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Nvidia unveiled the Groq 3 LPX at GTC 2026 — a purpose-built inference chip that speeds up AI workloads 35x over GPUs alone, pairing with Vera Rubin in a new disaggregated architecture.
Walt Disney Imagineering unveiled its most advanced robotic character to date — a self-walking Olaf snowman trained on Nvidia GPUs — at GTC 2026, ahead of a March 29 debut at Disneyland Paris.
Nvidia committed $2 billion each to optical technology makers Coherent and Lumentum in strategic deals to secure AI data center interconnect capacity for the next generation of AI factories.
Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, a real-time neural rendering model that infuses game frames with photoreal lighting and materials — arriving on GeForce cards this fall.
Circle has launched Nanopayments on testnet, positioning Gateway as a gas-free USDC rail for agent-driven micropayments down to $0.000001.
GitHub has moved Enterprise AI Controls and its agent control plane to general availability, giving enterprises deeper visibility and policy controls over Copilot agents.
ACE Robotics releases Kairos 3.0-4B, an open-source embodied world model built from scratch for real-world robots — running in real time on edge hardware and controlling multiple robot forms from a single 4B-parameter model.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang kicks off GTC 2026 with the full Vera Rubin platform launch — a next-gen AI compute architecture promising up to 5x inference gains over Blackwell.
Meta has committed up to $27 billion over five years to Dutch AI cloud provider Nebius, in one of the largest compute-procurement contracts ever signed.
An Australian Senate committee has recommended legislation that would require crypto exchanges and custodians to hold financial services licences, bringing them under existing market safeguard rules.
Alibaba is preparing to unveil an enterprise AI agent built on its Qwen model that can operate computers, browsers, and cloud infrastructure — and it could drop as soon as this week.
The two main US financial regulators signed a memorandum of understanding on March 11 to coordinate crypto oversight, ending years of conflicting rules and overlapping enforcement actions.
Anthropic is doubling Claude's usage limits outside peak hours for two weeks - covering Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans across all platforms including Claude Code.
Two unattributed frontier models — Hunter Alpha and Healer Alpha — appeared on OpenRouter with extraordinary specs and $0 pricing, sparking speculation about their true origin.
An open-source framework that forces coding agents to brainstorm and spec before writing any code has quietly accumulated 86,000 GitHub stars.
Vectorize's open-source Hindsight framework lets AI agents build persistent, learning memory — outperforming RAG on benchmarks and running in two lines of code.
More than 20 teams ran Beijing's upcoming humanoid robot half marathon course overnight, marking the first trial ahead of the April 19 race — and the first edition where robots must navigate entirely without human remote control.
Physical Superintelligence PBC has open-sourced Get Physics Done (GPD), an agentic AI that scopes problems, derives equations, verifies against physical laws, and compresses weeks of research into hours.
After eight years under the radar, Travis Kalanick has unveiled Atoms — a specialized industrial robotics company targeting food, mining, and transportation, with plans to acquire autonomous vehicle startup Pronto.
A Chinese undergraduate built MiroFish in 10 days — an open-source engine that spawns thousands of AI agents in a simulated world to forecast real-world outcomes. It topped GitHub trending and secured 30M RMB in funding within 24 hours.
Elon Musk announced Tesla's Terafab chip fabrication project launches March 21 — a $25 billion in-house foundry targeting 2nm chips for Cybercab, Optimus, and xAI.
Futurist Amy Webb retired her iconic 19-year Emerging Tech Trend Report at SXSW, replacing it with a 'Convergence Outlook' focused on when multiple technologies collide to reshape entire industries.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in just two weeks — 14 rated high-severity — in a collaboration with Mozilla that's now shaping AI-assisted security research.
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Galbot have trained the Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play real tennis by learning from imperfect human motion capture data.
President Trump's official Solana meme coin surged up to 60% after promoters announced an exclusive gala at Mar-a-Lago for the top 297 holders — though the event isn't on Trump's official schedule.
While Beijing bans OpenClaw at state agencies, a grassroots craze — locals call it 'lobster raising' — is spawning a cottage industry of installation consultants, packed meetups, and government subsidies.
NanoClaw partners with Docker to run AI agents inside micro VMs, adding a hypervisor-level isolation layer on top of container sandboxing.
ByteDance's open-source OpenViking context database for AI agents hit GitHub trending today with over 1,600 single-day stars, offering a file system approach to managing agent memory, resources, and skills.
Kevin Rose's rebooted Digg is laying off staff and pulling its app after AI-driven bots overwhelmed the platform's voting and moderation systems within hours of launch.
With Jensen Huang's GTC 2026 keynote one day away, NVIDIA is spotlighting OpenClaw with a hands-on Build-a-Claw event and a new DGX Spark playbook.
The 2026 Game Developers Conference wrapped in San Francisco with stark numbers: 33% of US developers lost jobs in two years, 52% say AI is harming the industry, and 82% want to unionize.
Vitalik Buterin argued that running Ethereum nodes should be easy for everyone — and sketched a technical path to dropping the validator minimum from 32 ETH to 1 ETH.
San Francisco startup Sunday hit unicorn status with a $165M Series B to deploy Memo — a household robot that learns chores from human demonstrations — into real homes this fall.
ByteDance has suspended the global launch of its Seedance 2.0 AI video generator after Disney and Paramount Skydance sent cease-and-desist letters over unauthorized use of copyrighted characters.
Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his rescue dog Rosie — cutting her mast cell tumors by 75% in weeks.
Three years after pivoting to AI content generation, BuzzFeed reported a $57.3M net loss in 2025 and now warns of 'substantial doubt' about its survival — yet CEO Jonah Peretti says he's pushing ahead with new AI apps.
The US Commerce Department pulled its draft 'AI Action Plan Implementation' rule without explanation, leaving global AI chip export policy in limbo.
At AIPCon 9, the Pentagon's AI chief demoed Palantir's Maven Smart System reducing a military kill chain to three mouse clicks while the US carries out Operation Epic Fury strikes in Iran.
Paperclip hit 14k+ GitHub stars in under a week — it's an open-source framework that lets you run a full company staffed entirely by AI agents, no human employees needed.
Elon Musk announced on X that Tesla's 'Terafab' chip fabrication project will launch within seven days, targeting massive in-house AI processor production for autonomous vehicles and Optimus robots.
ABB Robotics is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse into RobotStudio to create HyperReality — a simulation platform claiming 99% virtual-to-real accuracy for factory robots.
The Ethereum Foundation sold 5,000 ETH directly to BitMine Immersion Technologies — the largest publicly traded ETH treasury firm — for roughly $10.2 million to fund its operations.
A threat actor named Glassworm has compromised over 150 GitHub repositories, npm packages, and VS Code extensions by hiding malicious payloads in invisible Unicode characters — and researchers believe LLMs are being used to craft convincing cover commits.
The Trump administration will receive roughly $10 billion from the investor consortium that acquired TikTok's US operations, an unprecedented government fee for brokering a corporate deal.
The FBI's Seattle Division is seeking victims who installed one of seven malware-embedded Steam games between May 2024 and January 2026, with attackers focused on draining crypto wallets and stealing credentials.
Xiaomi trialed two CyberOne humanoid robots on its Beijing EV assembly line, completing 90.2% of assigned tasks over a three-hour shift while keeping pace with a 76-second production cycle.
A first-of-its-kind longitudinal study finds Bitcoin's network degrades gracefully under random infrastructure failures — but a coordinated attack on five hosting providers could cripple it.
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could eliminate roughly 16,000 jobs as the company redirects capital toward a $600 billion AI infrastructure buildout.
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick rebrands City Storage Systems as Atoms Inc., targeting specialized industrial robots for food, mining, and transportation — with plans to acquire autonomous haul-truck startup Pronto.
CodeWall's offensive AI agent autonomously targeted McKinsey's Lilli chatbot, exploiting a SQL injection flaw to access 46.5 million internal messages and writable system prompts.