Daniel Walker
Daniel Walker is an author at Radar Digital. This page brings together the content published under his byline.
Publications
108 publications2026
September 2026 (108)
- 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
- Nex raises more than US$ 150 million for global expansion
- 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
- Chinese models are already winning the usage race on OpenRouter — even without dominating the benchmarks
- 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
- Leak estimates PlayStation 6 component cost at US$ 960
- 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