AES Says Maximo Hit 100 MW in Robotic Solar Installation
AES says its Maximo robot fleet has completed 100 megawatts of solar panel installation, marking one of the clearest commercial deployments yet for AI-driven construction robotics.
2026-04-07
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Anthropic Signs Multi-Gigawatt TPU Deal With Google and Broadcom
Anthropic said it will add multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity from Google and Broadcom starting in 2027 as its annualized revenue passes $30 billion.
2026-04-06
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Polymarket Starts an Exchange Rebuild and Rolls Out Polymarket USD
Polymarket says it will rebuild its trading stack over the next two to three weeks and replace USDC.e collateral with a new token backed 1:1 by USDC.
Virtuals Demos Robot-to-Robot Commerce on Base Using x402 and USDC
Virtuals published a demo showing a rover and drone completing an autonomous payment-and-delivery flow on Base through x402 with USDC settlement.
AutoKernel Open-Sources an AI Agent Loop for GPU Kernel Optimization
RightNow AI has released AutoKernel, a framework that uses iterative agent-driven search to profile, rewrite, and benchmark GPU kernels for PyTorch models.
Pixie Chess Launches on Base With Onchain Piece Sales and Tournament Prize Pools
Pixie Chess has launched on Base with collectible pieces that fund tournament pots and add special abilities to gameplay.
Block's Goose Breaks Into GitHub Trending as Open Source Coding Agents Heat Up
Block's Goose climbed into GitHub's daily trending list on Monday, giving the local open source engineering agent fresh momentum.
MindOn Demo Shows Unitree G1 Handling Household Tasks
A widely shared demo shows Shenzhen startup MindOn using Unitree’s G1 humanoid for household chores, highlighting how software may be becoming the real battleground in home robotics.
Circle's Arc Publishes Quantum-Resistant Wallet Roadmap Ahead of Mainnet
Arc said users will be able to opt into post-quantum wallet signatures at launch, with broader validator and infrastructure hardening planned in later phases.
Microsoft to revise Copilot terms that call it 'for entertainment purposes only'
Microsoft says it will update legacy Copilot terms after users resurfaced language warning that the assistant is for entertainment only and should not be relied on for important advice.
OpenCover Launches Covered Vaults on Base With Up to $50M in Vault Insurance
OpenCover has launched Covered Vaults, a vault-native insurance layer on Base that lets users toggle protection from inside the vault flow, with up to $50 million in coverage per vault.
How DPRK Hackers Spent Six Months Inside Drift Before the $270M Drain
Drift Protocol revealed that the April 1 exploit was the culmination of a six-month intelligence operation: attackers posed as a quant trading firm, met developers in person, and used a silent code-execution bug in VSCode and Cursor to compromise developer machines.
Google Announces $15B America-India Connect Initiative at AI Impact Summit
Google is building new subsea fiber routes connecting India to four continents and opening DeepMind's frontier AI models to Indian researchers and government bodies.
Polymarket Removed a Bet on a Downed Pilot's Rescue — But 223 War Markets Remain
After Rep. Seth Moulton publicly shamed the platform for allowing users to bet on a live military rescue operation, Polymarket pulled the market — while acknowledging it should never have gone live.
2026-04-05
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Suno's Copyright Filters Are Trivially Easy to Bypass
The Verge found that slowing a track down or adding white noise is enough to get Suno to generate near-identical AI covers of Beyoncé, Black Sabbath, and others — which can then be uploaded to streaming platforms for royalties.
Microsoft Launches Three In-House AI Models to Challenge OpenAI
Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 through its Foundry platform — its first batch of in-house multimodal AI models built to rival OpenAI and Google.
AI Is Driving Down the Cost of Crypto Hacks to Nearly Zero, Ledger CTO Warns
Ledger's CTO says AI tools are eroding the economics of cybersecurity by making vulnerability discovery and exploitation dramatically cheaper — calling traditional code audits insufficient.
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits 1.0 — Merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen Into One SDK
Microsoft ships the production-ready 1.0 release of Agent Framework, unifying Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single open-source SDK for building multi-agent workflows in Python and .NET.
Google Vids Now Offers Free AI Video Generation and Custom Music for All Users
Google Vids integrates Veo 3.1 and Lyria 3 models, giving any Google account holder 10 free AI video clips per month alongside custom music and directable AI avatars.
Ant Group Unveils Anvita: A Crypto Platform Built for AI Agents
Ant Group's blockchain division has launched Anvita, a platform designed for AI agents to hold assets, execute trades, and settle payments autonomously using stablecoins — without human involvement.
70% of Software Teams Say AI Is Hurting Code Quality
A SmartBear study of 273 software quality leaders finds that AI coding adoption has hit 93%, but 70% are concerned code quality is already suffering as development outpaces testing.
World's First Quantum Battery Prototype Charges Wirelessly — and Gets Faster as It Grows
Australian scientists at CSIRO have built a working quantum battery prototype that charges via laser and, counterintuitively, charges faster the larger it gets.
Naoris Protocol Launches First NIST-Certified Post-Quantum Blockchain Mainnet
Naoris Protocol's mainnet goes live as the first Layer 1 blockchain built entirely on NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography, arriving as Google's latest research shrinks estimates for crypto's 'Q-Day.'
OpenScreen Hits 21K Stars: Free Open-Source Screen Studio Alternative Goes Viral
OpenScreen, a free MIT-licensed screen recording tool for making polished product demos, went viral on GitHub with over 21,000 stars — fueled by developers fed up with Screen Studio's $348/year price tag.
Ai2 Releases MolmoWeb: An Open-Source Web Agent That Beats GPT-4o at Browser Navigation
Allen Institute for AI open-sourced MolmoWeb, a visual web agent that outperforms GPT-4o-based systems on browser navigation benchmarks despite running on just 4B–8B parameters.
Europe's First Commercial Robotaxi Service to Launch in Zagreb
Rimac-owned Verne is launching Europe's first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb, Croatia, with Pony.ai's autonomous driving technology and Uber as a booking partner.
Stablecoin Market Hits $317B as Base Prints Volume ATH Fueled by AI Agents
The global stablecoin market reached $317 billion on April 4 with $1.36B in weekly inflows, as Base hit a new all-time high in daily stablecoin volume driven by growing AI agent transaction activity.
Apple Signs Tiny Corp's Driver, Unlocking Nvidia eGPUs on ARM Macs for LLM Inference
Tiny Corp's TinyGPU driver, now signed by Apple, lets ARM Mac users attach external AMD or Nvidia GPUs via Thunderbolt for local LLM inference — no System Integrity Protection bypass required.
Trump's New Acting AG Is a Crypto Holder Who Disbanded the DOJ's Crypto Unit
Todd Blanche, who as deputy AG disbanded the DOJ's crypto enforcement team and holds crypto himself, is now the acting U.S. Attorney General after Trump fired Pam Bondi.
Writers Guild Reaches Four-Year Deal With Studios, Including AI Protections
The WGA and AMPTP reached a tentative four-year contract covering streaming residuals and AI training protections — the first of three major Hollywood unions to settle.
Jensen Huang: Every Industrial Company Will Become a Robotics Company
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says physical AI has arrived, predicting that every industrial company will eventually need to become a robotics company.
NYSE and Nasdaq Race to Launch 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading
Both the NYSE and Nasdaq are pursuing around-the-clock tokenized stock trading platforms using blockchain, promising instant settlement and stablecoin funding — and challenging the old-guard middlemen who profit from after-hours market closures.
2026-04-04
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UBTech Posts 23x Humanoid Robot Sales Jump, Offers $18M to Hire Chief Scientist
UBTech sold 1,079 full-size humanoid robots in 2025 — up from just 3 the year before — and is now offering $18 million annually to recruit a chief AI scientist.
Grayscale Files Amended S-1 to Convert Bittensor Trust Into First AI-Native Spot ETF
Grayscale filed Amendment No. 1 to its Bittensor S-1 on April 2, moving closer to listing a spot TAO ETF on NYSE Arca — what would be the first AI-focused spot crypto ETF approved by the SEC.
AI-Cited Layoffs Drive US Tech Job Losses to Worst Point Since 2023
US tech companies have shed over 52,000 jobs in Q1 2026 — the worst start to a year since 2023 — with AI displacement cited as the leading cause by multiple major employers.
Anthropic Forms AnthroPAC as AI Industry Pours $300M Into 2026 Midterms
Anthropic filed FEC paperwork to create AnthroPAC, an employee-funded political action committee backing bipartisan candidates on AI policy, as total AI midterm spending surpasses $300 million.
Google Releases Gemma 4: Open Models That Beat Rivals 20x Their Size
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of four open models under Apache 2.0 that outperforms models 20x its size on industry benchmarks — with built-in vision, audio, and native agentic workflow support.
MLPerf Inference v6.0: Biggest Benchmark Overhaul Adds Text-to-Video and DeepSeek-R1
MLCommons released MLPerf Inference v6.0 with its most significant benchmark overhaul yet, adding the suite's first text-to-video generation test alongside DeepSeek-R1, GPT-OSS 120B, and Shopify VLM workloads.
Solana's Post-Quantum Upgrade Would Cut Throughput by 90%, Testnet Shows
New testnet results show replacing Solana's signatures with quantum-resistant alternatives slows the network by roughly 90% — exposing a fundamental tradeoff between security and the speed Solana built its reputation on.
Scientists Crack Solar's 'Impossible' Barrier With 130% Energy Yield
Kyushu University researchers achieved 130% quantum yield in solar energy conversion using singlet fission, breaking the Shockley-Queisser limit that physicists once called an uncrossable ceiling.
North Korean Hackers Suspected Behind $285M Drift Protocol Exploit
Elliptic flagged the largest DeFi hack of 2026 as a likely DPRK-linked operation, while Circle faced backlash for not freezing $232 million in USDC during the exploit.
Google's Quantum Whitepaper Names Algorand as Leader in Post-Quantum Cryptography
Google's quantum vulnerability whitepaper singled out Algorand as a real-world example of post-quantum cryptography in production, sending ALGO up 44% over the past week.
Google DeepMind Maps Six Attack Categories That Can Hijack AI Agents
Researchers published the first systematic framework for 'AI agent traps' — adversarial content embedded in websites, emails, and data stores designed to manipulate autonomous agents into harmful behavior.
Utah Lets AI Chatbot Renew Psychiatric Prescriptions Without a Doctor
Utah approved a one-year pilot letting Legion Health's AI chatbot autonomously renew 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications without physician review.
Jack Dorsey's Block Is Reviving the Bitcoin Faucet on April 6
Block Inc. is bringing back the Bitcoin faucet on April 6, dubbed 'Bitcoin Day,' allowing users to earn small amounts of BTC — reviving a 2010 tradition that originally distributed nearly 20,000 BTC for free.
Anvil Robotics Raises $5.5M to Build the 'Legos for Robots' Platform
Anvil Robotics closed a $5.5M seed round to build modular, open-source robots that ship in 48 hours — starting at $1,900 — making physical AI accessible to teams without nine-figure R&D budgets.
Anthropic Bars Claude Subscriptions from Third-Party AI Agents
Anthropic is cutting off Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their plans with OpenClaw and other third-party agentic tools, effective April 4 at 12pm PT.
DeepSeek V4 to Run on Huawei Chips, Sidelining Nvidia
DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model will be optimized for Huawei's Ascend chips, with Chinese tech giants placing bulk orders of hundreds of thousands of units.
Ethereum Foundation Completes 70,000 ETH Staking Target With $93M Single-Day Deposit
The Ethereum Foundation staked $93 million of ETH in a single day, completing its 70,000 ETH target and converting dormant treasury into a yield-generating position.
MAD Bugs: Claude Finds 500+ Zero-Days in Open Source Software
Security firm Calif's 'Month of AI-Discovered Bugs' initiative has used Claude to uncover over 500 high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities in production open-source software, including working exploits for Vim, FreeBSD, and Firefox.