Alpaca Raises $135M for Tokenized Brokerage Infrastructure
Alpaca raised $135 million to expand brokerage APIs for tokenized markets and AI-native financial services.
2026-07-16
4 articles
Tether Freezes $131M After OFAC Adds Iran Wallets
OFAC added four Central Bank of Iran-linked crypto addresses to sanctions identifiers, and Chainalysis says Tether froze $131 million in stablecoin balances.
Applied Computing Raises $20M for Industrial AI Model
Applied Computing raised a $20 million Series A to expand Orbital, a physics-grounded AI model for oil, gas, refining and petrochemical operations.
NVIDIA Launches Jetson Thor Modules for Robotics
NVIDIA introduced Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules, extending its Blackwell-based edge AI platform for robotics and autonomous machines.
2026-07-15
6 articles
Jesse Pollak Hands Base App to Cobie, Refocuses on Chain
Base creator Jesse Pollak says he has shifted his attention away from the Base app and back to the chain, with Jordan Fish, known as Cobie, taking over the app.
Thinking Machines Releases Inkling Open-Weights Model
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a multimodal open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model available on Hugging Face and for fine-tuning through its Tinker platform.
Anthropic, Blackstone and H&F Launch Ode AI Services Firm
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman introduced Ode with Anthropic, a standalone enterprise AI services company built from Fractional AI and Anthropic engineering talent.
OpenAI Researcher Reportedly Plans AI Drug Discovery Startup
TechCrunch reports that OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is preparing an AI drug discovery startup and discussing a large early funding round.
Linux Foundation Launches x402 Foundation for Agent Payments
The Linux Foundation has formally launched the x402 Foundation to govern an HTTP-native payment protocol for AI agents, APIs, and applications.
Senate Democrats Draw Ethics Line Against Clarity Act
Three Senate Democrats publicly opposed the Clarity Act unless it adds stronger limits on federal officials' crypto conflicts.
2026-07-14
4 articles
Google Details 4.7x Qwen MoE Speedup on Ironwood TPUs
Google published a systems engineering playbook for serving a 397B-parameter Qwen MoE model on Ironwood TPUs, citing up to a 4.7x speedup for prefill-heavy inference.
DeepMind CEO Proposes Standards Body for Frontier AI Releases
Demis Hassabis proposed a technically focused standards body that would review frontier AI models before release and develop deployment practices.
EthSystems Launches to Build Privacy Infrastructure for Institutional Ethereum
EthSystems, a team that grew out of the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force, has launched as a for-profit company focused on confidential systems for institutional Ethereum.
PixVerse Raises $439M as AI Video Funding Race Heats Up
PixVerse closed a $439 million Series C extension and told TechCrunch its valuation has passed $2 billion as it expands AI video and world-model products.
2026-07-13
3 articles
TeraWulf signs 20-year Anthropic AI lease
TeraWulf is shifting further from Bitcoin mining toward AI infrastructure with a long-term Anthropic lease in Kentucky.
Vercel Says Open-Weight Models Hit 29% of AI Gateway Volume
Vercel's July AI Gateway Production Index says open-weight models nearly tripled their token share since April while average token prices stayed flat in June.
UK Report Pushes Tokenised Wholesale Market Rails
A UK Wholesale Digital Markets Champion report calls for tokenised wholesale markets built around secondary trading, collateral, and the digital gilt program.
2026-07-12
2 articles
NHTSA Presses AV Developers on Emergency Response
NHTSA is pushing autonomous-vehicle developers to show how robotaxis will detect and respond to emergency scenes.
Stablecoin Supply Pullback Tests Growth Narrative
Stablecoin circulating supply has pulled back from recent highs, with USDT and USDC both lower over the past month even as smaller issuers keep expanding.
2026-07-11
5 articles
Bonzo pauses Hedera lending market after oracle exploit
Bonzo Lend said a third-party oracle verification failure let an attacker borrow about $9.05 million against minimal collateral.
Ethereum AI Bug Hunt Finds libp2p Gossipsub Crash Flaw
Ethereum Foundation security researchers used AI agents to find a remotely reachable libp2p gossipsub panic, but said human triage remained the hard part.
Meta Data Chief Frames Agentic Commerce as a Payments Interface
Meta chief data officer Alex Schultz described agentic commerce as a potential next tier of business, with messaging interfaces layered over digital payment systems.
Open USD Puts Circle's Stablecoin Model Under Pressure
Open Standard's planned Open USD stablecoin is drawing market attention because it would waive mint and redemption fees while passing reserve earnings to partners.
Meta Pulls Instagram AI Photo Remix Feature After Backlash
Meta removed an Instagram Stories AI feature that let people modify photos from public accounts after user backlash.
2026-07-10
6 articles
Hyundai Card Moves Stablecoin Remittance Pilot Onto Avalanche
Hyundai Card has tested live intercompany treasury transfers using USDT on Avalanche, with a Europe-focused pilot planned next.
GenLayer Backs Internet Court for AI Agent Disputes
GenLayer Foundation launched Internet Court with crypto and Web3 firms including OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs to handle disputes between AI agents.
Circle Wins OCC Approval For National Trust Bank
Circle received final OCC approval to establish a national trust bank, putting part of its USDC infrastructure under direct federal bank supervision.
Vercel Adds GPT-5.6 Models to AI Gateway
Vercel added GPT-5.6 Sol, Luna, and Terra to AI Gateway, expanding the model choices available through its unified developer endpoint.
Vercel Adds Muse Spark 1.1 to AI Gateway
Vercel added Muse Spark 1.1 to AI Gateway, extending its single-endpoint model catalog with another image generation option for developers.
OpenAI Says GPT-5.6 Will Power Microsoft 365 Copilot
OpenAI said GPT-5.6 will be the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, even as Microsoft is reportedly using more of its own AI models.
2026-07-09
6 articles
Google Brings LiteRT.js Browser Inference Runtime to Web Developers
Google introduced LiteRT.js, a JavaScript runtime for running machine-learning models directly in browsers with WebGPU, WebNN, and WebAssembly support.
Ethereum Institutional Opens a Front Door for Wall Street
Ethereum Institutional has launched as an independent nonprofit focused on helping banks, asset managers, and other institutions navigate Ethereum.
Ollama Raises $65M as Local AI Tool Reaches 8.9M Developers
Ollama has raised a reported $65 million as its local AI developer tool grows to 8.9 million developers and $88 million in total funding.
Temasek Signals AI Focus While Crypto Stays Off the Table
Singapore state investor Temasek is prioritizing AI exposure while remaining cautious on direct crypto investments after its FTX write-off.
NVIDIA Pitches Vera CPU for Agentic AI Workloads
NVIDIA says its Vera CPU is being adopted by AI teams that need stronger single-threaded performance for agent orchestration and data-center control workloads.
GitHub Shows Agentic Workflows Handling Cross-Repo Docs
GitHub detailed how Agentic Workflows helped the Aspire team turn merged product changes into reviewed documentation pull requests across repositories.
2026-07-08
5 articles
Vercel Expands Agent for Production Fixes
Vercel Agent now sits in the dashboard to investigate production incidents, propose fixes, and run generated code in a sandbox before teams approve changes.
Paradigm Raises $1.2B Fourth Fund Across AI, Robotics and Crypto
Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fourth fund to back frontier technology companies, expanding its remit across AI and robotics while continuing crypto investments.
BNB Chain Roadmap Points to Next-Generation L1
BNB Chain's H2 roadmap says a next-generation L1 is in development as the network pushes lower latency and higher throughput.
ZML Releases LLMD as a Universal LLM Inference Server
Paris AI startup ZML released LLMD, a self-contained inference server designed to run open-weight LLMs across NVIDIA, AMD, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI, and Apple Metal hardware.
Kraken Reportedly Targets European Bank License in Lithuania
Kraken is reportedly pursuing a full European banking license, with Lithuania viewed as a likely jurisdiction for the next step in its regulated-finance push.
2026-07-07
6 articles
Meta Rolls Out Muse Image for AI Visual Creation
Meta introduced Muse Image, a new image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs that is now available in Meta AI and rolling into Instagram and WhatsApp features.
Google Adds Background Tasks and Remote MCP to Gemini Managed Agents
Google expanded Managed Agents in the Gemini API with asynchronous execution, remote MCP server support, custom functions, and credential refresh.
EDX Markets Raises $76M for Institutional Crypto Infrastructure
EDX Markets closed a $76 million Series C led by SBI Holdings as it builds institutional crypto trading, clearing, settlement, and custody infrastructure.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face Add GR00T N1.7 to LeRobot
NVIDIA and Hugging Face expanded LeRobot with GR00T N1.7, Isaac Teleop integration and new workflows for training, evaluating and deploying robot policies.
BonkDAO Treasury Drained in Governance Attack
BonkDAO said a malicious governance proposal drained an estimated $20 million worth of BONK from its treasury, with recovery efforts now involving exchanges, bridges, the Solana Foundation and law enforcement.
SK Hynix Lines Up Nasdaq ADR for AI Memory Demand
SK Hynix is preparing a Nasdaq ADS listing under SKHY, giving U.S. investors direct exposure to a major high-bandwidth memory supplier for AI systems.
2026-07-06
3 articles
U.S. Bitcoin Reserve Remains in Agency Review
The White House's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve remains a policy work in progress as agencies and lawmakers sort through custody, transfer and oversight questions.
USDC Widens Stablecoin Volume Lead Over Tether
Visa's onchain dashboard shows USDC widening its adjusted transaction-volume lead over Tether's USDT during the first half of 2026.
Summer.fi Pauses Lazy Summer Vaults After Exploit
Summer.fi said its guardians were pausing all Lazy Summer Protocol vaults after reports of an exploit, while Blockaid estimated roughly $6 million had been drained.