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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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The agent harness optimization toolkit crossed 98K GitHub stars and launched selective installation, 12 language ecosystems, and AgentShield security scanning in its latest release.
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.
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.