Technological Development

Tim Cook has just ended his 15-year run as Apple CEO, officially stepping down into the role of executive chairman as John Ternus takes control of a company that has become vastly larger and more profitable under Cook — but now faces a technology race that could determine its next era.

X users are being hit with a wave of legitimate password-reset emails, login alerts and account lockouts they never requested, triggering fears of a fresh data breach even as the company says it has found no evidence of a new compromise.

SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion loan to help fund its huge OpenAI investment and partly repay a $40 billion bridge loan. The new financing adds to SoftBank’s plans for up to $20 billion in bonds and a $6.3 billion retail bond sale as it prepares to invest nearly $65 billion in OpenAI.

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.