Three forces are reshaping AI cost structures as major buyers substitute cheaper models for expensive ones. Coinbase routed prompts to cheaper models to keep costs flat while token usage grew exponent…
Travala launched an AI-enabled hotel booking flow integrated into Claude, allowing users to search, book, and pay for hotels within a single chat session. Payments for the feature are powered by Base …
Travala launched its Travel MCP protocol on June 4, enabling autonomous AI agents to book hotel rooms across 2.2 million properties using gasless USDC payments on Coinbase's Base blockchain. The Binan…
Google has quietly laid off employees in its cloud division over the past two weeks, including staff in its Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant cybersecurity unit, according to two people familiar …
Bitcoin fell to a four-month low of $61,311 before recovering to roughly $62,580, driven by geopolitical tensions, ETF outflows, and MicroStrategy’s first Bitcoin sale in years. The decline triggered …
Coinbase's x402 protocol surpassed 100 million agentic transactions on Base within nine months of its May 2025 launch, according to a Chainalysis report. The protocol, which repurposes the HTTP 402 st…
Coinbase Machine Learning Platform Engineer Sepehr Khosravi presented findings at a developer event showing that 33% of attendees are advanced AI-assisted coders and over 30% report that 50% to 75% of…
Cinderwright has launched a proxy service that lets AI agents call over 2,800 paid APIs — including weather, translation, and Bitcoin price lookups — without implementing any crypto payment logic. Dev…
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…
Coinbase is launching perpetual-style index futures that will allow traders to speculate on sectors including artificial intelligence, China, and the US defense industry. The new products expand the c…
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…