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onMarch 12, 2026

Handshake58 Launches on Bittensor Subnet 58: $0.0001 Micropayments for AI Agents Using Polygon USDC and Zero-Gas Vouchers

The AI industry spent 2025 building agents that can reason, plan, and act—but forgot to give them wallets. Handshake58 just shipped the…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 10, 2026

Florida Senate Approves AI Bill of Rights on March 4—First State to Ban Government AI Contracts, Mandate Chatbot Age Verification, and Restrict User Data Sales

Florida just made chatbots a controlled substance for minors. The March 4 Senate vote creates a regulatory framework that treats AI companies…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 7, 2026

31 Companies Hit Unicorn Status in January 2026—Highest Monthly Count Since June 2022, Adding $58.5B in Valuation

The funding winter ended two months ago and most of the industry missed it. Fifty-four companies crossed the billion-dollar threshold in…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 5, 2026

Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.5 with 100-Agent Swarm Feature—Trained on 15 Trillion Tokens, Beats GPT-5.2 on Coding and Video Benchmarks

The AI scaling wars just took an unexpected turn: a Chinese startup released a model that orchestrates 100 parallel agents instead of chasing…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 26, 2026

SpaceX Acquires xAI for $250 Billion—Largest Private Acquisition in History Creates $1.25 Trillion AI-Space Infrastructure Giant

Elon Musk just closed the largest private acquisition in history—and it’s not about rockets or AI. It’s about escaping…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 25, 2026

Higgsfield Hits $1.3B Valuation with $200M ARR Just 9 Months After Launch—Ex-Snap AI Lead’s Video Generator Reaches 15M Users Creating 4.5M Videos Daily

A consumer video app just hit unicorn status in 9 months by betting on something counterintuitive: 85% of its 15 million users are…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 24, 2026

University of Montreal Study Proves AI Beats Average Humans on Creativity Tests—But Top 10% Still Outperform GPT-4

The world’s largest creativity study just revealed an uncomfortable truth: half of humanity is now less creative than a language model.…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 15, 2026

Ilya Sutskever’s SSI Raises $1B+ at $30B Valuation With Zero Revenue—6x Jump in 5 Months Redefines AI Investment Logic

A company with no product, no customers, and no revenue just received a $30 billion valuation. Safe Superintelligence proves that in 2025, the…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 12, 2026

Loblaw Integrates PC Express Into ChatGPT—First Canadian Grocer to Turn Conversational AI Into Direct Sales Channel

Canada’s largest grocery chain just embedded its entire commerce stack inside a chatbot. Loblaw’s PC Express integration with…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 9, 2026

Pentagon’s GenAI.mil Platform Hits 1.1 Million Military Users as 5 of 6 Branches Make It Primary AI Tool

The U.S. military just completed the largest enterprise AI deployment in history, and almost nobody in tech noticed. While Fortune 500…

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