AI video generation used to come with a familiar barrier: if you wanted access to the better models, you generally had to pay for it. Google is now attacking that barrier head-on, opening AI video generation in Google Vids to anyone with a Google or Google Workspace account at no cost.

Hsin-Ju Chuang, a former partner at crypto venture firm Hack VC and founder of Dystopia Labs, died on Aug. 24 at age 37. Two days earlier, she had publicly said she planned to release what she described as “all the evidence” supporting her allegations against her former employer.

Bitcoin was finally clawing its way back.

A nine-year-old YouTube creator had allegedly spent $118,000 of his father’s company money on Youtube advertising campaign. This mistake had not only caused his father his job and now potentially losing their home. Just days after they shared their story, it became an internet drama.

Ronald Spektor did not need to break through Coinbase’s security systems to allegedly steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Instead, prosecutors say the 23-year-old Brooklyn man used something far more familiar — fear, urgency and the appearance of authority — to convince victims to move their own assets into wallets controlled by him.

In April 2023, just one day after venture firm Dragonfly announced a $10 million investment in crypto exchange Bitget, Jeff Yan issued a warning that would later come back to haunt both sides of the dispute.

Chinese authorities are investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, after Anthropic accused the two AI firms of secretly routing large volumes of requests through its Claude models. The allegations go beyond a battle over who is copying whose AI: they raise a more uncomfortable question about where users’ data goes when they interact with a chatbot.

Hackers only need to find one weakness to break into a system. Ukraine’s cyber defenders, meanwhile, have to find those weaknesses first — and they are now getting help from an AI system built to do exactly that.

ShinyHunters, a cybercrime group known for large-scale data theft and cryptocurrency extortion, claims it breached the FBI and obtained sensitive information on thousands of the bureau’s employees. The group provided a sample of roughly 5,000 records to media outlets, including names, contact information and details involving agents’ families and assignments.

Poland’s investigation into the collapse of crypto exchange Zondacrypto is widening as prosecutors charge a former police officer and investigators search the fuel depot where the exchange’s founder, Sylwester Suszek, was last seen before disappearing in 2022.