Base App Drops Farcaster Mini-App Spec, Goes Full Standard Web
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.
2026-03-12
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Bumble Launches 'Bee,' Its Own AI Model to Replace the Swipe
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.
Santander and Visa Complete Latin America's First Agentic Commerce Pilots
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.
Vitalik Reframes Ethereum From First Principles: A Global Public Bulletin Board
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 Acquires Forethought to Build Self-Improving AI Customer Service Agents
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 Activates Hard Supply Cap and 53.6% Emissions Cut Today
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.
iPhone 17e Brings MagSafe to Apple's Budget Line for the First Time
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 Launches Multi-Agent Code Review for Claude Code
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.
Musk Reveals 'Macrohard': xAI and Tesla's Bet on AI That Can Run Entire Companies
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 Launches Copilot Cowork — an AI Agent Built with Anthropic's Claude
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 Building Internal GitHub Alternative After Outages Strain Microsoft Partnership
OpenAI is reportedly developing its own code repository platform after repeated GitHub outages left engineers unable to commit code for hours at a time.
Vitalik Warns AI Agents Can Be Robbed Through Hidden ENS Jailbreaks
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 Unveils Four Custom AI Chips Built on RISC-V to Power Its Apps
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 Tightens AI Coding Guardrails After Outages Linked to Its Own Tool
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.
Anthropic Launches the Anthropic Institute to Study AI's Societal Risks
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.
U.S. Military Confirms AI Role in Iran Campaign, Using Palantir and Claude
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.
Pokémon Go Maps Power the Next Generation of Delivery Robots
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 Partner on 1GW AI Cloud, Anchored by Vera Rubin GPUs
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.
800,000 Human Brain Cells in a Petri Dish Just Learned to Play DOOM
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.
Rivian Spinout Mind Robotics Raises $500M to Build AI-Powered Factory Robots
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.
2026-03-11
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Apple's M5 MacBooks Launch with 4× On-Device AI Performance Leap
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 Releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B Open-Weight Model Built for Agentic AI
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 Open-Sources Agent Control to Enforce AI Policy at Scale
Galileo's new Agent Control platform lets enterprises write guardrails once and deploy them across all AI agents, released under Apache 2.0.
NVIDIA GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Teases 'World-Surprising' Chips and Agentic AI Era
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 Launches DuClaw, Bringing Zero-Deployment AI Agents to 700 Million Users
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 Made AI Clones of Real Writers Without Permission — The Internet Just Named Them 'Sloppelgangers'
Grammarly's 'Expert Review' feature generates AI feedback using real writers' names without consent, sparking backlash and a new term: sloppelganger.
OpenAI Adds Dynamic Visual Learning for Math and Science in ChatGPT
OpenAI says ChatGPT now uses dynamic visuals and adaptive explanations for math and science learning across Free, Plus, Pro, and Team plans.
Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in Nebius to Build AI Cloud for the Agentic Era
Nvidia announced a $2 billion strategic investment in Nebius Group to develop next-generation hyperscale AI cloud infrastructure, sending NBIS stock up 14%.
Epic Launches Agent Factory as AI Reaches 85% of Its Hospital Network
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 Closes $32B Wiz Deal to Build an AI-Ready Multicloud Security Stack
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 Exits Stealth with $450M Series A and Video-Predictive Robot Platform
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 Releases Gemini Embedding 2 for Multimodal Search and Recommendations
Google introduced Gemini Embedding 2 in public preview, extending embedding support across text and media workflows for search, recommendations, and retrieval tasks.
Amazon's Zoox Partners With Uber for Multi-Year Robotaxi Deal
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 Deploys Eight Gemini AI Agents Inside the Pentagon
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.
Judge Blocks Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent From Accessing Amazon
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 Partner to Enable 24/7 Trading of Tokenized Stocks
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 Opens Health AI to All U.S. Users, Offers Prime Members Free Doctor Visits
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.
China Restricts OpenClaw AI at Banks and State Agencies
Beijing moves to block OpenClaw AI installations on government and state enterprise devices, citing data security risks from the autonomous agent platform.
Karpathy Releases 'Autoresearch': AI Agents That Run 126 ML Experiments Overnight
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.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Signs Multi-Year Deal for 1 Gigawatt of Nvidia Compute
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 Opens Sydney Office to Scale AI Work Across ANZ
Anthropic announced a new Sydney office on March 10, 2026, expanding hiring and enterprise support across Australia and New Zealand.
Google Upgrades Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive
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 Turns Designer Language Into AI Commands and Climbs GitHub Trending
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 Unveils VENTUNO Q: A Single Board for AI, Robotics, and Real-Time Control
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.
Yann LeCun Leaves Meta, Raises $1B to Bet Against LLMs
Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun launches AMI Labs with $1.03 billion in seed funding. His thesis: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence. World models will.
ByteDance Open-Sources DeerFlow 2.0, a 'Super Agent' Framework That Hit #1 on GitHub
ByteDance's DeerFlow 2.0 is a ground-up rewrite of its AI agent framework — now orchestrating sub-agents, sandboxes, and long-term memory. It hit #1 on GitHub Trending and crossed 28,000 stars in under two weeks.
Figure AI's Robot Cleans an Entire Living Room Autonomously — Musk Asks If It's Real
Figure AI demos Helix 02 cleaning a full living room with zero human intervention. Elon Musk publicly questions whether it's truly autonomous. Brett Adcock confirms: fully autonomous.
2026-03-10
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Meta Acquires Moltbook, a Social Network Built for AI Agents
Meta buys Moltbook, a viral social network where AI agents post, discuss, and upvote content autonomously. Co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr join Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Alibaba's PageAgent Puts an AI Agent Inside Your Web Page — No Extension Required
Alibaba open-sources PageAgent, a JavaScript library that embeds an AI agent directly into any web page. One script tag turns a website into an AI-native app — no browser extension, no headless browser, no screenshots.
OKX Launches Open-Source Agent Trade Kit With 82 AI Trading Tools
OKX releases Agent Trade Kit, an open-source MCP server that lets AI agents execute spot, futures, options, and bot trades via natural language.