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SpaceX has submitted a confidential IPO filing to the SEC, with sources pointing to a June 2026 public listing at a valuation as high as $1.75 trillion — which would rank among the largest IPOs in history.
Chinese startup Unipath has moved beyond the lab, deploying a humanoid household robot into real homes that can wake users up, cook meals, and operate appliances autonomously.
A Rolling Stone investigation reveals AI tools are now deeply embedded in professional music production — with a survey finding 7 in 10 producers using them — but nobody wants to admit it.
China released footage of its quadruped robot wolves — first shown at last year's V-Day parade — completing a simulated urban combat exercise with micro-missile and grenade launcher loadouts.
Canada's Bill C-25 would prohibit cryptocurrency donations to political parties and candidates, following a similar ban announced in the UK — even though no major Canadian party has ever publicly accepted crypto.
Ripple has launched an AI-assisted red team and integrated machine learning into the XRPL development lifecycle to proactively hunt vulnerabilities as the ledger scales toward institutional adoption.
Washington AG Nick Brown filed a lawsuit against Kalshi on Friday, becoming the third state to take legal action against the federally regulated prediction market platform.
Charlotte-based Lucid Bots has closed a $20 million Series B to expand its autonomous exterior cleaning platform and robotics-as-a-service subscription offering.
Axis Robotics has launched on Base, letting anyone control virtual robots in a browser to generate physical AI training data — and earn onchain rewards for doing it.
With mining costs hitting $79,995 per BTC while prices hover near $70K, public miners have signed over $70 billion in AI/HPC contracts and are liquidating their bitcoin treasuries to fund the pivot.
Aave DAO approved the ARFC to deploy Aave V4 on Ethereum mainnet with over 645,000 votes in favor, moving the protocol's major hub-and-spoke redesign one step closer to launch.
Google AI published a demonstration showing Gemini 3.1 Flash Live being used to build a fully functional website in less than 10 minutes using only voice commands in AI Studio.
Science Saru's new Ghost in the Shell TV anime has released its second promo video, confirming a July 2026 broadcast premiere on Fuji TV.
House Democrat Maxine Waters sent a formal letter to the Federal Reserve questioning Kraken's newly acquired Fed master account, saying the approval may be on unclear legal footing.
oh-my-claudecode, a multi-agent orchestration framework for Claude Code that coordinates up to 32 specialized AI agents in parallel, surged to nearly 14K GitHub stars on Friday.
Morgan Stanley filed an amended S-1 for a spot bitcoin ETF priced at 14 basis points, undercutting every existing fund and positioning the bank's $4+ trillion wealth management arm to compete directly in the Bitcoin ETF market.
World Mobile's decentralized mobile network is now live on Base, with over 100,000 AirNodes deployed and coverage spanning 99% of the USA and 60+ countries.
A TechCrunch investigation found Waymo has relied on police and firefighters — not its own roadside team — to physically move stuck robotaxis in at least six documented incidents.
Intercontinental Exchange added $600 million to its Polymarket investment, bringing its total commitment to nearly $2 billion as prediction markets surge into mainstream finance.
Etherscan added metadata display for ERC-8004 Trustless Agents, letting anyone inspect an agent's operational status, x402 payment support, and services directly from its NFT detail page.
Sony is raising PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal prices worldwide effective April 2, 2026, citing 'continued pressures in the global economic landscape.'
Sony Honda Mobility has pulled the plug on the Afeela 1 electric sedan and its SUV concept, following Honda's massive $15.7 billion EV write-down.
A misconfigured CMS exposed ~3,000 Anthropic internal drafts, including a blog post revealing Claude Mythos — a new model tier above Opus that the company says poses 'unprecedented cybersecurity risks.'
Phoronix benchmarks show KDE Plasma 6.6 consistently outperforming GNOME 50 in gaming workloads on Ubuntu 26.04, with results holding for both AMD Radeon and NVIDIA graphics.
Felix Protocol has gone live with tokenized U.S. equities on HyperEVM, giving on-chain traders access to over 250 stocks and ETFs via Ondo Finance's infrastructure.
OpenAI has indefinitely shelved plans for an adult-oriented ChatGPT mode, citing concerns about unhealthy AI attachment and difficulty training models away from illegal content.
An attacker spent nine months quietly building a dominant position in Venus Protocol's THE market, then bypassed supply caps via a known donation exploit to drain $3.7 million — the protocol's fourth major incident in five years.
Chroma releases Context-1, a 20B parameter open-source search agent that matches frontier LLM retrieval performance at up to 10x lower cost and latency.
Wikipedia editors have adopted a formal policy prohibiting the use of large language models to write or rewrite encyclopedia articles, citing hallucinations, fabricated sources, and a lack of editorial accountability.
Google's Android 17 Beta 3 reaches platform stability, locking the API surface and shipping post-quantum cryptography support for APK signing.
Cohere launches Transcribe, a 2B-parameter open-source speech recognition model that achieves #1 on the HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard with Apache 2.0 licensing.
OpenAI has launched plugins for its Codex coding agent, enabling seamless integration with Slack, Figma, Notion, Gmail, and more — and reset usage limits across all plans to mark the launch.
Federal Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction, ruling that the Pentagon's designation of the company as a supply-chain risk was 'classic illegal First Amendment retaliation' for refusing autonomous weapons use of Claude.
WhatsApp announced AI-powered writing suggestions and reply drafts built on Private Processing — a confidential computing architecture where even Meta can't read your messages.
Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is discontinued and permanently removed from its lineup, with no successor planned — ending a product line that debuted in the 1990s.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live launches today with lower latency, doubled context window, and expanded availability across 200+ regions, targeting developers building real-time voice and vision AI agents.
DoorDash Labs has unveiled Dot, an autonomous sidewalk delivery robot designed for real-world urban environments — not controlled lab conditions.
NousResearch's Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent with a built-in learning loop and self-improving skill documents, surpassed 13,600 GitHub stars after its v0.4.0 release added an OpenAI-compatible API server and six new messaging adapters.
The Mysten Labs-built decentralized storage protocol has surpassed 450TB of data stored in its first year on mainnet, beating Arweave, and launched MemWal — an SDK letting AI agents carry long-term memory on-chain.
Datalab released Chandra OCR 2, an open-source model that converts documents to structured HTML, Markdown, or JSON — outperforming Gemini 2.5 Flash on multilingual accuracy across 90 languages.
Mistral launched Voxtral TTS, a 4B parameter open-weight text-to-speech model that outperforms ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in human evaluations while supporting 9 languages and adapting to new voices from just 3 seconds of audio.
Brazil's Law No. 15.358 allows seized cryptocurrencies to be funneled directly into police equipment and intelligence operations before a final conviction.
Trust Wallet's new Agent Kit lets AI agents execute swaps, DCA orders, and transfers across 25+ chains directly from users' self-custody wallets.
A Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta and Google deliberately built addictive social media platforms that damaged a young woman's mental health, awarding $6 million in damages.
Fannie Mae is accepting crypto-backed mortgages for the first time, letting buyers pledge Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral through a new program with Coinbase and Better Home & Finance.
ByteDance's DeerFlow 2.0 is a ground-up rewrite that transforms a deep-research tool into a full super-agent harness with sub-agents, sandboxed execution, and persistent memory — now the #2 trending repo on GitHub.
The FCC added all foreign-made consumer routers to its national security Covered List on March 23, effectively banning new router models from being imported or sold in the US.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, calling for an immediate federal pause on new AI data center construction until Congress enacts national safeguards on safety, jobs, and energy.
Mozilla AI's open-source cq project lets AI coding agents pool their discoveries into a shared knowledge base, so agents stop wasting time re-solving the same problems independently.
Spotify launches SongDNA in beta for Premium users — an interactive web of writers, producers, samples, and covers embedded directly in the Now Playing view.