Figure Says BotQ Has Reached One Figure 03 per Hour
Figure says its BotQ facility has increased Figure 03 output from one robot per day to one per hour, with more than 350 units delivered so far.
2026-04-30
12 articles
Goodfire Introduces Silico for Interpreting and Debugging AI Models
Goodfire has introduced Silico, an early-access platform that aims to help teams inspect model internals, diagnose failures, and make targeted interventions during training and fine-tuning.
Musk Testifies xAI Partly Used OpenAI Models to Develop Grok
Under oath in federal court, Elon Musk said xAI had partly used OpenAI models in work related to Grok, adding a public example to the AI industry's fight over model distillation.
Gemini Gets CFTC Clearinghouse License for Prediction Markets
Gemini says affiliate Gemini Olympus has received a CFTC derivatives clearing organization license, giving the exchange in-house clearing for regulated prediction markets and a clearer path toward broader U.S. derivatives products.
Google Brings Colossus-Backed Rapid Buckets to PyTorch via gcsfs
Google says PyTorch workloads on Google Cloud can train faster with a new gcsfs integration for Rapid Buckets, a Colossus-backed storage path designed to reduce data-loading and checkpoint bottlenecks.
Spotify Starts Labeling Human Artists With a New Verification Badge
Spotify says a new Verified by Spotify badge will roll out over the coming weeks to reviewed artist profiles, while AI-generated or AI-persona artist profiles are not eligible at launch.
Coinbase Asset Management Picks Superstate for Tokenized CUSHY Stablecoin Fund
Coinbase Asset Management said a new stablecoin fund called CUSHY will launch with an onchain share class using Superstate's FundOS platform.
MARA Agrees to Buy Long Ridge Power Site in $1.5B AI Campus Push
MARA said it will acquire Long Ridge Energy & Power for roughly $1.5 billion, adding a gas plant and Ohio campus it plans to expand for AI and critical IT workloads.
AllUnity Extends EURAU to Solana With New Cross-Chain Liquidity Pools
AllUnity said its MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin EURAU is expanding to Solana and additional DEX venues, with Flowdesk providing liquidity for new cross-chain trading pools.
Wasabi Protocol Warns Users Off Contracts After Admin-Key Exploit Hits Ethereum and Base
Wasabi Protocol told users not to interact with its contracts after Blockaid disclosed an ongoing admin-key exploit affecting Wasabi vaults and LongPool on Ethereum and Base.
SoftBank Reportedly Plans Roze, a U.S.-Listed AI Robotics and Data Center Company
Reuters, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch all point to the same unannounced SoftBank plan: a new U.S. company called Roze focused on AI robotics and data center buildout.
Mayo Clinic Study Puts REDMOD AI on the Pancreatic Cancer Early-Detection Track
Mayo Clinic says its REDMOD model found pancreatic cancer signals on routine CT scans a median of 16 months before diagnosis, but the system is still headed for prospective clinical testing.
2026-04-29
10 articles
Google Cloud Tops $20B in Q1 as Alphabet Says Capacity Limits Capped Growth
Alphabet said Google Cloud passed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, but near-term compute limits kept the business from meeting all demand.
Parallel Web Systems Raises $100M Series B at $2B Valuation
Parallel Web Systems says it has raised a $100 million Series B led by Sequoia, valuing the AI web-search infrastructure startup at $2 billion.
Meta Starts USDC Creator Payouts on Solana and Polygon
Meta has begun offering select creators in Colombia and the Philippines USDC payouts to third-party wallets on Solana and Polygon.
Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement Pilot to Nine Blockchains as Run Rate Hits $7B
Visa added five more blockchains to its stablecoin settlement pilot, bringing the network count to nine as annualized volume reached a $7 billion run rate.
Securitize and Computershare Launch Tokenized Shares Path for U.S. Issuers
Securitize and Computershare say U.S.-listed companies can now issue issuer-sponsored tokenized shares alongside traditional stock, with Computershare handling transfer-agent duties and corporate actions.
Quip Network Launches a Post-Quantum Bitcoin Wallet on Arch
Quip Network says its new Arch-based wallet gives Bitcoin holders a way to adopt WOTS+-style post-quantum protection without waiting for a soft fork.
Scout AI Announces $100M Series A for Defense Robotics Model
Scout AI says it has raised a $100 million Series A to expand Fury, its model stack for coordinating unmanned military systems across air and ground operations.
GM to Roll Out Google Gemini to About 4 Million U.S. Vehicles
GM says model-year 2022 and newer vehicles with Google built-in will receive Gemini through over-the-air updates, expanding the assistant to roughly 4 million eligible cars in the U.S.
NVIDIA Releases Open Nemotron 3 Nano Omni for Multimodal AI Agents
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model for document, screen, audio, and video workloads that the company says can reduce the number of models needed inside agent systems.
PocketOS Founder Says Cursor Agent Deleted Production Database in 9 Seconds
PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the company's production database through Railway's API, prompting Railway to patch a legacy delete path.
2026-04-28
8 articles
AWS Adds OpenAI Models, Codex, and Managed Agents to Bedrock
AWS and OpenAI have put OpenAI models, Codex, and a new managed agent service into Amazon Bedrock in limited preview for enterprise customers.
Amazon Adds Live AI Audio Q&A to Product Pages in Its Shopping App
Amazon has updated its Hear the highlights feature with a live AI Q&A mode that lets U.S. shoppers ask product questions by text or voice while listening to audio summaries.
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an Open Multimodal Model for Agents
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a 30B-class open multimodal model aimed at the perception layer of agent workflows across video, audio, documents, and text.
Galaxy Starts CoreWeave Revenue After Delivering First Helios Data Hall
Galaxy Digital says it has delivered the first Helios data hall to CoreWeave and started recognizing lease revenue, turning its Texas campus into a live AI infrastructure business while Q1 crypto weakness still drove a $216 million net loss.
Google Adds Gemma 3 1B NPU Mode to AI Edge Gallery on Qualcomm Android Devices
Google's latest AI Edge Gallery release adds Gemma 3 1B NPU support on supported Qualcomm Android phones, extending its LiteRT push for faster local inference.
Israel Approves Limited Launch of Its First Regulated Shekel Stablecoin
Israel's capital markets regulator has approved a limited launch of BILS, a shekel-backed stablecoin from Bits of Gold, under strict reserve, reporting, and supervision requirements.
Google Introduces Agents CLI for Building and Deploying Cloud Agents
Google has introduced Agents CLI, a command-line tool and skill bundle for coding assistants that scaffold, evaluate, and deploy agents on Google Cloud.
Western Union Says USDPT Stablecoin Will Launch Next Month for Agent Settlement
Western Union said its USDPT stablecoin is expected to launch next month, starting as an internal settlement rail for agents rather than as a consumer token.
2026-04-27
7 articles
Aave Seeks 25,000 ETH for rsETH Recovery as Arbitrum Vote Could Release 30,766 ETH
Aave service providers have proposed a 25,000 ETH treasury contribution to the rsETH recovery effort, while Arbitrum governance weighs releasing another 30,765.67 ETH frozen after the exploit.
Western Union Says USDPT Will First Replace Parts of Its SWIFT Settlement Flow
Western Union says its USDPT stablecoin is nearing launch and will first be used to settle with agents as an alternative to parts of the SWIFT-based banking flow behind its remittance network.
David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence Raises $1.1 Billion Seed Round
Former DeepMind reinforcement learning lead David Silver has launched Ineffable Intelligence with a $1.1 billion seed round backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, and UK public investors.
Solana Points to Falcon as Post-Quantum Path After Anza and Firedancer Align
Solana says Anza and Firedancer independently converged on Falcon signatures, giving the network a more concrete post-quantum migration path without triggering immediate protocol changes.
China Orders Meta to Unwind Its Manus Acquisition
China's top economic planner has ordered the parties behind Meta's planned Manus acquisition to withdraw the deal, escalating scrutiny of cross-border AI transactions.
EU Targets RUBx and Russian Crypto Platforms in New Sanctions Package
The EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia adds a sector-wide ban on Russia-based crypto platforms and explicitly targets the RUBx stablecoin and digital ruble support.
Paul Sztorc Proposes eCash Bitcoin Fork With Drivechains and Satoshi-Coin Reassignment
Paul Sztorc is proposing an August Bitcoin fork called eCash that would add Drivechains and pre-assign part of the new chain's Satoshi-linked balances to early backers.
2026-04-26
1 article
Anthropic Says Claude Agents Closed 186 Real Deals in Internal Marketplace Test
Anthropic's Project Deal experiment put Claude agents in a weeklong internal marketplace, where they negotiated 186 real transactions and exposed measurable gaps between stronger and weaker models.
2026-04-25
1 article
Vercel Adds GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro to AI Gateway
Vercel has added GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro to AI Gateway, giving teams a managed path to route OpenAI's latest coding- and agent-focused models through the same control layer they already use for monitoring, retries, and failover.
2026-04-24
10 articles
Cohere Plans Aleph Alpha Deal to Expand Sovereign AI in Europe
Cohere says it plans to acquire Aleph Alpha, pairing its enterprise AI stack with the German firm's public-sector and regulated-market footprint in Europe.
ComfyUI Raises $30M at $500M Valuation for Open-Source Creative AI
TechCrunch and a GlobeNewswire-distributed company announcement say ComfyUI has raised $30 million at a $500 million valuation as demand grows for more controllable AI media workflows.
Google and Anthropic Confirm Deal for Up to $40B in Funding and Compute
Google and Anthropic said Google will invest $10 billion up front, with up to $30 billion more tied to milestones, extending a partnership that already includes large TPU compute commitments.
Ethereum Foundation Sells 10,000 ETH to BitMine in $23.9 Million OTC Deal
The Ethereum Foundation said it sold 10,000 ETH to BitMine in an over-the-counter deal worth about $23.9 million to help fund research, ecosystem development, and grants.
Meta Expands AWS Deal to Run Agentic AI Workloads on Graviton
Meta says it will deploy AWS Graviton processors at scale, starting with tens of millions of cores for CPU-heavy agentic AI workloads.
NVIDIA Rolls GPT-5.5-Powered Codex Out to 10,000 Employees
NVIDIA says more than 10,000 employees are already using GPT-5.5-powered Codex, offering a concrete look at how a large company is packaging coding agents for internal use.
Vercel Adds DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash to AI Gateway
Vercel has added DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash to AI Gateway, giving developers a same-day path to route the new 1M-context models through Vercel's unified control layer.
Morgan Stanley Launches Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio for Issuers
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched a government money market fund tailored to payment stablecoin issuers seeking an eligible reserve vehicle.
Wisconsin Sues Kalshi, Coinbase, Polymarket and Crypto.com Over Sports Event Contracts
Wisconsin filed three lawsuits arguing sports-related event contracts offered by prediction market platforms amount to illegal gambling under state law.
Google AI Edge Gallery Adds Gemma NPU Mode for Qualcomm Phones
Google's AI Edge Gallery 1.0.12 adds an NPU mode for Gemma 3 1B on supported Qualcomm phones, giving developers a simpler way to test LiteRT-backed local inference.
2026-04-23
1 article
Sierra Acquires YC-Backed Fragment in France
Sierra said it has acquired Paris-based Fragment, a YC-backed startup focused on AI-assisted operations software, as the enterprise agent company expands further into Europe.