AI startups and Big Tech companies are shifting from 'tokenmaxxing'—encouraging maximum AI usage—to 'modelmaxxing,' a cost-saving strategy of routing simple tasks to cheaper models and complex ones to…
Top leaders from NBCUniversal, IBM, State Farm, Autodesk and Coinbase discussed marketing, tech and consumer trends at the Cannes Lions festival, highlighting AI's role in transforming workflows and r…
Weekly code commits to crypto and blockchain projects have collapsed 75% since early 2025 as developers defect to AI work, with Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko warning that AI could break post-qua…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed the company operates 1,200 full-time AI agents, restructuring engineering pods to include two to four humans and ten agents. Code shipped per developer has double…
ClickHouse Agents, a fully managed agentic service powered by Claude, is now available for Managed Postgres in ClickHouse Cloud, enabling users to query Postgres and ClickHouse together in plain Engli…
Coinbase will suspend trading of IP-PERP perpetual futures and related IP contracts on July 6, following the rebranding of Story Protocol to Data Network and a 1:1 token migration from $IP to $DATA. T…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns that 90% of employees at large companies lack AI skills, creating a 'Darwinian moment' where workers must evolve or face career obsolescence. Arora is hiring …
In the first half of 2026, major payment companies including Google, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, American Express, Ant International, and Circle have shipped infrastructure for AI agents to handle payme…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argues that AI will enhance software security by enabling defenders to scan all code before production, flipping the traditional attacker-defender imbalance. Coinbase has …
Most AI agent teams prioritize model selection over system architecture, but the key to cost efficiency is a router that directs 70-80% of traffic to local or async models, cutting AI spend by 90%. Co…
Coinbase halved its AI spending without restricting engineer access, CEO Brian Armstrong revealed on X. The company achieved this by routing traffic to cheaper open-weight models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi…
A reporter visited OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor in San Francisco, observing that cloud-based AI agents are becoming a major trend, with companies like Anthropic focusing on hosted services like Claud…
Model routing is emerging as a new abstraction layer to manage LLM spending, allowing prompts to be directed to the most cost-effective model. Companies like Coinbase report halving AI spend while inc…
Model routing is emerging as a new abstraction layer to control AI costs by directing prompts to the most cost-effective model for each task, with organizations like Coinbase reporting 50% cost saving…
Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 2 quantum chip at Build conference on June 2, claiming a 1,000-fold improvement in qubit reliability, while President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22 to ac…
Amazon launched a $1 billion Frontline Deployment Engineers organization to embed AI agents within enterprise clients, signaling a major push to move AI agents from demos to production. The move valid…
Apify partnered with Coinbase to enable autonomous AI agents to pay for and run its web automation Actors via the x402 payment protocol, eliminating the need for human intervention in service payments…
Apify has integrated x402 payment support into its marketplace of over 20,000 web automation Actors, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover and pay for tools using USDC on the Base blockchain wit…
Attorney Bill Savitt has defeated Elon Musk in two high-profile legal battles, first representing Twitter in Musk's attempt to back out of the acquisition and then representing Sam Altman and OpenAI i…
OKX launched an open protocol on April 29 that enables AI agents to autonomously hire, pay, and dispute with each other on-chain, aiming to become the payment infrastructure for the agentic economy. T…