A former Taiwanese news anchor has been accused of taking cryptocurrency from a suspected foreign agent to produce politically influenced news content and scripts. He is also alleged to have helped bribe military personnel to leak classified information in exchange for crypto payments, leading to multiple espionage-related charges.

AWS overheating at a Northern Virginia data centre disrupted cloud systems in one zone, affecting platforms like Coinbase and FanDuel. Coinbase users faced trading delays while AWS worked to restore cooling and recover services gradually.

OpenAI launched three new realtime voice AI models for live reasoning, translation, and transcription. The tools are designed to power smarter voice assistants for customer service, travel, meetings, and multilingual conversations.

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez is seeking donations after saying he has over $2 million in legal debt and a $250,000 fine following his conviction. He is serving a five-year prison sentence and says he now expects to serve it fully, despite ongoing debate over developer responsibility in crypto privacy tools.

The FCA has opened an investigation into Visa, Mastercard and PayPal over whether their digital wallet agreements may be limiting competition in the UK. At the same time, Mastercard is also involved in a separate pilot with banks and crypto firms to test faster cross-border settlement using tokenised US Treasuries.

Circle has partnered with Lighter to make USDC the main stablecoin used across its trading platform, including spot and perpetual markets, settlement, liquidations and onboarding.

Tether’s tokenised gold (XAUt) grew strongly in Q1 2026 as reserves rose 36% and market value passed $3.3 billion, driven by higher gold prices and investor demand for safe assets.

Five major publishers and an author have sued Meta, accusing the company of using millions of pirated books and articles to train its Llama AI without permission. Meta denies the claims and says using such material can be fair use, as the case adds to growing legal battles over AI training.

Florida has approved renaming Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump, with the new branding set to take effect in July pending federal approval. The move adds to growing Trump-linked branding efforts, including a visa programme and other commercial ventures.

BitMine has bought over 100,000 ETH for three weeks in a row, lifting its total holdings above 5.18 million ETH. The firm says Ethereum demand is rising due to tokenisation, AI use and staking income growth.