INDOPACOM Commander Says U.S. Military Is Running a Bitcoin Node
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.
2026-04-23
3 articles
Meta Adds Weekly AI Topic Insights to Teen Account Supervision
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 Centers Cardano Treasury Slate on Leios and Pogun
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.
2026-04-22
9 articles
Google Launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform With Claude Support
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 Launches Workspace Agents in ChatGPT for Team Workflows
OpenAI says ChatGPT teams can now build shared workspace agents that run long workflows across tools, Slack, and internal approvals.
Bank Trade Groups Ask for More Time on GENIUS Stablecoin Rules
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.
GSR’s First ETF Starts Trading on Nasdaq With BTC, ETH, and SOL Exposure
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 Adds OpenAI's GPT Image 2 to AI Gateway
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 Introduces TPU 8i and 8t as Specialized Eighth-Gen AI Chips
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.
Spark TVL Jumps as Aave Sheds More Than $10B After Kelp Shock
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 Sui Vault Exploit Drained About $3.5M From Three Vaults
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 Plans Employee Activity Capture to Train Computer-Using AI Agents
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.
2026-04-21
8 articles
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Images 2.0 With Web-Grounded Generation
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 Raises $40M Seed to Build Self-Learning AI Agents
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 Seeks $3.3B Notes Sale to Fund AI Data Center Buildout
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.
Clarifai Says It Deleted Nearly 3 Million OkCupid Photos After FTC Case
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.
Aave's Ethereum V3 WETH, USDT and USDC Reserves Reach Full Utilization
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 Survey Says 79% of Japanese Institutions Considering Crypto Expect to Invest Within Three Years
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 Security Council Freezes $71M Linked to Kelp Exploit
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 Report Puts rsETH Incident Exposure Between $123.7M and $230.1M
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.
2026-04-20
6 articles
Amazon Deepens Anthropic Deal With $100B AWS Spend Commitment
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 Ends Single-DVN Support After $290M Kelp Exploit
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 Adds Experimental History Editing and Config-Based Hooks
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 AI-Generated Tracks Now Make Up 44% of Daily Uploads
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.
Aave TVL Falls $8.45B After Kelp DAO rsETH Freeze
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 Security Bulletin Pushes Crypto Apps to Rotate API Keys
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.
2026-04-19
3 articles
Honor Autonomous Robot Officially Wins Beijing Humanoid Half Marathon in 50:26
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 Founders Publish Rival Plans to Rebuild Foundation Governance
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 Nears Massena East Site Deal Tied to Bitcoin Mining
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.
2026-04-18
6 articles
Kelp DAO rsETH Bridge Exploit Triggers DeFi Freezes
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 Files Again for Nasdaq IPO Under Ticker CBRS
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 Lands on Solana Through Hex Trust and LayerZero
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 Brings MaxText SFT and RL Workflows to Single-Host TPUs
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 Claude Agents Beat Human Baseline on Weak-to-Strong Alignment Task
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.
Tillis Delays Clarity Act Stablecoin Yield Draft as Senate Timing Slips
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.
2026-04-17
8 articles
OpenAI Loses Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles as Prism Is Folded Into Codex
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.
Google Pushes A2UI v0.9 as a Portable Layer for Agent-Generated UI
Google's A2UI v0.9 update adds a shared web core, an agent SDK, and new protocol features aimed at making agent-generated interfaces easier to ship across existing client frameworks.
Payward to Acquire Bitnomial for Up to $550M to Expand U.S. Crypto Derivatives
Payward says it will acquire Bitnomial for up to $550 million in cash and stock, adding a fully licensed U.S. derivatives stack built for digital assets.
U.S. Government Sends Bitfinex-Seized Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime
Multiple reports citing Arkham data say a U.S. government-labeled wallet sent about 8.2 BTC tied to the Bitfinex hack to Coinbase Prime, with restitution still the more conservative read than an open-market sale.
Perplexity Starts Rolling Out Personal Computer for Mac With Local App, Browser and Voice Control
Perplexity says Personal Computer extends its Computer agent onto macOS, adding local file access, native app control, Comet browser automation, voice mode, and an always-on Mac mini setup.
OpenAI Names First Cybersecurity Grant Recipients as GPT-5.4-Cyber Access Expands
OpenAI says it is widening trusted access to GPT-5.4-Cyber while naming the first recipients of its cybersecurity grant program and adding enterprise and public-sector partners.
Factory Raises $150M Series C at $1.5B Valuation for Enterprise AI Coding
Factory says it raised a $150 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures as competition intensifies in enterprise AI coding tools.
OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind for Life Sciences Research Preview
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Rosalind, a domain-specific reasoning model for biology and drug discovery, and is limiting access to qualified U.S. enterprise customers through a trusted-access research preview.
2026-04-16
7 articles
CFTC Chair Says AI Is Helping the Agency Keep Up With Crypto and Prediction Markets
At a House hearing, CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the agency is using AI and automation as it takes on heavier crypto and prediction-market oversight.
Physical Intelligence Says π0.7 Shows Early Robot Task Generalization
Physical Intelligence says its new π0.7 model can follow coached language instructions for unfamiliar tasks and transfer skills across robot setups without task-specific retraining.
OpenAI Expands Codex With macOS Computer Use, In-App Browser and Memory
OpenAI has rolled out a broader Codex app update that adds macOS computer use, an in-app browser, memory, and task automations for longer-running developer workflows.
Vercel Makes Workflows Generally Available for Durable Agents and Backends
Vercel has made Workflows generally available, packaging durable execution, retries, state, and observability into application code for long-running agents and backend jobs.
Google Adds Single-Host TPU Post-Training to MaxText
Google says MaxText now supports supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on single-host TPU setups, expanding post-training access beyond larger multi-host jobs.
UK FCA Opens Crypto Perimeter Consultation With 24-Hour Custody Line
The UK's FCA has opened a consultation on perimeter guidance for the future crypto regime, including a proposed 24-hour line for temporary settlement custody and tighter interpretations around staking services.
Canva Pushes AI Assistant Toward Agentic Workflows With Connectors and Scheduling
Canva's new Canva AI 2.0 research preview adds tool orchestration, work-app connectors, web research, and scheduled tasks to a single chat-style interface.