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Morgan Stanley filed an amended S-1 for a spot bitcoin ETF priced at 14 basis points, undercutting every existing fund and positioning the bank's $4+ trillion wealth management arm to compete directly in the Bitcoin ETF market.
World Mobile's decentralized mobile network is now live on Base, with over 100,000 AirNodes deployed and coverage spanning 99% of the USA and 60+ countries.
A TechCrunch investigation found Waymo has relied on police and firefighters — not its own roadside team — to physically move stuck robotaxis in at least six documented incidents.
Intercontinental Exchange added $600 million to its Polymarket investment, bringing its total commitment to nearly $2 billion as prediction markets surge into mainstream finance.
Etherscan added metadata display for ERC-8004 Trustless Agents, letting anyone inspect an agent's operational status, x402 payment support, and services directly from its NFT detail page.
Sony is raising PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal prices worldwide effective April 2, 2026, citing 'continued pressures in the global economic landscape.'
Sony Honda Mobility has pulled the plug on the Afeela 1 electric sedan and its SUV concept, following Honda's massive $15.7 billion EV write-down.
A misconfigured CMS exposed ~3,000 Anthropic internal drafts, including a blog post revealing Claude Mythos — a new model tier above Opus that the company says poses 'unprecedented cybersecurity risks.'
Phoronix benchmarks show KDE Plasma 6.6 consistently outperforming GNOME 50 in gaming workloads on Ubuntu 26.04, with results holding for both AMD Radeon and NVIDIA graphics.
Felix Protocol has gone live with tokenized U.S. equities on HyperEVM, giving on-chain traders access to over 250 stocks and ETFs via Ondo Finance's infrastructure.
OpenAI has indefinitely shelved plans for an adult-oriented ChatGPT mode, citing concerns about unhealthy AI attachment and difficulty training models away from illegal content.
An attacker spent nine months quietly building a dominant position in Venus Protocol's THE market, then bypassed supply caps via a known donation exploit to drain $3.7 million — the protocol's fourth major incident in five years.
Chroma releases Context-1, a 20B parameter open-source search agent that matches frontier LLM retrieval performance at up to 10x lower cost and latency.
Wikipedia editors have adopted a formal policy prohibiting the use of large language models to write or rewrite encyclopedia articles, citing hallucinations, fabricated sources, and a lack of editorial accountability.
Google's Android 17 Beta 3 reaches platform stability, locking the API surface and shipping post-quantum cryptography support for APK signing.
Cohere launches Transcribe, a 2B-parameter open-source speech recognition model that achieves #1 on the HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard with Apache 2.0 licensing.
OpenAI has launched plugins for its Codex coding agent, enabling seamless integration with Slack, Figma, Notion, Gmail, and more — and reset usage limits across all plans to mark the launch.
Federal Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction, ruling that the Pentagon's designation of the company as a supply-chain risk was 'classic illegal First Amendment retaliation' for refusing autonomous weapons use of Claude.
WhatsApp announced AI-powered writing suggestions and reply drafts built on Private Processing — a confidential computing architecture where even Meta can't read your messages.
Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is discontinued and permanently removed from its lineup, with no successor planned — ending a product line that debuted in the 1990s.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live launches today with lower latency, doubled context window, and expanded availability across 200+ regions, targeting developers building real-time voice and vision AI agents.
DoorDash Labs has unveiled Dot, an autonomous sidewalk delivery robot designed for real-world urban environments — not controlled lab conditions.
NousResearch's Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent with a built-in learning loop and self-improving skill documents, surpassed 13,600 GitHub stars after its v0.4.0 release added an OpenAI-compatible API server and six new messaging adapters.
The Mysten Labs-built decentralized storage protocol has surpassed 450TB of data stored in its first year on mainnet, beating Arweave, and launched MemWal — an SDK letting AI agents carry long-term memory on-chain.
Datalab released Chandra OCR 2, an open-source model that converts documents to structured HTML, Markdown, or JSON — outperforming Gemini 2.5 Flash on multilingual accuracy across 90 languages.
Mistral launched Voxtral TTS, a 4B parameter open-weight text-to-speech model that outperforms ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in human evaluations while supporting 9 languages and adapting to new voices from just 3 seconds of audio.
Brazil's Law No. 15.358 allows seized cryptocurrencies to be funneled directly into police equipment and intelligence operations before a final conviction.
Trust Wallet's new Agent Kit lets AI agents execute swaps, DCA orders, and transfers across 25+ chains directly from users' self-custody wallets.
A Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta and Google deliberately built addictive social media platforms that damaged a young woman's mental health, awarding $6 million in damages.
Fannie Mae is accepting crypto-backed mortgages for the first time, letting buyers pledge Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral through a new program with Coinbase and Better Home & Finance.
ByteDance's DeerFlow 2.0 is a ground-up rewrite that transforms a deep-research tool into a full super-agent harness with sub-agents, sandboxed execution, and persistent memory — now the #2 trending repo on GitHub.
The FCC added all foreign-made consumer routers to its national security Covered List on March 23, effectively banning new router models from being imported or sold in the US.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, calling for an immediate federal pause on new AI data center construction until Congress enacts national safeguards on safety, jobs, and energy.
Mozilla AI's open-source cq project lets AI coding agents pool their discoveries into a shared knowledge base, so agents stop wasting time re-solving the same problems independently.
Spotify launches SongDNA in beta for Premium users — an interactive web of writers, producers, samples, and covers embedded directly in the Now Playing view.
The European Parliament is holding a repeat vote on Chat Control today after the EPP group forced it back onto the agenda, seeking to reverse a March 11 decision that rejected mass scanning of private messages.
Apple has complete access to Google's Gemini in its own data centers and can use it to create smaller, specialized models tuned for Apple devices — a process called distillation.
X head of product Nikita Bier announced that Grok AI will fully take over the platform's recommendation algorithm next week — the biggest algorithmic change in X's history.
Hugging Face's Transformers.js hit a new milestone, running Liquid AI's 24B parameter LFM2 model locally in a web browser via WebGPU at around 50 tokens per second.
President Trump appointed 13 leaders including Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Marc Andreessen to PCAST, co-chaired by David Sacks, to advise on science and technology policy.
X has hired Benji Taylor — former CPO at Aave Labs and head of design at Coinbase's Base — as its new design lead, signaling serious crypto ambitions ahead of X Money's planned April launch.
TRM Labs released Co-Case Agent, an AI investigative assistant embedded in its forensics platform that traces illicit crypto funds using natural language — deployed to law enforcement starting March 25.
Google Research published TurboQuant, an algorithm that compresses AI inference memory by 6x with zero accuracy loss — sending memory hardware stocks lower on the same day.
ARC Prize launches its third-generation benchmark designed to expose the gap between AI memorization and real learning — and current frontier models can't break 0.3%.
Generalist AI ran a nonstop live demo at NVIDIA GTC using a Universal Robots platform it had never seen in person — up and running in days, not weeks.
Starling Bank's new 'Starling Assistant' lets customers manage budgets, set savings goals, and automate bill payments using natural language — the UK's first in-app agentic AI banking tool.
Google's upgraded music generation model extends AI-composed tracks from 30 seconds to 3 minutes, with new controls for song structure and a broad platform rollout.
Figure AI's humanoid robot Figure 03 made history at the White House, walking in with First Lady Melania Trump at the 'Fostering the Future Together' AI education summit and greeting guests in 11 languages.
Tesla's official Optimus account called the humanoid robot 'the biggest product ever made' and announced a high-volume production push, as Elon Musk amplified the message to over 160,000 likes.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has imposed an immediate moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to UK political parties, citing risks of foreign interference in British democracy.