AEON raised $8M pre-seed funding round led by YZi labs

Cursor released Composer 2.5

Anthropic acquired OpenAI and Meta SDK provider, Stainless

Google and Blackstone are launching a new neocloud running TPUs

OpenAI and Dell are partnering to integrate Codex into Dell’s AI Factory

Microsoft executives reportedly warn GitHub is rapidly losing its AI coding edge as rivals like Cursor and Claude threaten both Copilot and GitHub’s core repo business.

Nous Research Hermes Kanban introduced a new automation feature that breaks down subtasks from a single prompt and automatically assigns the most suitable agents.

Vercel has made all Firewall mitigations free, now covering DDoS, system-level, and custom rule protections while absorbing the compute and network costs of attacks and traffic mitigation.

Browserbase launched Browse, an open-source CLI with a custom-tuned CDP driver for web navigation, alongside the Open Web Catalog — a marketplace of reusable website skills for AI agents.

X to launch Creator Connect, an AI-powered tool that matches brands with creators in real time based on campaign goals and audience trends

Bitwise to allocate 10% of its its BHYP management fee to $HYPE

Vitalik says AI-assisted formal verification will secure smart contracts

Researchers Carl Beek and Julian Ma will be leaving Ethereum foundation

BitMine bought $153.66M ETH, now holds $11.32B 4.37% circulating supply of ETH

BTC miner IREN closed $3B convertible note offering to push into AI cloud infra

Solana Accelerate AI conference went live with speakers, live demos, AI VCs and Erik Reppel creator of x402

Grok integrates Nous Research Hermes Agent for direct in-app deployment via subscriptions.

Bio protocol launched PEPTAI token on base, fleet of autonomous agents for peptide drug discovery

Together AI launched Gemma-4-31B-it-Pearl, an instruction-tuned Gemma 4 31B model powered by PRLNet

Hypurrfi to wind down and migrate to Euler finance

Lombard finance to replace LayerZero with Chainlink

Hyperliquid Jeff met with policy makers in DC

CME and Nyse pushing US to regulate Hyperliquid

Okx to acquire 10% stake in South Korea exchange, Coinone

Vitalik deposited 50.25 ETH into Privacy Pools

Aave v4 integrated Chainlink SVR to recapture non-toxic liquidation MEV and boost DAO revenue

Anthropic agrees terms for $30B Raise at $900B Val

USDC now settles AI agent jobs on NEAR Intents with confidential txn support

Tensions are rising in Apple & OpenAI partnership, with OpenAI weighing legal options over unmet benefits from the deal, per Bloomberg

Codex is now in ChatGPT mobile

xAI releases early beta of Grok Build, fully interactive CLI, for feedback

DeepSeek V4 Flash is available on Hermes Agent via the Nous Portal for a limited time

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said they may raise more capital for computing power

Ollama supports Codex app

MagicPath 2.0 launches as a multiplayer AI canvas where humans and agents like Codex and Claude Code can collaboratively design, pull live data, and build fully functional prototypes in real time.

OpenCode x Qwen 3.6 Plus is now free again

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Clarity act passed the Senate Banking Committee, next is the full Senate vote

South Korea Hana Bank acquires $670M Stake in Upbit operator Dunamu

Ranger finance winds down, aftermath of Drift exploit

Dune cuts 25% of Staff to focus on powering AI and onchain Institutional adoption

Kraken replaced LayerZero with Chainlink as bridge for its assets

Hyperliquid and Tradexyz spotted in Morgan Stanley trading desk

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AI video avatar, HeyGen is now built into Codex

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x402 agentic volume hits $50M

Google plans to unveil a new Gemini model at I/O, expected to compete with GPT-5.5 in capability.

PayPal partnered with Anthropic to launch AI training and a Claude plugin for SMB invoicing, refunds, and workflow management.

Devin AI can now autonomously build, test, and debug Android apps on its own machine, including reproducing issues and verifying fixes before review.

Virtuals Protocol launched EconomyOS, giving agents a Visa card, wallet, email, and identity.

OpenAI launched a 30-day “Switch to Codex” promo, offering companies and enterprise teams two free months of Codex when migrating from rival platforms.

NVIDIA’s RTX PCs and DGX Spark now natively run Hermes Agent, built for always-on AI workloads optimized for NVIDIA hardware.

Notion has launched an AI Developer Platform with webhooks, workers, and a new CLI, enabling developers and agents to sync data, build tools, and orchestrate workflows.

Recursive AI has come out of stealth with a $650M raise at a $4.65B valuation, building self-improving AI systems designed to autonomously discover and advance knowledge.

Openserv AI reasoning model reportedly outperformed prior Gemini and Sonnet benchmarks while being 100× cheaper per call and delivering higher accuracy at lower cost.

Claude Code weekly usage limits have been increased by 50% through July 13.

Arm and SoftBank reportedly approached to acquire Cerebras Systems shortly before its expected IPO.

Higgsfield AI’s Supercomputer is now available in Telegram, letting users connect a bot via BotFather and an API token to access AI agent services for automating content, ads, and workflows on mobile.

Adtek eyes $4B IPO in Hong Kong

Former Alibaba Qwen lead Junyang Lin is reportedly raising several hundred million dollars for a new AI lab, potentially valuing it around $2B despite being a new entrant.

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Guy recovered 5 BTC from an old hard drive after 11 years with help from Claude.

Consensys postpones IPO to fall amid weak crypto market

Ledger pauses IPO due to current market conditions

TAC’s bridge exploited for $2.8M

Transit finance hacked for $1.88M from legacy contract

Ronin completes OP L2 migration

Immunefi to absorb code bounty customers from Code4rena

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The Ethereum Foundation launched Clear Signing, a new open standard ERC-7730, to eliminate blind signing with human-readable transaction descriptors, auditor attestations, cryptographic fingerprints

Solana secures @ Perps username on X as they expand to perpetual trading

Starknet launched strkBTC, a privacy focused BTC asset using zk tech

Copper bears ATH hitting $14k per ton

KelpDAO and Aave burned the exploiter’s seized rsETH on Arbitrum, began refilling the 117,132 rsETH deficit, and plan to restore withdrawals within 24 hours while migrating cross-chain routes to Chainlink CCIP.

Uniswap API now supports payment flow

Elliptic raised $120M in Series D round led by One Peak Partners, with backing from Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq Ventures, and others, valuing the firm at about $670M.

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Tether launched a developer grants program paying in USDT or BTC for building on its local-first AI and payments stack, including QVAC, WDK, and Pears, with individual payouts ranging from ~$1,500 to $4,000

MoonPay acquired AI trading startup Dawn Labs and launched Dawn CLI, letting users build automated trading strategies via plain-English prompts

Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available, offering full Claude API and console access with same-day availability for new releases, AWS IAM access control, CloudTrail audit logging, and consolidated billing

TON Core launched Acton, a unified CLI toolchain for TON smart contract development built around the Tolk language, replacing its fragmented dev stack

OpenAI hired Gimlet Labs to optimize its models for Cerebras chips, with Gimlet claiming up to 10x inference speedups at equivalent cost and power as part of OpenAI’s push to reduce Nvidia dependence​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Circle launched Agent Stack, an infrastructure suite for AI agents featuring Agent Wallets for USDC payments, an Agent Marketplace, and Circle CLI for automated financial actions with permission controls

Anthropic released an audiobook version of Claude’s Constitution narrated by Amanda Askell and Joe Carlsmith, including commentary on the document’s philosophy and development proces

Anthropic launched agent view for Claude Code in research preview, allowing developers to run and manage multiple parallel Claude agent sessions from a single interface without using separate terminal tabs

Google and PayPal executives said AI agents will require crypto payments infrastructure because autonomous agents cannot access traditional banking rails at scale

Ilya Sutskever’s stake in OpenAI is worth roughly $7B, making him one of the company’s largest individual shareholders

Google is reportedly developing a Gemini Omni video model capable of watermark removal and object replacement, likely releasing in Pro and standard variants

OpenAI’s Codex repo briefly exposed an unannounced Ultrafast mode described as the fastest available responses for latency-sensitive work before being deleted​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI launched its Deployment Company, a majority-owned joint venture with 19 investment firms and consultancies to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, and acquired Tomoro to bring 150 engineers to the venture from day one

Cursor launched a Microsoft Teams integration allowing users to mention @ Cursor in channels to delegate coding tasks, pull repo context, and generate pull requests directly inside Teams

Thinking Machines released a research preview of realtime interaction models built to natively handle conversation flow, interruptions, self-corrections, and collaboration without external dialogue systems

Unsloth joined the PyTorch Ecosystem, bringing its open-source AI training and inference optimization tools into the official ecosystem

Alibaba Cloud unveiled HappyHorse, a new AI video generation model supporting cinematic 1080p output, native audio sync, multi-shot consistency, and near-instant generation

OpenAI and Microsoft agreed to cap revenue sharing at $38B, allowing OpenAI to pursue new partnerships with Amazon and Google

South Korean lawmaker Kim proposed an AI citizen dividend funded by excess AI-related tax revenue

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Roaring Kitty X account was hacked by his brother Kevin Gill who launched RKC token and made $500k off it

Huma Finance’s legacy V1 contracts on Polygon were exploited for ~$101.4K in USDC, V2 on Solana is unaffected and no user funds are at risk

Circle raised $222M for its Arc blockchain at a $3B valuation led by a16z, BlackRock, and Apollo

a16z crypto invested $75M in the ARC token

SharpLink and Galaxy Digital unveiled a proposed $125M onchain yield fund to deploy staked ETH into institutional DeFi strategies

Strategy acquired 535 BTC for ~$43M at ~$80,340 per coin

BitMine added 26,659 ETH to bring total holdings to 5,206,790 ETH (~4.31% of total supply)

Aptos announced a native encrypted mempool pending governance approval

Jupiter launched Jupiter Poker, an onchain platform for pros to sell tokenized shares of tournament action backed by Triton Poker

Sui launched USDsui, a gasless stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasuries and issued via Stripe’s stablecoin product

Ethereum Foundation shared progress on the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade and announced Protocol Cluster leadership changes including the departures of Barnabé Monnot and Tim Beiko

Ripple Prime secured a $200M debt facility from Neuberger Berman to expand institutional crypto margin lending

Ronin confirmed its migration to an OP Stack Ethereum Layer 2 on May 12, with around 10 hours of scheduled downtime expected

Kraken parent company Payward is reportedly seeking fresh funding at a $20 billion valuation

Phantom surpassed $20M in builder code revenue on Hyperliquid in under a year

21Shares Hyperliquid ETF THYP will launch today, May 12, 2026.

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Iran rejected dismantling its nuclear facilities in response to the US peace proposal

Banking groups are pushing last-minute changes to stablecoin yield provisions as the Senate begins considering the CLARITY Act

Michael Saylor says Strategy would buy 10 to 20 BTC for every 1 it sells, even if tapping reserves to fund STRC preferred stock dividends

Strategy CEO Phong Le said the firm will only sell BTC to fund its 11.5% STRC preferred stock dividend or for tax optimization

Crypto com becomes the first VASP to receive a Stored Value Facilities license from the Central Bank of the UAE, enabling UAE residents to pay government fees with digital assets

Capital B raises €15.2M from institutional investors including Adam Back and TOBAM to advance its Bitcoin Treasury Company strategy

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe dismissed Project Eleven’s warning that quantum computing could threaten BTC wallets by 2030, calling out the firm’s conflict of interest

Canton Network, is raising ~$300M at a ~$2B valuation led by a16z crypto, with Visa, Goldman Sachs, and DTCC as participants

Renegade Finance’s V1 Arbitrum deployment was exploited for ~$209K via an unprotected initializer; the whitehat returned ~$190K and all other deployments are confirmed safe

Tydro protocol resumed normal market operations after a pause, with borrow caps to be scaled down and multi-oracle redundancy details coming soon

CME Group targets June 1 launch for Bitcoin Volatility Index futures (BVI), pending CFTC approval

Syndicate Labs fully reimbursed all SYND holders from its bridge exploit — 12.9M SYND paid out with an extra 15% bonus, equal amount burned from treasury to keep supply neutral

Digital Asset is raising ~$300M at a $2B valuation with a16z crypto, backers include Visa, Goldman Sachs, and DTCC

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OpenAI allowed 600+ current and former employees to sell $6.6B in stock in October 2025, averaging $11M per person

Alibaba is integrating Qwen AI with Taobao to enable agentic shopping across 4B+ products via conversational AI, with virtual try-ons and 30-day price tracking

xAI is facing fresh layoffs and employee departures as Musk restructures the company, with Cursor staff already meeting xAI teams following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition option

gogcli 0.16.0 launched with expanded Google Workspace admin tools covering user management, org units, Meet, YouTube, GA4, Search Console, and Drive

OpenCode x Ring 2.6 1T is available free for a limited time, leading benchmarks including AIME 26, ClawEval, and Tau2-Bench Telecom​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI’s Codex is expected to integrate with ChatGPT soon, with a teased image sparking speculation about an OpenAI-branded mobile phone ahead of Google I/O

Google’s upcoming Gemini Omni video model has been spotted in the wild ahead of Google I/O, featuring in-chat video editing, camera angle switching, and voice quality described as a significant step up from Veo​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Nous Research launched a native desktop app for Hermes, its autonomous AI agent, adding multi-agent management, persistent memory, and local infrastructure support

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Neuralink announced it is building a surgical robot capable of reaching any brain region

Wonder Studios partnered with ElevenLabs, OpenArt, Mirelo, and InVideo to offer discounts on AI creative tools via Wonder Perks in its mobile app

Claude Mythos helped Firefox fix more security bugs in April than in the previous 15 months combined

ClickUp launched Brain², an AI layer that feeds live company context — projects, decisions, org structure — into models like Claude and GPT, with native MCP connections to Gmail, GitHub, Figma, and Slack

TeraWulf’s HPC leasing revenue hit $21M in Q1, overtaking bitcoin mining revenue for the first time as miners continue pivoting to AI infrastructure

Anthropic found that teaching Claude principled reasoning cut agentic misalignment by over 3x, outperforming behavior-only training and surviving reinforcement learning​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Somnia is hosting a 3-week Agentathon from May 20–June 10 with a $5,000 prize pool for builders on its AI-focused L1

Boson Protocol proposed x402B, an on-chain escrow extension to the x402 payment standard for high-value and pseudonymous agent payments

dTelecom launched Origin ID, an on-chain identity tied to participation on dMeetApp

Perplexity published its internal manual for building agent skills​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Telegram rolled out 10+ new features including guest AI bot interactions, bot-to-bot workflows, and personal AI assistants attachable to user profiles

Apple and Intel reached a preliminary chip manufacturing agreement, sending INTC up 14%

Vellum raised $25M to build a persistent AI assistant backed by YC, Dharmesh Shah, and Arash Ferdowsi​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI disclosed accidental chain-of-thought grading leaked into some GPT-5 models during RL training — three third-party safety orgs reviewed and found no major monitorability issues

Google is testing a Data Donation feature in NotebookLM that lets users mark notebooks as Donation Safe, allowing usage logs to be shared unscrubbbed for quality improvement​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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BlackRock is launching two money-market funds targeting investors holding cash in stablecoins on Ethereum

Zcash plans quantum-recoverable wallets within a month and full post-quantum status within 12–18 months

Japan’s Progmat is migrating over $2B in tokenized real estate and corporate bonds to Avalanche

MegaETH Foundation completed its first MEGA buyback using USDm stablecoin rewards accrued through end of April, future buybacks will be programmatic and onchain, with USDm supply at $480M

Arkham launched a prediction markets analytics platform

South Korea passed an amendment requiring crypto businesses to register before conducting cross-border transfers, with a 22% capital gains tax on crypto set for January 2027

Switzerland’s Bitcoin reserve referendum campaign is set to lapse after collecting only ~50,000 of the 100,000 signatures needed

ECB President Christine Lagarde warned that even euro-denominated stablecoins could threaten financial stability and monetary policy transmission

SEC Chair Paul Atkins called for new rulemaking to clarify how exchange, clearing agency, and broker definitions apply to onchain systems and DeFi protocols

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding transparency on Meta’s reported plans to integrate a third-party stablecoin across its 3.5B-user platforms ahead of a 2026 rollout

Boson Protocol proposed x402B, an on-chain escrow extension to the x402 payment standard for high-value and pseudonymous agent payments

Parallel reported that a failed ERC4626 inflation attack on the sUSDp vault on Ethereum was blocked by three independent layers, no funds lost, contracts paused within seconds by Hypernative

Trump announced a 3-day Russia-Ukraine ceasefire from May 9–11, coinciding with Russia’s Victory Day, alongside a 1,000-prisoner swap

Sentio Network testnet is live with a decentralized data layer for running custom blockchain indexers

Privy now lets developers fully sponsor Tron gas so users can send USDT without holding TRX

OP Sepolia’s stake-based transaction ordering experiment enters phase 2 with a blended score across stake size, duration, and priority gas, capped at 3x

Hyperbeat is winding down its Ultra HYPE and Ultra BTC vaults after a reconciliation exposed an 11,500 HYPE shortfall from oracle pricing errors and no NAV reconciliation between September 2025 and March 2026, users take a 0.97% haircut

Kraken’s parent Payward applied for a national OCC trust charter to establish Payward National Trust Company for institutional digital asset custody

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Cloudflare is cutting 1,100+ jobs, ~20% of its workforce and shifting to an AI-first model​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Coinbase’s x402 and wallet infrastructure are now natively integrated into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments for USDC micropayments on Base and Solana

AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments also integrated Privy wallet infrastructure for agent spending controls and Stripe onramp funding

Tether AI released QVAC MedPsy, an open-source on-device medical AI, the 4B model outperforms MedGemma 27B on clinical benchmarks

ElevenLabs launched Studio Agent inside ElevenCreative, an AI co-editor that builds video drafts on the timeline from a text prompt, places sound effects frame-accurately, and lets users interrupt and hand control back at any point

Anthropic donated its open-source alignment tool Petri to Meridian Labs and released Petri 3.0, featuring major upgrades in adaptability, realism, and depth, including a new Dish add-on to make evaluations harder to detect

Anthropic’s security bug bounty program is now publicly available on HackerOne, offering rewards between $100 and $10,000

OpenAI launched three new API audio models: GPT-Realtime-2 for voice reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Translate for live speech translation across 70+ languages, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper for live transcription​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

OpenAI’s Codex Chrome extension is officially rolling out on macOS and Windows, enabling parallel background browser work across tabs without taking over the browser

CoreWeave posted Q1 revenue of $2.08B (up 112% YoY), secured $40B in new customer commitments, surpassed 1GW of active power, and reported a backlog of $99.4B

Signs of a Grok Computer feature appeared in the Grok web UI, with a new selector letting users choose between Grok Computer and a Google Drive folder

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is now generally available, optimized for high-volume agentic tasks, translation, and cost-efficiency

Meta is internally testing an always-on AI agent called Hatch, grounded in Instagram and Facebook data, with a mock environment rollout targeting end of June​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Scale AI launched the SWE Atlas Refactoring Leaderboard, a new benchmark requiring 2x the code changes of SWE-Bench Pro; Claude Code with Opus 4.7 tops the rankings, followed by Codex with GPT-5.5

Kite AI partnered with Ankr to provide the RPC infrastructure layer for its AI agent payment L1​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Anthropic is testing an Insights feature on Claude Console that scores agent sessions 0–100 and surfaces cross-session error patterns and usage trends

Google is preparing an Agent Mode on Flow for end-to-end video production, including scene planning, generation, and project management from chat

StrikeRobot partnered with Venice AI as its primary VLM inference backend for SR Agentic and SR Platform

Hermes Agent v0.13.0 launched with multi-agent orchestration via a Kanban system, enforced goal completion, and custom LLM provider support

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Solv Protocol is migrating from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP

Saturn raised $2M seed led by Spartan Group to build the application layer on Bitcoin via STRC, with $125M TVL at launch

DOJ and CFTC are probing suspiciously timed oil trades ahead of Trump-Iran war announcements — at least 4 trades reportedly made over $2.6B

Kraken parent Payward is acquiring stablecoin payments firm Reap for up to $600M, valuing Payward at $20B

Senate Banking Committee is set to notice a markup for the Clarity Act as soon as today, with a potential Thursday vote — some sections still in flux

DL News, founded by the DefiLlama team, is shutting down end of May citing AI-driven traffic collapse and failed monetization

Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs committed $50M+ across products, research, and infrastructure

Coinbase Exchange went down for 2+ hours due to an AWS outage

Tether froze ~$515M in USDT across 371 addresses on Ethereum and Tron over the past 30 days

Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation in a Series F led by Coatue

Bitwise is taking over Superstate’s $267M tokenized Crypto Carry Fund (USCC), effective June 1

Bithumb signed an MOU with Vietnam’s SSID to establish a local crypto exchange, with potential direct investment pending regulatory approval

South Korea confirmed crypto taxation begins January 2027, with gains over KRW 2.5M taxed at 22%

Hyperliquid launched HIP-4, adding fully collateralized outcome markets to HyperCore beyond spot and perps

Coinbase x402 and wallet infrastructure are now natively integrated into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments for USDC micropayments on Base and Solana

RAAC reached a tentative agreement with a physical gold exchange provider to enable pmUSD redemptions, targeting within 30 days

Starknet, tBTC liquidity migrates from tBTC/wBTC to a new strkBTC/tBTC pool on Ekubo Protocol, going live May 12

AE Coin and USD Universal are launching regulated conversion rails for near-instant exchange between UAE dirham and USD stablecoins for institutional payments

Coinbase posted a $394M net loss in Q1 2026, with revenue down 31% YoY to $1.41B as transaction revenue fell 40% and crypto trading volumes slumped

21Shares launched TCAN, the first U.S. ETF offering institutional exposure to the Canton Network and its native token

Tydro Markets paused all activity after Chaos Labs flagged a nation-state-level oracle attack on May 4; no user positions were impacted and RedStone and Chainlink are being onboarded as replacements​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Offchain Labs rebranded to Offchain, positioning itself as an enterprise infrastructure provider spanning Arbitrum, Prysm, and ZeroDev under a unified brand

Pyth Pro is now powering Indigo Protocol’s synthetic asset infrastructure on Cardano, including the upcoming Indigo Limitless forex suite in V3

Synthdata launched Synth LLM for Traders, an LLM-native interface for converting live Monte Carlo forecasts into statistics, charts, and example trades, now live on Polymarket, Hyperliquid, and Deribit​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Anthropic posted 80x year-over-year growth in revenue and usage in Q1 2026, per CEO Dario Amodei

Anthropic partnered with SpaceX to use full Colossus 1 capacity, adding 300+ MW — doubles Claude Code rate limits for Pro/Max/Team, removes peak-hour reductions, raises Opus API limits; orbital compute partnership also in the works

Hut 8 signed 15-year, 352 MW AI data center lease at Beacon Point — $9.8B base contract, up to $25.1B with renewals, bringing total contracted capacity to 597 MW

Anthropic launched Dreams for Managed Agents on Claude Console, a self-learning feature that lets agents improve from past results, currently available as a research preview via waitlist.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Anthropic’s pre-IPO implied valuation hits $1.2T via onchain trading data, up 20% in 7 days and 900% since October 2025, now ~20% larger than OpenAI’s implied valuation

OpenAI and partner AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to released MRC, an open networking protocol for AI training clusters, now live across OpenAI’s largest supercomputers

NVIDIA and Corning partnered to expand US optical connectivity manufacturing 10x, build three new plants, create 3,000+ jobs

AI insurance company Corgi raised a $160M Series B at a $1.3B valuation led by TCV, bringing total funding to over $268M , just 16 weeks after closing a $108M Series A

NotebookLM launched autolabel source organization, users with 5+ sources can autocategorize and filter AI responses by label

Perplexity revealed ROSE, its in-house inference engine behind all Sonar, Search, and Embeddings APIs, now using NVIDIA’s CuTeDSL for custom GPU kernels on Hopper and Blackwell

Sentient AGI launched EvoSkill v1.1.0 with Docker and Daytona support for remote automated agent skill self-improvement

Higgsfield launched Hooks in Marketing Studio — 25+ UGC video hook variations available via Claude MCP for one-off or batch generation

Ethos raised $22.75M Series A led by a16z to expand its AI platform matching expertise to paid opportunities; 35,000 users joining weekly, top earners making $10K/month

Brazilian AI legal startup Enter tripled valuation to $1.2B in new funding round

Core Scientific acquired Oklahoma bitcoin miner Polaris for $421M, adding 440 MW for AI data center expansion

Google testing screen recording and custom agent support in Antigravity IDE for real-time screen-aware AI assistance​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Google rolled out Personal Intelligence for Gemini in the EU, enabling the assistant to remember past chats; Gemini Live support coming soon

NVIDIA and ServiceNow are extending their collaboration to deliver governed autonomous AI agents for enterprise workflows, unveiled at ServiceNow Knowledge 2026

Zyphra released ZAYA1-8B, a reasoning MoE trained on AMD hardware that beats open-weight models many times its size on math and reasoning, with an 80B model upcoming

Perplexity launched Finance Search in its Agent API — one tool call for licensed financial data, real-time prices, earnings, filings, and cited sources

Google DeepMind partnered with Fenris Creations to research AI in an isolated offline EVE Online environment, with details dropping at Fanfest 2026 next week

TinyFish slashed May pricing , Search & Fetch dropped to free, Web Agent Starter to $13/mo, and Web Agent Pro to $132/mo​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Genesis AI launched GENE-26.5, a robotic brain with a human-like hand running on a single autonomous model​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Bitcoin Core disclosed first-ever memory safety bug (CVE-2024-52911), affecting versions 0.14.0–28.x; patched in v29.0 but ~43% of nodes still vulnerable

Aave liquidated the Kelp DAO attacker’s remaining rsETH positions as the final step in recovering from the $292M April 28 exploit, with collateral sent to DeFi United’s Recovery Guardian multisig​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

White House adviser Patrick Witt says the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is targeting a pre-July 4 pass

Morgan Stanley is rolling out crypto trading on E*Trade at 0.50% fees for all 8.6M clients, undercutting Coinbase, Robinhood, and Schwab

21Shares listed Strategy Yield ETN (STRC) on London Stock Exchange, first UK exchange-traded access to Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock

MegaETH announced MOSS, a unified embedded wallet within MegaOS supporting real-world payments

Coinbase launched gold and silver perp futures for non-US traders

US and Iran nearing 14-point memorandum of understanding covering 12–15 year uranium enrichment moratorium, sanctions relief, and release of frozen funds

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen said eBay permanently suspended his account for posing a risk to the marketplace community​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is auctioning personal collectibles on eBay, saying he’s selling stuff on eBay to pay for eBay​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Strategy says BTC appreciating just 2.3% annually is enough to fund all its dividends indefinitely

NEAR Protocol is adding post-quantum cryptography, letting account holders rotate to quantum-safe keys in a single transaction

Kraken launched CFTC-regulated spot margin trading for US retail with up to 10x leverage, first product on its newly acquired Bitnomial licenses

Ondo, J.P. Morgan Kinexys, Mastercard, and Ripple completed first cross-border settlement of tokenized US Treasuries in near real time on XRP Ledger

Centrifuge launched deSPXA on Base, tokenized S&P 500 exposure built with S&P Dow Jones Indices, managed by Janus Henderson

Manta Network is sunsetting staking on May 20 citing token dilution, and taking full self-operated control of Manta Pacific’s L2 sequencer

MetaMask and Pudgy Penguins launched a three-tier Soulbound Token series claimable until June 3, with the open edition available to any MetaMask wallet holder

Coinbase submitted a formal comment letter to the OCC pushing back on proposed PPSI rules, arguing against de minimis requirements, arbitrary reserve thresholds, run-risk restrictions, and limits on white label or multi-issuance stablecoin models

BNY, custodian of ~$59T in assets, is launching crypto custody in Abu Dhabi starting with BTC and ETH, later expanding to stablecoins and tokenized assets

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Google Cloud and Solana Foundation launched Pay[.]sh, letting AI agents pay for API services via stablecoins on Solana with no account or subscription needed, built on Coinbase’s x402 standard

IREN agreed to acquire cloud infrastructure firm Mirantis in an all-stock deal worth ~$625M, adding Kubernetes orchestration and enterprise support to its AI cloud platform

OpenAI considered spinning out its robotics and hardware divisions ahead of its IPO but shelved the plan after concluding the entities would remain on its balance sheet regardless

Animoca Brands launched a $10M investment programme for early-stage projects building on Minds, its persistent AI agent platform

Elastics raised a $2M pre-seed led by FRST Venture Capital to build AI agents for prediction markets, with angels from ElevenLabs, XBTO, Redstone, and a16z

Intelligence Co launched Cofounder 2, an agentic platform that orchestrates AI agents across engineering, sales, marketing, ops, and design to run an entire company

ElevenLabs crossed $500M ARR and closed a new round backed by BlackRock, Wellington, and Nvidia

Intel hit an all-time high, up 12% on the day; Trump administration’s position is up 420% since August 2025 with $40B+ in unrealized gains

Subquadratic launched SubQ, a frontier LLM on a sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture with a 12M token context window, claiming 52x faster inference than FlashAttention at 1M tokens

OpenClaw will introduce LTS releases later in May after a rough update cycle caused gateway slowdowns and plugin dependency issues​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Gemini 3.2 Flash briefly surfaced in the Gemini app ahead of Google I/O on May 19, where a Gemini 3.5 announcement is rumored

Anthropic released ready-to-run Claude agent templates for financial services, deployable via Cowork, Claude Code, or Managed Agents

Inworld AI released Realtime TTS-2 with sub-200ms latency, one voice identity across 100+ languages, and natural-language voice direction

AI Studio integrated Nano Banana for automatic image asset generation alongside a redesigned visual edit tool

Anchorage Digital launched Agentic Banking with Google Cloud, giving AI agents regulated infrastructure to transact across crypto and fiat rails

Tether’s AI research team is set to publish another local AI breakthrough this week, per CEO Paolo Ardoino

Apple announced plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI services to power features across its software

Lambda named Michel Combes, former Sprint CEO, as its next chief executive as part of a broader management overhaul

Google rolled out Mind Map customization on NotebookLM, adding topic scoping, renaming, sharing, and smoother node navigation

Google released Multi-Token Prediction drafters for Gemma 4, delivering up to 3x faster output with no performance loss

Google released Pomelli Catalog, allowing users to add products or services for AI-generated personalized marketing campaigns and photoshoots​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out as the default ChatGPT model for all users, with improved factuality, memory personalization, and API access as gpt-5.5-chat-latest

OpenAI launched a beta self-serve ads manager in ChatGPT with a CAPI, pixel for conversion tracking, and CPC bidding, with OpenAI reportedly modeling the platform after Meta’s ad infrastructure to target SMBs and eCommerce advertisers

Google’s Gemini API File Search now supports multimodal RAG (image + text), custom metadata filtering, and page-level citations — free of charge​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Maket AI launched Drawing from Scratch, a free room design feature that lets users sketch floor plans, furnish spaces, and generate 3D renders using text prompts or reference images from Pinterest, Instagram, or any other source​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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