Sierra's first M&A folds Fragment's transformer-based semantic routing into its customer-service agent platform, with both Paris co-founders joining. A signal of AI-agent consolidation in Europe.
Succinct Labs' new iPhone app hashes photos and videos at capture, producing a tamper-proof signature tied to the device — an anti-deepfake tool built on zero-knowledge cryptography.
Dreamspace lets users generate, audit, and deploy smart contracts plus front ends without code. Built on Azure AI Foundry, defaulting to Base and supporting any EVM chain.
Meta is cutting 10% of its workforce and killing 6,000 open roles to offset Superintelligence Labs spend. 2026 capex guidance rises to $115B–$135B, up from $72B in 2025.
Forge Global CEO Kelly Rodriques confirms Anthropic shares clear the $1 trillion mark on secondary markets — ahead of OpenAI's $880B — after revenue run-rate jumped from $9B to $30B in one quarter.
OpenAI's smartest model is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. API priced at $5 input / $30 output per million tokens, with a 1M context window and a GPT-5.5-pro tier at $30 / $180.
SpaceX has offered $60 billion for Cursor plus a $10 billion upfront AI collaboration fee, preempting Cursor's planned $50 billion fundraise hours before it was due to close.
Market maker GSR has launched its first ETF, the GSR Crypto Core3 (BESO) on Nasdaq: an actively managed multi-asset fund holding BTC, ETH and SOL with staking-income participation.
AngelList's new USVC fund is open to all U.S. investors regardless of accreditation, charges a flat 1% fee with no carry, and already holds stakes in xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and four other private companies.
Alameda bought 5% of Cursor's parent Anysphere for $200K in 2022. The FTX bankruptcy estate sold the stake in 2023 for the same $200K — worth roughly $3B at SpaceX's new $60B buyout offer.
On April 22, Hive Digital raised $115M via convertible notes for GPUs, and Keel Infrastructure closed its Paraguay mining facility sale for $13M, funneling proceeds into HPC/AI pipeline build-out.
OpenAI has hired six senior marketing executives from Coinbase over the past 18 months, including former Coinbase CMO Kate Rouch, who became OpenAI's first CMO in 2024.