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…
Upbit, Korea's largest crypto exchange, will list Gensyn ($AI) in KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs starting June 30, 2026. The decentralized AI compute token, backed by a16z and Galaxy Digital, gains …
Cisco plans to lay off 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to notices filed with California's Employment Development Department. The cuts come as the company restructures to prioritize in…
Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents on June 11, a platform allowing AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude to connect directly to user accounts for autonomous trading, portfolio management, and USDC tra…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong outlined five AI cost controls that cut the company's AI bill by nearly half while allowing engineers to increase token usage, including defaulting to cheaper open-weight …
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reported that the company cut AI spending by nearly half while token usage grew exponentially, achieved by defaulting engineers to cheaper open-weight models via an LLM ga…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong outlined five strategies to reduce AI costs without limiting token usage, including defaulting to cheaper Chinese LLMs, routing prompts to appropriate models, improving ca…
Coinbase quietly cut its AI bill nearly in half by switching to open models, smarter routing, and better caching, demonstrating that open models can perform effectively without incident. Meanwhile, An…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has switched the company to Chinese AI models GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7, using an automated routing system that selects the best model per task and price. Improved caching boos…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released gstack, an open-source tool that turns Claude Code into a virtual engineering team, enabling him to ship 40+ features in 60 days while running YC full-time. Tan cla…
US equity markets reversed morning gains in the final hour of trading, with the S&P 500 falling 0.1% and the Nasdaq dropping 0.4%, driven by semiconductor selloffs and growing concerns over AI investm…
BitGo cut approximately 15% of its workforce, affecting 85-90 roles, to refocus on security, trading, stablecoins, settlement, and AI-powered infrastructure, CEO Mike Belshe announced. The layoffs com…
Coinbase listed the CAP token, the governance and revenue-sharing token of Cap Labs' Covered Agents Protocol, giving it access to the exchange's retail user base. The listing follows a heavily oversub…
Crypto custody firm BitGo is cutting nearly 15% of its staff, CEO Mike Belshe announced Thursday, citing a strategic pivot to AI-powered infrastructure. The layoffs affect roughly 90 employees and fol…
Billionaire Mark Cuban urged AI companies to spend billions of dollars to support towns and cities affected by job losses from artificial intelligence, calling it a 'cost of doing business.' In a post…
BitGo Holdings, Inc. went public on the NYSE in January 2026 and was named to the Fortune 500 in June 2026. The company reported approximately 566 full-time employees as of September 30, 2025. No cred…
Sophon is shutting down its ZK-powered Layer-2 blockchain and rebranding as SOPH, a consumer app studio building on Coinbase's Base network. The pivot comes after the team determined that maintaining …
Fal has added ByteDance's Seed Audio 1.0 to its hosted model gallery and API, enabling developers to generate audio from text, reference audio, or images through a single endpoint. The move positions …
The x401 protocol extends HTTP with a cryptographic identity assertion layer, enabling servers to require verified identity before granting access and agents to prove human authorization. As AI agents…
World Network launched AgentKit beta, a developer toolkit enabling autonomous AI agents to carry cryptographic proof of human backing via World ID, integrating with Coinbase and Cloudflare's x402 paym…