Bitcoin ripped to $78K on a ceasefire. A robot just learned tasks nobody taught it. And Canva is now inside Claude.

Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz fully open to commercial vessels through the ceasefire window ending April 22. Oil plunged nearly 10%. Bitcoin surged 4.97% to $77,884, briefly touching $78K — a two-month high.

Global crypto market cap jumped 3.79% in 24 hours to nearly $2.77 trillion. Inflation fears around energy basically evaporated overnight, and institutional buyers showed up again.

The thing is, this wasn't a crypto story. It was a geopolitics story. The same event that tanked oil pumped BTC. That says a lot about what Bitcoin actually is now.

Vertical Aerospace's Valo aircraft took off vertically, transitioned to wing-borne cruise, and landed vertically — all in one continuous piloted flight on April 14. That's never been done before.

4-passenger aircraft. 150 mph cruise, 100-mile range, zero emissions. They're targeting certification in 2028 and already have around 1,500 pre-orders from American Airlines, Japan Airlines, Avolon, Bristow, and GOL.

CEO Stuart Simpson said full piloted transition is 'the most critical and complex challenge in eVTOL development.' They did it under UK Civil Aviation Authority oversight with EASA involved — tighter regs than anyone else in the space.

Canva and Anthropic launched Claude Design, powered by Canva's design engine. You can create on-brand visuals, presentations, and marketing assets from text prompts directly inside Claude now.

They've been building toward this for two years. Since the Canva MCP launched in Claude last July, millions of people have used it. January brought automatic brand rules. Now they're adding HTML importing so you can pull interactive stuff from Claude straight into Canva's editor.

Canva called this 'the biggest product launch in our history.' Their words, not mine. They're moving from a design platform with AI bolted on to an AI platform that happens to do design.

Physical Intelligence dropped π0.7 — they're calling it 'an early but meaningful step toward a general-purpose robot brain.'

The idea is robots that can generalize across tasks without needing specific training for each one. You train it on some things, it figures out new things. That's been the goal in robotics AI for a long time.

PI has been one of the hottest startups in this space. This puts them right at the edge of what's possible with embodied AI.

FAA picked three companies to build AI software for air traffic management: Palantir, Thales, and Air Space Intelligence.

The tool spots congestion in scheduled departures and arrivals and flags when aircraft get too close. Congress put up $12.5 billion but the full overhaul probably needs another $20 billion on top of that.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: 'We have three companies that are working right now with us on developing software to look at how flights are managed.'

Euclyd is a Dutch chip startup founded by a former ASML director. Peter Wennink — ASML's ex-CEO — is advising and investing. They're raising at least 100 million euros after closing a sub-10 million seed.

Their CRAFTWERK architecture goes after AI inference, which is the part where trained models actually do work — answering questions, running recommendations, processing transactions. They say they're 100x more efficient than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by cutting down on how much data moves between memory and compute.

They've got company. UK's Fractile, France's Arago, and UK's Optalysys are all raising nine figures too. Over $200 million went into European AI chip startups already this year.