A developer built a data gateway behind x402 (HTTP 402 + pay-per-call USDC on Base) that lets autonomous agents enrich company domains and on-chain wallets without signup or API keys. The gateway offe…
Spam accounts for 45.6% of global email traffic, and AI-generated cold outreach is worsening the problem. Google's reCAPTCHA protects web forms from bots but cannot gate incoming emails, while email C…
Microsoft reported blocking over 156,000 phishing attempts per minute in 2024, but AI-generated cold emails still evade content filters. Email CAPTCHA for Outlook intercepts unknown senders and requir…
AI data-center developers are building their own natural gas plants to bypass the electric grid, with at least 46 facilities pursuing 56 GW of on-site generation. The trend, led by companies like xAI,…
Economists and journalists warn that AI could cause a 'China Shock' for white-collar workers, but a closer analysis of the original China Shock's details suggests the AI disruption may be less severe.…
Google is using Nvidia's own tactics—financial guarantees and circular financing—to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips. The Wall Street Journal reports Google has provided a $3.2bn guarantee for…
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok warns that falling token prices are driving companies to spend even more on AI, citing Jevons paradox. Despite a 90% drop in token costs since 2023, aggregate AI sp…
JPMorgan raised its price target on Broadcom stock to $580, implying over 46% upside, citing the company's dominance in AI chips and accelerating AI revenue growth past 200% year-over-year. The bank r…
On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hour…
The number of job openings per unemployed worker has risen above 1.0 and nonfarm payrolls jumped by 172,000 in May, contradicting predictions of an AI-driven jobs crisis. The unemployment rate remains…
SpaceX is preparing the largest stock-market debut in history, even as fears of an AI bubble spread across global markets. The selloff has erased as much as $2 trillion from the S&P software index sin…
A new Boston Consulting Group report found that 42% of surveyed employees saved eight hours per week using AI, but 66% received little to no guidance on how to use that time, with half failing to appl…
Doola MCP is now live inside Perplexity Computer as a launch partner in the Computer for Growing Businesses bundle, enabling founders to research and file an LLC, including entity, EIN, registered age…
Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, raised $222 million in a private presale of its native ARC token for its purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain, Arc, achieving a $3 billion fully diluted val…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are competing to raise $36 billion to acquire chips from Google for use by Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google. The deal would provide Anthropic with cri…
Explee launched AutoGTM, an AI sales agent that converts a website URL into a fully automated outbound pipeline within two minutes, eliminating manual prospecting and SDR coordination. The system uses…
SurrealDB 3.1 is now available, marking the first minor release in the 3.x series with a focus on stability, security hardening, and the introduction of DiskANN as a second approximate-nearest-neighbo…
Apollo's Marc Rowan told a16z that AI application layer startups can still succeed by avoiding direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic on horizontal tools like code generation and writing. Rowan …
A free AI growth kit offering over $4,000 in startup credits, tactical GTM playbooks, and pre-built AI agent workflows is being widely shared among founders and operators. The resource, which includes…