AI News. May 4, 2026

May 04, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned AI could be used to hack bank accounts, with U.S. financial institutions actively working to strengthen their defenses

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🇺🇸 NEW: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns that AI could be used to hack bank accounts, saying US financial institutions are actively working to strengthen their defenses.

12:20 AM · May 4, 2026 · 34.8K Views

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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company may integrate its WDK and QVAC toolkit to power Agent Cards and improve AI-agent-to-crypto-payment communication

Paolo Ardoino 🤖@paoloardoino

Tether should work on a WDK and QVAC integration for Agent Cards.

Oobit @oobit

The next trillion users on the internet won't be people. They'll be AI agents. 🤖Today, Oobit launches Agent Cards for AI-native companies. Payment infrastructure built for AI agents from the ground up - stablecoin funded, policy bound, designed for autonomous spending. • One

10:12 AM · May 3, 2026 · 45.2K Views

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Hermes Agent v0.12.0 launches multi-agent support via a Kanban board, letting agents claim tasks, work in parallel, and hand off when blocked — all visible from a single dashboard

Nous Research@NousResearch

Hermes Agent now has multi-agent via the Kanban, new in v0.12.0. Agents claim tasks from a board, work in parallel, and hand off when blocked. You watch progress and unblock from one easy view instead of juggling terminals. We asked it to plan and make this video about itself:

5:55 PM · May 3, 2026 · 621K Views

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Microsoft provided Nebius a $6.95B upfront prepayment under their latest AI compute agreement

Small Cap Snipa@SmallCapSnipa

$NBIS RECEIVED 40% PREPAYMENT FROM MICROSOFT Nebius just disclosed that’s Microsoft provided $6.95 billion upfront prepayment under their latest agreement AI Infrastructure providers are gaining leverage As hyperscalers race to secure AI compute capacity, contract terms are

6:05 PM · May 3, 2026 · 21.3K Views

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xAI’s Grok 4.3 is now the default xAI chat model in OpenClaw following the latest update, with plugin stability and provider integrations also improved

OpenClaw🦞@openclaw

OpenClaw 2026.5.2 🦞 🧠 xAI Grok 4.3 🔌 Plugin installs/updates are sturdier ⚡ Gateway + agent hot paths are leaner 💬 Discord, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp fixes 🎙️ TTS, Realtime, web search, voice-call polish Less drama. More uptime. github.com/openclaw/openc…

github.com

Release openclaw 2026.5.2 · openclaw/openclaw

12:31 AM · May 3, 2026 · 385K Views

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Anthropic is finalizing a $1.5B joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman to sell AI tools to private equity-backed companies, per WSJ

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🔥 BIG: Anthropic is finalizing a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman to sell AI tools to private equity-backed companies, WSJ reports.