Trump kills AI safety oversight just as new research shows models can find exploits faster than humans. Meanwhile Coinbase buys crypto like retail in a surprising 22 million dollar market spree. Plus Trump wants companies to share AI models before going public.
DeFi lost $169 million to hackers in Q1, but the real story is in what didn't get stolen. 34 DeFi protocols were exploited for $169M in Q1 2026, with Step Finance's $40M private key compromise as the quarter's largest single hit
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When your Agentforce chief jumps ship to the startup your ex-co-CEO founded, you've got an execution problem, not a roadmap problem.
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OpenAI just bought a talk show, and if you think that's weird, you're not paying attention to how AI companies plan to win. OpenAI acquired TBPN, the Silicon Valley talk show known for CEO interviews, after shuttering its Sora video generation product.
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Bitcoin miners just dumped over 19,000 BTC in a week, and the sell-off says more about mining economics than market sentiment. Riot sold 3,778 BTC in Q1, with another 500 BTC moving out on Thursday according to Arkham Intelligence
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OpenAI's head of AGI deployment just told Sam Altman to stay the hell away from social media, and she would know.
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Anthropic just paid $400 million for a biotech AI startup with fewer than ten employees that's been alive for six months. Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, a six-month-old startup building AI agents for drug R&D, clinical strategy, and opportunity identification
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Congress is rewriting the rules on whether your stablecoins can earn you interest, and the decision will determine if crypto replaces your savings account or stays a trading tool.
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Microsoft just committed $10 billion to Japan over four years, and it's not about being nice to an old ally. Microsoft announced a $10 billion, four-year investment plan in Japan, its largest single-country AI infrastructure bet in Asia
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Big Tech just decided how AI agents will pay each other, and they're not asking permission. Coinbase, Stripe, OpenAI, Microsoft, and a16z launched the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation to standardize how autonomous AI agents interact and transact.
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OpenAI just made it cheaper to put AI in every developer's workflow, and that changes the math on agent adoption inside enterprises. Codex now offers pay-as-you-go pricing for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, removing upfront commitment barriers for teams
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Travis Wright breaks down the latest shake-up in tech and finance. Mass layoffs hit 18,000 workers as AI automation accelerates. NYSE partners with Securitize to bring stock trading onto blockchain infrastructure. A developer exposes code quality concerns in YC's rapid shipping culture. SpaceX's val
Google's security researchers just published the rulebook hackers will use to compromise the agents you're about to trust with your calendar, your inbox, and your credit card.
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SpaceX's public debut could be the first domino in a procession of AI titans going public, and that changes everything about how intelligence infrastructure gets funded. SpaceX is planning what could be a record-breaking IPO, with OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly eyeing public markets in 2026
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Granola's "private by default" notes are visible to anyone with a link and training their AI unless you dig through settings to opt out. Granola, an AI meeting note-taker, defaults to link-shareable notes and uses your content for AI training unless users manually opt out
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The New York Stock Exchange just stopped treating tokenization like a side project. Securitize is partnering with NYSE to bring traditional equities onchain, moving beyond the pilot phase into regulated infrastructure
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Your new coworker never sleeps, never forgets, and reports everything you don't do to management. A startup has deployed an AI agent that joins every Zoom call, monitors work processes, and sends Slack reminders starting at 5:47 a.m. when tasks slip.
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The biggest IT services company you've never heard of just launched a babysitter service for AI agents, and that tells you everything about where enterprise AI is right now.
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Circle, the company that prints $60 billion in USDC stablecoins, is coming for Bitcoin's wrapped token market. Circle announced cirBTC, a wrapped bitcoin token that will bring BTC onto EVM chains with Circle's institutional-grade custody and compliance infrastructure.
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Google just made AI inference a menu you can order from, and that changes the economics of shipping agents. Google launched two new Gemini API tiers: Flex (cheaper, slower) and Priority (faster, premium pricing)
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Y Combinator's CEO bragged about shipping 37,000 lines of AI code per day. A developer cracked it open and found exactly what you'd expect from AI without adult supervision.
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