Faustine Ngila

A programmable personal robot developed by Hugging Face's French subsidiary Pollen Robotics is powered by a chip from Shanghai-listed Rockchip, highlighting the interconnected nature of global technology supply chains.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” says he has accumulated about $1.2 billion in debt through his real estate investments, although his former wife and business partner says the figure does not represent money he personally owes.

Ethiopia's central bank has flagged 17 money transfer operators for illegally handling remittances to the country, as authorities step up efforts to curb informal money transfer networks and bring more diaspora flows into the regulated financial system.

In this interview with Impact Newswire, Ludovico Rossi, CRO and co-founder of Barcelona-based tokenization firm Brickken, discusses the next phase of financial tokenization and how programmable assets, blockchain and AI agents could reshape financial markets. He explores the regulatory challenges around automated transactions, who should be accountable when smart contracts or AI agents control assets, and why machine-readable permissions could become essential to building trusted institutional markets on-chain.

CrowdStrike has unveiled a new artificial intelligence system designed to help cybersecurity teams detect and respond to attacks, as companies race to deploy AI tools capable of acting autonomously.

In this interview with Impact Newswire, Lewis McLellan, Head of Content at the Digital Monetary Institute, and Cal Mitchell, Researcher at Imperial College London's Centre for Financial Technology, discuss their analysis of what could make or break consumer adoption of the digital euro. Using an agent-based model, they examine how factors such as onboarding time, payment speed, convenience and user experience could determine whether Europeans embrace the digital euro or continue relying on existing payment methods. They also explore the digital euro's broader role in Europe's push for financial sovereignty and strategic autonomy.

In a massive bet on the future of open-source artificial intelligence, chipmaking giant NVIDIA announced on Thursday its intention to acquire the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.

Revolut has secured conditional approval to operate as a fully fledged bank in the United States, a major step for the London-based fintech as it seeks to expand in the world's largest financial market.

Tesla has teased details of its long-awaited Cybercab robotaxi ahead of an invitation-only event in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, as investors look for signs that the electric vehicle maker can scale its driverless technology.

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and turned it into a message board for other AI agents, according to new research published on Friday and two people familiar with the incident.