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On March 17, 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff no‑action letter stating it will not seek broker‑registration enforcement against Phantom, the self‑custodial crypto‑wallet provider, for its planned derivatives‑trading interface. The decision applies to Phantom’s front‑end software that would let users view market data, track positions and send orders to registered exchanges, provided the company meets disclosure and compliance conditions.
In April 2025 the global foreign‑exchange derivatives market recorded an average daily turnover of $6.6 trillion, roughly twice the level seen in April 2013. The surge was driven by outright forwards and FX options, while FX swaps remained the largest segment....
Institutional investors and market makers are facing an unprecedented concentration of SPY put open interest ahead of the March 20, 2026 triple‑witching expiration. The imbalance, with over 100,000 contracts at strikes 660, 645 and even 520, dwarfs the thinner call...
On March 17, 2026, Bitcoin surged past $75,000, reaching $75,800, as traders unwound large short‑put positions and spot ETFs recorded record inflows. Market makers, highlighted by 10x Research founder Markus Thielen, bought spot BTC to rebalance exposure, while analysts at...
On March 18, 2026, three UK‑based rental PropTech firms—Arthur, Veyco and Just Move—announced a strategic partnership that stitches together the entire tenancy journey, from lease signing to utilities set‑up. The integration, delivered through Arthur’s dashboard, gives letting agents and landlords...
On March 18, 2026, Spicerhaart, one of the UK’s largest estate‑agency networks, announced the rollout of two AI‑powered solutions – Amplify and EchoIQ – across its national branches. The tools aim to sharpen CRM data usage and provide real‑time call...
On March 18, 2026, Knox Systems announced a $25 million Series A round led by a group of prominent venture firms. The funding will be used to scale its AI‑managed cloud platform that delivers FedRAMP compliance in 90 days at roughly 90% lower...
Yesterday, AI‑native construction platform Zero RFI announced a $13.8 million seed round led by General Catalyst. Founder and CEO KP Reddy will deploy the capital to acquire Brookwood Group, BuildingWorks and KP Reddy Co., creating a unified AI‑powered platform for owners...
TechBullion analyst Reeves Birner reports that the global PropTech market is expected to reach $44.59 billion in 2026. The forecast, released in a March 2026 article, highlights accelerating enterprise spending, tighter regulatory frameworks, and a growing talent pipeline as key drivers....
BriefCatch founder Ross Guberman unveiled RealityCheck, an authority‑verification tool, at Legalweek in New York on March 18, 2026. The software flags AI‑generated citation errors that plagued Gordon Rees in multiple filings last year, offering lawyers a color‑coded verification system before...
On March 17, 2026, Courtready, a Toronto‑based legal‑tech firm, released a study showing that Canadian courts have identified over 211 fabricated case citations across 42 courts and tribunals since January 2024. The findings, highlighted by co‑founder Tom Macintosh Zheng, led...
Steward, the AI‑driven AML and KYC platform founded by Arik Oslerne and Moshe Lieberman, announced a $5 million Series A round led by Motive Partners with participation from Outward VC, Cooley and several angels. The funding, disclosed today, will be used...
On March 17, 2026, LawClaw announced from New York its Citadel Protocol – a dedicated‑hardware, sovereign AI system built on the OpenClaw architecture for U.S. law firms and courts. Founder Stephen Soos highlighted the 2.3‑trillion‑parameter JurisGPT model and a limited‑license...
On March 17, 2026, Benchly and Servient announced a joint venture to launch legalgain, the first AI‑native legal research platform, at the Legalweek conference. The beta product promises outcome‑first research delivered through a consumption‑based pricing model, moving firms away from...
On March 18, 2026, Swedish health‑tech firm Aiforia announced the launch of the next generation of its CE‑IVD‑marked artificial‑intelligence solution for prostate cancer biopsy analysis. The tool, cleared for in‑vitro diagnostic use throughout the European Union, is positioned to accelerate...
On March 17, 2026 in Paris, Sensome partnered with Robocath to showcase a proof‑of‑concept where its Clotild smart guidewire was used with the R‑ONE robotic system and a next‑generation robot to detect and navigate clots in a silicone brain model,...
On March 18, 2026, Azara Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with MEDITECH to integrate its award‑winning DRVS population‑health analytics suite into MEDITECH’s Expanse electronic health‑record ecosystem. The alliance will enable tighter risk‑adjusted care management tools for providers using one of...
On March 17, 2026, health‑tech firm Equipo Health announced from its South Plainfield, New Jersey headquarters the launch of an embedded artificial‑intelligence ecosystem designed to operate directly within care‑management workflows. The platform promises real‑time insights, reduced care‑team burden, and stronger performance...
On March 18, 2026, Turquoise Health announced a $40 million Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Oak HC/FT. The San‑Francisco‑based fintech platform, founded by CEO Chris Severn, will use the capital to expand its operating‑system‑style suite that centralizes pricing,...
On Monday at the GPU Technology Conference in Santa Clara, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang unveiled a plan to give engineers token grants valued at roughly half of their annual base salary—potentially $100,000‑$150,000 per employee—to boost recruitment and productivity. The...
On March 18, 2026, Dutch HR‑tech startup WorkFlex announced it has raised €37 million in a funding round led by Spectrum Equity. The capital will fund European expansion of its AI‑powered platform that automates tax, immigration and labour‑law compliance for cross‑border...
Atlassian announced today that it will lay off 1,600 employees—about 10% of its global staff—to redirect spending toward artificial intelligence and enterprise sales. The move, highlighted by Arielle Executive’s Steven McConnell, has ignited warnings of a “chaos tsunami” in the...
Workday announced today that co‑founder Aneel Bhusri has returned as chief executive officer and simultaneously unveiled Sana, an agent‑building AI platform. The rollout includes pre‑built agents for onboarding, expense reporting, contract intelligence and more, and lets customers create custom agents...
Intel announced the Core Ultra 200HX Plus mobile processor family, including the 290HX Plus and 270HX Plus SKUs, in a press release today. The chips are built on an updated Arrow Lake architecture and target high‑performance laptops with discrete graphics....
Nvidia Corp. announced the BlueField‑4 STX reference architecture at its GTC developer event, unveiling a hardware blueprint for AI‑centric storage systems. The design, featuring the BlueField‑4 DPU, Spectrum‑X switches and ConnectX‑9 SuperNICs, is slated for partner shipments in the second...
On March 16, 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU and the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at the company’s GTC 2026 conference. The new hardware stack is designed to handle tens of thousands of concurrent agentic AI instances across...
On March 16, 2026, Nvidia announced the Groq‑3 language‑processing unit and the Grace Vera CPU server at its GTC conference in San Jose. The new 3nm‑class inference chip, built on a $20 billion licensing deal with Groq Inc., is packaged in...
On Tuesday 17 March 2024, Britain’s Technology Secretary and the Chancellor announced a pioneering £2 billion "ProQure: Scaling UK Quantum Computing" programme, making the UK the first country to commit to large‑scale quantum computer procurement by the early 2030s. The initiative will...
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) signed a collaboration agreement to link JST's CRONOS research program with NICT's Integrated Testbed. The deal, announced in 2025, targets rapid development of...
On March 17, 2026, Puerto Rico’s government agencies and 68 municipalities gathered at the Granicus Client Conference in San Juan to announce a large‑scale digital transformation effort. The initiative, led by Granicus officials and local leaders such as deputy administrative...
On March 17, 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence announced the launch of Defence AI Centre “A1”, the first node in a planned network of technology centres of excellence. The initiative is backed by the United Kingdom and aims to accelerate...
On March 18, 2026, Lumikai announced a $1.5 million seed investment in NPrep, an AI‑powered education platform for India’s nursing workforce. The round, also joined by All In Capital, Velo Partners, DSP Group Family Office and angel investor Viren Shetty, aims to scale NPrep’s...
On March 15, OpenAI hosted an invitation‑only Education Summit in San Francisco, drawing roughly 100 senior executives from universities across the United States, Europe and Asia. Attendees—including presidents, chancellors, provosts, CIOs and government officials—debated responsible AI deployment, governance frameworks, and...
On March 18, 2026, Ohio State University announced a partnership with central Ohio school districts to expand its AI literacy initiative, bringing K‑12 teachers and administrators to the Columbus campus for workshops on ethical and effective AI use. The effort,...
Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome announced this week a partnership with Google to embed artificial‑intelligence tools across its teaching, research and administrative functions, establishing a new Teaching & Learning Innovation Hub.
On March 18, 2026, Microsoft announced the launch of an AI for Good Lab in Montevideo, Uruguay, in partnership with the Uruguayan government. The lab, located at the LATU Innovation Park, is led by Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Microsoft’s Corporate...
UiPath and Deloitte announced today, via a joint press release, the launch of an Agentic ERP platform that integrates autonomous AI agents with traditional RPA bots across ERP workflows. The solution, built on UiPath Maestro and featuring the UiPath AI...
Accenture and Databricks announced a strategic expansion of their partnership, unveiling the Accenture Databricks Business Group to accelerate AI application and agent deployment for enterprises worldwide. The joint effort, announced from New York and San Francisco 11 hours ago, bundles...
Cisco Systems and NVIDIA announced today a joint Secure AI Factory that lets enterprises move AI models from data‑center pilots to production across cloud, edge and sovereign environments. The framework, unveiled in a joint press event, integrates Cisco’s UCS, Nexus...
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud arm of Alibaba Group, launched a new AI platform for Chinese enterprises on March 18, 2024, as the domestic market for AI agents experiences rapid expansion. The service, built on Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen large‑language model, offers...
On March 18, 2026, IBM announced the completion of its acquisition of Confluent, a leading data‑streaming platform, signaling a strategic move to make real‑time data the core of its enterprise AI and agent offerings.
On March 18, 2026, Nvidia unveiled OpenClaw, an agentic AI personal assistant that amassed over 250,000 GitHub stars in less than four months, overtaking React as the most‑starred non‑aggregator project. The launch, announced at GTC 2026 in San Jose, drew...
On March 18, 2026, Checkmarx announced a redesigned Checkmarx One platform that adds autonomous AI security agents for DevOps teams. The rollout, detailed by CEO Sandeep Johri, introduces Triage Assist, Remediation Assist, AI Supply Chain Security, AI‑enhanced SAST and DAST...
On March 18, 2026, GitGuardian released its fifth State of Secrets Sprawl report, revealing an 81% year‑over‑year surge in AI‑service credential leaks and a total of roughly 29 million secrets exposed on public GitHub repositories. The findings, presented by CEO Eric Fourrier,...
On March 17, 2026, Chainguard announced Chainguard Actions, a suite of secure‑by‑default CI/CD workflows that protect software supply chains for developers and AI coding agents. The product integrates with popular pipelines such as GitHub Actions and is backed by the...
On March 18, 2026, Samsung Ventures led a €12 million equity round in Irish energy‑tech company GridBeyond. The investment adds Samsung to existing shareholders Alantra’s Energy Transition Fund, Klima, Energy Impact Partners, Mirova and ABB, and is intended to accelerate GridBeyond’s...
U.S. nuclear startup Oklo received its first license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an advanced micro‑reactor, marking the company’s inaugural regulatory clearance in the United States. The approval was announced within the past 24 hours and applies to Oklo’s...
Partech, the Paris‑headquartered venture firm, announced the final close of its debut €300 million Impact Fund this week, aiming to back up to 15 European B2B climate‑tech scaleups with revenues above €10 million. The fund is backed by investors such as Bpifrance,...
On Tuesday, March 17, 2026, San Antonio‑based Victory Capital submitted a fresh offer for London‑listed Janus Henderson Group, proposing $40 per share in cash and a 0.25‑share exchange, which would give Victory roughly 31% of the combined firm. The bid...
On March 16, 2026, UniCredit SpA announced an exchange‑offer to raise its ownership of Germany’s Commerzbank AG from roughly 28% to just over the 30% trigger level under German takeover law. The deal, priced at €30.80 per Commerzbank share—a 4%...
