Generalist AI Reportedly Reaches $3B Valuation
Generalist AI has reportedly added nearly $200 million to its Series B, lifting the robotics startup's valuation to about $3 billion.
2026-08-26
2 articles
X Cease-and-Desist Pushes Nitter Offline
Nitter says X Corp. sent cease-and-desist letters demanding permanent takedowns of Nitter instances and the project's repository.
2026-08-25
6 articles
Vercel Releases Run SDK for Sandboxed Agent Code
Vercel released Run SDK, a TypeScript package for running agent-generated JavaScript or TypeScript in a hardened QuickJS sandbox.
LayerZero Introduces ATLAS Headless Exchange Backend
LayerZero introduced ATLAS, a headless exchange backend for trading venues that want matching, clearing, settlement and risk in one stack.
Vercel Chat SDK Adds Slack Enterprise Grid Support
Vercel updated Chat SDK's Slack adapter so org-wide Enterprise Grid bot installs can resolve tokens and handle events across workspaces.
Treasury Expands Iran Sanctions Risk to Digital Assets
The U.S. Treasury launched Operation Economic Outcast and added digital assets to a wider set of Iran-related sectors exposed to secondary sanctions.
Google Adds Live Voice Agent Evaluation to ADK
Google's Agent Development Kit now supports live voice evaluations that simulate spoken users and score multi-turn agent workflows before release.
Vercel Splits Environment Variables Into Config and Secret Types
Vercel replaced its Sensitive toggle for environment variables with explicit Config and Secret types, adding a policy for separate production secret values.
2026-08-24
4 articles
NVIDIA Says Vera Rubin NVL72 Cuts Agent Token Costs
NVIDIA published early Vera Rubin NVL72 measurements for agentic coding workloads, claiming higher throughput per megawatt and lower token costs than GB300 NVL72.
Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Base
Coinbase launched tokenized U.S. equities on Base, with Chainlink providing price data for DeFi integrations.
Solana Validators Vote on Fee Burn and Disinflation Changes
Solana validators are voting on governance proposals that would alter fee burns and speed the network's disinflation path if they clear the required thresholds.
Term Finance Hit by Reported Governance Exploit
Term Finance was reportedly drained of about $8.5 million after an attacker accumulated enough vault voting power to approve malicious transfers.
2026-08-23
4 articles
OpenRouter Lists Free Ox Alpha Stealth Model
OpenRouter has listed Ox Alpha, a free stealth reasoning model aimed at coding, agentic work, and long-context production workloads.
Crypto Card Volume Reaches $759M in July
a16z says crypto payment card volume reached $759 million in July, with dollar-backed stablecoins now carrying most tracked card spend.
Harvard Foundry Uses AI Avatars in Startup Bootcamp
Harvard Business School's Foundry bootcamp is using AI avatars to give entrepreneurs feedback during startup practice sessions.
BitMart Floats Partial Restart After Shutdown Notice
BitMart says it is developing a restructuring plan that could revive some operations while adding creditor distributions.
2026-08-22
5 articles
Inherent Releases Faraday Agent for Research Replication
London AI lab Inherent introduced Faraday, a 27B-parameter agent trained to replicate scientific paper results with coding agents as tools.
OpenAI Backs Stronger California SB 53 Safeguards
OpenAI says California should expand SB 53 with more frontier-model monitoring and stronger cybersecurity protections.
Sandbox Halts Base and BNB SAND Bridges After Exploit
The Sandbox disabled SAND bridging on Base and BNB Smart Chain after an attacker minted unbacked tokens through its cross-chain bridge.
Outer Biosciences Trains AI on Living Skin Tissue
Outer Biosciences is using long-lived human skin tissue models and repeated molecular measurements to train AI systems for skincare compound discovery.
Vercel CLI Adds DNS, Domain and Project Controls
Vercel added dedicated CLI commands for DNS records, domain renewals, project state, observability settings and project members.
2026-08-21
4 articles
Coldcard Publishes Fixed Firmware Matrix
Coldcard says fixed firmware is now available across supported models, but affected existing seeds still need migration.
Micro1 Reaches $500M Gross Run Rate as AI Data Demand Rises
Micro1 has reportedly grown its gross annual run rate to $500 million as AI labs keep paying for specialized human and synthetic training data.
MANTRA Chain Halts After Upstream Dependency Exploit
MANTRA Chain remains halted while its team prepares a patched release for an upstream dependency vulnerability exploited against the network.
CFTC Chair Tells Staff to Prepare Crypto Market Rules
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said staff should prepare crypto market-structure rules if the CLARITY Act continues to stall in Congress.
2026-08-20
4 articles
Vercel Details v0 Snowflake OAuth Proxy
Vercel explained how v0 lets generated code query Snowflake without placing a user's OAuth token inside the sandbox.
Alation Confirms Cyberattack After Cloud Incident
Alation said it is investigating unauthorized activity in one of its systems after a short cloud availability incident affected some customers.
BitGo Korea secures VASP license from Korea FIU
BitGo Korea received virtual asset service provider approval from South Korea's FIU, giving the foreign-owned custody firm a direct regulated foothold in the market.
Trump Presses Congress on CLARITY Act at White House Crypto Event
President Trump used a White House meeting with crypto and finance executives to renew pressure on Congress to move the CLARITY Act.
2026-08-19
5 articles
Cognition CEO Denies SpaceX Acquisition Talks
Cognition CEO Scott Wu said the AI coding startup is not for sale after a report that SpaceX had explored an acquisition.
Silicon Data Pitches GPU Compute Index for AI Spending
Silicon Data is trying to turn GPU rental prices into a market benchmark for AI builders and financial firms tracking compute costs.
Ethena Adds FalconX Credit Facility for USDe Backing
Ethena added FalconX as an institutional lending partner through a senior secured credit structure backing USDe reserve assets.
Maya Protocol Halts Chain After Exploit Hits Pools
Maya Protocol halted MAYAChain after an exploit drained bitcoin and other assets while a wider CACAO price shock reduced pool value.
Vercel Opens $1 Million Sandbox Escape Challenge
Vercel is running a two-week HackerOne challenge with up to $1 million in payouts for researchers who can break Vercel Sandbox isolation.
2026-08-18
5 articles
Cursor Launches Origin Repository Hosting in Early Beta
Cursor has begun rolling out Origin, a repository hosting layer for paid users that adds Git repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and app integrations inside its AI coding workspace.
OpenAI Adds Frontier Model Safeguards After Hugging Face Incident
OpenAI says it added monitoring, alignment, and network-isolation safeguards for higher-risk frontier model training after recent cyber-safety incidents.
Warp Factories Packages Agent Workflows for AI Development
Warp introduced Warp Factories, an infrastructure layer for configuring and operating agent-based software development workflows.
Relay shuts down as staff joins Google Chrome AI team
Relay.app is winding down, while TechCrunch reports its team is joining Google to work on AI features for Chrome.
Payward Joins Anthropic Glasswing for AI Security Review
Kraken parent Payward has joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing, bringing crypto infrastructure into a defensive AI security program focused on finding and fixing software vulnerabilities.
2026-08-17
2 articles
Treasury Proposes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rule
The U.S. Treasury has opened a new rulemaking step for GENIUS Act stablecoin definitions, including who must comply as a payment stablecoin issuer.
BitMine Says ETH Holdings Now Equal 4.8% of Supply
BitMine reported 5.815 million ETH on its balance sheet, or 4.8% of Ethereum supply, after another weekly purchase.
2026-08-16
4 articles
Stripe Reportedly Reaches Deal to Buy OpenRouter
Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, a major move into AI model gateway infrastructure.
Anthropic CEO Frames AI Backlash as a Trust Problem
Dario Amodei said public resistance to AI is less about risk warnings than a broader loss of trust in companies, governments, and the tech industry.
SafePal Says Order Data Breach Affected Nearly 40,000 Customers
SafePal disclosed that a flaw exposed order information for about 39,798 customers, while wallet credentials and funds were not reported compromised.
Grok Lawsuit Adds Plaintiff Over Alleged Abuse Images
A new plaintiff has joined litigation alleging xAI's Grok was used to create nonconsensual abuse imagery from a childhood photo.
2026-08-15
4 articles
Cursor Says It Has Joined SpaceX After Acquisition Closes
Cursor says it will work inside SpaceX with access to the company's GPU fleet, after TechCrunch reported the acquisition has closed.
Unitree IPO Pricing Meets a Hyperliquid Perps Premium
Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO price is now set, while reported Hyperliquid-linked pre-IPO perps imply a much higher market valuation before trading begins.
Trump Expected at Crypto CEO Meeting Before CFTC Panel
A reported White House meeting with crypto executives is set against an official CFTC advisory committee agenda covering crypto, AI and prediction markets.
Tokenization Stocks Slip After Reported SEC Delay
Tokenization-linked stocks fell after reports that the SEC's expected innovation exemption for tokenized securities is being delayed.
2026-08-14
1 article
California Opens Highway Testing to Autonomous Trucks
Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI received California DMV permits to test autonomous truck technology on public roads.