Coinbase Says Equity Index Perp-Style Futures Are Live
Coinbase says its AI10, Defense10, China10, and Tech100 equity index perp-style futures are now live, extending a crypto-native derivatives structure into regulated U.S. equity themes.
2026-06-16
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2026-06-15
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Virtuals Shows Eastworlds Unitree G1 Bottle Pickup Demo
Virtuals says Eastworlds has demonstrated a Unitree G1 humanoid reliably picking up a bottle autonomously after a low-cost training run.
Anthropic Launches Claude Corps Nonprofit Fellowship
Anthropic is funding Claude Corps, a fellowship that will train 1,000 early-career workers and place them inside U.S. nonprofits for one year.
Exodus and Ondo Launch Tokenized Markets on Solana
Exodus Markets gives eligible wallet users access to more than 200 tokenized stocks, ETFs, and real-world assets through Ondo's Solana-based infrastructure.
Hugging Face Ships Transformers v5.12.0 With New Multimodal Models
Hugging Face released Transformers v5.12.0, adding MiniMax-M3-VL, Parakeet speech models, and other model support to the Python package.
2026-06-14
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SEC Tokenization Push May Start With Exemptions, Not a Full Rule
The SEC's path for tokenized securities may begin with conditional exemptive relief while broader rulemaking remains unresolved.
Tokenized Treasury Market Reaches $14.6B as RWA Rails Broaden
Tokenized U.S. Treasury products have reached about $14.6 billion, extending a record run as crypto platforms add more traditional assets to onchain rails.
2026-06-13
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SpaceX IPO Puts Reported Bitcoin Reserve Into Public Markets
CoinDesk reports SpaceX's S-1 disclosed 18,712 bitcoin, turning a long-tracked private-company treasury position into a public-market disclosure.
Anthropic Disables Fable and Mythos Access After U.S. Directive
Anthropic says a new U.S. export-control directive forced it to disable access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 while it seeks clarification.
Virtuals' Eastworlds Starts Humanoid Hotel Pilot in Malaysia
Eastworlds, a Virtuals initiative, has started a pilot using a teleoperated humanoid in a Malaysian hotel to gather real-world housekeeping data.
Vercel Adds Kimi K2.7 Code To AI Gateway
Vercel has added Kimi K2.7 Code to AI Gateway, giving developers another routed model option for coding and agent workloads.
Vercel Suspends Claude Fable 5 On AI Gateway
Vercel has suspended Claude Fable 5 access on AI Gateway, turning a recent model-routing addition into an availability risk for developers.
2026-06-12
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Google Sues Outsider Enterprise Over AI-Aided Text Scams
Google says a China-based phishing network used AI to support text-message scams tied to fake websites, fraudulent URLs, and millions of Android messages.
Vercel Lets Developers Program Agent Harnesses With AI SDK
Vercel has published a changelog item showing how AI SDK can be used to program agent harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and Pi.
Avataar Launches Varya Distilled Video Model for India
Avataar AI has launched Varya, a distilled video generation model that it says cuts inference steps and cost for India-focused video use cases.
LG Tests Arbitrum-Based Ad Network for Connected TV
LG Electronics is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum, testing whether shared blockchain records can make connected-TV ad buying easier to audit.
Prometheus Raises $12B for Physical AI Engineering Push
Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj's Prometheus raised $12 billion at a roughly $41 billion valuation to build AI tools for engineering and manufacturing physical products.
2026-06-11
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Banks Shift Tokenized Cash Plans Toward Public Infrastructure
New reporting points to banks designing tokenized cash systems around interoperable public infrastructure rather than isolated private-chain pilots.
Coinbase Launches Agent Accounts With MCP and CLI Access
Coinbase for Agents gives AI systems a way to connect to user-approved Coinbase accounts for trading and payments through MCP, CLI, and x402-based rails.
Tether Leads NEURA Robotics Series C of Up to $1.4B
Tether is leading NEURA Robotics' Series C round of up to $1.4 billion, with plans to bring wallet and edge AI tooling into the German robotics company's platform.
DBS Plans Tokenized Gold For Singapore Retail Customers
DBS plans to offer tokenized physical gold through its digibank app in Singapore, extending tokenized-asset access from institutions toward retail customers.
Former xAI Engineer Sues Over Grok Safety Complaints
Former xAI engineer Devin Kim has sued xAI and SpaceX, alleging he was fired after pushing for stronger safety controls around Grok.
2026-06-10
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Ethereum Privacy Token Drafts Put ERC-20 Back Under Review
Ethereum developers are revisiting private token transfers through draft ERCs that hide balances while preserving an auditable transfer graph.
Google Details DiffusionGemma for Parallel Text Generation
Google's DiffusionGemma developer guide explains how the experimental Gemma 4-based model generates and refines text blocks in parallel rather than one token at a time.
Decart Opens Oasis 3 World Model for Driving Simulation
Decart has launched Oasis 3, a real-time world model for controllable driving environments, with demo access and an API path for developers.
Japan's Megabanks Target Joint Stablecoin Transactions in FY2026
MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank, and SMBC plan live commercial transactions using a jointly issued stablecoin during Japan's fiscal 2026.
UBTECH Teases U1 Pro Humanoid With Memory-Emotional AI
UBTECH has previewed its U1 Pro humanoid robot series, saying it includes memory-emotional AI, local encrypted memory, and customizable appearance features.
Vercel Adds API Key Budgets To AI Gateway
Vercel has added budget controls for AI Gateway API keys, extending its cost-governance layer for teams routing model traffic through the service.
2026-06-09
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Vercel Adds Claude Fable 5 To AI Gateway
Vercel has added Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 to AI Gateway, giving developers another hosted route to the new generally available Claude model.
FCA Proposes 10% Crypto ETN Limit for UK Retail Funds
The UK Financial Conduct Authority proposed allowing UCITS and NURS funds to hold crypto ETNs, with exposure capped at 10% of scheme property.
Morpho Raises $175M for Onchain Credit Network
Morpho Association says it raised $175 million from a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit and other strategic investors to expand its blockchain-based credit network.
Coinbase Cardless Credit Card Uses USDC as Security
Coinbase and Cardless are extending Coinbase One Card infrastructure with a secured version that uses designated USDC as collateral for card obligations.
2026-06-08
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Apple Waives Cloud AI Fees for Smaller Developers
Apple is reportedly waiving cloud AI API costs for smaller App Store developers while pushing its Foundation Models framework as a low-friction path into Apple Intelligence.
NVIDIA And LG Build AI Factory Around Physical AI
NVIDIA and LG are expanding their collaboration around an AI factory plan spanning robotics, mobility, data centers, EXAONE, and enterprise AI agents.
NVIDIA And Doosan Expand Physical AI Infrastructure Work
NVIDIA and Doosan are widening an existing physical AI partnership across robotics, construction equipment, power systems, and AI data-center materials.
2026-06-07
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House Tax Panel Sets Crypto Hearing After Seven Draft Bills
The House Ways and Means Committee has scheduled a June 9 hearing on digital asset taxation after reports that seven draft crypto tax bills are circulating.
NYDIG Sees Multiple Headwinds Behind Bitcoin Slide
NYDIG says bitcoin's recent weakness reflects several overlapping pressure points rather than one clear market catalyst.
Lubin Says Ethereum Foundation Cuts Are Not a Crisis
Joe Lubin told CoinDesk that Ethereum Foundation cuts and departures should be read as a narrowing of the foundation's role, not a crisis for Ethereum.
Sriram Krishnan Says He Will Leave White House AI Role This Month
White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June and continue work on AI policy challenges outside government.
2026-06-06
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Bitcoin and Ether Slide in Worst Weekly Rout Since FTX
Bitcoin and ether extended a sharp weekly selloff, with market data showing double-digit seven-day declines across the two largest crypto assets.
NVIDIA Puts Korea Robotics Push In AI Infrastructure Frame
Jensen Huang's Seoul visit put South Korea's robotics and manufacturing base at the center of NVIDIA's physical AI pitch.
Reid Hoffman Will Leave Microsoft Board as Manas AI Work Draws Focus
Microsoft says Reid Hoffman will not stand for re-election to its board in 2026, while reporting links the move to his work on AI drug-discovery startup Manas AI.
2026-06-05
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Vercel Opens skills.sh API For Agent Skills Search
Vercel's new skills.sh API gives developers authenticated access to search and inspect a large open-source agent skills directory.
OpenRouter Says Auto Router Is Handling 12B Tokens a Day
OpenRouter said its Auto Router is processing 12 billion tokens per day, while its newer Pareto coding router is approaching 1 billion tokens per day.
Zcash Fixes Orchard Bug With Emergency NU6.2 Upgrade
Zcash developers coordinated an emergency upgrade after a critical Orchard circuit vulnerability was found during a Shielded Labs audit.
Airbnb's Chesky Plans Separate AI Lab
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is planning a separate AI lab focused on user interaction and design, according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch.
2026-06-04
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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B for Complex AI Agents
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter model with 55B active parameters aimed at demanding agentic reasoning, long-context analysis, and tool-use workloads.
Ideogram Releases Open-Weight Version 4 Image Model
Ideogram released Ideogram 4.0 as an open-weight text-to-image model, with Hugging Face weights and inference code available for developers.
Vercel Adds Grok Imagine Video 1.5 to AI Gateway
Vercel added xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 preview model to AI Gateway, extending its routed model catalog into image-to-video generation.
2026-06-03
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Google Details Gemma 4 12B For Local Agent Workflows
Google is positioning Gemma 4 12B as a local multimodal model for developers building laptop and edge AI workflows with Google AI Edge tooling.