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UK challenger bank Monument plans to tokenize up to £250 million in retail deposits on the Midnight privacy blockchain, becoming the first regulated UK bank to put customer savings on a public chain.
Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, the New York startup behind Sprout — a 3.5-foot soft-bodied humanoid designed for consumer and research environments.
Franklin Templeton is tokenizing five of its ETFs via Ondo Finance, enabling 24/7 trading through crypto wallets for investors outside the US.
Wintermute Asia has launched OTC crude oil CFDs, letting traders speculate on WTI prices 24/7 using crypto or fiat margin — a direct response to weekend oil-market gaps exposed by the Iran conflict.
Baltimore filed the first U.S. city-level lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging Grok generated millions of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes — including thousands depicting minors.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released gstack, a 20-skill Claude Code toolkit he used to ship 600,000+ lines of production code in 60 days — and just used it to refactor YC's own 1.84M-line legacy codebase.
Ripple joins Singapore's MAS BLOOM sandbox to pilot RLUSD-powered cross-border trade payments that trigger automatically when shipment conditions are verified.
A federal judge heard Anthropic's bid to block its unprecedented designation as a US supply-chain risk — a retaliation, the company says, for refusing to let the Pentagon use Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Binance's AI Pro Beta went live today — an AI trading agent that lets users execute spot and perpetual orders, run on-chain queries, and deploy custom strategies through a single interface powered by multiple LLMs.
Arm revealed its first homegrown datacenter CPU at the 'Arm Everywhere' event — a 136-core chip built for agentic AI workloads, claiming 2x performance-per-watt versus x86.
A 1-trillion-parameter model appeared on OpenRouter with no attribution on March 18 — it turned out to be from Xiaomi, and it's topping usage charts at a fraction of frontier model prices.
Allen Institute for AI releases MolmoWeb, an open visual web agent built on Molmo 2 that achieves new open-weight SOTA across four major web-agent benchmarks and outperforms OpenAI CUA on three of them.
Anthropic launched the Anthropic Institute today, a new internal think tank combining three research teams, as its lawsuit against the Department of Defense heads to a preliminary injunction hearing.
Versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 of the popular LiteLLM Python library were compromised on PyPI, silently stealing cloud credentials, SSH keys, and crypto wallet files from any host that installed them.
FunAudioLLM releases PrismAudio, the first RL-based video-to-audio model with multi-dimensional Chain-of-Thought reasoning, hitting state-of-the-art on all benchmarks at just 518M parameters.
OpenAI is discontinuing its Sora video generation app, prompting Disney to end a three-year licensing deal that had included a planned $1 billion investment.
MoonPay launched OWS, an open-source local-first wallet protocol for AI agents that lets them sign transactions across every major chain without exposing private keys.
Figma launches open beta for a use_figma MCP tool that lets Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor design directly on the canvas using your team's design system.
Luma AI's Uni-1 is a decoder-only autoregressive image model that generates pictures token-by-token — the same way LLMs write text — rather than using diffusion.
Figure AI's third-generation humanoid robot now sorts packages at human parity — roughly 3 seconds per item — using fully autonomous vision-based control with no teleoperation.
The Solana Foundation launched a developer toolkit for financial institutions, with Mastercard, Western Union and Worldpay among the first to test the platform.
The Ethereum Foundation launched pq.ethereum.org — a public hub coordinating its quantum-safe migration roadmap across four upcoming hard forks and more than 10 client teams.
The New York Stock Exchange has signed an MOU with BlackRock-backed Securitize to design a Digital Trading Platform where US stocks and ETFs can be issued and traded as blockchain tokens around the clock.
Tether has engaged a Big Four accounting firm for the first full financial statement audit of its $184 billion USDT stablecoin, marking a major transparency milestone for crypto.
Google DeepMind and Munich-based Agile Robots announced a strategic research partnership today to embed Gemini Robotics foundation models into industrial hardware already deployed at over 20,000 sites worldwide.
Fund services giant Apex Group is bringing a regulated Bitcoin mining structured note onto Base, giving institutional investors onchain exposure to BTC hashrate.
Revolut's 2025 annual report shows profit before tax up 57% to $2.3 billion, with 68.3 million customers and a fresh UK banking license in hand.
Balancer co-founder Fernando Martinelli announced the corporate entity behind the DeFi protocol is closing, citing legal exposure from a November 2025 exploit that drained $110 million in assets.
Developer Ismail Pelaseyed launched Grok CLI v1, an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent built on Grok with native X/web search and the ability to control the agent remotely from Telegram.
Cloudflare launched Dynamic Workers in open beta — a lightweight isolate-based sandbox that spins up in milliseconds and uses a fraction of the memory containers require, giving AI agents a faster, cheaper execution layer.
Strike Robot released a fully open-source browser simulation for the Unitree G1 humanoid, running MuJoCo physics via WebAssembly — no GPU installation needed.
A rare two-block chain reorganization on March 23 highlighted Bitcoin's growing mining concentration risk, as Foundry USA orphaned blocks from both AntPool and ViaBTC in a single event.
5c(c) Capital will raise $35M to fund infrastructure startups built around the fast-growing prediction market ecosystem, backed by the founders of Polymarket and Kalshi.
The Solana Foundation released a report framing blockchain privacy as a customizable spectrum for enterprises, arguing institutions need selective disclosure, not just pseudonymity.
Cari Network launches with five major U.S. regional banks — Huntington, First Horizon, M&T, KeyBank, and Old National — using ZKsync's Prividium infrastructure for FDIC-insured tokenized deposits settling on Ethereum.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that he believes artificial general intelligence has already arrived — then immediately hedged the claim.
At RSAC 2026, Cisco unveiled DefenseClaw — an open-source framework for securing AI agents — alongside zero trust agent access controls built into Duo IAM.
Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 today — a bridge release and the final version of the compiler written in JavaScript before TypeScript 7.0 shifts to a Go-based native codebase.
A Chainlink oracle misconfiguration in a Claude Opus 4.6-co-authored commit priced cbETH at $1.12 instead of $2,200, triggering automated liquidations that left Moonwell with $1.78M in bad debt.
Backpack Exchange's TGE stands out for giving 25% of supply to users upfront with nothing reserved for founders or investors at launch.
NovaBay Pharmaceuticals raised $134M, renamed itself Stablecoin Development Corporation, and now holds 8.78% of the SKY governance token supply — becoming a publicly traded on-chain holding company.
Anthropic's Claude can now open apps, navigate browsers, and fill spreadsheets directly on macOS through a new computer use feature in Claude Cowork and Claude Code.
Larry Fink's annual letter calls tokenization 'the internet moment for finance,' citing BlackRock's $150B exposure to digital assets and vision of digital wallets holding stocks, bonds, and private credit.
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to purchase electricity from Helion Energy, a fusion startup where CEO Sam Altman previously served as board chair — raising conflict of interest concerns.
AllCoreDevs is set to vote Thursday on including EIP-8141 in the Hegota upgrade, a proposal that bundles native account abstraction, post-quantum signature support, and programmable gas into a single new transaction type.
Meta has hired the entire team behind Dreamer, an AI agent-building startup co-founded by ex-Stripe CTO David Singleton and ex-Meta VP Hugo Barra, sending them to its Superintelligence Labs.
Kyber Labs released a demo of its single-arm robot autonomously performing clinical pathology lab tasks in one take with no human remote control.
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will jointly build a chip fabrication plant in Austin, Texas, targeting AI, robotics, and space-based computing — with no timeline given.
ANEMLL, an open-source library for Apple Neural Engine inference, demonstrated a 400-billion-parameter model running locally on an iPhone 17 Pro at 0.6 tokens per second.
Naive gives each AI employee its own compute, bank account, legal entity, email, and phone number - then lets them deploy apps, send outbound, and run a business without human intervention.