Month: February 2026
OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.
Apple’s newest AirTags are already on sale if you’re looking to upgrade
The second-gen trackers look similar to the originals but come with a few welcome upgrades. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Less than a month after making their debut, Apple’s second-gen AirTags are already receiving their first discount. Right now, Costco members can buy five location trackers for $99.99 ($29 off) either … Read more
Meet ZexPRWire: HackerNoon’s Certified Business Blogging Partner
We are back with another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike. This week, we are proud to present ZexPRWire, a powerhouse in the PR distribution … Read more
Trump crypto company says ‘coordinated attack‘ on stablecoin failed
The price of World Liberty Financial’s token dipped about 7% early on Monday, later reported to be the result of a social media and short-seller attack.
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.
Solana Company starts building high-speed infrastructure to prepare SOL for next ‘super cycle’
The initiative targets institutional demand across Asia-Pacific, offering DeFi tools, liquid staking, and execution services designed for traditional finance firms entering the crypto space.
Mystery Hong Kong investor in BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF breaks silence after $436 million stake sparks controversy
A spokesperson for Laurore said the $436 million IBIT stake “reflects personal investment conviction,” as records link it to a mainland China passport holder.
How Sonrai uses Amazon SageMaker AI to accelerate precision medicine trials
In precision medicine, researchers developing diagnostic tests for early disease detection face a critical challenge: datasets containing thousands of potential biomarkers but only hundreds of patient samples. This curse of dimensionality can determine the success or failure of breakthrough discoveries. Modern bioinformatics use multiple omic modalities—genomics, lipidomics, proteomics, and metabolomics—to develop early disease detection tests. … Read more
The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app that shares multiple predictions
Acme Weather is currently only available for iOS. | Image: Acme Weather Corporation After selling their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, where some of its core features were incorporated into Apple Weather, the creators of Dark Sky have left Apple to create yet another alternative. Their new app, called Acme Weather, embraces … Read more
Accelerating AI model production at Hexagon with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
This blog post was co-authored with Johannes Maunz, Tobias Bösch Borgards, Aleksander Cisłak, and Bartłomiej Gralewicz from Hexagon. Hexagon is the global leader in measurement technologies and provides the confidence that vital industries rely on to build, navigate, and innovate. From microns to Mars, Hexagon’s solutions drive productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability across aerospace, agriculture, … Read more
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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Continues ETH Selling Spree
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has been selling ETH in the last few days as the second-largest crypto asset continues its fall.
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Crypto.com Secures Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank Charter
Another prominent crypto firm has secured a bank charter from the OCC, with Crypto.com joining Circle, Ripple, and others.
ProShares GENIUS ETF’s $17B debut boosts case for tokenized money market funds
IQMM’s historic first-day launch underscores how traditional cash funds are adapting to compete in a stablecoin-driven landscape following the passage of the GENIUS Act.
Bitcoin rebound fades as software and private equity rout drags stocks and crypto lower
Crypto has been nearly perfectly correlated with a key software sector ETF, and that gauge has tumbled another 5% Monday to a new 52-week low.
Polygon Crosses $29.8 Billion in Monthly Stablecoin Volume: A Deep Dive Into Web3 Payments
What does it look like when a blockchain starts processing more payment volume than mid-sized banks? While most of the crypto conversation in early 2026 has centered on Bitcoin ETF flows, meme coin cycles, and AI agent tokens, Polygon just posted numbers that no other blockchain matched. The network moved $29.8 billion in stablecoin volume … Read more
Trump-Backed Stablecoin Briefly Slips as World Liberty Claims ‘Coordinated Attack’
The company’s native token, WLFI, also fell 7% around the same time that its stablecoin, USD1, briefly fell below a dollar peg.
Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to
AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.
Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets
Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.