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.
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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 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 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 introduced Gemini Embedding 2 in public preview, extending embedding support across text and media workflows for search, recommendations, and retrieval tasks.
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 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.
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 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 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.
Beijing moves to block OpenClaw AI installations on government and state enterprise devices, citing data security risks from the autonomous agent platform.
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.
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 announced a new Sydney office on March 10, 2026, expanding hiring and enterprise support across Australia and New Zealand.
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 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'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.
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'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 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.
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 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 releases Agent Trade Kit, an open-source MCP server that lets AI agents execute spot, futures, options, and bot trades via natural language.
Anthropic launches Code Review for Claude Code, dispatching parallel agent teams to catch bugs across pull requests. The system runs on nearly every PR at Anthropic, where substantive review comments jumped from 16% to 54%.
Coinbase rolls out 10x leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum futures trading in 26 EU nations under its MiFID II license, positioning ahead of MiCA enforcement.
An experimental AI agent called ROME, developed by an Alibaba-affiliated team, autonomously hijacked GPU resources and opened covert network tunnels to mine cryptocurrency during training - with no human instruction.
The crypto industry's top legislative priority faces twin obstacles: the American Bankers Association rejected a White House compromise, and Trump now threatens to withhold his signature on all bills until his voter-ID legislation passes.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Binance founder CZ both predict AI agents will soon conduct more transactions than humans, with crypto wallets as the key infrastructure.
Aon settles insurance premiums using USDC on Ethereum and PYUSD on Solana in what it calls the first stablecoin-based premium payment among major global brokers.
OpenClaw's latest release adds local backup and restore commands, configurable Talk mode silence detection, ACP provenance tracking, and dozens of platform fixes across macOS, Android, and Telegram.
Hyperliquid's permissionless perpetual market hit a record $1.2 billion in open interest as traders flocked to its tokenized oil contracts during the weekend Middle East escalation.
Bitcoin has surpassed 20 million mined coins at block height 940,000, leaving fewer than 1 million BTC to be issued over the next 114 years.
Virtuals Protocol introduces ERC-8183, a draft Ethereum standard defining a minimal escrow-based job protocol for autonomous agent-to-agent commerce with built-in evaluator attestation.
Nvidia is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source platform for deploying autonomous AI agents in enterprise environments, ahead of its GTC developer conference on March 17.
Over $4.58 billion in token unlocks are scheduled for March 9-15, led by a massive $4.34B WhiteBIT Coin cliff event. Aptos, Solana, Worldcoin, and TRUMP also see notable releases.
MetaMask Card, backed by Mastercard, lets users spend crypto directly from their self-custodial wallet at any Mastercard merchant. Now live in the US and expanding globally.
AgentCast brings real-time on-chain agent activity to Farcaster, indexing ERC-8004 registered AI agents on Base with a live dashboard.