web3 and ai trends / open source /
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.
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.
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'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 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.
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 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 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 says it raised a $150 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures as competition intensifies in enterprise AI coding tools.
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.
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 its new π0.7 model can follow coached language instructions for unfamiliar tasks and transfer skills across robot setups without task-specific retraining.
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 has made Workflows generally available, packaging durable execution, retries, state, and observability into application code for long-running agents and backend jobs.
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.
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'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.
Drift says Tether and partners could provide up to $147.5 million toward user recovery, while the Solana derivatives venue plans to replace USDC with USDT when it relaunches.
South Korea's finance ministry plans a fourth-quarter pilot that would let some official business expenses run through blockchain-based deposit tokens instead of government purchase cards.
Google says Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is rolling out in preview with audio tags, multi-speaker support, 70-plus languages, and a new AI Studio speech playground.
Legal & General Asset Management says more than £50 billion of liquidity funds are now available in tokenised form through SS&C’s Calastone distribution network.
OpenAI says its Agents SDK now adds native sandbox execution and a Manifest abstraction for staging files, repos, and storage into agent workspaces.
Emergent, the startup known for AI app building, has launched Wingman, a chat-based agent that connects to messaging apps and workplace tools to execute tasks with user approval gates for sensitive actions.
TeraWulf said it priced an upsized common stock offering at roughly $900 million, with proceeds earmarked in part for construction at its planned Hawesville, Kentucky data center campus.
eToro said it entered an agreement to acquire Zengo, adding a self-custody wallet business as it pushes further into on-chain finance.
A newly merged draft in Bitcoin's BIP repository proposes a staged migration that would eventually reject legacy signatures and freeze coins left on quantum-vulnerable outputs.
BitMine’s latest SEC filings show a $3.8 billion quarterly loss driven by unrealized digital asset markdowns, even as the company kept growing its ether treasury and staking operation.
Bloomberg reports AI infrastructure startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise about $1 billion at an $18 billion valuation, underscoring how aggressively capital is still chasing specialized compute providers.
GitHub Security Lab has launched a new Secure Code Game season focused on agentic AI, using a terminal assistant called ProdBot to teach five common failure modes in tool-using systems.
Rakuten Wallet says XRP is being added on April 15, with Ripple's Tatsuya Kohrogi describing point-to-XRP purchases and Rakuten Pay spending through Rakuten Cash.
Kevin Warsh's ethics filing names crypto and prediction-market holdings including Polymarket, Optimism, Compound, dYdX, Blast, and Tenderly, with divestitures required before he would take the Fed chair.
Goldman Sachs filed a preliminary prospectus for a bitcoin premium income ETF that would pair spot bitcoin ETP exposure with an options overwrite strategy aimed at generating income.
Google says developers can now route cheaper latency-tolerant Gemini API traffic through Flex and higher-assurance requests through Priority using the same synchronous interface.
A counterfeit Ledger Live app that appeared on Apple's App Store has been linked to at least $9.5 million in crypto losses, with one publicly documented victim losing 5.92 BTC.
Bank of Korea governor nominee Shin Hyun-song said a CBDC and bank-issued deposit tokens should sit at the center of South Korea's digital currency system, with won stablecoins allowed in a narrower supporting role.
A revised U.S. House discussion draft for the Digital Asset PARITY Act would add stablecoin cash-like tax treatment, extend wash sale rules to digital assets, and offer a deferred income election for mining and staking rewards.
OpenAI has acquired personal finance startup Hiro, which says it is ending new signups immediately, shutting down the product on April 20, and deleting user data after May 13.
Stanford's 2026 AI Index says public unease about AI is rising even as experts remain far more optimistic about its effects on jobs, the economy, and medical care.
SEC staff said certain self-custody crypto trading interfaces can operate without broker-dealer registration if they remain neutral tools, avoid handling assets, and meet detailed disclosure and control requirements.
Kraken says a criminal group is threatening to release videos showing internal systems after two limited insider-related data access incidents, while the exchange says client funds were never at risk.
The American Bankers Association is pushing back on a White House report that said banning stablecoin yield would do little to protect bank lending, keeping the issue alive as the Clarity Act remains delayed.
ClearBank Europe says Dutch regulators have confirmed its MiCAR notification, allowing it to offer EURC and USDC access through Circle Mint inside a regulated banking environment.
Vercel says coding agents now initiate more than 30% of deployments on its platform, a shift it is using to pitch a broader agent-focused infrastructure stack.
A new academic study says some third-party LLM routers are already injecting malicious tool calls, touching credentials, and even draining a researcher-owned ETH key.
A bridge bug in Hyperbridge appears to have let an attacker mint 1 billion bridged DOT on Ethereum and swap the fake supply for roughly 108 ETH.
Google says Gemma 4 now ships through AI Edge Gallery and LiteRT-LM, giving developers a more direct path to build on-device agent workflows across phones, desktops, and edge hardware.
Anthropic says its Mythos Preview model is being deployed for defensive security work, while Bloomberg reports more Wall Street banks have begun internal testing beyond JPMorgan.
GoDark's public docs describe a Solana-based perpetual futures venue that hides orders until execution and settles trades onchain in one-second batches.
SiFive says it has raised a $400 million Series G round at a $3.65 billion valuation to expand its RISC-V CPU and AI IP roadmap for data centers.
Vercel has added team-wide Zero Data Retention controls to AI Gateway, alongside per-request retention and prompt-training controls for sensitive model traffic.