Tech & Your Wallet
Fintech apps, payment innovations, AI in banking, digital wallets, BNPL changes, and how technology is reshaping how people manage and spend money.
Latest in Tech & Your Wallet
AI voice clones now need just three seconds of audio to fake any relative’s voice — a family code word agreed today blocks the fake emergency call before it works
Your phone buzzes at 2 a.m. The voice on the line belongs to your daughter. She’s sobbing, says she rear-ended someone on the highway, and...
Google is paying $630 million to anyone who used Google Play between 2016 and 2023 — no claim needed, payouts go out automatically through PayPal or Venmo
Google is paying $630 million to anyone who used Google Play between 2016 and 2023 – no claim needed, payouts go out automatically through PayPal...
DOGE staff copied 300 million Americans’ Social Security records into an unsecured cloud — the largest exposure of the nation’s most sensitive data ever reported
Brittany Borges spent years inside the Social Security Administration helping protect the personal records of hundreds of millions of Americans. When she resigned in May...
Millions are now typing bank balances and logins into ChatGPT’s new money tools — and researchers found 4% of all AI prompts already leak sensitive personal data
Somewhere today, a corporate accountant will paste a spreadsheet of quarterly revenue figures into ChatGPT. A gig worker will upload three months of bank transactions...
Cloudflare, Upwork, and payments firm Bill each cut up to a third of their staff this month — pushing 2026’s AI-driven layoffs past 70,000 workers
In a single day, more than 2,000 tech workers learned their jobs were being restructured out of existence. On May 7, 2026, Cloudflare, Upwork, and...
Meta lays off thousands today and reassigns 7,000 survivors to build AI — the same technology it says made their old jobs unnecessary
Meta began cutting roughly 8,000 jobs on May 20, 2026, and simultaneously ordered about 7,000 remaining employees to transfer into artificial intelligence teams, executing one...
Amazon, Meta, and Cisco have cut 28,000 workers since January — and all three blame AI, while spending a combined $300 billion on it this year
Somewhere in the math of modern Big Tech, 28,000 people lost their jobs so that servers could take their place. Since January, Amazon, Meta, and...
Meta is cutting 8,000 workers on May 20 and canceling 6,000 open roles — while spending up to $135 billion on AI this year
For the roughly 8,000 Meta Platforms employees who opened an internal memo on a late-April morning and learned their roles would be eliminated on May...
Rice-sized solid-state battery targets smart lenses and wearables
The battery is about the size of a grain of rice. It contains no liquid electrolyte. And on 22 April 2026, it was placed inside...
Android users may get cash from Google’s $135M data privacy settlement
Millions of people who carried an Android phone between 2014 and 2019 could be in line for a direct cash payment from Google. A class-action...
Microsoft and OpenAI drop exclusivity, opening talks with rivals
OpenAI’s most powerful AI models were, for years, available in exactly one place: Microsoft’s Azure cloud. That era is over. The two companies have formally...
Google plans up to $40B more for Anthropic in expanded AI partnership
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of models, is on track to receive up to $40 billion from Google in what would rank...
Amazon’s in-house chips land another big customer win
Amazon’s in-house chips land another big customer win Meta Platforms has agreed to run artificial intelligence workloads on Amazon Web Services infrastructure powered by Graviton,...
Report: Google weighs up to $40B more for Anthropic as Claude gains
Google is in talks to pour as much as $40 billion into Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal....
Google and Microsoft reportedly bid to lease SoftBank’s U.S. data center
Two of the world’s largest cloud computing companies are competing for the same prize: a lease inside a massive artificial intelligence (AI) data center that...
Meta and Microsoft cut jobs as they ramp up spending on AI
In April and May 2026, two of the world’s most valuable technology companies made the same bet: fewer people, more machines. Meta Platforms confirmed it...
Meta is cutting 8,000 employees to save money — while planning to spend up to $135 billion on AI this year
Roughly 8,000 Meta employees are losing their jobs. At the same time, the company is preparing to pour tens of billions of dollars into artificial...
Revolut just replaced its entire app navigation with an AI chatbot for 13 million customers — and your bank is probably next
Revolut has spent the past year quietly assembling the pieces for what could be the most aggressive AI bet in consumer banking. The London-based digital...
OpenAI just bought a personal finance app — and it’s shutting down in 3 days
Hiro, the AI-powered budgeting and investing app, is shutting down on April 20, 2026. If you still have data inside it, you have roughly three...
OpenAI just bought a personal finance app — and it’s shutting down in 3 days
Hiro, the AI-powered personal finance app that let users connect bank accounts, track spending, and get budgeting advice through a conversational interface, is shutting down...