Axios

Venmo-ing crypto is already here — the latest development in PayPal's nearly one-year-old service enabling on-chain transfers.

Why it matters: It's an incremental advance in the payment giant's vision of a more cashless future, one that includes solving what it sees as some of the roadblocks keeping crypto from playing a more significant role in payments.

Street Fighter, one of the world’s most successful video game franchises, is getting an easy mode when its newest sequel launches this week.

Why it matters: It’s the latest sign that developers see a benefit to letting more of their players feel like winners.

A security vendor popular with small to medium-size businesses' IT teams is starting to make it easier for its customers to get cyber insurance.

What's happening: Kaseya, a leading provider of remote monitoring and management tools, launched a partnership with cyber insurance provider Cysurance Tuesday so that customers are fast-tracked for a new policy.

CrowdStrike is the next major cybersecurity firm bringing generative AI into its product stack.

Driving the news: CrowdStrike — a publicly traded company that provides a mix of cloud security tools, endpoint security, and incident response and threat intelligence products — rolled out its own generative AI assistant for customers Tuesday.

One of the most popular password security tools for consumers is getting ready for the inevitable: a world without passwords.

Driving the news: Next week, 1Password will start beta testing an expansion of its touchstone password manager that allows the tool to store passkeys.

European countries are turning to existing laws to regulate cutting-edge technology like ChatGPT in the absence of legislation that deals directly with artificial intelligence.

Why it matters: While OpenAI's generative AI product ChatGPT has captured public attention in recent months and illustrated just how advanced artificial intelligence has become, legal and ethical concerns remain rife.

It will likely take an AI-related catastrophe before any international rulebook or organization begins regulating AI technologies.

Why it matters: AI innovators and researchers worry about both the doomsday scenario of a runaway super-AI and the less science-fictional but more likely harms that could follow from hasty deployment of the technology, in the form of cyberattacks, scams, disinformation, surveillance, and bias.

Museums and libraries from London to Albuquerque are racing to record and digitize the oral histories of the last generation of Holocaust survivors, advocates say, as the horrors of the Holocaust slip from public memory.

The big picture: Fewer than 50,000 survivors remain in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League. The very youngest survivors are now in their 80s, and some have spoken out against rising antisemitism — something they've seen before.