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Open-source vector search engine Qdrant closes a $50M Series B led by AVP to expand composable retrieval infrastructure for RAG pipelines, AI agents, and production-scale workloads.
Perplexity Computer now lets users start, monitor, and steer AI agent tasks from their phone, with cross-device sync between Mac, iOS, and web.
Microsoft Research released BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the first open-source native 1-bit LLM trained from scratch on 4 trillion tokens — capable of running on a consumer CPU with no GPU required.
Pump.fun crossed $1 billion in cumulative revenue — the first Solana app to do so — and quietly registered subdomains for Base, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Monad, signaling a cross-chain expansion.
A parameter misconfiguration in Aave's CAPO oracle caused it to underprice wstETH by 2.85%, triggering $27.78 million in liquidations across 34 accounts that were healthy at market rates.
Circle has released Circle Skills, an open-source development kit that lets AI coding agents generate stablecoin integrations for USDC, EURC, and Circle's Arc platform.
China has released its 15th Five-Year Plan, setting a target of integrating AI into 90% of its economy by 2030, with major bets on humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, and autonomous flying vehicles.
AgentCard gives AI agents instant virtual cards to make real-world purchases - from DoorDash orders to API credits - with on-chain crypto payments coming soon.
Amazon Web Services and Cerebras Systems announced a collaboration to deliver what they call the fastest AI inference in the cloud by splitting workloads across Trainium and CS-3 chips.
Tesla publicly debuted its third-generation Optimus humanoid robot at AWE 2026 in Shanghai, with on-site staff confirming mass production is planned to begin by the end of 2026.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Custodia Bank's final bid to challenge the Fed's master account authority — ending years of litigation just days after Kraken became the first crypto firm to receive limited Fed access.
NVIDIA is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, with a full reveal expected at GTC 2026 in San Jose next week.
Circle's USYC tokenized Treasury fund surpassed BlackRock's BUIDL at $2.2 billion, as the total tokenized Treasury market broke the $11 billion mark for the first time.
A series of high-severity outages on Amazon.com — including a 6-hour checkout meltdown — were traced to an AI agent that inferred bad advice from a stale internal wiki.
Foundation Robotics shipped two Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine in February for reconnaissance testing — the first real-world battlefield evaluation of humanoid soldier technology.
Circle's USDC recorded roughly $2.2 trillion in adjusted transaction volume in 2026 versus $1.3 trillion for Tether's USDT, marking the first time USDC has led since 2019.
MoonPay added Ledger hardware wallet signing to its AI agent CLI, making it the first agent-focused wallet where private keys never leave the device — even as the agent trades autonomously.
ElevenLabs launched its '1 Million Voices' initiative at SXSW, committing $1 billion in free AI voice restoration to people with permanent voice loss, anchored by the story of the late actor Eric Dane.
The Ethereum Foundation released its first formal 'EF Mandate,' codifying its commitment to censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security — and stored the document permanently on the Ethereum blockchain.
Anthropic has filed two federal lawsuits challenging the Pentagon's decision to label it a 'supply chain risk' — a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries — after the company refused to let Claude power autonomous weapons.
Replit closed a $400M Series D tripling its valuation to $9B, and unveiled Agent 4 — a multi-agent coding system that runs parallel builds, designs on an infinite canvas, and ships apps 10x faster.
Netflix acquired InterPositive, the 16-person AI post-production startup co-founded by Ben Affleck in 2022, in a deal reportedly worth up to $600 million — one of the streaming giant's largest acquisitions ever.
A crypto user swapped $50.4 million in stablecoins through the Aave interface and received roughly $36,000 in AAVE tokens — a 99.9% loss — after ignoring multiple slippage warnings. Arbitrageurs captured over $43 million from the same block.
The CFTC issued its first staff guidance for prediction market platforms and launched a formal rulemaking process, reversing years of legal opposition to platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.
Meta has delayed its next-generation AI model, codenamed Avocado, to at least May after internal benchmarks show it trails Google's Gemini 3.0 on reasoning, coding, and writing.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced he will step down after 18 years as the creative software giant faces mounting investor skepticism over its ability to compete in the AI era.
Anthropic has launched inline interactive visualizations in Claude — charts, diagrams, and dynamic widgets that appear inside the chat and evolve with the conversation, available free to all users.
Kraken open-sourced a Rust CLI that gives AI agents native access to crypto markets — including a built-in MCP server compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw, plus a paper trading engine for risk-free testing.
The release candidate for systemd 260 ships AGENTS.md documentation and a GitHub Actions workflow for automated Claude Code pull request review.
Ukraine's defence minister opened access to millions of annotated combat drone images for allied companies to train AI models — a world-first initiative.
TikTok's parent company is deploying ~36,000 Nvidia B200 chips via a Southeast Asian intermediary in Malaysia, a deal valued at over $2.5 billion.
Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation's dAI team proposed ERC-8183, a new on-chain standard that lets autonomous AI agents hire each other, deliver work, and settle payments without human arbitration.
Apple's MacBook Neo starts at $599 — the company's most affordable laptop ever — and runs on the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone 16 Pro, marking the first time an A-series processor has shipped inside a Mac.
Oracle, Salesforce, and Workday executives are rebutting Wall Street fears that AI agents will displace enterprise software — after a nearly $1 trillion rout in SaaS stocks triggered by Anthropic's Claude Cowork agent.
LuxTTS delivers state-of-the-art voice cloning from just 3 seconds of audio, running at 150x realtime speed while fitting in 1GB of VRAM - all fully open source.
Pew Research finds 64% of U.S. teens ages 13–17 regularly use AI chatbots, while half of adults say the technology makes them more concerned than excited.
Allen Institute for AI releases MolmoBot, an open robotic manipulation suite trained purely on synthetic data that transfers zero-shot to real robots.
BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust (ETHB) began trading on Nasdaq on March 12, combining spot ETH exposure with onchain staking rewards — a regulatory first for the world's largest asset manager.
Optimism's core development firm cuts 20 staff to do 'fewer things exceptionally well' — not a financial crisis, says CEO.
UK self-driving startup Wayve has teamed up with Uber and Nissan to pilot autonomous taxi services in Tokyo by late 2026, marking Uber's first AV partnership in Japan.
Sunday hits unicorn status with a $165M Series B to deploy its household robot Memo — designed to do laundry, clear dishes, and handle everyday chores — to real homes by late 2026.
At its first-ever Ask 2026 developer conference, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer — software that transforms a Mac mini into an always-on AI agent that orchestrates 20 frontier models to execute tasks around the clock.
Hume AI released TADA, an open-source text-to-speech model with a novel architecture that synchronizes text and audio one-to-one, eliminating hallucinations and running 5x faster than comparable systems.
Base is moving its app platform off Farcaster's mini-app spec and Neynar infrastructure by April 9, replacing it with standard web tooling and a new Base.dev developer dashboard.
Bumble unveiled Bee, an in-house AI model that learns users' values and goals through private conversations to find compatible matches — and plans to test removing the swipe entirely.
Banco Santander and Visa completed AI-agent-driven purchase transactions across five Latin American markets — the first end-to-end agentic commerce pilots in the region.
After attending Real World Crypto, Vitalik Buterin argues Ethereum's deepest value isn't smart contracts — it's serving as a censorship-resistant, globally shared public bulletin board.
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a 2018 TechCrunch Battlefield winner that pioneered AI customer service before ChatGPT existed, to build agents that learn and improve autonomously from every interaction.
Polkadot's runtime upgrade v2.1.0 went live today, writing a 2.1 billion DOT hard cap into the protocol and launching a new Dynamic Allocation Pool — the network's biggest economic overhaul since launch.
Apple's iPhone 17e went on sale March 11 at $599, marking the first time MagSafe wireless charging has appeared on the company's entry-level iPhone — alongside an A19 chip and a 48MP camera.