MoonPay Open-Sources a Wallet Standard for AI Agents
MoonPay launched the Open Wallet Standard — a local-first, open-source protocol for AI agents to securely store keys and sign transactions across every major blockchain.
2026-03-23
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North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty in First U.S. AI Music Streaming Fraud Case
Michael Smith used AI to generate 660,000 songs and bots to stream them over a billion times, fraudulently collecting $8 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and others.
Congress Holds First Hearing on Tokenized Securities — Nasdaq, DTCC, and Blockchain Association to Testify
The House Financial Services Committee will examine two bills on tokenizing stocks and bonds on Wednesday, with Wall Street and crypto industry leaders set to testify.
Scammers Target OpenClaw Developers With Fake $5,000 CLAW Token Airdrops on GitHub
Attackers are impersonating OpenClaw on GitHub, tagging developers in issue threads to claim fake $5,000 CLAW token rewards that link to wallet-draining phishing sites.
Walmart Says ChatGPT Checkout Converted 3x Worse Than Its Own Site
Walmart's EVP revealed that purchases made inside ChatGPT converted at one-third the rate of click-through transactions, prompting both companies to abandon in-chat commerce.
LG Electronics Bets on Robot Actuators, Plans Mass Production in 2026
LG Electronics CEO Lyu Jae-cheol announced the company will build robot actuators in-house and achieve mass production this year, targeting a components market projected at $23B by 2030.
Claude HUD v0.0.10: Terminal Plugin Gets Color Themes and 1M Context Support
The popular Claude Code terminal plugin hits version 0.0.10 with configurable color themes, custom status lines, and accurate tracking for 1 million token context windows.
Resolv's USR Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg After $25M Exploit
An attacker minted $80 million in unbacked USR tokens and extracted $25 million in ETH, leaving the Resolv stablecoin trading at a fraction of its dollar peg.
BitTorrent Creator Takes on Git Merge Hell with CRDT-Based Version Control
Bram Cohen released Manyana, a public domain prototype using CRDTs to make version control merges conflict-free and more informative — landing 486 points on Hacker News within hours.
AI Tool 'Learned Hand' Enters LA Courtrooms to Help Judges Draft Rulings
Los Angeles Superior Court is testing Learned Hand, an AI system that summarizes filings and generates draft rulings for civil judges, as AI-assisted legal filings surge 49% in the past year.
Everything Claude Code v1.9.0 Hits #1 on GitHub Trending with Selective Install and AgentShield
The agent harness optimization toolkit crossed 98K GitHub stars and launched selective installation, 12 language ecosystems, and AgentShield security scanning in its latest release.
The New Data Gold Rush: People Are Selling Their Biometric Identities to Train AI
As major AI training datasets lock down access, a new global gig economy has emerged — thousands of people micro-licensing their voices, faces, and daily lives to feed the next generation of models.
Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Do His CEO Job
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is developing a personal AI agent to handle executive tasks — bypassing the organizational layers he'd normally have to work through.
PentAGI: The Autonomous AI That Hacks So You Don't Have To
An open-source AI agent system that autonomously runs penetration tests using 20+ professional hacking tools is trending on GitHub during RSAC 2026 week.
2026-03-22
21 articles
Project N.O.M.A.D. Hits #1 on GitHub: The Offline AI Computer Built to Outlast the Internet
An offline survival computer bundling local AI, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and maps shot from zero to nearly 10,000 GitHub stars in days.
AI Slop Is Breaking Open Source — Tech Giants Pledge $12.5M to Fix It
Flooded by LLM-generated fake bug reports, cURL shut down its bug bounty program. Now Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others are pledging $12.5M to clean up the mess.
Northwestern's AI-Evolved Robots Can Survive Being Cut in Half
Researchers at Northwestern University used AI to evolve modular robots that adapt to any terrain, right themselves when flipped, and keep moving even after being chopped in half.
Flash-MoE Runs a 397B Parameter AI Model on a MacBook
A developer built a pure C/Metal inference engine that runs a 397 billion parameter model on a MacBook Pro from its SSD at 4.4 tokens per second.
Nosh One: $1,500 AI Cooking Robot Raises $800K on Kickstarter
Nosh Robotics' Nosh One claims to cook full meals autonomously — from ingredient portioning to plating — but CNET and other reviewers remain skeptical about its $1,499 price tag.
Dancing Robot Goes Rogue at California Hot Pot Restaurant, Three Staff Needed to Restrain It
An AgiBot X2 humanoid robot went wild during a dance performance at a Haidilao hot pot restaurant in Cupertino, California, knocking plates off tables and requiring three employees to physically restrain it.
Apple's Gemini-Powered Siri Set to Debut in iOS 26.5 Beta
After two years of delays, Apple is expected to ship its first Gemini-integrated Siri in the iOS 26.5 developer beta, arriving as early as March 30.
Supermicro Co-Founder Arrested for Smuggling $2.5B in Nvidia AI Chips to China
The DOJ charged Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and two others with running a two-year scheme to divert $2.5 billion in Nvidia-powered AI servers to China, using dummy hardware and hair dryers to strip serial numbers and fool compliance auditors.
Russia Proposes Banning ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude by 2027
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has proposed rules that could ban foreign AI tools including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude unless they store Russian user data domestically.
Nvidia's GTC Gave OpenClaw Its ChatGPT Moment — and Rattled the AI Industry
Jensen Huang called OpenClaw 'the next ChatGPT' at GTC 2026, and analysts say the viral AI agent platform is exposing a fault line in Big AI's business model.
Stripe's AI Minions Ship 1,300 Pull Requests Per Week — With Zero Human Code
Stripe's autonomous coding agents, called Minions, now produce over 1,300 pull requests per week — all human-reviewed but zero human-written — running on infrastructure that handles more than $1 trillion in annual payment volume.
OpenAI Plans to Nearly Double Workforce to 8,000 by End of 2026
The ChatGPT maker plans to grow from 4,500 to roughly 8,000 employees this year, with most hires targeting engineering, product, and a new 'technical ambassadorship' track to help businesses deploy AI.
Tencent Launches WeChat 'ClawBot' Plugin for AI Agent Integration
WeChat officially launched 'ClawBot,' a plugin enabling users to connect OpenClaw AI agents to the platform's 1.3 billion-user messaging network.
Pentagon Makes Palantir's Maven AI a Permanent Program of Record
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg formally designated Palantir's Maven Smart System as a program of record, locking in long-term AI adoption across all U.S. military branches.
Uber Backs Rivian with $1.25B Deal to Deploy 50,000 Robotaxis
Uber has committed up to $1.25 billion to EV maker Rivian to deploy 50,000 autonomous R2 SUVs across 25 cities by 2031, kicking off with San Francisco and Miami in 2028.
Nevada Becomes First State to Force Kalshi Offline
A Nevada judge issued a 14-day restraining order forcing Kalshi to halt sports, politics, and entertainment event contracts — marking the first time a US state has compelled the platform to cease operations.
Grayscale Joins Race for Hyperliquid ETF, Filing for GHYP on Nasdaq
Grayscale filed an S-1 with the SEC to launch a spot HYPE token ETF under ticker GHYP on Nasdaq, joining Bitwise and 21Shares in a three-way race to bring Hyperliquid's native token to brokerage accounts.
Jury Finds Elon Musk Liable for Misleading Twitter Investors — Damages Could Reach $2.6B
A California federal jury unanimously found Musk liable for two false tweets that caused Twitter shares to drop ~10% during his 2022 takeover bid, with total damages potentially reaching $2.6 billion.
OP_NET Brings Native Smart Contracts to Bitcoin L1 — No Bridges, No Forks
OP_NET's mainnet launch enables smart contracts, a native DEX, and OP-20 tokens directly on Bitcoin Layer 1 without bridges, sidechains, or protocol changes.
Meta Shuts Down Horizon Worlds VR, Ending Its $50B Metaverse Bet
Meta is removing Horizon Worlds from Quest VR headsets on June 15, 2026, capping years of losses and officially ending its flagship metaverse experiment.
OpenAI to Roll Out Ads to All Free and Go ChatGPT Users in the US
OpenAI confirmed it will begin testing ads for all free and Go tier ChatGPT users in the US in the coming weeks — a major shift from its subscription-first model.
2026-03-21
15 articles
Gemini Shareholders Sue Winklevoss Twins Over Hidden Prediction Market Pivot
Shareholders filed a federal class action accusing Gemini and the Winklevoss twins of concealing a major pivot to prediction markets ahead of the exchange's 2025 IPO, as stock collapses 85%.
Blue Origin Files Plans for 51,600-Satellite Orbital AI Data Center
Blue Origin's 'Project Sunrise' proposes a constellation of up to 51,600 solar-powered satellites to handle AI compute in orbit, joining SpaceX and others in a race to move data centers into space.
arXiv Splits from Cornell After 35 Years to Become Independent Nonprofit
The preprint server where every AI breakthrough gets published first is leaving Cornell University after 35 years and will operate as a standalone nonprofit starting July 1, 2026.
Coinbase Launches 24/7 Perpetual Futures for All Magnificent 7 Stocks
Coinbase launched stock perpetual futures for the Magnificent 7 and major ETFs on March 20, enabling 24/7 leveraged trading settled in USDC for international traders.
Stripe Launches Machine Payments Protocol So AI Agents Can Pay Their Own Bills
Stripe and Tempo have launched the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard that lets AI agents pay for APIs and services autonomously — in fiat or stablecoins — without human intervention.
Xiaomi's Secret 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Was the Mystery AI Everyone Thought Was DeepSeek
The anonymous 'Hunter Alpha' model that topped OpenRouter's charts with over 1 trillion tokens of usage has been revealed as Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro — a 1T-parameter, 1M-context agent model that the developer community mistook for DeepSeek V4.
Unitree Robotics Files for $610M IPO as Humanoid Revenue Tops Half of Sales
Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics filed for a $610 million IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market after shipping 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025 — the most of any company globally.
Perplexity Launches Health Feature With Apple Health and Wearable Integration
Perplexity Health connects AI to personal medical records, wearables, and Apple Health, letting users query their own health data via Perplexity Computer.
Amazon's Trainium Chip Now Powers Claude and OpenAI — At Scale
TechCrunch got an exclusive tour of Amazon's Austin chip lab, where Trainium2 already runs over 1 million chips for Anthropic's Claude and is set to provide 2 gigawatts of compute for OpenAI.
Microsoft MAI-Image-2 Debuts at #3 on Global AI Image Leaderboard
Microsoft's in-house AI image model reaches #3 on Arena.ai's text-to-image rankings, trailing only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out on Copilot and Bing Image Creator.
Mamba-3 Beats Transformers on Inference Speed While Matching Quality
Researchers from CMU, Princeton, Cartesia AI, and Together AI released Mamba-3, a state space model that runs 7x faster than Llama 3.2-1B at long sequences while outperforming Transformer baselines on language modeling benchmarks.
Amazon Is Building a New AI Phone — and It Wants to Replace the App Store
Amazon is developing a new AI-first smartphone codenamed 'Transformer,' its first phone since the Fire Phone flopped in 2014.
Senators Strike Deal on Stablecoin Yield, Clearing Path for Crypto Clarity Act
Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks reached an agreement in principle on stablecoin yield rules, potentially unblocking the long-stalled Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
Google Is Rewriting Your Headlines in Search Results
Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline replacements in traditional search results, sometimes changing the meaning of articles without any visible indication.
Anthropic Ships Claude Code Channels for Telegram and Discord
Anthropic launched Claude Code Channels in research preview, letting developers remotely control their local coding agent from Telegram or Discord via MCP plugins.