Highlights from CES 2026: The Shift From Smart Devices to Intelligent Systems
CES 2026 is about intelligence moving into the physical world.
Artificial intelligence in business and finance: the companies, the money and the tools.
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CES 2026 is about intelligence moving into the physical world.
Nvidia, the backbone of global AI infrastructure, is signaling that AI demand is accelerating — not plateauing. Productivity is scaling faster than expected, and the long-running “AI bubble” narrative is starting to fade.
CertiK, the world’s largest Web3 security services provider, and YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) have announced a strategic partnership that establishes a $1 million audit grant program for all participants in YZi Labs' EASY Residency Incubation Program.
A 2025 recap of how BitRobot moved from hypothesis to live network—launching subnets, deploying real-world robots, and generating open datasets that validate decentralized infrastructure for open robotics research.
If there were still doubts about whether the AI boom has real legs, Nvidia just put them to rest. The company is forecasting $65 billion in revenue for fiscal Q4 2026 — a number that doesn’t just beat expectations, but reframes how large AI infrastructure spending is becoming.
The financial year of 2025 will undoubtedly be recorded in economic history as a watershed moment for the global silver market, marking the definitive decoupling of the metal from its traditional tether to gold and speculative paper derivatives to be repriced as a critical strategic industrial asset.
As of Q4 2024, over 71% of companies have adopted generative AI in some form or the other, leading to a whopping 115.15% percentage increase in the technology’s use over a twelve month span. However, as everyone can imagine, this jump in adoption has created an unprecedented appetite for computing power, with industry experts suggesting that this AI uptake has driven data centre requirements by at least ten times.
Meta’s acquisition of Singapore-based AI startup Manus isn’t just another big-tech AI deal. It’s a clear signal that the next phase of AI isn’t about better chatbots — it’s about agents that act, plan, and execute software on behalf of developers. (Cover photo: Manus team, Singapore Dec 2025)
The pledge reflects Hashgraph Ventures broader mandate to back high growth early-stage ventures that are building solutions across blockchain, AI, and deep technology
Prediction markets are good at one thing: aggregating opinions. They are still bad at another: agreeing on fair value.
Program offers free compute access and 20 million $IO tokens to empower startups, researchers, and developers building the future of AI
io.net, the leading DePIN for AI compute, today announced a transition in its tokenomics to a model focused on stability and long-term network health. The fundamental redesign, tested by CryptoEcon Lab, enables io.net to align stakeholder incentives and sets a foundation for sustained value accrual and network reliability.