Coinbase said in a Wednesday blog post that it is rolling out "Agentic Wallets," infrastructure built to let autonomous AI agents hold funds, send payments, trade tokens, earn yield, and transact onchain. The tool initially supports EVM chains and Solana, offers gasless transactions on Base Layer 2, and adds security guardrails and a CLI for management.

Google has introduced a feature that lets users purchase products directly within Search and Gemini AI, including items from retailers such as Walmart, Wayfair and Etsy. The system, which includes new ad formats and Direct Offers with real-time discounts, is part of Google's AI Mode and is being expanded through partnerships with Shopify, Walmart and Target to support full checkout, payments and digital identity.

On February 11, 2026, Cloudflare shares were up 12% for the week after topping Q4 estimates and lifting guidance. The company reported $615 million in revenue, up 34% year over year, and $0.28 EPS versus $0.27 expected, and projected Q1 revenue of $620–$621 million and full‑year $2.79–$2.80 billion as AI demand accelerated.

South Korea’s exports climbed 44.4% year over year in the first 10 days of February to $21.4 billion as demand for semiconductors linked to artificial intelligence accelerated. Chip shipments reached $6.7 billion, up 137.6%, while lawmakers enacted the AI Basic Act on January 30 addressing safety, deepfakes, misinformation, and mental health concerns.

On February 10, 2026, Alibaba released RynnBrain, an open-source embodied AI designed to enable robots to operate in physical environments. Trained on Qwen3‑VL, it comes in versions starting at 2 billion parameters and is available on GitHub and Hugging Face. Alibaba says the model surpassed Google's Gemini Robotics‑ER 1.5 and Nvidia's Cosmos‑Reason2 in benchmark evaluations.

On February 9, 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared updated views on how Ethereum could become an economic infrastructure for AGI-related activity, enabling autonomous agents to transact and coordinate. He highlighted ERC-8004, zero-knowledge payments, and local LLM tooling as ways to support trust-minimized AI interactions, while also criticizing Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko for what he called an overly narrow focus on AGI. Buterin further argued that Ethereum and AGI should be guided by aligned philosophical principles, emphasizing human empowerment, security, and practical markets and governance reforms.

In a recent exchange on X, Elon Musk rejected allegations that U.S. government support underpins Tesla and SpaceX, asserting such assistance represents about 1% of their value. He responded to a user who alleged subsidies and contracts drive his success, as SpaceX also referenced $739 million in Pentagon launch awards and a potential mid‑2026 IPO.

Over the weekend, ByteDance rolled out its Seedance 2.0 video-generation tool to limited users on the Jimeng AI platform, triggering sharp gains of up to 20% for related Chinese media stocks. Alibaba Cloud developers also filed pull requests for the new multimodal Qwen-3.5 open-model family, featuring 9 billion and 35 billion parameter versions. Together these launches underscore intensifying competition among Chinese tech firms to release advanced AI products before the 2026 Lunar New Year.