Nvidia said Tuesday after the market close it signed a multiyear agreement to deliver millions of AI chips to Meta, spanning Blackwell GPUs, forthcoming Rubin parts, and Grace/Vera CPUs. By 5:25 AM EST Wednesday, NVDA traded at $188.40 in premarket, up 1.85% after a 1.20% regular-session gain, as investors assessed the expanded data center footprint.

BNB Chain introduced support for ERC-8004 and BAP-578 to advance agent identity and application standards amid weak market sentiment. Earlier this month, it deployed ERC-8004 on BSC Mainnet and Testnet, and by February 17 the AI Agent ecosystem counted 58 projects. The initiative has also drawn over 200 builders in an ongoing hackathon focused on AI and on-chain actions.

On February 18 2026, Nvidia confirmed a multiyear, multigenerational agreement with Meta to provide Blackwell and Rubin GPUs alongside Grace and future Vera CPUs for AI data centers. The partnership covers training and inference systems, networking, and hyperscale data centers, with Meta planning to deploy millions of GPUs and expand Grace now while targeting large-scale Vera CPU rollout from 2027.

Spain moved to request a formal probe into X, Meta and TikTok, with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez saying on Tuesday the cabinet will invoke Article 8 to examine alleged AI-enabled child sexual abuse material. The step aligns with wider EU scrutiny, including a 120 million euro fine against X in December and new investigations underway in France, Britain and Ireland.

On February 17, 2026, on-chain data indicated that Law Blocks AI's LBT token advanced into the top seven AI application tokens by market capitalization, reaching $54.65 million after a 0.16% gain over the previous 24 hours. LBT is trading near $0.2234, with its price having risen more than 4.2% in 30 days and nearly 30% in 90 days, while the project rolls out AI-driven legal tools such as online mediation, an AI Legal Chat, and a Lawyer Marketplace.

Shiba Inu ambassador Shytoshi Kusama said on Feb. 17, 2026 he will stream during a solar eclipse to outline a "new system" and revisit details Friday, with YouTube and X carrying replays. Earlier, SHIB marketing lead Lucie described a standalone Human Legacy AI platform, built over six months with 100,000+ lines of code, capped at 114,000 lifetime users and citing an internal $2M valuation.

On Feb. 9, Crypto.com launched its ai.com AI agent platform and has now obtained the ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for AI management systems. The firm is positioning AI services as one of its three core business lines, rolling out SDKs and data products while emphasizing secure and transparent AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA has introduced its latest GB300 NVL72 systems, which deliver 50 times more work per megawatt and cut per-token processing costs by 35 times compared with the earlier Hopper platform. Separate testing on the GB200 NVL72 indicates more than tenfold gains in information processed per watt, while rapid growth in AI coding assistants and a widening global AI skills gap are reshaping hardware demand and enterprise strategies. Projections show the AI agent market climbing from 4.92 billion dollars in 2024 to 44.97 billion dollars by 2035, as businesses increasingly adopt off‑the‑shelf AI solutions.