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Los Angeles Superior Court is testing Learned Hand, an AI system that summarizes filings and generates draft rulings for civil judges, as AI-assisted legal filings surge 49% in the past year.
The agent harness optimization toolkit crossed 98K GitHub stars and launched selective installation, 12 language ecosystems, and AgentShield security scanning in its latest release.
As major AI training datasets lock down access, a new global gig economy has emerged — thousands of people micro-licensing their voices, faces, and daily lives to feed the next generation of models.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is developing a personal AI agent to handle executive tasks — bypassing the organizational layers he'd normally have to work through.
An open-source AI agent system that autonomously runs penetration tests using 20+ professional hacking tools is trending on GitHub during RSAC 2026 week.
An offline survival computer bundling local AI, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and maps shot from zero to nearly 10,000 GitHub stars in days.
Flooded by LLM-generated fake bug reports, cURL shut down its bug bounty program. Now Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others are pledging $12.5M to clean up the mess.
Researchers at Northwestern University used AI to evolve modular robots that adapt to any terrain, right themselves when flipped, and keep moving even after being chopped in half.
A developer built a pure C/Metal inference engine that runs a 397 billion parameter model on a MacBook Pro from its SSD at 4.4 tokens per second.
Nosh Robotics' Nosh One claims to cook full meals autonomously — from ingredient portioning to plating — but CNET and other reviewers remain skeptical about its $1,499 price tag.
An AgiBot X2 humanoid robot went wild during a dance performance at a Haidilao hot pot restaurant in Cupertino, California, knocking plates off tables and requiring three employees to physically restrain it.
After two years of delays, Apple is expected to ship its first Gemini-integrated Siri in the iOS 26.5 developer beta, arriving as early as March 30.
The DOJ charged Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and two others with running a two-year scheme to divert $2.5 billion in Nvidia-powered AI servers to China, using dummy hardware and hair dryers to strip serial numbers and fool compliance auditors.
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has proposed rules that could ban foreign AI tools including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude unless they store Russian user data domestically.
Jensen Huang called OpenClaw 'the next ChatGPT' at GTC 2026, and analysts say the viral AI agent platform is exposing a fault line in Big AI's business model.
Stripe's autonomous coding agents, called Minions, now produce over 1,300 pull requests per week — all human-reviewed but zero human-written — running on infrastructure that handles more than $1 trillion in annual payment volume.
The ChatGPT maker plans to grow from 4,500 to roughly 8,000 employees this year, with most hires targeting engineering, product, and a new 'technical ambassadorship' track to help businesses deploy AI.
WeChat officially launched 'ClawBot,' a plugin enabling users to connect OpenClaw AI agents to the platform's 1.3 billion-user messaging network.
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg formally designated Palantir's Maven Smart System as a program of record, locking in long-term AI adoption across all U.S. military branches.
Uber has committed up to $1.25 billion to EV maker Rivian to deploy 50,000 autonomous R2 SUVs across 25 cities by 2031, kicking off with San Francisco and Miami in 2028.
A Nevada judge issued a 14-day restraining order forcing Kalshi to halt sports, politics, and entertainment event contracts — marking the first time a US state has compelled the platform to cease operations.
Grayscale filed an S-1 with the SEC to launch a spot HYPE token ETF under ticker GHYP on Nasdaq, joining Bitwise and 21Shares in a three-way race to bring Hyperliquid's native token to brokerage accounts.
A California federal jury unanimously found Musk liable for two false tweets that caused Twitter shares to drop ~10% during his 2022 takeover bid, with total damages potentially reaching $2.6 billion.
OP_NET's mainnet launch enables smart contracts, a native DEX, and OP-20 tokens directly on Bitcoin Layer 1 without bridges, sidechains, or protocol changes.
Meta is removing Horizon Worlds from Quest VR headsets on June 15, 2026, capping years of losses and officially ending its flagship metaverse experiment.
OpenAI confirmed it will begin testing ads for all free and Go tier ChatGPT users in the US in the coming weeks — a major shift from its subscription-first model.
Shareholders filed a federal class action accusing Gemini and the Winklevoss twins of concealing a major pivot to prediction markets ahead of the exchange's 2025 IPO, as stock collapses 85%.
Blue Origin's 'Project Sunrise' proposes a constellation of up to 51,600 solar-powered satellites to handle AI compute in orbit, joining SpaceX and others in a race to move data centers into space.
The preprint server where every AI breakthrough gets published first is leaving Cornell University after 35 years and will operate as a standalone nonprofit starting July 1, 2026.
Coinbase launched stock perpetual futures for the Magnificent 7 and major ETFs on March 20, enabling 24/7 leveraged trading settled in USDC for international traders.
Stripe and Tempo have launched the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard that lets AI agents pay for APIs and services autonomously — in fiat or stablecoins — without human intervention.
The anonymous 'Hunter Alpha' model that topped OpenRouter's charts with over 1 trillion tokens of usage has been revealed as Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro — a 1T-parameter, 1M-context agent model that the developer community mistook for DeepSeek V4.
Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics filed for a $610 million IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market after shipping 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025 — the most of any company globally.
Perplexity Health connects AI to personal medical records, wearables, and Apple Health, letting users query their own health data via Perplexity Computer.
TechCrunch got an exclusive tour of Amazon's Austin chip lab, where Trainium2 already runs over 1 million chips for Anthropic's Claude and is set to provide 2 gigawatts of compute for OpenAI.
Microsoft's in-house AI image model reaches #3 on Arena.ai's text-to-image rankings, trailing only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out on Copilot and Bing Image Creator.
Researchers from CMU, Princeton, Cartesia AI, and Together AI released Mamba-3, a state space model that runs 7x faster than Llama 3.2-1B at long sequences while outperforming Transformer baselines on language modeling benchmarks.
Amazon is developing a new AI-first smartphone codenamed 'Transformer,' its first phone since the Fire Phone flopped in 2014.
Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks reached an agreement in principle on stablecoin yield rules, potentially unblocking the long-stalled Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline replacements in traditional search results, sometimes changing the meaning of articles without any visible indication.
Anthropic launched Claude Code Channels in research preview, letting developers remotely control their local coding agent from Telegram or Discord via MCP plugins.
Researchers at Google, Lookout, and iVerify have jointly disclosed DarkSword, an iOS full-chain exploit kit active since November 2025 that directly targets cryptocurrency wallet apps.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices has officially licensed its flagship index to Trade[XYZ] for 24/7 perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid — the first time a major equity benchmark has been brought on-chain with institutional backing.
An AI agent at Meta exposed massive amounts of sensitive user and company data to unauthorized employees for two hours after giving flawed advice that an engineer implemented.
Prediction market platform Kalshi closes a $1 billion round led by Coatue Management, doubling its valuation from $11 billion to $22 billion in under 90 days.
Tesla officially kicked off its Terafab project today — a bid to build a domestic chip fabrication plant for its AI5 and future chips powering FSD and Optimus.
Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Zurich-based startup whose four-legged wheeled robot can navigate stairs and uneven surfaces to deliver packages directly to doorsteps.
Paul Conyngham used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog Rosie — and it worked.
Google Labs has overhauled Stitch into an AI-native design canvas that generates high-fidelity UI from natural language — sending Figma shares down 8%.
Runway and NVIDIA demonstrated a real-time video generation model at GTC 2026 that produces the first HD frame in under 100 milliseconds — faster than a human blink.