Independent distributor Neon released the first trailer for OpenAI biographical drama Artificial on Sept. 8, putting renewed attention on a film that was dropped by Amazon MGM Studios after production had already wrapped. The movie stars Andrew Garfield as OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and centers on the internal power struggle that culminated in Altman’s brief ouster in November 2023. The trailer opens with Garfield’s Altman walking alone through the OpenAI campus and into an underground vault, while a voice says, 「We opened Pandora’s box together. The future is inevitable.」 It later cuts to another line: 「Nations will fall, industries will collapse, and we will be the ones leading people into a new world.」 The teaser ends on a face-off between Altman and former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. Directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by former Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich, the 140-minute film reportedly cost about $40 million and was co-produced by companies from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Neon, which acquired global rights in late June 2026 on a no-minimum-guarantee basis after several studios passed, has said it wants to push the film into the Oscar race. The movie is scheduled to premiere at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 5, 2026, followed by a London screening on Oct. 11, a limited North American release on Dec. 25, and wider release in January 2027.

Stablecoin infrastructure provider Yellow Card said on Aug. 4 that it had raised $40 million in a strategic financing round backed by SC Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital, and Blockchain Capital, lifting its total equity funding to more than $120 million. The company’s path to this point took nearly a decade and included two major shifts: from a Bitcoin gift card product launched in 2016, to a retail crypto trading app in Nigeria in 2019, and then to a business focused on enterprise stablecoin infrastructure after demand moved sharply from Bitcoin to USDT. During the pandemic, Yellow Card’s transaction volume rose from $1 million per month to $1 million per day, and after listing USDT, 99% of volume shifted from Bitcoin to stablecoins in four months. The company later decided to shut its consumer mobile app, telling retail users on Oct. 29, 2025 to withdraw funds by Dec. 31 before the app closed on Jan. 1, 2026. Yellow Card now positions itself as a payments and settlement infrastructure provider for banks, fintech firms, and enterprises across emerging markets, with operations in more than 50 markets and licenses, authorizations, or registrations in 22 jurisdictions as of August 2026.

BitFi has opened registration for its BFI public sale, running from June 11 to June 15, 2026. Participants must complete KYC through Sonar before contributing USDC on Ethereum, with tokens priced at $0.05 each.

Sivers Semiconductors has secured an $8.2 million production order from all.space for Ka-band beamforming chips used in next-generation multi-orbit satellite terminals serving U.S. military and NATO needs.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) warns of a cascading crisis from tighter funding, war volatility, and non-bank finance cracks. Private credit redemption caps spread, threatening Bitcoin and risk assets as contagion deepens.

The Financial Stability Board warns of a potential 'double or triple whammy' crisis from tightened funding, war-driven volatility, and non-bank finance cracks. Private credit funds like Blue Owl are capping redemptions. Bitcoin and other risk assets face immediate pressure.

FSB warns of a possible 'double or triple whammy' crisis from tightening funding, war-driven volatility, and non-bank finance cracks. Private credit redemption caps highlight $1.8T market fragility, with contagion risks reaching crypto.

FSB Chair Andrew Bailey warns G20 of a simultaneous crash in private credit, sovereign bonds, and asset valuations. Redemption caps at Blue Owl, Barings signal structural stress. Contagion may hit Bitcoin and other liquidity-sensitive assets first.