Vercel Says 30% of Its Deployments Now Start With Coding Agents
Vercel says coding agents now initiate more than 30% of deployments on its platform, a shift it is using to pitch a broader agent-focused infrastructure stack.
2026-04-13
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Study Finds Malicious LLM Routers Can Hijack Agent Tool Calls
A new academic study says some third-party LLM routers are already injecting malicious tool calls, touching credentials, and even draining a researcher-owned ETH key.
Hyperbridge Exploit Lets Attacker Mint 1B Bridged DOT on Ethereum
A bridge bug in Hyperbridge appears to have let an attacker mint 1 billion bridged DOT on Ethereum and swap the fake supply for roughly 108 ETH.
Google Brings Gemma 4 Agent Skills to Phones and Edge Devices
Google says Gemma 4 now ships through AI Edge Gallery and LiteRT-LM, giving developers a more direct path to build on-device agent workflows across phones, desktops, and edge hardware.
2026-04-12
2 articles
Anthropic's Mythos Preview Reaches Major Banks Through Project Glasswing
Anthropic says its Mythos Preview model is being deployed for defensive security work, while Bloomberg reports more Wall Street banks have begun internal testing beyond JPMorgan.
GoDark Docs Outline Solana Dark Pool DEX for Perpetual Futures
GoDark's public docs describe a Solana-based perpetual futures venue that hides orders until execution and settles trades onchain in one-second batches.
2026-04-11
1 article
SiFive Raises $400M at $3.65B Valuation for RISC-V AI Data Center Push
SiFive says it has raised a $400 million Series G round at a $3.65 billion valuation to expand its RISC-V CPU and AI IP roadmap for data centers.
2026-04-10
2 articles
Vercel Adds Team-Wide Zero Data Retention Controls to AI Gateway
Vercel has added team-wide Zero Data Retention controls to AI Gateway, alongside per-request retention and prompt-training controls for sensitive model traffic.
Google Adds Flex and Priority Inference Tiers to Gemini API
Google has added Flex and Priority inference tiers to the Gemini API, letting developers trade off price, latency, and reliability through the same synchronous interface.
2026-04-09
5 articles
Mariana Minerals Taps Pronto for Autonomous Haul Trucks at Copper One
TechCrunch reports Mariana Minerals has partnered with Pronto to deploy autonomous haul trucks at Utah's Copper One site, extending the miner's autonomy push and marking Pronto's first reported deal since joining Atoms.
Poke Opens Its Messaging-Based AI Assistant With Recipe Library
Poke is positioning itself as a text-first AI assistant across iMessage, Telegram, and SMS, with a growing recipe library for everyday and developer workflows.
Bitcoin Depot Discloses 50.903 BTC Theft in Material Cyber Incident
Bitcoin Depot said attackers obtained settlement account credentials and transferred 50.903 BTC from company-controlled wallets, while customer-facing systems were not affected.
Base Rebrands base.dev as Base Dashboard for Builder Growth Tools
Base has relaunched base.dev as Base Dashboard, a redesigned site that packages its existing builder growth and rewards tools under a new URL.
Google Adds Shared Notebooks to Gemini With NotebookLM Sync
Google has started rolling out notebooks in Gemini, giving users a dedicated place to organize chats and files that sync directly with NotebookLM.
2026-04-08
10 articles
Avride Narrows Austin Test Area After Duck Death Raises AV Safety Questions
Avride says it has removed some Austin streets from testing and is reviewing its systems after one of its test vehicles struck and killed a duck near Mueller Lake Park.
WireGuard Windows Updates Stall After Microsoft Suspends Developer Account
WireGuard creator Jason Donenfeld says a suspended Microsoft developer account has blocked new Windows updates, exposing how account verification rules can delay critical infrastructure software.
Meta Launches Muse Spark as First Model From Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta has launched Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, and says it is now powering Meta AI on the web and in the Meta AI app.
MOIA and Uber Start Los Angeles Testing for ID. Buzz Fleet
MOIA America and Uber have opened the Los Angeles testing phase for autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, starting with supervised runs before any broader California robotaxi rollout.
South Korea Posts Draft Digital Asset Basic Act With Stablecoin Rules
South Korea's new draft Digital Asset Basic Act would introduce licensing, disclosure, and stablecoin issuer reserve and redemption requirements under a broader market framework.
OpenAI Unveils Child Safety Blueprint for AI Exploitation Cases
OpenAI published a child safety blueprint focused on AI-generated abuse material, provider reporting, and safety-by-design controls.
Virtuals Makes Its Launchpad Fully Modular
Virtuals says its launchpad is now fully modular, letting teams configure launch features as independent toggles instead of relying on a single fixed setup.
Atlassian Brings Remix and Partner Agents Into Confluence
Atlassian has launched Remix in open beta and started adding third-party AI agents inside Confluence as it pushes more AI workflows directly into its existing collaboration stack.
Google Ships AI Edge Eloquent, an Offline-First Dictation App for iPhone
Google has released AI Edge Eloquent on iPhone, a new dictation app that runs core speech processing on device while offering optional cloud features for text cleanup.
Coinbase Secures ASIC License for Retail Derivatives in Australia
Coinbase says ASIC has granted its Australian unit an AFSL with retail derivatives authorization, clearing the way for crypto and equity perpetual products in the market.
2026-04-07
3 articles
Google's LiteRT-LM Adds Gemma 4 Support for On-Device Agents
Google's v0.10.1 LiteRT-LM release adds Gemma 4 support, giving developers an open-source path to run multimodal, function-calling models across phones, desktops, web apps, and edge devices.
AES Says Maximo Hit 100 MW in Robotic Solar Installation
AES says its Maximo robot fleet has completed 100 megawatts of solar panel installation, marking one of the clearest commercial deployments yet for AI-driven construction robotics.
Anthropic Signs Multi-Gigawatt TPU Deal With Google and Broadcom
Anthropic said it will add multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity from Google and Broadcom starting in 2027 as its annualized revenue passes $30 billion.
2026-04-06
12 articles
Polymarket Starts an Exchange Rebuild and Rolls Out Polymarket USD
Polymarket says it will rebuild its trading stack over the next two to three weeks and replace USDC.e collateral with a new token backed 1:1 by USDC.
Virtuals Demos Robot-to-Robot Commerce on Base Using x402 and USDC
Virtuals published a demo showing a rover and drone completing an autonomous payment-and-delivery flow on Base through x402 with USDC settlement.
AutoKernel Open-Sources an AI Agent Loop for GPU Kernel Optimization
RightNow AI has released AutoKernel, a framework that uses iterative agent-driven search to profile, rewrite, and benchmark GPU kernels for PyTorch models.
Pixie Chess Launches on Base With Onchain Piece Sales and Tournament Prize Pools
Pixie Chess has launched on Base with collectible pieces that fund tournament pots and add special abilities to gameplay.
Block's Goose Breaks Into GitHub Trending as Open Source Coding Agents Heat Up
Block's Goose climbed into GitHub's daily trending list on Monday, giving the local open source engineering agent fresh momentum.
MindOn Demo Shows Unitree G1 Handling Household Tasks
A widely shared demo shows Shenzhen startup MindOn using Unitree’s G1 humanoid for household chores, highlighting how software may be becoming the real battleground in home robotics.
Circle's Arc Publishes Quantum-Resistant Wallet Roadmap Ahead of Mainnet
Arc said users will be able to opt into post-quantum wallet signatures at launch, with broader validator and infrastructure hardening planned in later phases.
Microsoft to revise Copilot terms that call it 'for entertainment purposes only'
Microsoft says it will update legacy Copilot terms after users resurfaced language warning that the assistant is for entertainment only and should not be relied on for important advice.
OpenCover Launches Covered Vaults on Base With Up to $50M in Vault Insurance
OpenCover has launched Covered Vaults, a vault-native insurance layer on Base that lets users toggle protection from inside the vault flow, with up to $50 million in coverage per vault.
How DPRK Hackers Spent Six Months Inside Drift Before the $270M Drain
Drift Protocol revealed that the April 1 exploit was the culmination of a six-month intelligence operation: attackers posed as a quant trading firm, met developers in person, and used a silent code-execution bug in VSCode and Cursor to compromise developer machines.
Google Announces $15B America-India Connect Initiative at AI Impact Summit
Google is building new subsea fiber routes connecting India to four continents and opening DeepMind's frontier AI models to Indian researchers and government bodies.
Polymarket Removed a Bet on a Downed Pilot's Rescue — But 223 War Markets Remain
After Rep. Seth Moulton publicly shamed the platform for allowing users to bet on a live military rescue operation, Polymarket pulled the market — while acknowledging it should never have gone live.
2026-04-05
11 articles
Suno's Copyright Filters Are Trivially Easy to Bypass
The Verge found that slowing a track down or adding white noise is enough to get Suno to generate near-identical AI covers of Beyoncé, Black Sabbath, and others — which can then be uploaded to streaming platforms for royalties.
Microsoft Launches Three In-House AI Models to Challenge OpenAI
Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 through its Foundry platform — its first batch of in-house multimodal AI models built to rival OpenAI and Google.
AI Is Driving Down the Cost of Crypto Hacks to Nearly Zero, Ledger CTO Warns
Ledger's CTO says AI tools are eroding the economics of cybersecurity by making vulnerability discovery and exploitation dramatically cheaper — calling traditional code audits insufficient.
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits 1.0 — Merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen Into One SDK
Microsoft ships the production-ready 1.0 release of Agent Framework, unifying Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single open-source SDK for building multi-agent workflows in Python and .NET.
Google Vids Now Offers Free AI Video Generation and Custom Music for All Users
Google Vids integrates Veo 3.1 and Lyria 3 models, giving any Google account holder 10 free AI video clips per month alongside custom music and directable AI avatars.
Ant Group Unveils Anvita: A Crypto Platform Built for AI Agents
Ant Group's blockchain division has launched Anvita, a platform designed for AI agents to hold assets, execute trades, and settle payments autonomously using stablecoins — without human involvement.
70% of Software Teams Say AI Is Hurting Code Quality
A SmartBear study of 273 software quality leaders finds that AI coding adoption has hit 93%, but 70% are concerned code quality is already suffering as development outpaces testing.
World's First Quantum Battery Prototype Charges Wirelessly — and Gets Faster as It Grows
Australian scientists at CSIRO have built a working quantum battery prototype that charges via laser and, counterintuitively, charges faster the larger it gets.
Naoris Protocol Launches First NIST-Certified Post-Quantum Blockchain Mainnet
Naoris Protocol's mainnet goes live as the first Layer 1 blockchain built entirely on NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography, arriving as Google's latest research shrinks estimates for crypto's 'Q-Day.'
OpenScreen Hits 21K Stars: Free Open-Source Screen Studio Alternative Goes Viral
OpenScreen, a free MIT-licensed screen recording tool for making polished product demos, went viral on GitHub with over 21,000 stars — fueled by developers fed up with Screen Studio's $348/year price tag.
Ai2 Releases MolmoWeb: An Open-Source Web Agent That Beats GPT-4o at Browser Navigation
Allen Institute for AI open-sourced MolmoWeb, a visual web agent that outperforms GPT-4o-based systems on browser navigation benchmarks despite running on just 4B–8B parameters.