Apple has raised the prices of its iPhone 16, 17, 17e, and Air, quietly making the changes to coincide with its announcement of the new iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, and foldable Duo. Some of them are now even more expensive than they were at launch. SEE ALSO: iPhone 18 Pro price report: Apple…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The Philippine financial technology sector is taking its industry networking out of corporate boardrooms and onto running tracks and pickleball courts. FinTech Alliance PH has officially launched Sportstacular 2026, an ecosystem-wide wellness initiative supported by…
Mastercard has launched Agent Connect to give merchants one integration for product discovery, cart creation and customer-approved payments across AI shopping platforms. Summary Agent Connect links merchants, AI agents, digital platforms, and payment providers through one connection. Merchants can provide current product, price, and inventory data from their existing catalogs. Agent Pay uses tokenized permissions…
San Francisco’s city attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop “allowing” paid advertisements that include AI-generated child sexual abuse content and asked it to explain how the ads repeatedly ran on its platforms. On Tuesday, WIRED reported that Meta has run more than 350 ads in recent months that…
Key Takeaways Binance is using a 1 billion-share estimate to work out the AI company Anthropic’s implied valuation. At press time, ANTHROPIC stands over $2 trillion. Anthropic warned back in May that unauthorized SPV stock transfers are void and could basically end up being worthless to investors trading or holding these assets. Binance could adjust…
“If you build a cybercrime empire, we will find you, dismantle your operation, and hold you accountable,” said US Attorney Pirro. Malone Lam, a Singaporean citizen and recent Miami resident, pleaded guilty in Washington, D.C., to taking part in an international cybercrime conspiracy that stole and laundered more than $245 million in cryptocurrency. Attorney…
Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead the round, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. But that round never closed, the people said….
