Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek made history by purchasing the domain AI.com for a record-breaking $70 million, according to the Financial Times, a move set to debut during the Super Bowl. The purchase, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller, shatters previous domain purchase records. Marszalek plans to unveil the site during the big game, offering consumers a personal AI agent for messaging, app usage, and stock trading.
The deal, facilitated by broker Larry Fischer, highlights the growing interest and investment in artificial intelligence. Marszalek told the Financial Times that he believes "AI is going to be one of the greatest technological waves of our lifetime," taking a long-term view of 10 to 20 years. This purchase underscores the crypto industry's willingness to invest heavily in promising technologies.
In other AI-related news, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements showcased the technology, with brands leveraging AI to create commercials and promote their latest AI products, as reported by TechCrunch. Svedka Vodka, for example, ran what it touts as the first primarily AI-generated national Super Bowl spot, titled "Shake Your Bots Off." The ad featured the company's robot character, Fembot, and her new companion, Brobot.
Meanwhile, Waymo, the Alphabet-owned self-driving company, is expanding its robotaxi services. According to TechCrunch, Waymo now operates in six markets, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, and Miami, with plans to expand to over a dozen new cities internationally, including London and Tokyo. The company has secured $16 billion to fuel this expansion.
In India, the government is adjusting its startup rules to support deep tech companies, which often require longer development cycles. The Indian government updated its startup framework, doubling the period for which deep tech companies are treated as startups to 20 years and raising the revenue threshold for startup-specific tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to 3 billion rupees (about $33.12 million), from 1 billion rupees (around $11.04 million) previously, as reported by TechCrunch. This change aims to align policy timelines with the long development cycles typical of science- and engineering-led businesses.
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