Year: 2026

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model on April 24, explicitly optimized for Huawei’s Ascend chip platform, on the same day the White House accused China…

Summary Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, starting with a $10 billion cash injection at a $350 billion valuation and a further $30 billion contingent on…

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, its newest frontier model and the company’s most capable agentic system to date, designed to accept a messy multi-part task and plan, execute, and…

BridgeTower Capital has officially adopted Chainlink’s full infrastructure stack to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, making it one of the largest live production…

Pi Network co-founder Nicolas Kokkalis will take the stage at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 7, joining a panel titled “How to Prove You’re Human in an AI World…

DeFi heavyweights urge the SEC to turn its temporary “non‑custodial UI” safe harbor into binding broker rules that shield neutral infrastructure from creeping regulation. Summary The Humanity Foundation has overhauled…

US banking groups have escalated their campaign against the CLARITY Act by calling Senate offices directly, with the North Carolina Bankers Association confirmed on April 18 to be urging member…

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have logged eight consecutive days of net inflows totaling $2.1 billion through April 23, the longest inflow streak since the nine-day October 2025 run that carried…

ECB teams with ECPC, nexo and Berlin Group to reuse open payment standards, cutting digital euro integration costs and clearing the path to a 2027 pilot, 2029 launch. Summary The…

Nakamoto Inc. is running an actively managed options program with Bitwise and Kraken, writing covered calls and buying puts on part of its Bitcoin stack to turn volatility into income…