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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.
Anthropic has quietly acquired Coefficient Bio, an eight-month-old stealth startup building AI models for biological research, in an all-stock deal worth over $400 million.
Clanker announces the Clanker Ecosystem Fund, redirecting protocol fees from $8M in CLANKER buybacks to directly fund builders and creators in the Farcaster ecosystem.
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock reveals on the Shawn Ryan Show why he killed the OpenAI collaboration, saying his team 'ran circles' around OpenAI's engineers and the partnership delivered zero value beyond branding.
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 for commercial use on its Foundry platform, undercutting rivals on price as Mustafa Suleyman pivots fully to superintelligence research.
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the daily tech talk show dubbed 'Silicon Valley's newest obsession,' signaling an unusual push into media ownership while promising editorial independence.
OpenAI has partnered with adtech firm Smartly to build interactive, conversational ad formats inside ChatGPT that can respond to users in real time.
Cursor launches version 3.0, a ground-up redesign that transforms the AI coding IDE into a multi-agent orchestration platform for parallel development.
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight models with native agentic capabilities, now under Apache 2.0 license — running everywhere from Raspberry Pi to H100 GPUs.
Postquant Labs launches the first publicly available testnet where quantum processors, GPUs, and CPUs work side by side on blockchain tasks, drawing 13,000 sign-ups from MIT, Stanford, and other institutions.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus with a 1M context window and agentic coding capabilities rivaling Claude Opus 4.5 on SWE-bench, marking the company's third major model launch in a single week.
SpaceX has filed a confidential IPO with the SEC, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and up to $75 billion raise - over three times the largest U.S. IPO ever.
Cloudflare releases EmDash, a TypeScript-based serverless CMS that sandboxes plugins in Worker isolates and integrates x402 for AI-era content monetization.
Coinbase's AI payment protocol x402 transitions to Linux Foundation governance with support from Google, Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Visa, Mastercard, and over 20 other companies, positioning it as a potential standard for machine-to-machine commerce.
France's Lightning Stock Exchange (Lise) is preparing to host Europe's first fully onchain IPO, listing aerospace supplier ST Group on April 9 under the EU's DLT pilot regime.
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet added 5,075 BTC worth roughly $400 million in Q1 2026, pushing its total holdings to 40,177 BTC and overtaking MARA Holdings for the #3 spot globally.
Positronic Robotics launches PhAIL, the first industrial benchmark for physical AI, revealing that robot foundation models still lag behind human operators in throughput and reliability.
OpenAI has raised $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation, the largest private funding round in history.
A new browser-based MOBA lets AI agents and humans share the same battlefield via REST API, pulling 1,000 players in its first 24 hours and earning a retweet from Base lead Jesse Pollak.
Solana-based perpetual futures DEX Drift Protocol suffered an active exploit draining over $200 million from its vaults, with the DRIFT token plunging more than 20%.
Ethereum co-founder publishes a detailed guide to running AI locally with NixOS, llama-server, and bubblewrap sandboxing, arguing that privacy and security should be non-negotiable in the age of AI agents.
Chinese GPU vendors shipped 1.65 million AI accelerator cards in 2025, claiming 41% of the domestic market and narrowing Nvidia's once-dominant position, according to IDC data.
Global venture investment hit $297 billion in Q1 2026, up 150% year over year. AI startups captured 81% of all funding, with just four companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — raising 64% of the total.
Gnosis and Zisk, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, unveil the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) — a framework for synchronously composable rollups aimed at reunifying Ethereum's fragmented Layer 2 landscape.
Google researchers show that breaking Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography could require 20 times fewer qubits than previously estimated, setting a 2029 deadline for post-quantum migration.
The world's largest humanoid robot maker files for a $610M IPO after slashing prices 70% and turning its first profit.
The OCC's landmark rule goes live April 1, allowing crypto firms like Ripple, BitGo, and Fidelity to operate as national trust banks with expanded activities.
A map file left in Claude Code's npm package exposed over 512,000 lines of TypeScript source — the archive was quickly forked more than 41,500 times before Anthropic could respond.
NASA's Artemis II mission is scheduled to launch today at 6:24 PM EDT, sending four astronauts on a 10-day flight around the Moon — the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.
A researcher using AI assistance found a critical Zcash bug that could have let malicious miners drain 25,000 ZEC from the deprecated Sprout pool — it was patched before exploitation.
New Hampshire's Business Finance Authority is issuing the first Moody's-rated bitcoin-backed bond, backed by BTC held in BitGo custody with 1.6x overcollateralization.
Qivalis, backed by ING, UniCredit, BBVA and nine other major European banks, is developing a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin to compete with dollar-pegged tokens — because right now the euro accounts for just 0.2% of onchain transactions.
ScaleOps closed a $130M Series C at an $800M+ valuation to scale its platform that autonomously right-sizes Kubernetes workloads in real time — with particular focus on cutting GPU waste in AI deployments.
OpenFX, a two-year-old startup bridging traditional banking and stablecoins for large cross-border transfers, raised $94 million at a ~$500M valuation with backing from Accel, Lightspeed, and Pantera.
A 57-page Google Quantum AI whitepaper co-authored with Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake identifies five distinct ways a quantum computer could attack Ethereum — from draining top wallets to forging DeFi admin keys and permanently compromising L2 data verification.
A federal court approved a CFTC consent order permanently barring KuCoin operator Peken Global Limited from serving U.S. users — converting a temporary restriction into an indefinite ban.
Base published its 2026 mission and strategy, laying out plans to build global onchain markets, scale stablecoin payments, and become the home for AI agent commerce — citing $17T in stablecoin volume last year.
Jonathan Spalletta allegedly looted Uranium Finance in 2021, laundered the funds, and spent millions on rare collectibles — including a $500K Magic: The Gathering card.
Suno's latest model update brings three personalization features: sing AI-generated songs in your own voice, fine-tune a custom model on your own music, and let the AI learn your taste over time.
Coinbase's Base App engineering team was instructed to stop writing code manually — AI agents running inside Linear are now handling continuous development.
Google's Quantum AI team published a whitepaper showing attacks on Bitcoin's cryptography may require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits — a 20x reduction from prior estimates — with a 41% chance of beating a transaction in real time.
Microsoft opened Copilot Cowork to Frontier program members on March 30, bringing long-running multi-step AI task management to Microsoft 365 — alongside a revamped Researcher agent that combines OpenAI and Claude for a 13.8% accuracy jump.
BitMine Immersion Technologies bought 71,179 ETH last week — its largest weekly purchase of 2026 — as Strategy ended its 13-week bitcoin buying streak, leaving BitMine as the only major corporate crypto accumulator still active.
Centrifuge's deSPXA brings the S&P 500 onchain as a fully DeFi-native asset — tradeable, borrowable, and shortable on Base, under license from S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live brings real-time voice with function calling, lower latency, and native multilingual support to developers and consumers.
Ramp, which processes over $100 billion in annual corporate spend, opened public beta for stablecoin accounts built on Base — letting businesses hold USDC, earn rewards, and pay vendors worldwide.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.5 Omni on March 30, a native omnimodal AI handling text, image, audio, and video simultaneously with voice cloning, semantic interruption, and 74-language speech support.
The Department of Labor proposed rules allowing 401(k) plan managers to include crypto and other alternative assets, potentially redirecting trillions in retirement savings.
Bluesky launched an AI-powered feed builder called Attie at the ATmosphere conference, and within 27 hours users had blocked it over 125,000 times — more than the ICE and White House accounts combined.
NousResearch shipped Hermes Agent v0.6.0 just two days after v0.5.0, adding multi-instance profiles, MCP server mode, an official Docker container, and two new messaging platforms in 95 pull requests.