with OpenClaw and other third-party agentic tools, effective April 4 at 12pm PT.
DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model will be optimized for Huawei's Ascend chips, with Chinese tech giants placing bulk orders of hundreds of thousands of units.
The Ethereum Foundation staked $93 million of ETH in a single day, completing its 70,000 ETH target and converting dormant treasury into a yield-generating position.
Security firm Calif's 'Month of AI-Discovered Bugs' initiative has used Claude to uncover over 500 high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities in production open-source software, including working exploits for Vim, FreeBSD, and Firefox.
Dmail Network, a decentralized email platform active since 2021, will cease all services on May 15 after failing to monetize and facing insurmountable infrastructure costs.
Mark Zuckerberg is personally writing and committing code to Meta's monorepo for the first time in two decades, using Anthropic's Claude Code CLI as his primary tool.
A $10 billion AI training data startup that serves OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta has confirmed a security breach linked to the LiteLLM supply-chain attack, prompting Meta to indefinitely halt all projects with the company.
Charles Schwab confirms it will offer direct spot Bitcoin and Ether trading in the first half of 2026, bringing crypto access to nearly $12 trillion in client assets.
OpenAI CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo steps away for medical leave while COO Brad Lightcap moves to special projects and CMO Kate Rouch exits to focus on cancer recovery.
Elon Musk is requiring banks, law firms, and advisers working on SpaceX's record-breaking IPO to purchase subscriptions to Grok, his AI chatbot now under the SpaceX umbrella.
Take-Two Interactive, parent of Rockstar Games and Zynga, has laid off its head of AI Luke Dicken and his entire team - despite the CEO claiming the company is 'actively embracing' generative AI.
Microsoft releases a seven-package, MIT-licensed toolkit that brings OS-style runtime security to autonomous AI agents, addressing all 10 OWASP agentic AI risks with sub-millisecond policy enforcement.
Netflix's first public AI model removes objects from video while fixing the physics - if you erase a person holding a guitar, VOID makes the guitar fall naturally.
A 135-page class-action lawsuit accuses Perplexity of secretly embedding ad trackers that shared user conversations with Google and Meta - even in Incognito mode.
Generalist AI's GEN-1 model achieves 99% task success rates on physical tasks where its predecessor scored 64%, marking what the company calls a shift from research prototype to commercial viability.
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI opens global registration for URKL, a professional humanoid robot fighting league with a $1.39 million top prize and a December 2026 world championship.
Beijing-based Galaxea AI closed a $290 million Series B+ round, doubling its valuation to over $2.9 billion as China's humanoid robot race heats up.
Tesla has officially stopped producing the Model S and Model X, ending a 14-year production run with roughly 600 vehicles remaining in global inventory as the Fremont factory converts to Optimus robot manufacturing.
The world's largest publisher filed suit in Munich after ChatGPT generated text and images 'virtually indistinguishable' from a beloved German children's book series.
Alibaba's Qwen AI glasses receive their first major OTA update, shifting from question-answering to real-world task execution with Taobao and Alipay integration - order coffee, unlock bikes, and pay for parking with a glance and a voice command.
Coinbase receives conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust company charter, moving closer to becoming a federally regulated crypto custodian.
Samsung Electronics is expected to report a six-fold jump in Q1 operating profit to 40.5 trillion won ($26.9B), nearly matching its entire 2025 earnings in a single quarter.
Oracle has begun laying off up to 30,000 employees globally, roughly 18% of its workforce, to redirect billions toward AI data center infrastructure.
Microsoft announces a 1.6 trillion yen investment in Japan through 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to expand AI computing capacity and train one million engineers.
A 30-person San Francisco startup bet half its funding on a single training run and produced Trinity Large Thinking, a 400B-parameter open model now ranked #2 on agent benchmarks.
X Square Robot partners with 58.com to offer China's first consumer humanoid robot cleaning service, pairing AI-powered machines with human cleaners in real Shenzhen households.
The DOJ and CFTC filed lawsuits against Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut, arguing the federal government has exclusive authority to regulate prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
The Verifereum project is nearing completion of formal verification for Vyper's entire compilation pipeline, a first for any smart contract language.
X will auto-lock any account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time, requiring identity verification before re-posting - a move its Head of Product says will kill 99% of phishing incentive.
Anthropic has quietly acquired Coefficient Bio, an eight-month-old stealth startup building AI models for biological research, in an all-stock deal worth over $400 million.
Clanker announces the Clanker Ecosystem Fund, redirecting protocol fees from $8M in CLANKER buybacks to directly fund builders and creators in the Farcaster ecosystem.
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock reveals on the Shawn Ryan Show why he killed the OpenAI collaboration, saying his team 'ran circles' around OpenAI's engineers and the partnership delivered zero value beyond branding.
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 for commercial use on its Foundry platform, undercutting rivals on price as Mustafa Suleyman pivots fully to superintelligence research.
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the daily tech talk show dubbed 'Silicon Valley's newest obsession,' signaling an unusual push into media ownership while promising editorial independence.
OpenAI has partnered with adtech firm Smartly to build interactive, conversational ad formats inside ChatGPT that can respond to users in real time.
Cursor launches version 3.0, a ground-up redesign that transforms the AI coding IDE into a multi-agent orchestration platform for parallel development.
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight models with native agentic capabilities, now under Apache 2.0 license — running everywhere from Raspberry Pi to H100 GPUs.
Postquant Labs launches the first publicly available testnet where quantum processors, GPUs, and CPUs work side by side on blockchain tasks, drawing 13,000 sign-ups from MIT, Stanford, and other institutions.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus with a 1M context window and agentic coding capabilities rivaling Claude Opus 4.5 on SWE-bench, marking the company's third major model launch in a single week.
SpaceX has filed a confidential IPO with the SEC, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raise - over three times the largest U.S. IPO ever.