An anonymous AI model, Ox Alpha, processed 11.6 trillion tokens in three days on OpenRouter, dwarfing the previous record by 2.6 times, driven by coding agents exploiting its 1,048,576-token context w…
Anthropic rolled out a frontend optimization to Claude's streaming response renderer on August 24, claiming long answers stream roughly 4x smoother, stalls on slower laptops drop by 9x, and worst-case…
Lambda, the GPU cloud computing company, is in talks to raise up to $3 billion in new funding as it prepares for a potential IPO in the second half of 2026. The company has raised approximately $2.36 …
Meta is preparing to launch Hatch, an AI agent that browses the web and completes tasks, with a premium tier priced at $199.99 per month, marking its first major paid AI product. The agent is being tr…
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model, on August 11, 2026, as part of a strategy to give away AI models for free to boost GPU sales. The chipmaker also pr…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton proposed a four-point federal legislative platform on August 24 that would ban Chinese-linked technology in U.S. data centers and impose criminal liability on data ce…
SpaceX's Starlink has deployed xAI's Grok Voice to handle more than 15,000 customer support calls daily, resolving 70% of issues autonomously and converting 20% of inbound inquiries into orders, accor…
NVent Electric has agreed to acquire Maverick Power, a North American manufacturer of engineered power distribution equipment, for a base price of $1.75 billion plus up to $550 million in earn-outs ti…
XAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, launched on July 29, 2026, ranked first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index with a score of 79.0%, including 97% for speech reasoning and 94.7% task succ…
Generalist AI, a San Mateo startup founded in 2024 by former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni, has raised approximately $200 million in fresh funding led by 8VC, bringing its total capital to over …
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet explained that Bitcoin and Ethereum are gravitating toward NIST's SLH-DSA (Sphincs+) post-quantum signature standard over the lattice-based ML-DSA (CRYSTALS-Dilithium) fav…
Ox Alpha, a newly announced free and multimodal AI model capable of processing a million tokens and videos, has reportedly outperformed Anthropic's Claude Fable, one of the leading AI models, accordin…
Zcash mining generates approximately $727 per megawatt-hour of electricity, more than four times Bitcoin's $162 per MWh, according to analysis from TheEnergyMag. The surge is driven by ZEC prices trad…
On August 23, 2026, the Responsible Fintech Institute convened a cross-regional pilot consortium to test post-quantum cryptography in institutional digital asset workflows on NEAR Protocol's quantum-r…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed banks for trading and leverage records after AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness suffered a 67% drawdown and sold most of its public …
Bond traders have pushed Broadcom's five-year credit default swap prices up by 28 basis points in August and yields on its 5.15% bonds maturing in 2031 up roughly 14 basis points, as the chipmaker neg…
Nvidia expanded its CUDA-X suite of GPU-accelerated libraries on July 26, 2026, introducing new solver libraries cuISS, cuDSS, and cuEST, along with an expanded Agent Toolkit, to boost performance in …
Chinese state-linked hacking groups have more than doubled their attack volume after integrating DeepSeek and other AI models into cyber operations, according to Taiwanese cybersecurity firm TeamT5. D…
Amazon has invested more than €700 million in delivery station technology across Europe between 2021 and 2025, and plans to launch its first fully automated 'delivery station of the future' in 2026. T…
Coinbase demonstrated an internal Slack bot on August 18, 2026, that enables AI agents to autonomously purchase services using USDC micropayments via the x402 protocol, settling transactions in about …