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Circle’s announcement that it will expand USDC into roughly 40 emerging and developing markets — spanning Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East — marks a significant inflection point for how dollar-pegged digital currencies are being positioned. CEO Jeremy A…
In the span of a single year, autonomous AI agents have made more than 138 million crypto payments—the vast majority worth less than a dime—through Coinbase’s x402 protocol on Base. According to a new Chainalysis report, the number of agentic transactions exploded from around 1,…
Coinbase, which holds about 5% of
A new crypto exchange called MNX launched today, built on the MegaETH blockchain and backed by former Manifold executives, offering futures contracts tied to the future valuations of private AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. The concept is straightforward: let t…
A new benchmark called Real-SWE arrives today from Specific Labs, and it shifts the ground under how we measure AI’s ability to write code. Unlike existing tests that draw from public GitHub repositories, Real-SWE evaluates frontier models on private, real-world enterprise codeb…
A new CVE-2026-85046 is actively being exploited in the wild — a sandbox escape and remote code execution that affects every Chromium-based browser. The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to Google, which fixed it and paid the researcher a $1,000 bounty. As one Hacker News…
On 1 September 2026, Google reached a milestone that has been years in the making: all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store. Among them was uBlock Origin, one of the most effective and widely trusted content blockers ever built for the browser.…
A bird identification system running silently on a home server. A walkable cyberpunk city crafted entirely from letters and symbols in a single HTML file. A weathered phone booth on a desert playa that lets strangers call anyone in the world for free. At first glance, these are …
For a while I’ve been playing around with Mu - an open source project that provides tools for agents behind one MCP server and app.
Ten years ago I started a company called Micro. The idea was simple: standardise the building blocks of software so developers could share infrastructure the way Google does internally. Open source, open standards, open APIs. A kind of lego system for the internet.
Mu is a set of everyday services you own — news, mail, markets, weather, and the rest — with an agent that drives them. But not everything belongs in the core. You shouldn’t have to fork Mu to get a bookmarks tool, a reading list, or whatever small thing fits your day. That’s wh…
Google’s commitment to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic represents more than just another Silicon Valley funding round — it exposes the staggering infrastructure costs that will define AI’s next phase. The deal, structured as $10 billion upfront with $30 billion continge…
OpenAI’s release of GPT-5.5 marks a significant shift in how we think about artificial intelligence development. Unlike previous model releases focused primarily on raw capability improvements, GPT-5.5 positions itself as “a new class of intelligence for real work” — emphasizing…
Privacy vulnerabilities rarely arrive with warning labels, and the latest Firefox bug that allowed law enforcement to extract deleted Signal messages highlights just how fragile our digital safety nets really are. These aren’t theoretical attack vectors — they’re real-world expl…
The announcement that SpaceX has secured an option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion — or pay $10 billion for partnership work — represents more than another tech acquisition. This deal illuminates how AI development has evolved from experimental tooling into…
Apple’s appointment of John Ternus as the next CEO represents more than a routine succession — it marks a deliberate return to engineering-driven leadership at a company that has increasingly resembled a services and financial products conglomerate. Ternus, who has spent 25 year…
The Vercel security incident that emerged on April 19th tells a story familiar to anyone who’s worked in modern development environments. A third-party AI tool called Context.ai was compromised, leading to unauthorized access to Vercel’s internal systems and potentially customer…
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have achieved something that sounds almost too good to be true — creating lasers on silicon chips that can produce any wavelength of light from ultraviolet through near-infrared. These fingernail-sized circuits rep…
Anthropic’s launch of Claude Design this week marks another step in AI systems handling increasingly complex tasks — but it also highlights a fundamental challenge that’s quietly shaping the future of software development. As AI agents become more capable of writing and modifyin…
Newly unsealed court documents in Amazon’s antitrust battle with California reveal something significant about how modern tech platforms actually work. The allegations center on Amazon requiring third-party sellers to maintain higher prices on competing platforms — essentially u…