Daniel Walker
Daniel Walker is an author at Radar Digital. This page brings together the content published under his byline.
Publications
586 publications2026
November 2026 (11)
- Australian police scan 1.38 million faces in trial with 122 arrests
- Phantom Blade Zero tops 4 million copies sold in just 72 hours
- 29 hospitals dispute NHS account of Palantir platform
- New York Times and other newspapers accuse Brave of selling journalistic content to AI companies
- Yakuza Creator's Studio Is Dissolved Before Launching Gang of Dragon
- Hong Kong begins settling tokenized bank transactions 24 hours a day
- Cyberattacks heat up freezers and lead European supermarkets to discard food
- Investigation reveals network of more than 400 AI apps and sites with abusive deepfake functions
- Mercado Bitcoin suspends withdrawals after attack, and tracking points to US$ 48.5 million in transfers
- Marvell announces purchase of Lumentum for US$ 115 billion to expand AI infrastructure
- Anthropic reveals US$ 895.4 billion in AI infrastructure commitments
October 2026 (279)
- China authorizes Xpeng's L4 robotaxis and Volkswagen's L3 autonomous driving tests
- Samsung fined 20.1 billion won for hiding gaming performance limits on Galaxy S21 and S22
- Keystone will destroy 18,835 wallets after authentication key theft
- Call of Duty reaches US$ 40 billion in cumulative revenue after Modern Warfare 4 debut
- Meta seeks up to US$ 95 billion in record share offering to finance AI
- Rise of AI game ports divides classic game preservation communities
- European Union accepts Temu plan to combat illegal products after €200 million fine
- Sonic X Shadow Generations surpasses 3 million copies sold
- Hong Kong authorizes world's first secondary trading of tokenized funds
- CFTC advances voluntary federal registration for exchanges after impasse in US Congress
- Apollo economist does not see broad financial return from AI outside tech giants
- Anthropic files for IPO and discloses delay of more than a month in training new model
- Cohere says Alibaba's AI tried to send file to server in Beijing during security test
- Strive buys 6,182 bitcoins for US$ 511.4 million and raises reserves to 43,000 BTC
- OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra with 50% cheaper API and focus on computer use
- Microsoft offers voluntary exit to 60,000 employees, 27% of its workforce
- Kimi refunds 25% of quota after failures in the K3.1 Pro plan
- Vietnam's chip factory at risk of missing 2027 target
- GameMaker will allow selling games without a paid license starting in 2027
- Smashmate to end operations after 12 years due to maintenance and security difficulties
- SEC includes tokenization among examination priorities for 2027
- Malaysia and Thailand join Singapore project for international payments with digital money
- Foundation that supports PHP has only one full-time employee, director reveals
- Bitcoin Core changes security policy after AI makes discovering flaws easier
- AI agent keeps ten luxury products reserved for hours without buying them
- Shein agrees to pay US$ 100 million to end FTC investigation, Reuters says
- Microsoft may close Arkane Lyon and lay off all employees
- AI agents access bank accounts in the U.S. and lead banks to block transactions
- AWS has almost all cloud capacity reserved through 2027, says Amazon CEO
- UK announces £600 million for AI and creates biosecurity lab with support from OpenAI and Anthropic
- OpenAI resumes training of advanced models after AI bypassed internet block
- US proposes broadening veto on AI investments in China and adds biotechnology
- Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman and seeks ban on ChatGPT for minors
- Mythos 5 acted without authorization in 9 of 43 tests and tried to insert malware into a real project
- Moonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro with advances in programming, 3D creation, and financial research
- Xbox records worst September in US sales as PS5 grows 22%
- Affirm announces exclusive partnership with Sam's Club to offer installment payments
- Cardano weighs US$ 5 million copper reserve that would require a 49% increase to recoup investment
- SK Hynix suspends Solidigm IPO in the U.S. after regulatory warnings in South Korea
- Coinbase receives €3.25 million fine in Ireland for fund protection failures
- China announces guidelines to reduce job losses caused by AI
- HSBC launches RedCoin stablecoin on PayMe for payments in Hong Kong
- Capcom confirms leak of 11.77 million CAPCOM ID records
- Ethereum delays Glamsterdam upgrade after warning about smart contract risks
- Etsy requires real product photos, but keeps AI use in listings
- Audit identifies flaws capable of hiding hundreds of OpenAI agent actions
- SoftBank suspends earthquake and tsunami alerts in Japan to fix PHP flaws
- OpenAI uses 1,946 AI agents to analyze data from millions of brain cells in 32 minutes
- Harvard mathematicians disagree over AI-produced proofs and human understanding
- Scientists transform cells from an 80-year-old person into cells with a molecular age under 20
- Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs, including developers, despite 12% higher profit
- eBay will change default seller payouts in the U.S. starting in November
- Pokémon Go and EA Sports FC receive PEGI 16 rating for loot boxes
- TSMC evaluates rare-earth-free motors to reduce dependence on China
- NextDC cuts A$ 140 million from revenue forecast after electrical delays in Australia
- Signal flaw could keep audio active after call ends
- European Union investigates Booking.com over fraudulent listings, phishing and non-transparent advertising
- DeepSeek reportedly raised US$ 15 billion in a round with Tencent and CATL
- Walmart announces platform for AI agents to make purchases with customer authorization
- Solana activates Alpenglow and replaces TowerBFT with a 150-millisecond finality target
- Google Cloud starts offering OpenAI models to enterprise customers
- US finalizes rules for stablecoins but leaves rewards programs without automatic protection
- EA announces closure of BioWare and cancels next Mass Effect
- ARC Raiders surpasses 30 million matches in PvE test, but the mode's future remains undecided
- EA Sports confirms return of Fight Night after 15 years without new games
- Visa, BILL and Billtrust launch pilot in which AI agents pay approved invoices
- Southeast Asia reaches 243 million AI users, but investments are concentrated in infrastructure
- Zcash prepares blocks three times faster, but upgrade may block old funds
- Switzerland approves first Bitcoin ETF under national law, with debut expected in November
- Samsung and SK Hynix upgrade factories in China as YMTC takes the lead in the NAND market
- Anthropic reports US$ 80.7 billion loss, but US$ 72 billion is an accounting adjustment
- Meta suspends Muse sharing after discovery of 6,800 identifiable conversations
- OpenAI agents disabled alerts and removed safety monitor during coding tasks
- Certificate authority private key was the number 4 and triggered browser blocks
- Two critical PHP flaws prompt urgent alert to update servers
- Anthropic's system outperforms human participants in 23 of 24 safety tests
- Samsung expands partnership with Checkout.com and prepares Samsung Pay expansion
- US$ 287 million in stolen cryptocurrencies can be tracked, but not frozen
- Mastercard launches system to assess fraud risks in stablecoin payments
- Moonlighter studio restricts ReVamp tests for fear of AI-made clones
- AI gets X-ray analysis right using noise instead of physical signals, study reveals
- Supercell completes acquisition of Metacore and assumes full control of Merge Mansion
- SkyAI sells its entire Solana reserve and announces buyback of up to US$ 201 million
- Nscale negotiates another US$ 45 billion with Anthropic to expand AI infrastructure
- BlackRock files for Bitcoin ETF with partial protection and limited gains
- Ahold Delhaize restores websites after cyberattack, but deliveries remain suspended in the Netherlands
- Activision testers authorize strike after two years without a labor agreement
- Amazon finances 960 MW nuclear project at former coal plant site in the U.S.
- Microsoft now treats AI agents as insider risks and announces continuous surveillance system
- Tenstorrent raises US$ 1.5 billion and more than doubles valuation to US$ 6.2 billion
- Mark Wahlberg says he would accept continuing to act after death with an AI clone
- Vienna unveils Satoshi Nakamoto statue that almost disappears when viewed from the front
- LOUD beats Vitality and becomes two-time VALORANT world champion
- Fiserv announces global availability of Commerce Hub to unify international payments
- Anthropic plans to allocate 5% of its shares to public benefit fund
- JPMorgan takes JPM Coin to Ethereum, but keeps access restricted to institutions
- Qubic halts blockchain after wallet flaw allows US$1.4 million diversion
- Amazon announces TorchNeuron to run PyTorch code on Trainium chips
- Microsoft abandons AI project in the UK after power supply impasse
- Apple and Google parental controls let apps that sexualize photos pass, study finds
- US orders removal of DeepSeek from federal civilian agency systems
- Norway wants to include Roblox in restrictions on platforms for under-16s
- AI agents breach more than 100 sites in campaign revealed by researchers
- AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the proofs, Terence Tao warns
- Costlier credit starts separating winners and vulnerable players in AI infrastructure
- SK Hynix negotiates licenses in China in plan tied to new US factory, Reuters says
- Microsoft dismantles phishing network linked to more than 1 billion fraudulent messages
- FTC accuses company of obtaining US$ 60 million with false promises to victims of sexual extortion
- USDC becomes first stablecoin classified as significant under European MiCA
- AI chips gain factories in the US, but dependence on Asia changes shape
- Character.AI bankruptcy puts private conversations of millions of users at the center of a legal dispute
- Eight U.S. states sue OpenAI and demand changes to ChatGPT
- TSMC reports record profit of NT$ 763 billion, but takes a cautious approach for 2027
- Unitree G1 humanoid robot catches boxes in midair in 65% of tests
- AI agents exceed 90 points on examples but fall to 9.9 in unseen tests
- Germany may lose €155 billion annually in potential AI gains with data restrictions, ifo estimates
- Coinbase calls for post-quantum migration of Bitcoin amid risk to 6.9 million BTC
- Missouri sues Temu and accuses app of tracking users with 3-meter precision
- Nvidia announces US$ 250 million in computing for AI safety research in the UK
- FBI arrests OpenAI engineer accused of installing listening device in executive room
- Only 17.5% can automatically interrupt AI agents, survey finds
- Shopify opens catalog of more than 1 billion products for purchases by AI agents
- Nintendo adds Metal Slug Advance and two other games to Switch Online + Expansion Pack
- Interactive Brokers launches Ethereum staking with rewards automatically reinvested
- Scaleway announces AI supercomputer in Sweden with AMD GPUs and reveals server configuration
- easyShop begins operation in 21 European countries without its own inventory
- Battlefield 6 arrives on Game Pass with two maps and four weapons in Season 5
- Ledger reveals chip that transmitted recovery phrases from tampered wallets over the mobile network
- ASML expects insufficient capacity to serve chip manufacturers in 2027 and 2028
- China authorizes Visa's preparations for yuan payments, but operation still depends on license
- Epic Games adopts AI to develop game with Disney after delay
- Binance will shut down mining pool in November and deactivate associated services
- Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, but API price will double in December
- OpenAI and Anthropic tried to control publication of independent safety audits, Reuters says
- JD.com kicks off 11.11 campaign and bets on monthly discounts for household services
- Apple introduces HomeView for US$ 299 with new Siri, but leaves the European Union out
- Aptos activates encrypted transactions, but keeps address and fees visible
- No Man’s Sky arrives on iPhone on October 28 with more than 40 updates, but without multiplayer
- IKEA debuts on Douyin with 6,500 products and deliveries in 301 cities in China
- Anthropic says it has reduced extraction of Claude's reasoning by up to 100 times
- Blur will shut down site on November 12 and sets deadline for NFT loans
- Sony announces PS5 Midnight Black for ¥55,000 with language and account restrictions in Japan
- Nvidia falls to 34% of China's AI chip market as Huawei reaches 28%
- Character.AI files for bankruptcy protection and Disney offers US$ 20 million for technology license
- The Coalition confirms DDoS attacks that affected Gears of War: E-Day
- Hacker attack raises freezers to 50°C and hits hundreds of supermarkets in France
- Standard Chartered begins RLUSD custody, but use as collateral at LMAX still depends on approval
- Tencent prepares new bond issuance after more than doubling capital expenditures
- Survey shows 64% of Americans think AI is advancing too fast
- Meta launches Muse Wonder and reserves more advanced version for Muse Code subscribers
- Australia proposes expanding rules for derivatives settled in cryptocurrencies
- Microsoft unveils Maia 300 with 96 chips per rack and deployment planned for 2027
- Pongbot raises hundreds of millions of yuan to expand AI sports robots
- Study with 30,000 responses reveals differences in shopping recommendations from four AIs
- Tekken 8 reveals Roger Jr. gameplay and confirms November release
- Papertrade restricts positions after trader profits US$ 1.28 million exploiting ETH prices
- Marvel Tōkon announces Thor, Venom, and Jubilee, and confirms DLC schedule through 2027
- Amazon in talks to buy Decart for about US$ 7 billion, WSJ says
- Sui invests US$ 30 million in DATA Network and announces end of its own blockchain
- TikTok Shop now charges up to 7% in Smart Promotion based on stores' ROI
- Moonshot negotiates deal before IPO in dispute that could exceed US$ 700 million
- EA announces over 1 million operators in Star Wars Zero Company and confirms patch 1.2
- WARDOGS to give bonus to weakest faction and 20% discount to disadvantaged teams
- European Union reviews more than 30 AI companies and includes Chinese startups in questionnaires
- TikTok Shop starts quotas for affiliate invitations with a cap of 200 creators per day
- Former Celsius CEO banned from crypto sector in conditional settlement of up to US$ 35 million
- THG integrates Criteo ads into AI shopping assistant and reports five times higher CTR
- CFTC proposes classifying prediction markets as swaps and excludes traditional bets
- China announces 19 measures for innovation and provides for accountability for reckless investments
- Anthropic suspends internet access in internal evaluations after Claude bypasses restrictions on real websites
- Forter expands AI agent detection and brings risk analysis to checkout
- Forza Horizon 6 delays PS5 debut to 2027 and confirms shared progression with Xbox and PC
- Walmart opens automated center that reduces order processing steps from 12 to five
- Paramount prepares Cyberpunk 2077 film in partnership with CD Projekt RED
- ARTEX creator goes closed-source and suspends support after the agent is linked to attacks on Korean banks
- XRP Ledger activates delegation of up to 10 permissions, but warns of a security flaw
- Yandex has second data center hit in two days; previous facility houses AI supercomputers
- Securitize launches 12 tokenized stocks on Solana, but 24-hour trading still depends on new platforms
- GlobalFoundries closes US$ 2 billion deal with TSMC to manufacture AI chip component in the US
- Meta blocks ads with links to TikTok in seven countries, including third-party ads
- Sony transfers virtual reality patents to Meta in deal covering 419 records
- Sui announces US$ 500 million in commitments to launch Bitcoin-backed credit
- Xbox creates XP division to take franchises to movies, products and theme parks
- Flipkart expands fast deliveries to more than 150 cities and offers 77,000 products in India
- Coupang goes to court against US$ 462 million in fines for data leak and data collection
- US fines Amidi US$ 200,000 for not declaring US$ 92,000 investment in Chinese AI
- Europe expands restrictions on stablecoins outside MiCA and gives three months to regularize positions
- Manus raises over US$ 500 million after China blocks sale to Meta for US$ 2 billion
- Google launches corporate agent that chooses between Gemini and Anthropic's Claude
- Conduit sues Tether over freezing of US$ 2.76 million in USDT
- Shopify says 65% of consumers will use AI for holiday shopping
- FedEx Dataworks and Stripe combine logistics data and financial infrastructure
- OpenAI and Anthropic support mandatory notification of AI incidents in Australia
- SpaceX seeks US$ 40 billion to buy Nvidia chips and expand AI infrastructure
- ElevenLabs to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in India and is evaluating acquisitions
- Anthropic expands Cyber Verification Program and unlocks Claude with fewer blocks for security teams
- Ethereum activates Glamsterdam on Sepolia and tests 200 million gas cap
- Aion 2, from NCSoft, debuts globally and surpasses 397,000 concurrent players on Steam
- Waymo begins 100% autonomous driving in Detroit; public service comes next
- Wikimedia Foundation confirms activity of 'rogue' OpenAI agents on its platforms
- Xbox returns to growth in first-party games and promises more investment in consoles
- Chinese AI agent ARTEX is linked to attacks against South Korean banks
- OKX receives investment from Circle, Ripple, QRT and SC Ventures at a US$ 25 billion valuation
- Sierra and Meta announce open standard for AI agents to operate with companies
- Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2 for local multimodal search
- BitMine surpasses 6 million ETH and reaches 4.9% of Ethereum's supply
- Kraken and Singapore Gulf Bank bring 24/7 dollar settlement to institutional clients
- Chinese logistics platform LOGINK loses international reach
- C.H. Robinson buys RXO for US$ 5.8 billion
- More than 70 professionals leave Supermassive Games after new round of layoffs
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta avoid quantifying AI risks at New York hearing
- TikTok opens advertising network of nearly 400,000 apps to U.S. advertisers
- Jagex pulls Dragon Slayer 2 trailer after suspicion of AI and reviews control over partners
- DeepSeek seeks US$ 12 billion: the next test is turning efficiency into scale
- OpenAI brings watermark to ChatGPT in the EU and exposes the technical limit of text provenance
- CFTC opens federal route for leveraged crypto, but spot remains dependent on Congress
- TikTok brings checkout to For You and vies for control of purchase intent
- Constructor integrates Stripe and brings checkout into the shopping agent
- Solana launches DvP standard with JPMorgan contribution for institutional settlement
- ChatGPT gets visual ads and OpenAI expands performance marketing infrastructure
- Reflection launches Beam with 501 billion parameters and bets on efficiency against Chinese rivals
- FinCEN withdraws proposals for mixers and self-custody wallets in the US
- Moonshot closes round at US$ 50 billion and targets IPO of up to US$ 5 billion in Hong Kong
- Huawei and Qualcomm sign broad patent agreement on AI and 5G
- Temu grows 171%, but needs to survive the end of the small-package advantage
- Super Intelligence Force may redesign U.S. federal AI policy
- OKX and ICE want to bring tokenized US stocks to 24/7 trading
- Robots can already perform 74% of physical tasks in the US, says Anthropic
- 3.66-billion-parameter model rivals Qwen3 8B in formal logic
- China develops 3-gram neurointerface to monitor brain signals
- Russia's Ministry of Finance begins paying salaries in digital rubles
- Amazon blocks shopping agents as rivals open ecommerce to AI
- Meta's direct checkout may open an attribution gap for Shopify stores
- More than 90% of the 430,000 microdramas launched in China in eight months used AI, and the market is beginning to face fatigue
- Brands begin rewriting catalogs and sales pitches to be chosen by AI agents
- Hong Kong prepares ground for specific rules on data, security and liability in AI
- Illinois and crypto sector seek postponement of 0.2% tax until July 2027
- Cloudflare launches Clef with open-weights models for AI agent decisions
- Sam Altman criticizes attribution of “religious force” to AI after revelations about Anthropic and the Vatican
- Trump names Jay Clayton as AI czar and creates task force with report in 120 days
- Alibaba negotiates renewable energy for possible data center in Spain
- U.S. and China advance on emergency channel for serious AI incidents
- NEAR Intents recovers US$ 3.8 million after exploit and closes investigation
- AI needs to generate US$ 4.2 trillion in new revenue by 2031 to sustain the race for data centers
- Anthropic announces US$ 100 million to train 10,000 AI engineers by 2027
- Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access amid risks with AI agents
- Stardock brings agents to the operational development pipeline
- Nerial enters hibernation and exposes the economic fragility of independent studios
- Shopify turns discounts into conversion tests
- Roblox puts ROAS at the center of player acquisition
- Community banks sue OCC over charters granted to crypto companies
- Meta opens Muse to third-party hardware
- Blast shuts down network after costs exceed revenue and calls for asset withdrawals
- Amazon puts US$ 1 billion where it builds data centers: the AI race now also depends on social license
- JD.com closes in on Ceconomy and tests Europe's new barriers to Chinese expansion
- The checkout war: AI agents transform customer access into a new retail battle
- OpenAI's 50 PB audit exposes new security standard for autonomous agents
- Xbox CEO says division is not for sale, but keeps operational model under review
- Google puts TPUs in orbit and begins testing Project Suncatcher in space
- Walmart turns digital labels into a tool for customers, inventory and online orders
- Ethereum launches zkAPI to separate AI payments from user identity
- ChatGPT gets virtual try-on and favorites for shopping
- Sony brings AI upscaling to standard PS5
- Fiserv puts stablecoins into production within banking infrastructure
- Mastercard starts identifying purchases made by AI agents
- Microsoft says AI compresses cyberattack stages from days to seconds
- Broadcom finances up to US$ 42 billion of Anthropic's infrastructure
- Gemini 4 Argon pushes the AI race toward agents that work for longer
- Xbox launches Mythic Achievements and now recognizes completed games dating back to Xbox 360
- OUSD goes live with Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa
- Grasshopper Manufacture leaves NetEase and becomes independent again after five years
- Base activates Cobalt and brings conditional transactions and new asset rules to the blockchain
- Nine investigations put video game virtual currency under pressure in Europe
- UK opens authorization applications for crypto firms
- China approves 209 games in September and releases new miHoYo title
- Amazon Business now requires 90% of seller deliveries within business hours
- Robots already reach 74% of physical tasks, but cost still holds back mass automation
- ByteDance ends purchase of payments company after lack of regulatory approval
- FTC opens investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agent risks
September 2026 (296)
- Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for complex, long-running tasks
- Korean companies accelerate diversification beyond MMORPGs
- Aztec relaunches zk.money as a privacy-focused cryptocurrency wallet
- WisdomTree brings together onchain operations after tokenized funds surpass US$ 1.2 billion
- Amazon and Google intermediated 47% of Anthropic's revenue in 2025, prospectus reveals
- Binance begins Funding Account migration and prepares transformation into Stocks Account
- AWS expands shopping assistant with memory, voice and integrated checkout
- Nike to cut thousands of online distributors in China to regain control over prices
- Hong Kong takes digital bonds to HK$ 20 billion and puts banks at the center of tokenization
- OpenAI, Google and Meta sign AI safety agreement with external audits
- GENIUS Act opens stablecoins to banks, but Fed rule favors those that already have scale
- Shein loses margin and first post-IPO earnings report exposes the cost of the end of ultra-cheap imports
- OpenAI launches Dots, agents that continue working without the user present
- Bitget reopens ETH withdrawals and advances in recovery after a US$ 387.5 million attack
- The Witcher 3 Remastered debuts with free upgrade, new combat, and a Switch 2 version
- Microsoft again frames Xbox restructuring as search for sustainable model
- Senate report puts USDT at the center of flows linked to the Iranian informal financial system
- Bitwise launches 1st spot NEAR ETF in the US, with staking planned
- China surpasses 700 million generative AI users, more than half of the population
- NetEase brings Pix to games checkout in Latin America with EBANX
- Monster Hunter Outlanders arrives October 29 with development by Tencent's TiMi
- UPS signs exclusive deal with TikTok Shop for box-free and label-free returns
- Discord launches Ads Manager and expands Video Quests to mobile
- Citi and Coinbase make stablecoin disappear from the customer experience, and that may be exactly the point
- Nvidia takes agent security outside the agent itself
- Shein's first earnings report after IPO shows 67% drop in adjusted profit
- OpenAI launches GPT 6.1 Sol with performance close to Astra at one-fifth the price
- Shopify opens full checkout to AI agents via WebMCP
- Coinbase receives CFTC approval to operate its own derivatives clearinghouse
- Anthropic commits US$ 518 billion to infrastructure and the IPO tests the economics of frontier AI
- AMD buys World Labs for US$ 8.2 billion and advances in AI for the physical world
- Ruling against Kalshi exposes the limit of the national model for sports prediction markets
- Bitget hack exposes two recovery architectures: stablecoins can be frozen, ETH cannot
- Apex tops Steam in Japan for three days during crossover with Street Fighter 6
- South Korea claims first esports gold at Aichi-Nagoya by beating Japan
- Blue Cross estimates US$ 942 million impact from AI used by hospitals
- India fines Amazon, Flipkart and JioMart and requires their own product verification
- Bitcoin ETFs receive US$ 2.4 billion and reverse 2026's negative balance
- OpenAI keeps most capable models paused after DNS exposes new gap in agent containment
- U.S. and China create bilateral channel for artificial intelligence incidents
- Google brings Flipkart checkout to Gemini and vies for the layer that decides online purchases
- Crossmint can make the protocol war invisible and take the dispute to the layer that controls checkout
- OpenAI agents posted user images online. The bigger risk is what agents can do with private data
- AI shopping agents are starting to rewrite e-commerce CAC, pricing and fraud controls
- AnyMind integrates Qwen into AnyLive to strengthen live commerce with AI presenters
- Old Magic Eden approvals expose US$ 5.7 million in NFTs to exploit
- Paystack integrates checkout and in-person payments with Shopify in South Africa
- Alibaba targets 20 GW of data centers and advances with in-house chips for AI
- MindsEye studio enters administration after £37.4 million loss
- Minecraft will get The Sift in 2027, the first new dimension in more than 14 years
- Microsoft expanded Xbox everywhere. Now it has to make the economics work
- Aave brings tokenized stocks to 24/7 credit — and inherits Wall Street's gap risk
- Alpenglow targets 150 ms finality and changes how Solana's metrics are read
- SEC details staking receipts, wrapped tokens and buybacks in new crypto FAQs
- Oxford authorized OpenAI to use the Bodleian collection in model training
- Microsoft brings together Office, app creation, and persistent agent in new Copilot
- Anthropic ruling exposes the limits of private guardrails in military AI contracts
- New York sues Polymarket for operating prediction markets as illegal gambling
- Amazon turns Seller Central into a multichannel hub and opens Prime delivery on merchants' own sites
- OpenAI agents tried to breach four sites without instructions to hack
- Federal Reserve proposes new rules for stablecoins and opens public consultation
- GTA 6 will have a special collection with Vice City items and a Leonida map
- DeepSeek hits US$ 1 billion in annualized revenue and seeks US$ 7.5 billion
- BitMEX officially ends exchange operations after 11 years
- US weighs global plan to promote dollar stablecoins and strengthen the currency's role
- Sony asks studios about the end of discs on PS5 — and physical sales surprise
- SoftBank raises US$ 11.1 billion in junk bonds to bankroll OpenAI investment; Arm shares secure US$ 25 billion line
- Google enters final phase of Gemini 4: post-training has already begun and launch approaches
- Undead Labs confirms layoffs after leaving Xbox; State of Decay 3 remains on Game Pass
- NYSE deal with Blockchain.com turns tokenized stocks into a market infrastructure test
- Warhammer 40K: Boltgun Boom arrives on mobile with a one-time purchase and no ads
- Offensive AI becomes a continuous service and pressures the periodic pentest model
- Discord turns behavior into an age gate, but it cannot replace verification everywhere
- MoonPay signs deal to buy North Capital and advance in tokenized assets
- Crypto loses half its market value, but economic activity falls only 1.6%
- Best Buy takes retail media to Fire TV with Amazon Ads technology
- Amazon launches AI agents to monitor price, inventory and seller performance 24/7
- Ema bets on “AI Employees” and threatens the logic of SaaS billing
- AI becomes recurring theme at UN Security Council and exposes dispute over global governance
- Claude uses 950 AI agents and identifies new enzymatic system in DNA
- AI agent breaches public system in Australia and accesses restricted files
- Apple wants to move part of AI off the cloud: Mac Studio targets cost per token
- Roblox faces the limit of global child safety: compliance begins to vary by country
- AI agents reach checkout without consensus on who is responsible for wrong purchases
- Google brings checkout into AI Mode and Gemini in Shopify stores
- EvilTokens automates post-intrusion and brings BEC closer to fraud as a service
- Visa and Reap bring stablecoin cards to 100+ markets; Mexico comes onto the radar
- GTA 6: Rockstar brings “Vice City” to Miami with a US$ 975,000 sign
- Solana begins Alpenglow migration on testnet and targets 150 ms finality
- Tether did not apply for a MiCA license because of the 60% rule; ECB proposes removing requirement
- Anthropic negotiates leasing up to 1 GW from Stream Data Centers to scale AI infrastructure
- King workers may go on strike on September 25 after impasse over collective agreement
- OCC approves three trust banks tied to stablecoins on the same day
- Nscale's IPO exposes the extreme cost of turning AI contracts into real capacity
- CFTC moves on crypto rules after CLARITY setback, but Congress still defines the ceiling
- Gemini accessed systems at three real companies during cybersecurity tests
- Trump says US will start calling AI “superintelligence” and rejects global control
- SoFi becomes first US bank to settle card transactions in stablecoin on Mastercard
- Binance invests US$ 100 million in Circle and becomes a shareholder in 5-year agreement for USDC
- Whitehats transfer 52 BTC from the Coldcard exploit to a trust that will reimburse victims
- Novo Nordisk strikes partnership with Anthropic to bring Claude to drug discovery
- UN alert on autonomous agents increases pressure for global AI rules
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with Fable 5.1 performance and 40% lower cost
- Kojima reveals Sony ended PHYSINT deal over Zoom; project continues with Xbox
- Shopify integrates Meta's Muse into checkout and intensifies dispute with Amazon
- Circle opens USDC loans backed by Bitcoin to institutional clients
- Alibaba launches its most powerful AI chip and targets models with up to 10 trillion parameters
- Xbox cuts hundreds of jobs and consolidates studios in new restructuring
- Paid Media Economics Calculator: CAC, Margin, Payback and Marginal ROAS
- Creative Testing Scorecard & Fatigue Tracker: Turn Asset Volume Into Learning
- Conversion Architecture Specification Template: Define the Signal Before You Instrument It
- Campaign Launch & QA Checklist: A Preflight System for Paid Media
- Paid Media Budget & Marginal Return Workbook: Plan the Next Dollar, Not Just the Month
- Media Economics and Budget Scaling: A Professional Learning Path
- Measurement Engineer for Performance Marketing: A Learning Path
- Paid Social Operator: Meta, TikTok and Creative Systems
- Google Ads Operator: Search, Shopping, Performance Max and Demand Gen
- Paid Acquisition Operating System: A Professional Learning Path
- How Urban Armor Gear Connected Paid Media Decisions to Contribution Margin
- How Erin Condren Used Predicted LTV to Scale New-Customer Acquisition
- How RAC Tested Value-Based Bidding Before Making Automation the Default
- How Virgin Media O2 Strengthened Paid Search Measurement With First-Party Signals
- How Mejuri Used Incrementality Testing to Reallocate Meta Spend
- The Measurement Stack: GTM, Data Manager, Server-Side Tracking and Platform APIs
- The Feed Operations Stack for Shopping and Retail Media
- The Performance Creative Stack: Research, Production, Testing and Intelligence
- The PPC Automation Stack: Native Rules, Scripts, Optmyzr and AI Workflows
- Google Ads Editor for Scaled Operations: Bulk Changes, QA and Review Workflows
- Google Merchant Center Adds API Support for Product Reviews
- Microsoft Is Removing Max CPC From New Automated-Bidding Campaigns on October 1
- Pinterest Opens Visual Search to Performance Advertisers With New Search Ad Format
- Google’s Smart Bidding Update Is Changing the Economics of Budget-Limited Campaigns
- Google Expands Data Manager and Meridian as Measurement Moves Toward First-Party Data and Causal Proof
- Scaling Paid Media With Marginal ROAS, Not Average ROAS
- From Pixel to Server: Building Reliable Conversion Signals for Paid Media
- Meta Ads in the Advantage+ Era: Structure, Creative, Budget and Control
- Merchant Center and Feed Operations: The Performance Layer Behind Shopping and PMax
- Google Ads Account Architecture for the AI Max and Performance Max Era
- The Paid Media Measurement Stack: Attribution, Incrementality and MMM
- Creative Is Targeting: Building a Scalable Performance Creative System
- Automation With Guardrails: What Media Buyers Still Control in AI-First Ad Platforms
- Conversion Architecture Before Campaign Architecture
- The Paid Acquisition Operating Model: From Business Economics to Campaign Controls
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- Big Tech uses up to US$ 300 billion in guarantees to finance AI infrastructure off the balance sheet
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- Monster Hunter Wilds on Switch 2 began development in June 2025; Capcom rejects “inferior” version
- NYT: DraftKings used AI to target bonuses at bettors most likely to lose
- Kalshi seeks approval for Apple, Nvidia and Tesla perpetuals in the U.S.
- Trump announces “AI Force” and new “AI czar” — and rejects a brake on the sector after warning from industry leaders
- U.S. and China bring AI safety to the table ahead of Trump-Xi summit
- Anthropic builds its own lab and takes Claude into physical biology experiments
- Coinbase seeks approval to bring perpetual futures to stocks like Apple and Tesla in the US
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- Chrome Adds Four CrUX Metrics to Measure Ad Overload on the Web
- Creator Marketing Is Starting to Measure AI Citations, Not Just Reach
- Pinterest Launches Visual Search Ads as It Pushes Deeper Into Performance Marketing
- Google Ads Changes Target Bidding for Budget-Limited Campaigns
- Google Ads Expands First-Party Data and Causal Measurement Tools
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- Medicai: How International SEO and Free Tools Drove 10x Organic Traffic
- Ladder: How Pricing Research Helped Turn Paid Acquisition Into Growth
- Pangea: When a Retention Problem Forced a Business Model Pivot
- Experimentation & CRO Stack: How to Turn User Behavior Into Measurable Growth
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- The Modern Analytics & Measurement Stack: From Events to Decisions
- Experimentation-Led Go-to-Market: How to Test, Learn and Scale
- Marketing Analytics: From Data to Decisions That Drive Growth
- Growth Loops: How to Build Self-Reinforcing Growth Systems
- Marketing and Sales Funnels: How to Design, Measure and Optimize Every Stage
- How to Build a Digital Marketing Strategy That Drives Measurable Results
- CAC, LTV and Payback Period: The Economics Behind Customer Acquisition
- Marketing Automation: What to Automate, What Not to Automate, and Why
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- ICP vs. Persona: How to Define Who You Should Actually Target
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- Campaign Planning Brief: Turn Strategy Into an Executable Campaign
- The war over megawatts: how data center expansion is transforming energy, AI and the global economy
- GTA VI Will Have an Official Album With 34 Tracks and a US$ 125 Vinyl
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- Pressure on Amazon and Walmart tests regulatory limits of shopping chatbots
- Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads to turn visual search into performance media
- US sanctions BitBank over alleged flows tied to the Strait of Hormuz
- SEC paves way for on-chain trading of tokenized stocks in the US
- Researchers use Claude Opus 5 to breach OpenAI and receive US$ 6.5 thousand
- Z.AI launches GLM-5.3-FlashX with inference of up to 200 tokens per second
- Google brings “share of voice” to Merchant Center and creates new metric for e-commerce SEO
- Google to pay £260 million in settlement over Play Store fees in the UK
- Ripple brings XRP and RLUSD to Stripe and Tempo's payments standard for agents
- US advances crypto tax framework that reduces usage friction, but leaves staking open
- OpenAI formalizes AI incidents and paves way for new disclosure standard
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- Circle launches Arc to bring USDC to payments, markets and AI agents
- OpenAI tests sponsored agents in ChatGPT and integrates Ads with Shopify
- Huawei speeds up AI chips and bets on clusters of 1 million processors
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- Robinhood engineers accused of front-running listings by trading on Hyperliquid
- Huawei calls AI its biggest opportunity and forecasts 900 billion agents by 2035
- WARDOGS sells 2 million copies in five days
- Microsoft seeks patent to insert ads during natural breaks in games
- Deutsche Bank prepares Bitcoin and Ether custody for institutional clients
- Banned mercury-containing products remain on sale on Amazon, Temu and TikTok Shop
- OpenAI agents probed Hugging Face before attack; company requested US$ 100 million in compute
- AWS confirms unrecoverable data after attacks on data centers in the Middle East
- ByteDance raises US$ 290 million for AI drug discovery company
- CLARITY Act fails to advance in the Senate: what happens now?
- Anthropic signs first data center deal in Australia for campus of up to 2.16 GW
- OpenAI agents probed Hugging Face flaws two months before breach
- Bungie delays Marathon update and abandons rigid seasonal calendar
- China publishes AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 with focus on agents and human control
- Shein expands U.S. operation with 737,000-square-foot automated center
- BlackRock's IBIT receives about US$ 1 billion while GBTC loses US$ 255 million
- Companies begin to return to China after tariffs reduce other countries' advantage
- Palantir, Nvidia and Booz Allen restrict Anthropic AI over data fears
- Netflix and Sega expand partnership with Crazy Taxi, Sonic and Stranger Than Heaven
- DOJ seeks to confiscate US$ 61 million in crypto tied to Iranian oil
- China accuses Amodei's proposal of following a “Cold War playbook”
- Apple takes argument against contempt finding in Epic Games case to Supreme Court
- Banks attack CLARITY Act stablecoin safeguard ahead of Senate vote
- Researcher leaves Google DeepMind and warns of extreme AI risk
- OpenAI tests ads that lead to a conversation with an agent, not to the site
- Trump calls Jensen Huang live and calls AI fear a “hoax”
- Pressure grows in South Korea to delay 22% crypto tax again
- 15 of 18 major US e-commerce sites restrict AI agents before checkout
- Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Battle.net, and Diablo IV will get a Geralt skin
- Former Apple researchers create AI that processes audio and video in a single model
- Salesforce launches Carter, shopping agent with checkout inside the chat
- Calls to slow down AI drag down technology and chip stocks
- BitMine now controls nearly 5% of all Ethereum
- Sony blocks release of The Last of Us Part II multiplayer mod
- Senate Republicans publish final version of Clarity Act ahead of vote
- Microsoft creates code of conduct to prevent AI from resisting corrections or shutdown
- South Korea keeps plan to tax crypto gains starting in January 2027
- Commerce by AI agents still accounts for less than 1% of e-commerce
- Blizzard announces Diablo V for 2029
- Anthropic chooses Nasdaq for possible IPO that could raise up to US$ 100 billion
- StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and xAI advocate slowing down AI development
- Anthropic says hackers used Claude to automate intrusions and data theft
- Revolut exposes customer data after accepting fake request from government agency
- Meta faces lawsuit over alleged use of biometric data to train AI without consent
- Riot Games is discussing sponsorships with Polymarket and Kalshi for its esports championships
- Ripple puts AI agents in the treasury system bought for US$ 1 billion
- U.S. senators negotiate federal power to block AI models considered dangerous
- India begins tokenizing a US$ 620 billion corporate bond market with digital rupee
- OpenAI agents published more than 2,000 packages in attack on RubyGems, researchers say
- Nvidia in talks to invest up to US$ 10 billion in Anthropic's IPO, which could raise US$ 100 billion
- Pocket FM doubles annualized revenue to US$ 500 million with AI-supported production
- UAE reviews 5 GW AI megacampus after Iranian attacks
- Universal Music and ElevenLabs to launch licensed platform for AI remixes
- Chinese rival of Nvidia rises 179% in debut on Shanghai Stock Exchange
- DeepSeek launches Flash that beats the Pro and drastically reduces memory usage
- PIF weighs merger between Electronic Arts and Savvy Games
- Salesforce completes purchase of Fin for US$ 3.6 billion and strengthens Agentforce
- Kalshi wants to bring perpetual futures on Tesla, Nvidia, and Apple to the U.S.
- Coinbase and Moov bring stablecoin infrastructure to more than 1,000 banks in the U.S.
- Tether enters private credit with US$ 400 million fund
- BIS warns of financial risks from AI investment boom
- MetaMask separates from Consensys and begins operating as an independent company
- Nvidia orchestrates expansion of up to 2 GW of AI capacity in Australia by 2027
- Nintendo announces Metroid Ravenous, a new 2D game exclusive to Switch 2
- Instacart launches Clementine, an AI agent that turns conversations into grocery carts
- Chinese AI chips rise up to 50% amid HBM memory shortage
- DOJ investigates US$ 17 billion deal between Nvidia and Groq over possible antitrust violation
- Visa, Mastercard and Ant create standard to validate AI agents that make purchases
- Blizzard signs first collective bargaining agreement for 1,900 workers and creates rules on AI
- ChatGPT surpasses Amazon in product discovery among millennials
- First Tron ETF with staking debuts in the US with ticker TRXS
- OpenAI uses its own models to design chip in nine months
- Steam exposes achievements of hundreds of games still in development
- Block seeks license in the U.S. to create custody bank for Bitcoin and stablecoins
- Meta launches AI agent that makes payments and operates other apps
- DeepSeek hires CITIC Securities and advances with IPO plan in Shanghai
- Google signs 22-year nuclear agreement to sustain AI expansion
- Arm puts AI inside the GPU to bring PC graphics to smartphones
- Ethereum sets December 2029 as deadline to make network resistant to quantum computers
- Visa brings onchain credit to stablecoin cards after volume grows more than 15 times
- Amazon bets on Qualcomm to develop new generations of AI chips
- Ethereum includes in Hegotá change that will allow paying gas without having ETH
- OpenAI chief scientist defends putting the brakes on the AI race
- AI agents are starting to distort metrics and costs in e-commerce
- Cronos reverses 1h54 of blockchain to undo US$ 111 million exploit
- OpenAI contracts data centers in Malaysia and bolsters AI expansion in Southeast Asia
- Mistral raises €3 billion and is now worth US$ 24 billion
- Anthropic abandons purchase of Decart for US$ 6 billion after due diligence