Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund Goes Onchain with Tokenized Shares on Base
Coinbase Asset Management and Apex Group launch a tokenized share class of the Bitcoin Yield Fund on Base, embedding compliance directly into ERC-3643 smart contracts.
2026-03-20
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Cursor's 'Composer 2' Is Kimi K2.5 in Disguise — And Moonshot Says That's a License Violation
A developer spotted Cursor's internal model ID revealing Composer 2 is built on Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5. Moonshot says Cursor violated its attribution license.
WordPress.com Lets AI Agents Write and Publish Posts via MCP
WordPress.com now allows AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to draft, edit, and publish content directly on user sites through the Model Context Protocol.
Apple Blocks Vibe Coding Apps from App Store Updates
Apple has blocked AI vibe coding apps including Replit and Vibecode from releasing App Store updates, citing rules against self-modifying code.
White House Releases AI Policy Blueprint, Asks Congress to Preempt State Laws
The White House sent Congress its first federal AI framework, calling for a single national standard to replace a patchwork of state laws, plus age-gating requirements for minors.
Cloudflare Puts Frontier AI Inside Its Agent Platform, Starting with Kimi K2.5
Cloudflare Workers AI now runs frontier open-source models — beginning with Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 — completing the stack for building and deploying agents entirely on Cloudflare's platform.
Google Gives AI Shopping Agents Cart, Catalog, and Loyalty Features via UCP
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol gains cart management, real-time catalog access, and identity linking — letting AI agents shop like humans across thousands of retailers.
Restaurant Robot Goes Berserk Mid-Dance, Sends Plates Flying at Haidilao Cupertino
A humanoid robot at Haidilao's Cupertino location went viral after staff accidentally triggered its 'crazy dance' mode, causing the robot to fling tableware and require three employees to restrain it.
MiniMax M2.7: The First AI Model That Helped Build Itself
MiniMax's new M2.7 model handled 30-50% of its own reinforcement learning development workflow — an early signal of recursive AI self-improvement.
LangChain Open SWE: The Open-Source Blueprint for Enterprise Coding Agents
LangChain released Open SWE, an open-source framework that packages the architectural patterns behind Stripe, Ramp, and Coinbase's internal coding agents — and it hit GitHub trending within hours.
WLFI Launches AgentPay SDK: Open-Source Payment Rails for AI Agents
World Liberty Financial released an open-source SDK that lets AI agents hold, move, and spend USD1 stablecoin across EVM chains with built-in policy controls and optional human approval.
Anthropic Now Wins 70% of New Business AI Deals, Ramp Data Shows
Ramp's March 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic growing from one-in-25 to one-in-four businesses in a year, while OpenAI saw its biggest-ever monthly subscription drop.
Coinbase x402 Upgrades: AI Agents Can Now Pay With Any ERC-20 Token
Coinbase's x402 payment protocol now supports all ERC-20 tokens, wallet-based sign-in, and a new MCP package that lets developers monetize AI tools directly.
Devin Can Now Manage a Team of Devins
Cognition Labs has shipped multi-agent orchestration for Devin: the AI software engineer can now spawn and coordinate parallel copies of itself, each running in an isolated VM.
OpenAI Plans Desktop Superapp Merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas
OpenAI is consolidating its ChatGPT app, Codex coding assistant, and Atlas AI browser into a single desktop superapp, with a focus on agentic AI capabilities.
Bezos Seeks $100 Billion Fund to Acquire and AI-Transform Manufacturing
Jeff Bezos is in early discussions to raise a $100 billion fund to buy manufacturing companies and automate them using AI, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal.
Galbot's LATENT System Teaches Humanoid Robot to Play Tennis in Real Time
Chinese AI robotics company Galbot has demonstrated a humanoid robot sustaining live tennis rallies against a human using only a few hours of imperfect motion-capture data.
China's 'Raise a Lobster' Craze: How OpenClaw Went Viral Across a Nation
OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent with a red lobster logo, has exploded in popularity across China — with Baidu, Tencent, and local governments all racing to get citizens 'raising lobsters.'
2026-03-19
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Bittensor's Templar Subnet Completes First Frontier-Scale Decentralized LLM Training
Bittensor Subnet 3 (Templar) trained Covenant-72B — a 72-billion parameter model on 1.1 trillion tokens — using only commodity internet hardware with no centralized cluster. The post hit 1.7M views and prompted mainstream attention at GTC 2026.
Signal's Creator Is Bringing End-to-End Encryption to Meta AI
Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer who brought end-to-end encryption to WhatsApp, announced his encrypted AI platform Confer will integrate its privacy technology into Meta AI.
OpenAI Acquires Astral, Bringing uv, Ruff, and ty Into the Codex Ecosystem
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty — three of Python's most popular developer tools — to accelerate its Codex AI coding platform.
Supermicro Co-Founder Arrested for Smuggling $2.5B in Nvidia AI Chips to China
The DOJ arrested Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and charged three people with running a $2.5 billion scheme to illegally divert Nvidia AI servers to China using fake documentation and dummy hardware to fool auditors.
Google Begins Beta Testing Native Gemini App for Mac
Google has quietly started beta testing a dedicated Gemini app for macOS, featuring screen-reading Desktop Intelligence to compete with ChatGPT and Claude's native Mac apps.
Google AI Studio Gets Full-Stack Vibe Coding with Antigravity Agent and Firebase
Google has upgraded AI Studio with a production-ready vibe coding experience powered by its Antigravity coding agent and native Firebase integration.
GitHub Copilot's Squad Drops an AI Dev Team Into Your Repo With Two Commands
Squad is an open source project that spins up a persistent multi-agent coding team — lead, frontend, backend, and tester — directly inside any repository.
Samsung to Invest $73 Billion in AI Chips in 2026, Targeting HBM Lead
Samsung Electronics plans to spend over $73 billion on AI chip research, development, and manufacturing in 2026 — a 22% increase from 2025 — targeting dominance in high-bandwidth memory and advanced node production.
DoorDash Launches 'Tasks' App to Pay Couriers for AI and Robotics Training Data
DoorDash's new standalone app turns its 8 million delivery couriers into paid AI trainers, paying them to film household tasks and record speech to feed AI and robotics models.
Perplexity Health Connects Your Medical Records, Wearables, and Labs to AI
Perplexity launched a health data suite that connects Apple Health, electronic health records from 1.7 million providers, and wearables like Fitbit and Ultrahuman directly to its AI agent.
Adobe Firefly Opens Custom Model Training to All Artists
Adobe has opened Firefly Custom Models to public beta, letting any creator train AI on their own images to generate style-consistent content at scale.
Lightricks Releases LTX-2.3: Open-Source 4K Video Model With Synchronized Audio
Lightricks open-sourced LTX-2.3, a 22-billion-parameter video generation model that produces 4K clips with synchronized audio entirely on consumer hardware.
Deeptune Raises $43M from a16z to Build Flight Simulators for AI Agents
Andreessen Horowitz leads a $43M Series A in Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments where AI agents practice real workplace tasks before going live.
SEC Approves Nasdaq's Tokenized Stock Trading on Blockchain
The SEC has formally approved Nasdaq's proposal to let Russell 1000 stocks and major ETFs trade in tokenized form on blockchain, a landmark step toward integrating blockchain infrastructure into US equity markets.
Sharpa Robotics' Humanoid Assembles a PC at NVIDIA GTC
Singaporean startup Sharpa Robotics demonstrated its humanoid robot North inserting a GPU into a PCIe slot with submillimeter precision — and Jensen Huang highlighted it in his GTC keynote.
Skild AI's Robot Brain Goes Live on Foxconn's Blackwell GPU Assembly Lines
Pittsburgh startup Skild AI is deploying its generalized robot brain on Foxconn's assembly lines building NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs — marking the first public mass-deployment of its omni-bodied AI model.
Val Kilmer Will Act in a New Film — Posthumously, via AI
Val Kilmer's estate has approved an AI-generated version of the late actor for the indie film 'As Deep As The Grave,' using family-provided photos and audio for a role he was cast in before his death.
Cursor Unveils Composer 2: A Coding Agent That Summarizes Itself
Cursor's Composer 2 is trained via reinforcement learning to compress its own context, enabling it to handle hundreds of coding actions without losing critical information.
Palantir Veterans Raise $30M from Sequoia to Build Self-Updating AI Knowledge Bases
Edra, founded by two former Palantir engineers, closes a $30M Series A to automatically build and maintain living knowledge bases that give AI agents real company context.
NVIDIA and T-Mobile Want to Turn Every Cell Tower into an AI Brain
NVIDIA, T-Mobile, and Nokia are building an AI-RAN network that runs physical AI applications — robots, self-driving cars, smart cities — directly from cell towers.
Ethereum Foundation Doubles Down on Morpho, Deploys Another $7.5M in ETH
The Ethereum Foundation deployed another 3,400 ETH into Morpho's DeFi vaults, bringing its total commitment to ~$19M and signaling a clear shift away from selling ETH to fund operations.
China Deploys Its First Home Cleaning Robot Service via 58.com
X Square Robot and 58.com have launched China's first commercial home cleaning robot service in Shenzhen, pairing professional cleaners with autonomous robots on real consumer bookings.
Visa Crypto Labs Launches CLI Tool Letting AI Agents Pay With Cards
Visa Crypto Labs has shipped a command-line interface in closed beta that lets AI agents and automated bots make card payments without API keys or human approval.
Crucix: Open-Source OSINT Intelligence Terminal Pulls 27 Real-Time Data Sources Into One Dashboard
Crucix aggregates 27 open intelligence feeds - from NASA satellite fires to radiation monitors to conflict data - into a self-hosted Jarvis-style dashboard with LLM-powered alerts.
VS Code 1.112 Ships Autopilot Mode for Fully Autonomous Coding Agents
Microsoft's VS Code 1.112 introduces three agent permission levels, including a full Autopilot mode that lets Copilot complete tasks autonomously without approval prompts.
DeepMind Proposes Scientific Framework to Measure AGI — and Launches $200K Hackathon to Test It
Google DeepMind released a cognitive taxonomy framework for tracking progress toward AGI, backed by a $200K Kaggle hackathon to build real evaluations.
Xiaomi Officially Launches MiMo-V2: The Mystery Behind Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha Is Solved
Xiaomi officially launched the MiMo-V2 series on March 18, revealing that the mysterious 'Hunter Alpha' and 'Healer Alpha' models on OpenRouter were its own unreleased frontier AI — now globally available via API at competitive pricing.
2026-03-18
5 articles
Perplexity Comet Lands on iPhone
Perplexity's AI-powered Comet browser is now available for iPhone, completing its rollout across Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS — free to download with Pro plans from $20/month.
Unsloth Studio Launches as Open-Source Web UI for Local LLM Training and Inference
Unsloth AI releases Studio, a free open-source web interface that lets users train and run large language models locally with 2x speed and 70% less VRAM.
Disney's AI-Powered Olaf Robot Wows NVIDIA GTC, Heads to Disneyland Paris
Walt Disney Imagineering debuted a free-roaming robotic Olaf at NVIDIA GTC 2026, built with DeepMind and NVIDIA's physics engine — set to greet guests at Disneyland Paris on March 29.
IBM Closes $11B Confluent Deal to Feed Real-Time Data to AI Agents
IBM completes its $11 billion all-cash acquisition of Confluent, bringing real-time data streaming into its AI platform to help enterprise AI agents act on live information.
Jensen Huang Calls OpenClaw 'The Next ChatGPT' on CNBC
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC's Jim Cramer that OpenClaw is 'definitely the next ChatGPT,' capping a GTC 2026 week in which Nvidia placed the open-source agent platform at the center of its product vision.