According to a Google DeepMind official blog announcement, Google launched a new generation of autonomous research agents, Deep Research and Deep Research Max, on April 21, 2026. They are built on Gemini 3.1 Pro, as the official release following the preview version provided through the Interactions API in December 2025. Both agents are now available in the paid tiers of the Gemini API in the form of a public preview, and new startups and enterprise users on Google Cloud will be able to connect gradually. The two variants are positioned differently: interactive vs asynchronous depth Google categorizes the two agents by use case: Deep Research

Vercel’s official account announced on April 21, 2026 that, after a joint verification with GitHub, Microsoft, npm, and Socket, it confirmed that all packages Vercel published on npm had not been tampered with and that the supply chain remains secure. A security advisory updated the same day stated that, in this incident, the data that was leaked was customer environment variables that were not marked as “sensitive”; after being decrypted in the backend, they were stored in plaintext form.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson reminded the U.S. to develop a debt-crisis contingency plan in advance to deal with a potential collapse in U.S. Treasury securities. He worries that the fiscal deficit will form a “death spiral,” with debt possibly reaching 108% of GDP by 2030. But former Federal Reserve trader Wang believes a Treasury crisis will not occur; the real threat is a collapse of the U.S. dollar’s credit and runaway inflation. Although the two viewpoints differ, both point out that U.S. fiscal risk will ultimately show up.

Virginia passes a new law requiring that dormant or unclaimed crypto assets be kept in their original form for at least one year, to prevent immediate conversion into fiat currency. The law is intended to protect the rights of holders, prevent losses caused by liquidation, and reflects the growing recognition among states regarding how to handle crypto assets.

Author: Nancy, PANews Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity remains the mystery that has continued in the crypto world for 17 years. Speculation about this pseudonym has never stopped—from cryptographers to corporate founders, various candidates have been brought up in turn, but there has always been a lack of evidence strong enough to settle the matter once and for all. Recently, The New York Times published a long-form investigation of more than 10,000 words. Based on multiple comparisons drawn from language style, technical pathways, and historical context, it ranked Blockstream CEO Adam Back as the strongest candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto. However, this claim was quickly and clearly denied by Back himself, and the relevant arguments were widely questioned across the industry as being hard to support. The dispute over Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity reignites as the long-form investigation targets Adam Back In this investigation, New York Times reporter John Carreyrou spent more than a year thoroughly sifting through decades of archives, as well as the cypherpunk email list to

_Stablecoins processed $28T in 2025 and could scale to $1.5 quadrillion as adoption and wealth shifts accelerate._ Stablecoins are moving beyond crypto trading into real economic activity at a rapid pace. Payments, remittances, and settlements now form a growing share of on-chain volume. New

In the latest episode of Silicon Valley’s well-known podcast 《All-In Podcast》, a heated debate unfolds around topics such as AI safety, Anthropic’s model release strategy, competition among open-source agents, and the AI commercialization boom. The show invites Brad Gerstner, founder of the investment firm Altimeter, as a guest, where he clashes with the hosts David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and others. The episode first focuses on the unreleased incident involving Anthropic’s latest model, “Mythos.” According to the company, in testing the model can automatically discover vulnerabilities across operating systems and browsers, and can even link multiple weaknesses together to form an attack path. As a result, Dario Amodei’s team chose to delay the release, and in conjunction with including

The cryptocurrency market is currently experiencing selective volatility because macroeconomic signals are being dwarfed by project-specific catalysts. Today, CoinMarketCap is revealing a fascinating trend in the form of growing numbers of “legacy” privacy protocols, alongside new and emerging

Differing views leaves crypto community in disarray. Bearish vs bullish BTC price expectations are discussed.  Price indicators support the possibility for either outcome. The crypto community continues to face challenges in the form of heated discussions between bullish and bearish

Polarise has joined forces with UXLINK to create a strategic partnership within the rapidly changing world of decentralized finance and social gaming. Together, they will create an incentive for early adopters in the form of limited-edition PolariseCards. This partnership seeks to leverage Synergy