Coinbase's Layer-2 blockchain Base is pivoting from social media to trading, payments, and AI agents after its social features failed. Jesse Pollak, head of protocols at Coinbase and creator of Base, …
The European Commission ordered Alphabet's Google to open parts of Android and its Search infrastructure to rival AI assistants and search engines, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, u…
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said on the bank's Q2 2026 earnings call July 15 that security is the top priority in its AI rollout, as the bank processes over 400,000 AI prompts daily from employ…
NEAR AI integrated its private inference infrastructure into the Corbits AI operations and governance platform on July 15, bringing hardware-enforced confidentiality to over 115,000 agents processing …
Tether's AI division, Tether EVO, has open-sourced BrainWhisperer, a brain-to-text engine that decodes neural signals into text entirely on-device through the QVAC framework, prioritizing user privacy…
The European Commission ordered Google to share anonymized search data with competitors and grant rival AI services equal access to Android by 2027 under the Digital Markets Act. The mandates, issued …
Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden warned on June 30 that a shift from equity to debt financing for AI infrastructure could threaten financial stability, as the path to repaying that debt r…
Fireworks AI has reached a $17.5 billion valuation as enterprises increasingly seek cheaper alternatives to proprietary AI models, the company announced. The inference startup, which operates a pay-pe…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. pledged an additional $100 billion investment in Arizona, raising its total planned US commitment to $265 billion, as the world's largest contract chipmaker rein…
Trump Media & Technology Group will launch a paid Truth API on Aug. 1, giving financial institutions real-time access to posts from top trending accounts including President Donald Trump, interim CEO …
1Password has integrated with Anthropic's Claude AI to allow the chatbot to autofill credentials from user vaults without exposing sensitive data to AI models, part of its Unified Access platform laun…
Ledger unveiled the Ledger Agent Stack on June 10, 2026, an open-source toolkit requiring physical confirmation on a hardware device before AI agents can move funds, keeping humans in the loop. The st…
Sable has closed a $45 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital after Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire watched the startup's AI sales rep fluidly switch between English, Mandarin, and Spanish in a si…
Jesse Pollak, creator of Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network Base, is stepping back from leading the consumer Base app and handing control to Jordan Fish (Cobie), admitting his social-first strategy w…
Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering by October 2026 after a Series H funding round valued the company at $965 billion, making it th…
Airbus signed a multi-year agreement with French cloud provider Scaleway to migrate hundreds of critical applications, including defense and AI workloads, away from US cloud giants, signaling Europe's…
Microsoft is training its sales teams to position its proprietary MAI models as superior to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, marking a strategic shift away from its partnership with OpenAI. During an in…
Microsoft is training its sales teams to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as part of a strategy to emphasize its AI ecosystem including Copilot, Azure AI, and Fabric. The company's annual AI…
Trust Wallet launched an AI-powered financial intelligence layer called Trust Wallet AI for self-custody users, providing personalized portfolio analysis, market updates, token research, and transacti…
A Meta Oversight Board study of 10 major AI models found that chatbots refused politically sensitive requests 34% of the time for authoritarian jurisdictions like China and Saudi Arabia, versus 14% fo…