OpenAI rolled out new personal finance features in ChatGPT on Friday, enabling U.S. Pro subscribers to link bank and investment accounts via Plaid. The tool covers 12,000+ institutions and can analyze spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments, while viewing balances and transactions without being able to move funds or see full account numbers. Pro access costs $200 a month, and OpenAI says synced data is deleted within 30 days after an account is disconnected.

SlowMist said three tainted node-ipc releases (9.1.6, 9.2.3, 12.0.1) were published on May 14 after attackers took over a dormant npm maintainer account. The injected code was designed to exfiltrate .env secrets, crypto private keys, exchange API credentials, and cloud tokens, and projects that installed or auto-updated during the roughly two-hour exposure window were urged to audit dependencies and rotate credentials.

Elastic Security Labs identified TCLBANKER, a Brazilian banking trojan that monitors 59 bank, fintech, and crypto domains and triggers remote control when targets are visited. The malware spreads by taking over victims’ WhatsApp Web sessions and Outlook accounts to message their contacts with phishing lures and the trojanized installer.

From March 2023 to February 2026, a tracking site reports 23 deaths allegedly linked to interactions with large language model chatbots. The latest case involves a 36-year-old Florida man who, after two months of conversations with Google's Gemini and believing it to be his AI wife, died by suicide, while separate incidents in South Korea and the U.S. also reportedly involved advice or prompts from AI tools.

Polkadot’s DOT has risen by 27% over the past week as the network approaches its first issuance cut slated for March 14. Protocol updates are set to go live on March 12, and the initial reduction will lower annual issuance from around 120 million to about 55 million. DOT trades near $1.62, according to CoinGecko.

TRM Labs reports that AI‑enabled crypto fraud activity rose about 500% over the past year, with generative tools accelerating phishing, identity theft, and laundering. Chainalysis says these operations earn 4.5 times more per scheme and generate 9 times more daily transactions than non‑AI scams. Recent incidents include large holder losses and U.S. seizures linked to pig‑butchering rings.

Bitcoin Depot has started enforcing identity checks for every transaction at its U.S. crypto ATM kiosks after rising fraud tied to these machines. The operator, which runs more than 25,000 kiosks globally, will also pay $1.9 million to the state of Maine to reimburse residents who lost funds in scams between 2022 and 2025. FBI figures show Americans lost $333.5 million to Bitcoin ATM scams in 2025, up 33.4% from $250 million in 2024.

On January 31, the U.S. Department of Justice released a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents that referenced Blockstream co-founders Adam Back and Austin Hill in 2014 email exchanges about an $18 million seed round. The emails described an oversubscribed allocation and travel plans involving Epstein, while Adam Back has stated on X that Blockstream has no direct or indirect financial relationship with Epstein or his estate and that a fund linked to Joi Ito later divested its minority stake.

On January 26 2026, an analysis described how Gen Z crypto influencers use short-form video, memes and live streams to shape attention around digital assets. These creators concentrate on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Discord, where they simplify complex topics, promote memecoins and airdrops, and compress narrative cycles in ways that can amplify volatility. Regulators are increasingly focused on these channels, pushing for clearer disclosures as creators shift from personal accounts to structured media businesses.