Tether launches a massive 41-billion-token AI dataset and privacy-focused app that runs artificial intelligence models entirely on users' devices, challenging Big Tech's dominance over AI data and cloud computing while planning future integration with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions.
Andreessen Horowitz launches massive $10 billion fundraising campaign targeting AI and defense sectors while conspicuously omitting crypto from new fund plans, despite remaining one of Silicon Valley's biggest digital asset investors with recent $105 million in blockchain deals.
Google launches an AI-powered payments protocol that supports stablecoins, partnering with major companies like Coinbase, Salesforce, and American Express to enable secure transactions between AI agents.
Sam Altman's iris-scanning crypto project Worldcoin faces global scrutiny from over a dozen countries investigating privacy concerns and lack of transparency regarding the use of biometric data, leading to suspensions, fines, and intense scrutiny across multiple nations.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev defends tokenized stock offerings for private AI and space companies like OpenAI and SpaceX, arguing retail investors deserve exposure to disruptive assets despite tokens not technically representing equity.
OpenAI disavows Robinhood's tokenized shares offering, emphasizing no equity transfer was approved and urging caution as Robinhood launches tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX for European users.
Malicious npm packages sw-cur, sw-cur1, aiide-cur, and pumptoolforvolumeandcomment stole data from over 3,200 Cursor users and targeted cryptocurrency wallets, executing arbitrary code and persisting even after removal, highlighting the importance of supply chain security.
World Chat, a new encrypted messaging app, combines World ID, Contacts, and the World App wallet, enabling verified communication and seamless crypto transactions, while World Build, an incubator program, aims to foster more Mini Apps on the World Network.