Europe's First Commercial Robotaxi Service to Launch in Zagreb
Rimac-owned Verne is launching Europe's first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb, Croatia, with Pony.ai's autonomous driving technology and Uber as a booking partner.
2026-04-05
7 articles
Stablecoin Market Hits $317B as Base Prints Volume ATH Fueled by AI Agents
The global stablecoin market reached $317 billion on April 4 with $1.36B in weekly inflows, as Base hit a new all-time high in daily stablecoin volume driven by growing AI agent transaction activity.
Apple Signs Tiny Corp's Driver, Unlocking Nvidia eGPUs on ARM Macs for LLM Inference
Tiny Corp's TinyGPU driver, now signed by Apple, lets ARM Mac users attach external AMD or Nvidia GPUs via Thunderbolt for local LLM inference — no System Integrity Protection bypass required.
Trump's New Acting AG Is a Crypto Holder Who Disbanded the DOJ's Crypto Unit
Todd Blanche, who as deputy AG disbanded the DOJ's crypto enforcement team and holds crypto himself, is now the acting U.S. Attorney General after Trump fired Pam Bondi.
Writers Guild Reaches Four-Year Deal With Studios, Including AI Protections
The WGA and AMPTP reached a tentative four-year contract covering streaming residuals and AI training protections — the first of three major Hollywood unions to settle.
Jensen Huang: Every Industrial Company Will Become a Robotics Company
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says physical AI has arrived, predicting that every industrial company will eventually need to become a robotics company.
NYSE and Nasdaq Race to Launch 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading
Both the NYSE and Nasdaq are pursuing around-the-clock tokenized stock trading platforms using blockchain, promising instant settlement and stablecoin funding — and challenging the old-guard middlemen who profit from after-hours market closures.
2026-04-04
21 articles
UBTech Posts 23x Humanoid Robot Sales Jump, Offers $18M to Hire Chief Scientist
UBTech sold 1,079 full-size humanoid robots in 2025 — up from just 3 the year before — and is now offering $18 million annually to recruit a chief AI scientist.
Grayscale Files Amended S-1 to Convert Bittensor Trust Into First AI-Native Spot ETF
Grayscale filed Amendment No. 1 to its Bittensor S-1 on April 2, moving closer to listing a spot TAO ETF on NYSE Arca — what would be the first AI-focused spot crypto ETF approved by the SEC.
AI-Cited Layoffs Drive US Tech Job Losses to Worst Point Since 2023
US tech companies have shed over 52,000 jobs in Q1 2026 — the worst start to a year since 2023 — with AI displacement cited as the leading cause by multiple major employers.
Anthropic Forms AnthroPAC as AI Industry Pours $300M Into 2026 Midterms
Anthropic filed FEC paperwork to create AnthroPAC, an employee-funded political action committee backing bipartisan candidates on AI policy, as total AI midterm spending surpasses $300 million.
Google Releases Gemma 4: Open Models That Beat Rivals 20x Their Size
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of four open models under Apache 2.0 that outperforms models 20x its size on industry benchmarks — with built-in vision, audio, and native agentic workflow support.
MLPerf Inference v6.0: Biggest Benchmark Overhaul Adds Text-to-Video and DeepSeek-R1
MLCommons released MLPerf Inference v6.0 with its most significant benchmark overhaul yet, adding the suite's first text-to-video generation test alongside DeepSeek-R1, GPT-OSS 120B, and Shopify VLM workloads.
Solana's Post-Quantum Upgrade Would Cut Throughput by 90%, Testnet Shows
New testnet results show replacing Solana's signatures with quantum-resistant alternatives slows the network by roughly 90% — exposing a fundamental tradeoff between security and the speed Solana built its reputation on.
Scientists Crack Solar's 'Impossible' Barrier With 130% Energy Yield
Kyushu University researchers achieved 130% quantum yield in solar energy conversion using singlet fission, breaking the Shockley-Queisser limit that physicists once called an uncrossable ceiling.
North Korean Hackers Suspected Behind $285M Drift Protocol Exploit
Elliptic flagged the largest DeFi hack of 2026 as a likely DPRK-linked operation, while Circle faced backlash for not freezing $232 million in USDC during the exploit.
Google's Quantum Whitepaper Names Algorand as Leader in Post-Quantum Cryptography
Google's quantum vulnerability whitepaper singled out Algorand as a real-world example of post-quantum cryptography in production, sending ALGO up 44% over the past week.
Google DeepMind Maps Six Attack Categories That Can Hijack AI Agents
Researchers published the first systematic framework for 'AI agent traps' — adversarial content embedded in websites, emails, and data stores designed to manipulate autonomous agents into harmful behavior.
Utah Lets AI Chatbot Renew Psychiatric Prescriptions Without a Doctor
Utah approved a one-year pilot letting Legion Health's AI chatbot autonomously renew 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications without physician review.
Jack Dorsey's Block Is Reviving the Bitcoin Faucet on April 6
Block Inc. is bringing back the Bitcoin faucet on April 6, dubbed 'Bitcoin Day,' allowing users to earn small amounts of BTC — reviving a 2010 tradition that originally distributed nearly 20,000 BTC for free.
Anvil Robotics Raises $5.5M to Build the 'Legos for Robots' Platform
Anvil Robotics closed a $5.5M seed round to build modular, open-source robots that ship in 48 hours — starting at $1,900 — making physical AI accessible to teams without nine-figure R&D budgets.
Anthropic Bars Claude Subscriptions from Third-Party AI Agents
Anthropic is cutting off Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their plans with OpenClaw and other third-party agentic tools, effective April 4 at 12pm PT.
DeepSeek V4 to Run on Huawei Chips, Sidelining Nvidia
DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model will be optimized for Huawei's Ascend chips, with Chinese tech giants placing bulk orders of hundreds of thousands of units.
Ethereum Foundation Completes 70,000 ETH Staking Target With $93M Single-Day Deposit
The Ethereum Foundation staked $93 million of ETH in a single day, completing its 70,000 ETH target and converting dormant treasury into a yield-generating position.
MAD Bugs: Claude Finds 500+ Zero-Days in Open Source Software
Security firm Calif's 'Month of AI-Discovered Bugs' initiative has used Claude to uncover over 500 high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities in production open-source software, including working exploits for Vim, FreeBSD, and Firefox.
Dmail Network Shuts Down After Five Years, Cites Unsustainable Decentralized Infrastructure Costs
Dmail Network, a decentralized email platform active since 2021, will cease all services on May 15 after failing to monetize and facing insurmountable infrastructure costs.
Zuckerberg Returns to Coding After 20 Years, Ships Diffs to Meta's Monorepo Using Claude Code
Mark Zuckerberg is personally writing and committing code to Meta's monorepo for the first time in two decades, using Anthropic's Claude Code CLI as his primary tool.
Meta Pauses All Work With AI Training Data Vendor Mercor After Major Breach
A $10 billion AI training data startup that serves OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta has confirmed a security breach linked to the LiteLLM supply-chain attack, prompting Meta to indefinitely halt all projects with the company.
2026-04-03
22 articles
Charles Schwab to Launch Spot Bitcoin and Ether Trading for $12 Trillion Client Base
Charles Schwab confirms it will offer direct spot Bitcoin and Ether trading in the first half of 2026, bringing crypto access to nearly $12 trillion in client assets.
OpenAI Reshuffles C-Suite as AGI Chief Takes Medical Leave
OpenAI CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo steps away for medical leave while COO Brad Lightcap moves to special projects and CMO Kate Rouch exits to focus on cancer recovery.
Musk Requires SpaceX IPO Banks to Buy Grok Subscriptions
Elon Musk is requiring banks, law firms, and advisers working on SpaceX's record-breaking IPO to purchase subscriptions to Grok, his AI chatbot now under the SpaceX umbrella.
Take-Two Fires Head of AI and Entire Team Weeks After CEO Dismisses AI Game Development
Take-Two Interactive, parent of Rockstar Games and Zynga, has laid off its head of AI Luke Dicken and his entire team - despite the CEO claiming the company is 'actively embracing' generative AI.
Microsoft Open-Sources Agent Governance Toolkit for Autonomous AI Security
Microsoft releases a seven-package, MIT-licensed toolkit that brings OS-style runtime security to autonomous AI agents, addressing all 10 OWASP agentic AI risks with sub-millisecond policy enforcement.
Netflix Open-Sources VOID, a Model That Erases Objects and Their Physical Interactions From Video
Netflix's first public AI model removes objects from video while fixing the physics - if you erase a person holding a guitar, VOID makes the guitar fall naturally.
Perplexity Hit With Class Action Over Secret Chat Sharing With Google and Meta
A 135-page class-action lawsuit accuses Perplexity of secretly embedding ad trackers that shared user conversations with Google and Meta - even in Incognito mode.
Generalist AI's GEN-1 Hits 99% Success Rate, Claims First Commercially Viable Robot Foundation Model
Generalist AI's GEN-1 model achieves 99% task success rates on physical tasks where its predecessor scored 64%, marking what the company calls a shift from research prototype to commercial viability.
EngineAI Launches URKL, the World's First Humanoid Robot Combat League
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI opens global registration for URKL, a professional humanoid robot fighting league with a $1.39 million top prize and a December 2026 world championship.
Galaxea AI Raises $290M to Build Humanoid Robots That Think and Act
Beijing-based Galaxea AI closed a $290 million Series B+ round, doubling its valuation to over $2.9 billion as China's humanoid robot race heats up.
Tesla Confirms Model S and Model X Production Is Over After 14 Years
Tesla has officially stopped producing the Model S and Model X, ending a 14-year production run with roughly 600 vehicles remaining in global inventory as the Fremont factory converts to Optimus robot manufacturing.
Penguin Random House Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT's Coconut the Dragon Copycat
The world's largest publisher filed suit in Munich after ChatGPT generated text and images 'virtually indistinguishable' from a beloved German children's book series.
Alibaba's Qwen AI Glasses Get First OTA, Turning Gaze Into Action
Alibaba's Qwen AI glasses receive their first major OTA update, shifting from question-answering to real-world task execution with Taobao and Alipay integration - order coffee, unlock bikes, and pay for parking with a glance and a voice command.
Coinbase Wins Conditional OCC Approval for Federal Trust Charter
Coinbase receives conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust company charter, moving closer to becoming a federally regulated crypto custodian.
Samsung Eyes Record Quarter as AI Chip Supercycle Delivers Six-Fold Profit Surge
Samsung Electronics is expected to report a six-fold jump in Q1 operating profit to 40.5 trillion won ($26.9B), nearly matching its entire 2025 earnings in a single quarter.
Oracle Cuts Up to 30,000 Jobs to Fund AI Data Center Buildout
Oracle has begun laying off up to 30,000 employees globally, roughly 18% of its workforce, to redirect billions toward AI data center infrastructure.
Microsoft Commits $10 Billion to Japan's AI Infrastructure Over Four Years
Microsoft announces a 1.6 trillion yen investment in Japan through 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to expand AI computing capacity and train one million engineers.
Arcee AI's 30-Person Team Ships 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude
A 30-person San Francisco startup bet half its funding on a single training run and produced Trinity Large Thinking, a 400B-parameter open model now ranked #2 on agent benchmarks.
China's X Square Robot Deploys Humanoid Maids in Shenzhen Homes
X Square Robot partners with 58.com to offer China's first consumer humanoid robot cleaning service, pairing AI-powered machines with human cleaners in real Shenzhen households.
Trump Administration Sues Three States to Shield Prediction Markets From Gambling Laws
The DOJ and CFTC filed lawsuits against Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut, arguing the federal government has exclusive authority to regulate prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
Vyper Set to Become First Formally Verified Smart Contract Compiler
The Verifereum project is nearing completion of formal verification for Vyper's entire compilation pipeline, a first for any smart contract language.
X Deploys Crypto Scam 'Kill Switch' That Auto-Locks Accounts on First Crypto Mention
X will auto-lock any account that mentions cryptocurrency for the first time, requiring identity verification before re-posting - a move its Head of Product says will kill 99% of phishing incentive.