Twitch has begun allowing its parent company, Amazon, to use streamers’ content to train generative AI models by default, triggering backlash over creator consent after a senior executive bluntly admitted why the platform had been secretly doing this without their consent

Trezor has disclosed a data breach at its shipping and logistics partner ShipMonk that exposed the personal information of nearly 14,000 hardware-wallet customers, raising concerns that attackers could use the leaked data for targeted phishing campaigns — or potentially identify crypto holders for physical attacks.

Cypherpunk Technologies, the Zcash (ZEC) treasury company backed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, is facing a difficult financial crossroads after reporting a $37.8 million net loss for the first six months of 2026. The company holds roughly $157 million worth of ZEC, yet its market value remains far below the value of those crypto assets.

OpenAI has paused internal development work on its upcoming Astra AI model after safety evaluations indicated that the system may have reached the company’s highest cybersecurity risk threshold — raising the possibility that the model could eventually conduct sophisticated cyberattacks with little or no human assistance.

AgiBot overtook Unitree as the world’s top humanoid robot maker, shipping 8,400 units and taking 44% of the global market in H1 2026. Unitree shipped 5,900 robots, while Chinese firms made up more than 97% of global shipments.

Western Union is expanding beyond traditional money transfers with the launch of Stablecard, a Visa-backed payment card and digital wallet that allows customers to receive, hold and spend its USDPT stablecoin.

Google has pulled a newly launched AI image-generation feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after its debut, after journalists and open-source investigators warned it could make fabricating fake satellite evidence as easy as typing a prompt.

MoonPay has launched PayBox, a payment vault that allows users to use the AI bot of their choice ( whether ChatGPT and Claude) to buy crypto, swap tokens and bridge assets across blockchains through natural-language conversations without giving AI custody of their funds.

A Kansas high school physics teacher was arrested after repeatedly clapping during a public hearing on a proposed AI data center, turning a routine zoning meeting into the latest flashpoint in the growing national backlash against artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Elon Musk predicted that artificial intelligence could fundamentally rewrite the global economy as soon as the next 10 years, creating a world where people no longer need to work for a living and money itself would become irrelevant.