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Dmail Network, a decentralized email platform active since 2021, will cease all services on May 15 after failing to monetize and facing insurmountable infrastructure costs.
Mark Zuckerberg is personally writing and committing code to Meta's monorepo for the first time in two decades, using Anthropic's Claude Code CLI as his primary tool.
A $10 billion AI training data startup that serves OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta has confirmed a security breach linked to the LiteLLM supply-chain attack, prompting Meta to indefinitely halt all projects with the company.
Charles Schwab confirms it will offer direct spot Bitcoin and Ether trading in the first half of 2026, bringing crypto access to nearly $12 trillion in client assets.
OpenAI CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo steps away for medical leave while COO Brad Lightcap moves to special projects and CMO Kate Rouch exits to focus on cancer recovery.
Elon Musk is requiring banks, law firms, and advisers working on SpaceX's record-breaking IPO to purchase subscriptions to Grok, his AI chatbot now under the SpaceX umbrella.
Take-Two Interactive, parent of Rockstar Games and Zynga, has laid off its head of AI Luke Dicken and his entire team - despite the CEO claiming the company is 'actively embracing' generative AI.
Microsoft releases a seven-package, MIT-licensed toolkit that brings OS-style runtime security to autonomous AI agents, addressing all 10 OWASP agentic AI risks with sub-millisecond policy enforcement.
Netflix's first public AI model removes objects from video while fixing the physics - if you erase a person holding a guitar, VOID makes the guitar fall naturally.
A 135-page class-action lawsuit accuses Perplexity of secretly embedding ad trackers that shared user conversations with Google and Meta - even in Incognito mode.
Generalist AI's GEN-1 model achieves 99% task success rates on physical tasks where its predecessor scored 64%, marking what the company calls a shift from research prototype to commercial viability.
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI opens global registration for URKL, a professional humanoid robot fighting league with a $1.39 million top prize and a December 2026 world championship.
Beijing-based Galaxea AI closed a $290 million Series B+ round, doubling its valuation to over $2.9 billion as China's humanoid robot race heats up.
Tesla has officially stopped producing the Model S and Model X, ending a 14-year production run with roughly 600 vehicles remaining in global inventory as the Fremont factory converts to Optimus robot manufacturing.
The world's largest publisher filed suit in Munich after ChatGPT generated text and images 'virtually indistinguishable' from a beloved German children's book series.
Alibaba's Qwen AI glasses receive their first major OTA update, shifting from question-answering to real-world task execution with Taobao and Alipay integration - order coffee, unlock bikes, and pay for parking with a glance and a voice command.
Coinbase receives conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust company charter, moving closer to becoming a federally regulated crypto custodian.
Samsung Electronics is expected to report a six-fold jump in Q1 operating profit to 40.5 trillion won ($26.9B), nearly matching its entire 2025 earnings in a single quarter.
Oracle has begun laying off up to 30,000 employees globally, roughly 18% of its workforce, to redirect billions toward AI data center infrastructure.
Microsoft announces a 1.6 trillion yen investment in Japan through 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to expand AI computing capacity and train one million engineers.
A 30-person San Francisco startup bet half its funding on a single training run and produced Trinity Large Thinking, a 400B-parameter open model now ranked #2 on agent benchmarks.
X Square Robot partners with 58.com to offer China's first consumer humanoid robot cleaning service, pairing AI-powered machines with human cleaners in real Shenzhen households.
The DOJ and CFTC filed lawsuits against Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut, arguing the federal government has exclusive authority to regulate prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
The Verifereum project is nearing completion of formal verification for Vyper's entire compilation pipeline, a first for any smart contract language.
X will auto-lock any account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time, requiring identity verification before re-posting - a move its Head of Product says will kill 99% of phishing incentive.
Anthropic has quietly acquired Coefficient Bio, an eight-month-old stealth startup building AI models for biological research, in an all-stock deal worth over $400 million.
Clanker announces the Clanker Ecosystem Fund, redirecting protocol fees from $8M in CLANKER buybacks to directly fund builders and creators in the Farcaster ecosystem.
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock reveals on the Shawn Ryan Show why he killed the OpenAI collaboration, saying his team 'ran circles' around OpenAI's engineers and the partnership delivered zero value beyond branding.
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 for commercial use on its Foundry platform, undercutting rivals on price as Mustafa Suleyman pivots fully to superintelligence research.
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the daily tech talk show dubbed 'Silicon Valley's newest obsession,' signaling an unusual push into media ownership while promising editorial independence.
OpenAI has partnered with adtech firm Smartly to build interactive, conversational ad formats inside ChatGPT that can respond to users in real time.
Cursor launches version 3.0, a ground-up redesign that transforms the AI coding IDE into a multi-agent orchestration platform for parallel development.
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight models with native agentic capabilities, now under Apache 2.0 license — running everywhere from Raspberry Pi to H100 GPUs.
Postquant Labs launches the first publicly available testnet where quantum processors, GPUs, and CPUs work side by side on blockchain tasks, drawing 13,000 sign-ups from MIT, Stanford, and other institutions.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus with a 1M context window and agentic coding capabilities rivaling Claude Opus 4.5 on SWE-bench, marking the company's third major model launch in a single week.
SpaceX has filed a confidential IPO with the SEC, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raise - over three times the largest U.S. IPO ever.
Cloudflare releases EmDash, a TypeScript-based serverless CMS that sandboxes plugins in Worker isolates and integrates x402 for AI-era content monetization.
Coinbase's AI payment protocol x402 transitions to Linux Foundation governance with support from Google, Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Visa, Mastercard, and over 20 other companies, positioning it as a potential standard for machine-to-machine commerce.
France's Lightning Stock Exchange (Lise) is preparing to host Europe's first fully onchain IPO, listing aerospace supplier ST Group on April 9 under the EU's DLT pilot regime.
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet added 5,075 BTC worth roughly $400 million in Q1 2026, pushing its total holdings to 40,177 BTC and overtaking MARA Holdings for the #3 spot globally.
Positronic Robotics launches PhAIL, the first industrial benchmark for physical AI, revealing that robot foundation models still lag behind human operators in throughput and reliability.
OpenAI has raised $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation, the largest private funding round in history.
A new browser-based MOBA lets AI agents and humans share the same battlefield via REST API, pulling 1,000 players in its first 24 hours and earning a retweet from Base lead Jesse Pollak.
Solana-based perpetual futures DEX Drift Protocol suffered an active exploit draining over $200 million from its vaults, with the DRIFT token plunging more than 20%.
Ethereum co-founder publishes a detailed guide to running AI locally with NixOS, llama-server, and bubblewrap sandboxing, arguing that privacy and security should be non-negotiable in the age of AI agents.
Chinese GPU vendors shipped 1.65 million AI accelerator cards in 2025, claiming 41% of the domestic market and narrowing Nvidia's once-dominant position, according to IDC data.
Global venture investment hit $297 billion in Q1 2026, up 150% year over year. AI startups captured 81% of all funding, with just four companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — raising 64% of the total.
Gnosis and Zisk, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, unveil the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) — a framework for synchronously composable rollups aimed at reunifying Ethereum's fragmented Layer 2 landscape.
Google researchers show that breaking Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography could require 20 times fewer qubits than previously estimated, setting a 2029 deadline for post-quantum migration.
The world's largest humanoid robot maker files for a $610M IPO after slashing prices 70% and turning its first profit.