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Cari Network launches with five major U.S. regional banks — Huntington, First Horizon, M&T, KeyBank, and Old National — using ZKsync's Prividium infrastructure for FDIC-insured tokenized deposits settling on Ethereum.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that he believes artificial general intelligence has already arrived — then immediately hedged the claim.
At RSAC 2026, Cisco unveiled DefenseClaw — an open-source framework for securing AI agents — alongside zero trust agent access controls built into Duo IAM.
Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 today — a bridge release and the final version of the compiler written in JavaScript before TypeScript 7.0 shifts to a Go-based native codebase.
A Chainlink oracle misconfiguration in a Claude Opus 4.6-co-authored commit priced cbETH at $1.12 instead of $2,200, triggering automated liquidations that left Moonwell with $1.78M in bad debt.
Backpack Exchange's TGE stands out for giving 25% of supply to users upfront with nothing reserved for founders or investors at launch.
NovaBay Pharmaceuticals raised $134M, renamed itself Stablecoin Development Corporation, and now holds 8.78% of the SKY governance token supply — becoming a publicly traded on-chain holding company.
Anthropic's Claude can now open apps, navigate browsers, and fill spreadsheets directly on macOS through a new computer use feature in Claude Cowork and Claude Code.
Larry Fink's annual letter calls tokenization 'the internet moment for finance,' citing BlackRock's $150B exposure to digital assets and vision of digital wallets holding stocks, bonds, and private credit.
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to purchase electricity from Helion Energy, a fusion startup where CEO Sam Altman previously served as board chair — raising conflict of interest concerns.
AllCoreDevs is set to vote Thursday on including EIP-8141 in the Hegota upgrade, a proposal that bundles native account abstraction, post-quantum signature support, and programmable gas into a single new transaction type.
Meta has hired the entire team behind Dreamer, an AI agent-building startup co-founded by ex-Stripe CTO David Singleton and ex-Meta VP Hugo Barra, sending them to its Superintelligence Labs.
Kyber Labs released a demo of its single-arm robot autonomously performing clinical pathology lab tasks in one take with no human remote control.
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will jointly build a chip fabrication plant in Austin, Texas, targeting AI, robotics, and space-based computing — with no timeline given.
ANEMLL, an open-source library for Apple Neural Engine inference, demonstrated a 400-billion-parameter model running locally on an iPhone 17 Pro at 0.6 tokens per second.
Naive gives each AI employee its own compute, bank account, legal entity, email, and phone number - then lets them deploy apps, send outbound, and run a business without human intervention.
MoonPay launched the Open Wallet Standard — a local-first, open-source protocol for AI agents to securely store keys and sign transactions across every major blockchain.
Michael Smith used AI to generate 660,000 songs and bots to stream them over a billion times, fraudulently collecting $8 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and others.
The House Financial Services Committee will examine two bills on tokenizing stocks and bonds on Wednesday, with Wall Street and crypto industry leaders set to testify.
Attackers are impersonating OpenClaw on GitHub, tagging developers in issue threads to claim fake $5,000 CLAW token rewards that link to wallet-draining phishing sites.
Walmart's EVP revealed that purchases made inside ChatGPT converted at one-third the rate of click-through transactions, prompting both companies to abandon in-chat commerce.
LG Electronics CEO Lyu Jae-cheol announced the company will build robot actuators in-house and achieve mass production this year, targeting a components market projected at $23B by 2030.
The popular Claude Code terminal plugin hits version 0.0.10 with configurable color themes, custom status lines, and accurate tracking for 1 million token context windows.
An attacker minted $80 million in unbacked USR tokens and extracted $25 million in ETH, leaving the Resolv stablecoin trading at a fraction of its dollar peg.
Bram Cohen released Manyana, a public domain prototype using CRDTs to make version control merges conflict-free and more informative — landing 486 points on Hacker News within hours.
Los Angeles Superior Court is testing Learned Hand, an AI system that summarizes filings and generates draft rulings for civil judges, as AI-assisted legal filings surge 49% in the past year.
The agent harness optimization toolkit crossed 98K GitHub stars and launched selective installation, 12 language ecosystems, and AgentShield security scanning in its latest release.
As major AI training datasets lock down access, a new global gig economy has emerged — thousands of people micro-licensing their voices, faces, and daily lives to feed the next generation of models.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is developing a personal AI agent to handle executive tasks — bypassing the organizational layers he'd normally have to work through.
An open-source AI agent system that autonomously runs penetration tests using 20+ professional hacking tools is trending on GitHub during RSAC 2026 week.
An offline survival computer bundling local AI, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and maps shot from zero to nearly 10,000 GitHub stars in days.
Flooded by LLM-generated fake bug reports, cURL shut down its bug bounty program. Now Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others are pledging $12.5M to clean up the mess.
Researchers at Northwestern University used AI to evolve modular robots that adapt to any terrain, right themselves when flipped, and keep moving even after being chopped in half.
A developer built a pure C/Metal inference engine that runs a 397 billion parameter model on a MacBook Pro from its SSD at 4.4 tokens per second.
Nosh Robotics' Nosh One claims to cook full meals autonomously — from ingredient portioning to plating — but CNET and other reviewers remain skeptical about its $1,499 price tag.
An AgiBot X2 humanoid robot went wild during a dance performance at a Haidilao hot pot restaurant in Cupertino, California, knocking plates off tables and requiring three employees to physically restrain it.
After two years of delays, Apple is expected to ship its first Gemini-integrated Siri in the iOS 26.5 developer beta, arriving as early as March 30.
The DOJ charged Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and two others with running a two-year scheme to divert $2.5 billion in Nvidia-powered AI servers to China, using dummy hardware and hair dryers to strip serial numbers and fool compliance auditors.
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has proposed rules that could ban foreign AI tools including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude unless they store Russian user data domestically.
Jensen Huang called OpenClaw 'the next ChatGPT' at GTC 2026, and analysts say the viral AI agent platform is exposing a fault line in Big AI's business model.
Stripe's autonomous coding agents, called Minions, now produce over 1,300 pull requests per week — all human-reviewed but zero human-written — running on infrastructure that handles more than $1 trillion in annual payment volume.
The ChatGPT maker plans to grow from 4,500 to roughly 8,000 employees this year, with most hires targeting engineering, product, and a new 'technical ambassadorship' track to help businesses deploy AI.
WeChat officially launched 'ClawBot,' a plugin enabling users to connect OpenClaw AI agents to the platform's 1.3 billion-user messaging network.
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg formally designated Palantir's Maven Smart System as a program of record, locking in long-term AI adoption across all U.S. military branches.
Uber has committed up to $1.25 billion to EV maker Rivian to deploy 50,000 autonomous R2 SUVs across 25 cities by 2031, kicking off with San Francisco and Miami in 2028.
A Nevada judge issued a 14-day restraining order forcing Kalshi to halt sports, politics, and entertainment event contracts — marking the first time a US state has compelled the platform to cease operations.
Grayscale filed an S-1 with the SEC to launch a spot HYPE token ETF under ticker GHYP on Nasdaq, joining Bitwise and 21Shares in a three-way race to bring Hyperliquid's native token to brokerage accounts.
A California federal jury unanimously found Musk liable for two false tweets that caused Twitter shares to drop ~10% during his 2022 takeover bid, with total damages potentially reaching $2.6 billion.
OP_NET's mainnet launch enables smart contracts, a native DEX, and OP-20 tokens directly on Bitcoin Layer 1 without bridges, sidechains, or protocol changes.
Meta is removing Horizon Worlds from Quest VR headsets on June 15, 2026, capping years of losses and officially ending its flagship metaverse experiment.