Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, announced in preview in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, enables AI agents to autonomously transact on behalf of end users using embedded wallets with built-in …
Perplexity AI launched its AI-powered Comet browser on July 9, 2025, initially available only to $200-per-month Max subscribers via a waitlist. The Chromium-based browser embeds Perplexity's conversat…
Sophisticated hackers targeted Coinbase employees in 2019 with emails from compromised Cambridge University accounts, deploying two zero-day exploits against the Firefox browser in one of the most adv…
More than 35 companies, including Meta, Amazon, and Groupon, have laid off employees so far in 2026, continuing a trend of workforce reductions across tech, media, finance, and retail. Some firms, suc…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, previewed by AWS on May 7, 2026, introduces a managed payment system for agents to pay for APIs, MCP servers, and web content through Coinbase and Stripe wallet infr…
Hut 8 disclosed a $16.8 billion contracted lease base across its River Bend and Beacon Point campuses, covering 597 megawatts of AI data center capacity. The company also refinanced a Bitcoin-backed c…
LogicNodes has launched a platform offering 2,316 deterministic AI workers accessible via HTTP, providing services such as gas oracles, signature verifiers, ZK attestation, and USDC balance checking w…
Coinbase launched Base MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that connects AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to Base Account smart wallets, enabling them to execute DeFi transactions through natural la…
Lovable CEO Anton Osika directly appealed to laid-off Big Tech workers in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, declaring the era of US tech giants as the "safe, prestigious choice" is over. The Swedish AI startup…
World Labs launched AgentKit on March 17, 2026, a system that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let AI agents prove they are operated by a verified human without revealing personal identity. Coinbase rele…
Recent economic data shows no evidence that artificial intelligence has caused large-scale disruption to the U.S. labor market, despite widespread predictions of a white-collar jobs apocalypse. Analys…
MCPize launched x402 payments in production, enabling AI agents with EIP-3009 wallets to pay for MCP tool calls in USDC on Base mainnet. The first payment of $0.01 settled in four seconds, bypassing s…
The article describes the creation of a pay-per-call crypto signal API called Kiro Crypto Signals, which uses Coinbase's x402 protocol to charge $0.01 in USDC per request on Base mainnet without requi…
President Donald Trump requested $1 billion in taxpayer funding for security upgrades to a White House ballroom project, including a rooftop hardened against drone strikes and a "drone port" for milit…
Between February and May 2026, six companies shipped products that together form the infrastructure for AI agents to operate as legal-economic actors in the U.S., including identity, custody, banking,…
In 2026, over 138,000 tech workers have been laid off across 324 companies, with major firms like Meta, Oracle, and Microsoft citing AI as a reason for flatter, smaller teams. The article warns that i…
Amazon Web Services previewed managed payment capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, web content, and other services through partnerships with Coin…
Anthropic is now valued at $1-1.2 trillion after reporting 80x annualized growth in Q1, making it the 11th to 15th most valuable company in the world and overtaking OpenAI in valuation. Meanwhile, Blo…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has selected 65 fellows for the inaugural cohort of its Growth Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week program for growth engineers and AI-native leaders. The fellows, who come from …
Partnership between Y Combinator and Coinbase to fund startups building on blockchain technology, marking what they call "Fintech 3.0"—a new era of financial infrastructure using code for instant, glo…