The White House has paused planned restrictions on China Telecom, TP‑Link routers, and Chinese hardware in U.S. data centers ahead of President Donald Trump's April trip to Beijing. The shift follows late‑2025 changes to Nvidia H200 sales and a January 2026 TikTok deal, while China's October 2025 rare‑earth export controls increased leverage. The Pentagon has invested $400 million in MP Materials to mitigate supply risks.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum Foundation AI lead Davide Crapis proposed a zero-knowledge–based system to keep AI API calls private while enabling payment and anti-abuse controls. Users would fund a smart contract (e.g., 100 USDC) and make unlinkable requests, with dual-staking penalties deterring double-spends and policy violations.

Coinbase introduced Agentic Wallets to let autonomous AI agents hold funds, send payments, trade tokens, and earn onchain yield. A blog post published on Wednesday, February 11, said the tool adds built-in security and leverages the x402 protocol across EVM chains, Solana, and Coinbase’s Base Layer 2. The release includes a command-line interface and Smart Security Guardrails.

On Wednesday, Coinbase said it introduced Agentic Wallets, a crypto wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents spend, earn and trade with user-defined permissions. The feature builds on AgentKit and routes payments via x402, which has reportedly processed 50 million transactions, and supports operations on Base, including 24/7 liquidity management and automated rebalancing.

Elon Musk reorganized xAI and folded it into SpaceX in an all-stock deal valuing SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion. Co-founders Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu left earlier this week, while regulators in the U.S., Europe, and Asia are investigating Grok's explicit deepfake output. SpaceX aims to list later this year, with the IPO potentially reaching $1.5 trillion, according to Bloomberg.

In an update dated February 11, 2026, Meta said it will invest over $10 billion to build a data center in Lebanon, Indiana, and started construction. Separately, auditor Ernst & Young identified a $27 billion Louisiana joint venture as a "critical audit matter," with Meta's commitments and guarantees potentially reaching $45.95 billion.

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.