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California's Attorney General is suing the successor company to twenty three and me over a two thousand twenty three data breach that exposed the genetic information of millions of users. Rob Bonta alleges the company actively misled the public about how serious the breach actually was — a significant accusation given how sensitive that kind of biological data can be.
Shifting to the world of decentralized finance, asset manager Bitwise is making a bold call, arguing that Hyperliquid could become foundational infrastructure for the future of financial markets. New HYPE exchange-traded funds are drawing real investor interest, signaling that this isn't purely speculative noise — institutions are starting to pay attention.
And in a story that raises some genuinely big questions about how we value artificial intelligence, major exchanges are now designing derivative products around AI tokens. The framing is striking: AI output is increasingly being treated not as a finished product but as a raw commodity input, something closer to electricity or bandwidth than software. Whether that framing holds up is another matter entirely.
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