How AI Is Reshaping Cloud SecurityAI is no longer a standalone tool, it is now core infrastructure and over 80% of organizations are using AI across cloud environments, development workflows, and production systems.This report reveals how AI adoption is expanding the attack surface, accelerating attacker behavior, and introducing new risks through agents, copilots, and automation.Get the data behind what's changing and what security teams need to do about it.Get the Report
OpenAI may be preparing legal action against Apple as it has failed to see the expected benefits from their two-year-old partnership. The startup has enlisted an outside legal firm to help with the situation. OpenAI had believed that the partnership would coax more users into subscribing to its services and had expected deeper integration into Apple's app ecosystem. It claims that Apple hasn't made an honest effort within the partnership. Apple is set to open up its platform to rival providers later this year.
Netflix's INKubator is an artist-led animation incubator that provides creators with an artist-focused environment to experiment in. It allows artists to explore how new tools and workflows can be leveraged to enhance their storytelling capabilities alongside traditional animation creative processes. The studio launched quietly in March. It will focus on creating animated shorts and specials using experimental GenAI-native production pipelines.
Ouster's new Rev8 sensor family fuses color directly into every point of data, making it the first LIDAR with native color. The flagship model of the Rev8 family, the OS1 Max, has a detection range of up to 200 meters at 10% reflectivity, and up to 500 meters under optimal conditions. The sensor can handle lighting conditions from near-total darkness to intense direct sunlight. Early adopters of Ouster's technology include Google, Volvo, Skydio, PlusAI, and Seegrid.
Figure AI claims that its humanoid robots can now run full eight-hour shifts autonomously. The company's Helix-02 system allows humanoid robots to walk, manipulate objects, balance, and coordinate movement continuously using onboard sensors. It supports multi-robot collaboration. The unified neural network combines vision, touch, proprioception, and whole-body control into a single learning system designed for long-horizon tasks in dynamic environments. It enables robots to complete multi-minute tasks without resets or human intervention.
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/goal is becoming a primitive for coding agents. The feature gives coding workers jobs with a defined done state. With /goal, users write down what 'done' looks like, and agents work towards it until it gets there. The feature appeared in OpenAI's Codex CLI a few weeks ago, and Claude Code just added it this week.
fate is a data client for React that combines view composition, normalized caching, data masking, Async React features, and type-safe data fetching. It is designed to make data fetching and state management in React applications more composable, declarative, and predictable. The framework is just JavaScript and has a minimal API and no DSL. fate helps developers avoid overfetching, stop passing unnecessary data down the tree, and eliminate boilerplate types secreted solely for passing server data to child components.
Memory prices could move from 15% to 40% of the bill of materials for Apple devices. Apple operates at an enormous scale, and each of its products consumes some memory. When dealing with this kind of scale, there's usually a couple of years of lead time. The spike in demand for memory has disrupted this pipeline. Apple still has a lot of room to negotiate price, and the whole situation could end up with Apple gaining a lot of market share.
Security researchers claim to have discovered a way to circumvent Apple's security technology by using techniques they discovered while testing an early version of Anthropic's Mythos AI model in April. Their privilege escalation exploit links together two bugs and a handful of methods to gain unauthorized access. Apple is currently reviewing the researchers' findings. The attack required human cybersecurity expertise and could not have been pulled off by Mythos alone. The researchers plan to release details of the attack once Apple has patched the underlying issues.
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The DwarfStar 4 project will focus on quality benchmarks, potentially adding a coding agent, a local hardware setup that can run CI tests to ensure long-term quality, more ports, and distributed inference (both serial and parallel).
It looked like Saturday night would be very bad. Sentry's Head of AI, Indragie, was online when Seer, Sentry's AI debugger, had started failing. The issue was an upstream infra outage on the provider's side - but there was no way to figure that out without digging into dashboards. So Indragie pulled up a new tool: Seer Agent. He told it what he was seeing and waited for the answer.It came in seconds. Seer fixed Seer.Read the blog to get the full story.Curious? See how it works in the live webinar on May 19th
Grok Build is a coding agent that runs from the terminal. It is now in early beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. AGENTS.md, plugin, hooks, skills, and MCP servers all work out of the box. Grok Build supports subagents for larger tasks, and it also supports deep worktree integrations, so users can launch subagents in their own worktrees. There is a headless mode that allows the easy running of agents inside scripts and automations.
Cursor detailed a new system for configuring cloud-based development environments tailored to autonomous coding agents. It supports multi-repo, environment configuration as code, automated setup workflows, and governance controls for managing fleets of parallel agents.
Bloomberg reported that OpenAI explored legal options against Apple over dissatisfaction with how deeply ChatGPT was integrated into Apple's ecosystem and the limited subscriber growth that followed.
Anthropic outlines two possible 2028 global AI leadership scenarios: one where the US retains its compute advantage and shapes AI norms, and another where China competes closely due to policy inaction. The US currently leads due to strong export controls and advanced chip technology preventing China from keeping pace. Closing loopholes on compute access and restricting distillation attacks are crucial for maintaining the US lead and ensuring democracies shape AI governance.
There are two ways to sandbox an agent that can execute code: isolate the tool or isolate the agent. Agents should have nothing worth stealing and nothing worth reserving. Isolating the agent requires an extra network hop on every operation and more services to deploy, but there are no secrets to steal, no state to preserve, and agents can be killed, restarted, and scaled independently.
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Codex has implemented hooks and programmatic tokens to make it easier to automate and customize code. Hooks can customize the Codex loop with scripts that run at key points in a task. Programmatic access provides scoped credentials for Business and Enterprise teams. A video showing how to create access tokens for Codex automations is available.
Raindrop Workshop gives Claude Code the ability to read traces, write evals against codebases, and fix what's broken. It provides livestreamed traces, coding-agent integration, a self-healing eval loop, and local replay. Raindrop Workshop is compatible with TypeScript, Python, Go, and Rust, and most popular SDKs, providers, and coding agents.
Genkit is a framework for building full-stack, AI-powered and agentic applications for any platform. It supports TypeScript, Go, Dart, and Python. Genkit uses composable hooks that intercept generation calls to implement retries and fall-backs for maximum reliability, human approval before destructive tool calls, and observability across every layer. Its middleware system runs a tool loop that repeats until the model is done. The Genkit Developer can be used to inspect, test, and debug applications and middleware execution.
Asynchronous batching can reduce idle time between CPU and GPU cycles, improving GPU utilization for inference by 22%. By using CUDA streams and events, CPU tasks prepare batch N+1 during batch N's GPU computation, eliminating idle gaps. This method yields more efficient GPU operations without changing kernels or models, enhancing generation speed substantially.
Microsoft signed a deal with OpenAI late April that amended the company's exclusive license to OpenAI models, freed OpenAI to sell on any other cloud, and removed the AGI clause that would have triggered changes to Microsoft's IP rights once OpenAI's board declared the threshold reached. Microsoft's IP license, a 27% stake worth roughly $135 billion, will be kept through 2032. Microsoft is reportedly looking to purchase Inception, a company that builds diffusion-based language models. It is interesting that Microsoft would spend $13 billion on a partner and then immediately start a shadow procurement process for a replacement.
SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent across coding, world models, and Grok voice. Rivals like Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are scooping up former staff. Elon Musk's culture of extreme work has led some staff to leave. Several of the exits could have been driven by a desire to cash out.
Nvidia has announced a partnership with Ineffable Intelligence, a startup pursuing superintelligence that was founded in late 2025 by UCL professor and former lead of DeepMind's reinforcement learning team, David Silver.
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The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the 11th Federal Reserve chair in a 54-45 vote, replacing Jerome Powell, whose term expires Friday. The near-party-line tally, only Sen. John Fetterman crossed the aisle, reflects deep partisan tension over Fed independence, which peaked when the DOJ briefly opened a criminal probe into the central bank before dropping it. Warsh has argued rates have room to fall but pledged to set monetary policy on his own judgment, not at White House direction. His first FOMC meeting as chair is scheduled for June 16 to 17.
The Bank of England is walking back its strict stablecoin backing rules following pressure from the crypto industry. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said the BoE is "genuinely open to other ways" of managing the risk of rapid deposit flight from banks into stablecoins. Under the revised framework, systemic issuers can hold up to 60% of reserves in short-term UK government debt, with launch-phase issuers allowed up to 95% initially, rather than the heavier unremunerated central bank deposit requirements originally proposed. The BoE will finalize codes of practice later in 2026 after reviewing consultation feedback.
ERC-8183, the Agentic Commerce Protocol co-authored by the Ethereum Foundation and Virtuals, defines a minimal on-chain job escrow for autonomous agent-to-agent transactions with a standardized lifecycle (Open, Funded, Submitted, and Terminal) and distinct roles for client, provider, and evaluator. The protocol's optional hook system lets developers attach IERC8183Hook contracts with beforeAction/afterAction callbacks at job creation, layering logic such as reputation gating, auctions, or privacy controls without touching the core escrow state machine. PRXVT has contributed an official PrivacyHook to the ERC-8183 hooks repository, enabling privacy-preserving settlement flows for agent interactions involving proprietary models, confidential strategies, or private user data. The protocol's optional reason field in evaluator attestations integrates with ERC-8004's on-chain agent reputation system.
IRIS Credit introduces a fixed-rate credit aggregation layer that lets solvers manage loan liabilities dynamically across multiple DeFi lending venues. This mirrors how banks continuously adjust funding sources to optimize cost and control risk. Rather than anchoring borrowers to a static rate at a single protocol, solvers can refinance across venues, rebalance positions, and capture rate differentials throughout a loan's lifecycle. The intent-based model abstracts away single-venue constraints, unlocking pricing logic far closer to institutional TradFi fixed-rate financing.
Every major payments incumbent shipped an agent commerce product in 2025, including Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol with OpenAI, Visa's Agentic Ready, and Mastercard's $1.8B BVNK acquisition, but these products route agent spending through virtual card credentials designed for human-initiated transactions, a model that breaks at the agent-to-agent micro-transaction layer where fractions of a cent settle thousands of times per minute. Stablecoins address that constraint through programmable balances, sub-second settlement, and no chargeback overhead, a thesis backed by Circle's Agent Stack (USDC-funded wallets with CLI integrations for Codex and Claude Code), Stripe's $1.1B Bridge acquisition, and Coinbase's x402 protocol accelerating from $80K over 18 months to $3M in seven days. The coordination layer of agentic checkouts will be commoditized by Stripe and Circle, placing the durable margin opportunities at the rails layer (x402), agent identity infrastructure anchored by ERC-8004, and financial services products, including credit, insurance, and yield, built on top of agent payment flows. The x402 demand inflection signals the market moving from experimental to production-grade stablecoin settlement, compressing the window for purpose-built agent payment infrastructure.
Coinbase's share of Circle's USDC revenue rose from 17.8% in Q1 2022 to roughly 50% today under the Collaboration Agreement, which pays Coinbase 100% of yield on USDC held in its products plus 50% of off-platform balance yield, with Q1 2026 average Coinbase-held USDC reaching a $19B ATH. The 3-year auto-renewing contract cannot be terminated while Product, Company, and Reseller thresholds are met, delivering issuer-like economics without issuer overhead, and the CLARITY Act further formalizes these regulated rails by positioning Coinbase's stablecoin franchise as the application layer of a regulated system rather than a retail trading adjunct. Treasury Secretary Bessent projects stablecoin market cap hitting $3T by 2030, roughly 10x current levels, with USDC gaining share against USDT in address-to-address payment transfers as a proxy for real-world payments adoption. Despite the market crediting Stripe ($159B valuation) and Tempo as agentic commerce winners, 92.8% of real agentic payments volume settles on Base, and 99.8% settles in USDC.
Strategy's STRC preferred stock, which carries an 11.5% contractual annual dividend, is now tokenized on-chain via xStocks, Apyx, and Saturn, breaking DeFi's two-year yield compression where Aave stablecoins pay 2% and Ethena sits below 4%. Apyx wraps STRC into its staked apyUSD token to concentrate the dividend before Pendle splits exposure into PT and YT, pushing PT-apyUSD to roughly 16% fixed APY, with 25%+ achievable when stacking liquidity incentives on top of the 4.5 percentage point spread over the base rate. Pendle generated $44.6M in 2025 protocol fees with fees up 41% in 30 days, RWA TVL at a new ATH of $151M, and every major yield-splitting competitor, including Element, APWine/Spectra, Sense, and Tempus, has shut down, cementing Pendle's monopoly in the sector.
USDC's transaction velocity is far outpacing its supply growth. Circulation reached $77B (+28% YoY) while onchain transaction volume hit $21.5T (+263% YoY), meaning each dollar is turning over dramatically more often. Base is the structural catalyst with the chain processing 62% of global onchain stablecoin volume in Q1 and with Solana also driving high-frequency USDC flows across swaps, payments, and DeFi. GENIUS Act and MiCA compliance are making USDC more institution-friendly, but the bigger story is distribution reach across high-throughput chains positioning USDC as a primary dollar payment rail for onchain activity.
Polygon is processing 48% of all APAC non-USD stablecoin volume and 69% of LatAm, while ranking #1 in USDC active addresses across all chains and #3 in USDT.
Commonware and Coinbase are co-leading Route 66, an initiative that builds shared standards, libraries, and tooling to cut the cost and time wallets, exchanges, and custodians spend integrating new chains with novel cryptography and frequent protocol updates.