World Liberty Financial, the Trump-backed DeFi protocol, said WorldClaw, an AI model aggregator, operates independently, but WLFI holds a 38% stake and earns revenue from transactions using its USD1 s…
Amazon is increasing its data center investment in Louisiana from $12 billion to $18 billion, adding a third campus at the Resilient Tech Park in Shreveport after clearing legal hurdles. The expansion…
Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure platform that has secured over $14 trillion in transactions, joined the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) as a founding member on August 18, alongside Visa, Ma…
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, announced on August 18 that he will serve as CEO of Flop Labs, a new venture building the Flop Network and its native $FLOP token, positioned as a currency layer fo…
OpenAI launched a referral program on August 18 that rewards ChatGPT Free users in India, Indonesia, and Mexico with doubled usage limits for each qualifying referral, stacking up to three referrals f…
Kaito AI launched Kaito Pulse, a browser extension that integrates off-platform trading data from Polymarket and HyperliquidX into X timelines, alongside a new attention metric called Aura. The extens…
Gabriela Santos, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist for the Americas at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, advises investors to diversify rather than sell AI winners to buffer against AI volatil…
Perplexity's India revenue rose roughly 60% among new users after its free promotional deal with Bharti Airtel expired on January 16, 2026, even as app downloads declined. The partnership, announced J…
UC Berkeley's CyberGym benchmark shows AI agents can now reproduce real-world software vulnerabilities with 93.2% accuracy, up from 10-30% a year ago. The leaderboard leader, a Sangfor AI Agent runnin…
Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya reaffirmed a Buy rating on Nvidia with a $350 price target, implying 56-61% upside from the stock's recent range of $219-$224, citing the AI chip supercycle. Arya pr…
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released a March 2026 report arguing that China's AI advantage stems from data dominance, not chip power, and that US export controls on AI …
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, attracted over $30 billion in orders for a $20 billion syndicated loan, its largest-ever offshore facility, with a three-year tenor extendable to five years. T…
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman published a blog post on August 17 warning that organizations must deploy AI-powered defenses immediately or risk being outpaced by AI-powered attackers. …
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter dense model released around August 14, matches or beats Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, scoring 61.7 on SWE-bench Pro versus Opus 4.6 Ma…
Sierra, the enterprise AI startup co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and ex-Google executive Clay Bavor, reached $200 million in annualized recurring revenue in May, doubling from $100…
Nvidia and Microsoft announced a partnership called 'AI for nuclear' at CERAWeek to deploy AI tools for the nuclear power industry, aiming to cut permitting times by over 90% and save tens of millions…
Velaura AI, a Santa Clara-based chip designer formerly known as Auradine Inc., closed a $110 million Series V-A funding round on July 10, pushing its post-money valuation to $1.05 billion. The round i…
Bank of America has added 'community support' as a criterion for assessing data center projects, as Wall Street factors local opposition into stock recommendations and financing decisions for AI infra…
The Wall Street Journal reports that San Francisco companies are offering AI professionals salaries up to $10,000 monthly amid a housing crunch, driven by high demand for AI talent and rising rental p…
BNB Chain's Agent Studio v2, launched around August 13, 2026, integrates Altana Network's Smart Agentic Wallet, enabling AI agents to spend funds via scoped session keys with spending limits and allow…