For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a sweeping redesign of…
Google on Tuesday unveiled Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to work around the clock — drafting emails, assembling documents, monitoring inboxes, and eventually making purchases — even when a user’s laptop is closed and their phone is locked. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026, is the company’s most ambitious attempt yet to…
The Blocknative website now returns a post noting that the firm is “now in the process of ceasing operations.” Source: www.theblock.co Read Full Story
Analysts at Benchmark, TD Cowen, and Mizuho hold buy ratings on Bitdeer, Strive, DeFi Technologies, and Gemini amid infra and markets pivots. Source: www.theblock.co Read Full Story
The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI has ended in a win for the company he co-founded, following a jury decision. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at Google I/O…
DefiLlama’s RWA category data puts the RWA tokenization market near $30 billion on-chain, with only $2.47 billion appearing as DeFi active TVL, the value actually deposited or pooled inside third-party DeFi protocols the platform tracks. The rest of the tokenized real-world assets market sits outside the lending markets and collateral vaults that make crypto assets…
A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it — could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Capital B said it raised a total of $20 million from three capital increase contracts, involving Blockstream CEO Adam Back. Source: www.theblock.co Read Full Story
Michael Saylor signaled another Bitcoin buy on Sunday while urging retail investors to vote on a proxy measure enabling semi-monthly STRC dividend payouts. Source: cointelegraph.com Read Full Story