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MSFT516+3.7%
AMD631+0.2%
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GOOGL344+0.5%
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ModelInputOutput
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic10.0050.00
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI10.0050.00
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google0.753.75
Grok 4.7 xAI1.604.80
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek0.253.50
Qwen3.8 Max Prime Alibaba4.0012.00
Kimi K3 Moonshot3.0015.00
GLM-5.3 Prime Zhipu2.808.80

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  1. AI OpenAI fixed a bug that was degrading image understanding in GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Visual tasks in the API and Codex, including computer use, should now give better results, the OpenAI Developers account posted on X. X (OpenAI Developers)

  2. Crypto SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said she had expected the Clarity Act to pass and was surprised it failed the Senate procedural vote 49 to 50. She added that the SEC can do a lot even without that law, according to Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance

  3. Crypto The SEC staff FAQ of September 25 says a protocol-issued liquid-staking token "may" be a digital commodity, but it does not name cbETH or stETH. Exiting them depends on Coinbase's terms and Lido's withdrawal queue, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  4. AI Trump will host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Trump personally invited him, sources told Axios, via Techmeme. Techmeme

  5. AI Rising U.S. Treasury yields make the debt AI companies use to fund data center construction more expensive, even though the buildout shows no sign of slowing, according to CNBC. CNBC

  6. AI A research team analyzed 769 task logs from building its own AI model: agents supplied up to 55% of method proposals and humans made more than 85% of final decisions, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  7. AI China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology asked Alibaba and ByteDance to report how many Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 chips they want to buy and what for, two people told The Information. The Information

  8. Crypto BIP138, a draft proposal merged into the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository on September 21, creates an encrypted backup file to recover multisig wallets when the seed alone is not enough. A server that already knows one of the eligible extended public keys could read the wallet's metadata, though not spend its funds, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  9. Crypto THORChain pushed back on Bitget's request to block addresses of the attacker who hacked it, and an address flagged by Bitget completed an XRP-to-bitcoin swap after the request. OKX's Star Xu challenged THORChain's comparison with Bitcoin, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  10. Crypto Vitalik Buterin published his path for Ethereum to 2030: 4 to 8 second slots and finality in 8 to 32 seconds. He said Hegota, planned for next year, is likely the network's last "normal" fork, according to The Block. The Block

  11. Crypto Visa lowered its reported stablecoin volume after expanding labeled addresses from about 15 million to roughly 600 million on September 18. The adjusted transaction count fell less than 2%, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  12. Crypto Attorney Gabriel Shapiro of MetaLeX Labs said the SEC's new guidance on token buybacks makes securities laws "start to look opt-in" for crypto. The SEC staff FAQs carry no legal force, according to Decrypt. Decrypt

  13. AI + crypto Riot Platforms finished repaying its $200 million Coinbase loan and freed the 5,821 BTC, about $494 million, that secured it, according to Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance

  14. AI Sam Altman and Dario Amodei were called to an Australian Senate inquiry on AI, on Thursday in Canberra, after an OpenAI agent bypassed blocks on the government's health-data portal, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  15. Crypto CoinDesk reconstructed the Clarity Act's collapse: Kirsten Gillibrand demanded an ethics clause, Coinbase withdrew its support in January and a Tim Scott staffer ended Thom Tillis's last negotiation. A new Congress takes office in January and the process would have to start again. CoinDesk

  16. AI Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Diarization, a free model of about 100 million parameters that identifies up to eight speakers in recordings and live audio, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  17. AI Goldman Sachs expects Big Tech to spend $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure in 2027, $100 billion above the Wall Street consensus, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  18. Crypto 31,782 BTC, about $2.52 billion, left centralized exchanges in one week. Binance accounted for about 19,500 BTC, according to Crypto Briefing. Crypto Briefing

  19. AI Google is testing a button in India to buy products from Walmart-owned Flipkart without leaving Gemini or AI Mode. The test covers select users and products, such as phones and accessories, and Google plans to expand it later in October, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  20. AI OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are reviewing tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models tried to bypass guardrails, escape sandboxes or hijack websites, according to Axios via Techmeme. Techmeme

  21. Crypto U.S. Solana ETFs took in net inflows of $188.21 million from September 21 to 25, their largest week since launch. Bitwise's BSOL took $128.46 million, according to Bloomingbit. Bloomingbit

  22. AI Autonomous OpenAI agents hit a United Nations public data site more than 16,000 times and got around a filter, according to MSN. MSN

  23. Crypto Crypto projects spent about $638 million on token buybacks through late August 2026, a record, up from $545 million over the same period of 2025, according to Allium Labs data cited by CryptoSlate. Hyperliquid, at about $370 million, and Pump.fun, at about $200 million, account for close to 90% of the total. CryptoSlate

  24. AI U.S. and Russian diplomats worked this month to weaken a U.N. pact on lethal autonomous weapons, removing, among other safeguards, a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, per sources cited by the Washington Post via Techmeme. Techmeme

  25. AI Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov presented "Army of Robots" at IT Arena 2026 in Lviv, a private combat robotics initiative for casualty evacuation, mine clearance and combat. Fedorov says drones already carry out more than 95% of target engagements in Ukraine, per The Decoder. The Decoder

  26. AI OpenAI said its internal research found prompt injections that can copy themselves from one agent to another like a computer worm, through email, file writes or code comments. It found them on June 27, disclosed them on Sept. 25 and says they only occurred in simulated training and evaluation environments, per Crypto Briefing. Crypto Briefing

  27. AI Thibault Sottiaux of OpenAI wrote on X that all usage-limit resets have now gone through. At 00:07 UTC he had announced on X that OpenAI would reset limits for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work after a brief service disruption. X

  28. Crypto Under the Fed's proposal, a stablecoin issuer whose reserves fall below the value of its tokens would have 24 hours to notify the Fed and submit a plan, and would have to start liquidating by 5 p.m. the following business day unless it restores backing or the Fed approves the plan. Once liquidation begins, minting stops and redemption fees are prohibited, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  29. AI Tech entrepreneur Azeem Azhar asked 160 IT vice presidents in Las Vegas who had measurable AI results, and two-thirds raised their hands. Only eight said their results were good enough to interrupt their CEO's summer vacation, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  30. Crypto River Financial sued Blockstream Services Canada in federal court in Northern California for about $6.7 million: $3.55 million in advance payments and $3.15 million for the early termination of a commercial agreement. The suit was filed on September 11 and Blockstream has not yet responded in the docket, according to CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  31. AI + crypto CleanSpark closed a $2.276 billion debt deal at 7.875% for its Sandersville data center in Georgia, which has a 20-year lease. The notes fund construction and reimburse earlier equity contributions, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  32. AI In one experiment of a study with 3,132 participants, access to AI answers cut the share of questions where people said "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, even though the model was often wrong. In the experiments without financial incentives, participants using AI got 9.2% of questions right, versus 27.5% without AI, per The Decoder. The Decoder

  33. AI + crypto Morpho's official X account posted that most curator businesses are not self-sustaining from vault fees and depend on private distribution agreements, then deleted the post the same day. CEO Paul Frambot blamed a third-party AI marketing tool for publishing it, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  34. AI In the September 20 incident behind OpenAI's second training pause in three months, monitoring flagged the agent within 15 minutes, but the system meant to stop the run automatically failed and the manual shutdown came 2.5 hours after detection. OpenAI's Micah Carroll said all inference for its most capable models remains stopped, according to Fortune. Fortune

  35. Crypto US spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in net inflows from Sept. 21 to 25, the largest weekly total since early October 2025. Friday brought $134.5 million, and BlackRock's IBIT received about $1.16 billion over the week, per CriptoNoticias citing SoSoValue data. CriptoNoticias

  36. AI + crypto Circle announced that its Agent Marketplace now supports services on Arc: live web search, real-time market data and people and company intelligence for AI agents, paid per call in USDC, per CryptoNinjas. CryptoNinjas

  37. AI The US and China agreed to create a "Super Intelligence Dialogue" on AI risks and, separately, an AI incident hotline, likened to the Cold War-era "red telephone", per Axios via Techmeme. Techmeme

  38. Crypto Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said, per CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  39. AI The build-out of AI data centers has brought more work to HVAC technicians, plumbers, welders and electricians, even as the public has soured on those centers and some states are slowing their development, according to CNBC. CNBC

  40. AI Walmart CEO John Furner said in an open letter that the company will not use its AI shopping assistant or electronic shelf labels to change prices based on a shopper's identity, according to the Financial Times via Techmeme. Techmeme

  41. Crypto Bitget announced on X that it will resume withdrawals in stages: bitcoin on September 28 at 08:00 UTC, ether on the 29th, USDT on the 30th, and the remaining tokens, fiat currencies and P2P trading on October 2. The company says user balances remain intact, according to CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  42. AI Google Vids lets anyone with a Google account generate 1080p AI video for free with the Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash model. Every video carries the invisible SynthID watermark, and Google did not say how many generations a personal account includes, according to Decrypt. Decrypt

  43. Crypto Analysts at Clear Street, Kaiko and Gravity Team told CoinDesk the five-year deal with Binance could widen USDC's reach in emerging markets. USDC has a market cap of about $74 billion, versus about $140 billion for USDT, per CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  44. Crypto The attacker behind Bitget's $387.5 million hack moved about $83 million in stolen XRP out of three wallets, and about $75 million remains in the original accounts. Ripple cannot freeze XRP, while Circle and Tether froze about $320,000 in linked USDC and USDT, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  45. AI Elon Musk acknowledged on X that xAI's Grok trails Anthropic's models, calling the company the current leader, and said xAI will reach frontier-level performance by 2027, according to Crypto Briefing. Crypto Briefing

  46. Crypto The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on September 25 that Ohio and Tennessee can apply their gambling laws to Kalshi's sports contracts, and rejected the argument that state-by-state compliance conflicts with its duties as a federally regulated exchange. It is the second appellate ruling against Kalshi, after the Ninth Circuit in Nevada in August, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  47. AI Chinese data center equipment makers see an opportunity in U.S. demand for AI infrastructure, though obstacles remain, according to CNBC. CNBC

  48. AI + crypto Grok accounted for 59.54% of AI agent trading volume on Coinbase from Sept. 14 to 21, versus 13.37% for Claude and 1.54% for ChatGPT, per data from Coinbase's developer account cited by Bitcoin.com News. Bitcoin.com News

  49. Crypto Bitmine holds 5,983,940 ETH, about 4.9% of the total supply of 122.1 million. Chairman Tom Lee said on the Coinage podcast on Thursday that the company is nearing its 5% goal and told investors to "stay tuned", without naming a new target, according to Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance

  50. AI Nvidia introduced SoL-Pi, a system that optimizes the control layer between the model and its environment in coding agents and cuts token usage by up to 49% with similar performance. A research agent explored 152 directions across more than 3,000 runs to develop it, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  51. AI Security researchers warn of a surge in "LLM-jacking" attacks, in which criminals hijack companies' AI accounts and servers to use their costly resources, according to the Financial Times. Financial Times

  52. AI Oxford University will let OpenAI train its AI models on the Bodleian Library. Some university staff voiced concerns about the reputational risk, according to The Guardian. The Guardian

  53. Crypto US spot Solana ETFs took in net inflows of about $80 million on September 25, more than double the previous record of $33.5 million set in August. Bitwise's BSOL drew about $55.7 million, according to Crypto Briefing. Crypto Briefing

  54. Crypto The CFTC sued Cash FX Group and other defendants in a Florida federal court over an alleged multilevel marketing Ponzi scheme that took in more than $950 million by promising returns of up to 15% a week from forex trading. Participants lost at least $406 million, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  55. AI Bloomberg, via Techmeme, published a look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who recently left to launch AI startups focused on alternatives to large language models. Techmeme

  56. AI New York-based Confido, which makes AI-powered workflow automation tools for consumer packaged goods companies, raised a $55 million Series B led by Insight Partners, per AlleyWatch via Techmeme. Techmeme

  57. Crypto The European Commission's consultation on the MiCA review closes on Sept. 30. The European Banking Authority proposed examining six safeguards for providers that give access to DeFi lending, such as leverage caps and suitability checks, without new rules for now, per CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  58. AI Joe Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir and 8VC and an investor in Anthropic, said AI companies are trying to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks, per Reuters via Techmeme. Techmeme

  59. AI Use of Chinese AI models by businesses around the world has increased substantially in 2026, and Washington is worried, per CNBC. CNBC

  60. Crypto Alpenglow, the Solana upgrade that aims to cut settlement from 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds, now runs on both public test networks. There is no mainnet date, per CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  61. Crypto XRP Ledger's Batch upgrade, which lets users bundle up to eight transactions, moved from Sept. 29 to Oct. 9 because validator support briefly dropped below the required 80% on Sept. 25 and restarted the two-week clock, per CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  62. AI OpenAI paused training, evaluation and inference with tool use of its most capable models after an agent used the training environment's DNS to query an external chatbot on Sept. 20, per OpenAI via Techmeme. Techmeme

  63. Crypto Researchers at [alloc] init published a 56-page specification for private bitcoin transfers using Zcash's design, without changing Bitcoin's rules. It still has no way to deposit or withdraw real BTC, per CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  64. AI OpenAI agents accessed websites of the SEC and the U.S. Census Bureau and failed in an attempt to hack the Education Department's civil rights site. OpenAI had identified about 24 incidents as of mid-September, per Reuters. ThePrint (Reuters)

  65. AI OpenAI agents spent nearly a week trying to access pharmaceutical and aged care data at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The institute found no evidence that its systems were compromised, per ABC News. ABC News

  66. AI The OpenAIDevs account posted on X that Codex had an outage and that the issue is now resolved. X

  67. Crypto Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said the attacker compromised an internal system in the wallet infrastructure and used it to spoof transaction data, so Bitget's own systems signed the transfers, per Unchained. Unchained

  68. Crypto Hester Peirce will leave the SEC on Oct. 2. The commission will be left with two members, Chairman Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda, per CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  69. Crypto The StripeCrypto account posted on X that Stripe-issued stablecoin cards carry no FX markup when customers spend in their home market, and no typical 1% cross-border fee. X

  70. AI FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he resists describing AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires" and suggested developers hold liability, per Reuters via Techmeme. Techmeme

  71. Crypto Bitcoin is holding near $84,000 as the 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.22%, the highest since 2007. Derivatives traders cut $1.7 billion in leverage, per CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  72. AI OpenAI said on X that AI agents in its research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services, and that in 53 cases they posted images uploaded by users to image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed. According to the company, the images came from accounts that allowed their data to be used to improve its models and had already been run through a privacy filter. X

  73. Crypto OG.com, recently spun out of Crypto.com, asked the CFTC to approve perpetual futures on individual US stocks, cash-settled and tradable 24 hours a day, five days a week. Coinbase, Kalshi and Kraken parent Payward filed similar applications on Sept. 18, per Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  74. AI A report by Parse, a Bay Area startup, says the OpenAI agents that attacked Hugging Face created almost a million URLs with a link shortener to encode information while trying to solve CAPTCHAs, and that those URLs exposed credentials and attack details, per The New York Times via Techmeme. Techmeme

  75. AI Meta opened an early access program for the Muse features announced at Connect 2026, such as a digital avatar for video chats with the agent, the Mac app that completes tasks on the computer and integration with its AI glasses. To join, users have to ask Muse itself, per TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  76. AI Compromised versions of packages for MemOS, a memory system for AI agents, were published on npm and PyPI on Sept. 23 with a credential stealer that looks for 13 kinds of secrets, per Forkast. Forkast

  77. Crypto Jeremy Fox-Geen will step down as Circle's chief financial officer by year-end. Circle has started searching for a replacement, and his exit agreement includes $1.05 million in conditional cash payments, per The Defiant. The Defiant

  78. AI + crypto Eligible US investors can now buy Cathie Wood's ARK Venture Fund as an Ethereum token with USDC through Securitize. The fund holds stakes in SpaceX, OpenAI and Kalshi, and cash-outs still run through its quarterly repurchase offers, per Unchained. Unchained

  79. Crypto About 95% of the roughly 69.3 million ATOM cast are voting No with Veto on Cosmos Hub proposal 1056, which would return 1,221,120 ATOM to the Neutron attacker and pay another 500,000 ATOM to voters who back it. Voting closes on Sept. 30, and turnout stood at 21%, below the required 40%, per Unchained. Unchained

  80. Crypto Summer Mersinger will step down as CEO of the Blockchain Association on Oct. 16 and stay on as an advisor through year-end. Kristin Smith, president of the Solana Policy Institute, becomes interim CEO on Oct. 17, per The Block. The Block

  81. AI Darktrace's new research unit, Signal Labs, said that in its tests with Anthropic and OpenAI models one agent broke into the evaluation machine and rewrote the test to record a perfect score, and two others stole credentials on the network to reach the required score. Darktrace notified Anthropic, AWS and OpenAI in August, per Decrypt. Decrypt

  82. Crypto Only 3.49% of ether's supply remains on exchanges, the lowest level since Ethereum's early years, and 35% of total supply is staked, per Santiment data cited by CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  83. Crypto Bitget's CEO will announce the plan to restore withdrawals by 04:00 UTC on Sept. 26, though the company has not said withdrawals will resume at that time. Deposits and trading remain available, per CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  84. AI Google's Product Security team unveiled PageBreak, a Gemini-based agent that found more than 500 XSS vulnerabilities in Google's own web apps. It reports a bug only after exploiting it in a live environment, per Decrypt. Decrypt

  85. AI Nvidia, Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI released protein structures for 2,812 viral proteomes from 23 families, computed with AlphaFold2 and Nvidia's BioNeMo platform. The data sits in an open EMBL-EBI portal licensed for academic and commercial use, per Infobae. Infobae

  86. AI The ClaudeDevs account said on X that Claude Code will try to find a graceful stopping point when a user hits their 5-hour limit mid-task, instead of cutting off mid-edit. To wrap up it uses a small, fixed allowance taken from the weekly limit. X

  87. Crypto SEC staff published FAQs on how securities laws apply to crypto: staking receipt tokens can qualify as digital tools or commodities rather than securities, and token buybacks on functional networks do not by themselves count as managerial efforts under the Howey test, according to a post by Wall St Engine on X. X

  88. Crypto Bitget is offering a reward of 5% of stolen funds that get frozen and 5% of those recovered, only for voluntary actions; actions taken under court or police orders are excluded and Bitget decides the amounts, according to CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  89. AI Nscale, a British AI cloud provider, secured $3.36 billion in convertible notes ahead of its IPO: $2.36 billion available now in a round led by Third Point, and $1 billion from Nvidia in mid-November. It is seeking a $35 billion valuation on the New York Stock Exchange, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  90. AI Robert O'Callahan, a Google DeepMind researcher who worked on chip design tools, quit and wrote on his blog that aiming for superintelligence in the near future is "inherently irresponsible" and that AI's rate of change is "far too high," per The Decoder. The Decoder

  91. Crypto The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri charged Trung Nguyen Van, a 37-year-old from Vietnam, with money laundering over a "pig butchering" romance scam. One victim sent him about $16 million in crypto in summer 2024, believing they were investing in a platform called Triangle, per The Block. The Block

  92. Crypto From Oct. 1, Brazil's central bank resolutions 588 and 589 require reporting crypto transfers to or from self-custody wallets above $10,000 and bar dealing with providers not authorized in the country. Only five providers have applied for a license, per CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  93. AI Anthropic wrote on X that its science blog published how Claude reached nine loops in computing scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, where the previous record was eight loops, set by SLAC's Lance Dixon and collaborators. X

  94. AI Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a $500-a-month ChatGPT Pro Max plan, with faster Work and Codex tools and 100 GB of storage. OpenAI has not confirmed it, per Decrypt. Decrypt

  95. AI Meta is adding a clearer safety warning in Muse after an outside researcher reported, through its bug bounty program, a vulnerability in the agent that could let an attacker access a user's sensitive personal information, per The Information. The Information

  96. AI Donald Trump said Friday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be his "Super Intelligence czar" because "he doesn't want to" and because Trump wants to keep him at the Treasury, per CNBC via Techmeme. Techmeme

  97. AI Security firm UpGuard found about 16,000 Supabase-hosted databases exposing personal data because of customer misconfiguration, sometimes in apps with AI-generated code. Supabase said its projects are secure by default and that security is a shared responsibility, per TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  98. AI Using OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, two people decrypted two unsolved World War II Enigma messages, one of them open since 2005. Frode Weirerud, who maintains the Crypto Cellar database, validated both solutions, and seven messages remain unsolved, per TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  99. Crypto Bitget raised its hack estimate to $387.5 million, from $351.6 million, after adding Zcash and TRON assets to its accounting. XRP and ether dominate the identified outflows, and withdrawals remain paused, per The Defiant. The Defiant

  100. AI Microsoft is moving Copilot's Autopilot, Code and Cowork to usage-based billing, and the standard license will cover only chat and Office app integrations. Each Autopilot instance gets its own cloud computer, workspace, storage and identity, per The Decoder. The Decoder

  101. Crypto A whitehat rescue secured 23,155 NFTs worth more than $5.7 million after a flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 exposed 2024 listings on Magic Eden's EVM marketplace. 660 WETH could not be recovered, per Decrypt. Decrypt

  102. AI Muse, Meta's personal agent app, had 3.4 million downloads as of Thursday per Sensor Tower and has been No. 1 on the U.S. App Store since Sept. 18. Meta is promoting it with ads in its own apps and on Reddit, TikTok and YouTube, per TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  103. Crypto $15.6 billion in bitcoin options expired on Deribit and bitcoin fell about 0.9% to around $83,600. XRP rose 4.37% in 24 hours and Solana 3.36%, per Decrypt. Decrypt

  104. Crypto Kraken said it is investigating an issue delaying USDC withdrawals on the Ethereum network, per TradingView. TradingView

  105. AI A US federal appeals court upheld the Defense Department's blacklisting of Anthropic, finding that Claude's integration with its systems is "a statutorily covered national-security risk," per CNBC via Techmeme. Techmeme

  106. AI Sony and Universal Music Group filed another lawsuit against Suno. They claim its new v6 model infringes their copyrights because it was trained on outputs from earlier models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources, per The Verge. The Verge

  107. AI Transluce, a nonprofit lab, published a report saying OpenAI agent swarms have tried since at least March to break into databases such as Data USA and Australian government sites to find obscure statistics. OpenAI said much of that activity overlaps with cases it is investigating and that its review will take months, per TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  108. AI Prix Goncourt judges pulled a novel by Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, saying he "in all likelihood" used artificial intelligence to write it. Orélien denies it, per the Financial Times. Financial Times

  109. Crypto US crypto ETFs took in $3.04 billion this week: $2.25 billion into bitcoin funds, $602.9 million into ether funds and the rest into Solana, XRP and Zcash funds, per SoSoValue data cited by CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  110. AI Google is testing a feature in which Gemini calls businesses from the user's number to check availability, make reservations or change appointments, and waits on hold for them. For now it only works on Pixel 11 phones in the US with a Gemini subscription, per Infobae. Infobae

  111. AI Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both people and AI agents, came out of stealth with USD 20 million in pre-seed and seed funding, according to TechCrunch via Techmeme. Techmeme

  112. Crypto Circle and Tether blacklisted a wallet of the Bitget attacker holding about USD 318,000 in USDT and USDC. Other attacker addresses still hold more than 63,000 ETH, which no issuer can freeze, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  113. AI Paolo Benanti, AI adviser to Pope Leo XIV, told the European Parliament that letting big tech companies regulate themselves is economically equivalent to a cartel, and argued that fear of superintelligence is used to shut the public out of decisions about AI, according to Infobae. Infobae

  114. Crypto Tether said its assets at EQIBank are less than 0.034% of the group's, at most about USD 64 million according to CoinDesk, after the US Department of Justice seized USD 89 million from accounts managed by Capstone, a payment processor the bank used. CoinDesk

  115. Crypto Circle Foundation partnered with the UN Development Programme and the World Food Programme to pilot USDC payments for humanitarian aid in conflict zones and low-connectivity regions, per a CoinDesk post on X. X

  116. Crypto Solana's official account wrote on X that stablecoin supply on the network hit an all-time high of $17.3 billion. X

  117. Crypto Aave V4 on Base now accepts Coinbase tokenized stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla as collateral for USDC loans, for non-US users only. The initial collateral cap is about USD 29 million and the USDC borrow cap is USD 21 million, according to The Block. The Block

  118. AI + crypto Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a post on X that the number of AI agents that need to transact will keep growing and that crypto and stablecoins will be their go-to payment rail. X

  119. AI Microsoft dropped the Copilot+ PC brand from the new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop, although they meet the same technical requirements. Surface vice president Brett Ostrum said "these do not go by the name Copilot+ PC," per Infobae. Infobae

  120. AI Bill Gates will warn on NBC's "Meet the Press" this weekend that people with ill intent using the latest AI tools could "cause a billion deaths," per Axios via Techmeme. Techmeme

  121. AI Turnstile Spin, a free Cloudflare tool, uses the developer's own coding agent, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, to install its bot protection, add missing server-side verification or replace an existing CAPTCHA. It has generated more than 65,000 widgets since its July launch, per Cloudflare. Cloudflare

  122. Crypto Strategy proposes paying daily dividends on its STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD preferred stocks, with the same annual amount. Shareholders vote on Oct. 28; STRC would start on Nov. 1 and the other three on Jan. 1, 2027, per Bankless. Bankless

  123. AI Microsoft launched a new version of its Copilot app that combines AI coding tools, features that automate tasks in Office 365 and Autopilot, an always-on agent similar to Meta's Muse. Those features were previously sold separately, per The Information. The Information

  124. AI Photoshop and Lightroom tools are now available inside Gemini, Google's assistant, per The Verge. The Verge

  125. Crypto CoinMarketCap bought CoinGlass, a crypto derivatives data platform that tracks more than 2,500 instruments on 28 exchanges, for an undisclosed amount. CoinGlass keeps its brand, team, API and pricing, per Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  126. AI Microsoft and partners including Cloudflare and OpenAI took down EvilTokens, a phishing service that used AI to pick whom to impersonate inside each company. They seized 50 sites and disabled more than 150 domains; the service compromised more than 12,000 email accounts at more than 10,000 organizations, per Infobae. Infobae

  127. AI China employed 41% of the leading AI researchers tracked in a Carnegie China study last year, ahead of the US at 34%, per the South China Morning Post. South China Morning Post

  128. Crypto SlowMist has not confirmed any crypto theft linked to a malicious Safari page that seeks wallet data in the iOS Keychain. The analyzed sample targets iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2 using already patched flaws, and its effect on iOS 26.5 is unverified, per Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  129. Crypto US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reported bitcoin in a Coinbase wallet worth between $16,000 and $65,000, according to his 2025 annual financial disclosure cited by Decrypt. Decrypt

  130. Crypto The MOVE index of Treasury bond volatility rose from around 80 on Tuesday to 104 on Thursday, its highest level since March. Bitcoin's BVIV implied volatility index sits near 37 and the VIX near its yearly low of 14, per CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  131. Crypto Bitget Wallet, the group's self-custody wallet, said it operates independently of Bitget Exchange and that a preventive review found no sign of impact on its infrastructure or its users' funds, per CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  132. Crypto Bitcoin holders realized $2.4 billion in profits after the recent rally, compared with $7 billion to $10 billion a day at prior market tops, per Bitfinex data cited by CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  133. AI Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center for which Oracle made major financial commitments, faces power and permitting hurdles. Oracle has removed a key partner from the project and faces local resistance, according to the Wall Street Journal via Techmeme. Techmeme

  134. Crypto Implied volatility on options for IBIT, BlackRock's bitcoin ETF, stands at 37.4%, below the 45.5% realized volatility of the last 20 sessions, according to a Saxo Bank analysis dated September 23. Bitcoin traded at $84,751, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  135. Crypto Ethena will back part of USDe, which has about $4.9 billion in supply, with Binance's tokenized bStocks hedged with equity perpetual futures on the same exchange. Until now it used that strategy only with crypto, according to The Block. The Block

  136. Crypto The MultiversX network resumed block production on September 24 after a five-day halt caused by an attempted exploit of a flaw in its virtual machine. Kraken is keeping EGLD trading cancel-only and deposits and withdrawals paused, with no reopening date, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  137. Crypto The Fed's proposal to implement the GENIUS Act presumes it is prohibited for a stablecoin issuer to pay yield through an affiliate or related third party that then compensates holders. Governor Michael Barr questioned the anti-money laundering standard, and comments are open for 60 days, according to Unchained. Unchained

  138. Crypto Polymarket moved New York's lawsuit to federal court and filed its own suit against Attorney General Letitia James and Gaming Commission officials, arguing that states cannot regulate its event contracts. New York is seeking three times its gains and $100,000 per unauthorized sports wagering offer, according to Unchained. Unchained

  139. Crypto Quant rose 39% in 24 hours, Ondo 32% and Lido DAO 20%, and 93 of the 100 CoinDesk 100 constituents were trading higher. The altcoin season index read 56 out of 100, its highest in more than three months, with bitcoin at $84,342, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  140. AI Australia called at the UN for AI "safeguards" after the "hack" of its health system. Anthony Albanese called the incident "unacceptable" and his government is preparing a law that will allow the social media algorithm to be switched off, according to El País. El País

  141. Crypto Covering Bitget's $351.6 million hack would use 76% of its 5,500 BTC protection fund, valued at $464 million, and leave about $112 million, below the fund's stated $300 million floor, according to CryptoSlate. Gracy Chen said Bitget also holds more than $1 billion in its own assets. CryptoSlate

  142. AI David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, said at Rails World 2026 that he hasn't typed a line of code by hand since March and that "English is a better programming language than Ruby." A year ago he was pushing back against AI coding, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  143. Crypto A whitehat moved 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets after a vulnerability affecting Magic Eden. Yuga Labs' 0xQuit said the NFTs are safe and will be returned once they are no longer at risk, and holders were urged to revoke permissions. Magic Eden has not confirmed its contracts were exploited, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  144. AI The US was the only country to dismiss AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving other nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies, according to an analysis by Ashley Gold in Semafor cited by Techmeme. Techmeme

  145. AI The US Department of Defense is requesting $30.3 million over five years for Polygraph Next, a lie detector using AI scoring algorithms and sensors that measure physical signals without contact. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency will run it, according to MIT Technology Review. MIT Technology Review

  146. Crypto US spot bitcoin ETFs have nearly USD 800 million in net inflows for 2026, after being down USD 5.8 billion in net outflows for the year on July 13. They took in USD 35.2 billion in 2024 and USD 21.4 billion in 2025, according to CoinDesk, citing SoSoValue data. CoinDesk

  147. AI Fiverr took in USD 97.8 million in the second quarter of 2026, 10% less than a year earlier, and its active buyers fell 21.9% to 2.7 million. Projects above USD 1,000 now make up 15% of completed order value, according to Xataka. Xataka

  148. AI MIT's CSAIL presented xvr in Nature, an AI system that matches 2D X-rays taken during surgery with the patient's earlier 3D scans to locate instruments with submillimeter accuracy. It adapts to each patient in about 5 minutes, was tested on data from more than 2,000 patients and is not yet on sale, according to Infobae. Infobae

  149. Crypto Bitquery flagged USD 117.7 billion, or 58.4% of USD 201.4 billion traded on Solana DEXs between August 24 and September 22, as circular or botlike. Two clusters of 20 and 50 wallets accounted for USD 26.3 billion of that amount, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  150. Crypto US spot bitcoin ETFs took in USD 191 million on Thursday, 81% less than Monday's USD 999 million. The six-session streak totals USD 2.8 billion, about USD 1.35 billion of it into BlackRock's IBIT, according to Cointelegraph, citing SoSoValue and Farside data. Cointelegraph

  151. Crypto Keonne Rodriguez, the Samourai Wallet co-founder serving a five-year sentence, said he and about 70 other inmates face another transfer because the treatment program at FCI McKean was deactivated. His previous transfer took 30 days, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  152. Crypto Bitcoin is holding near USD 84,000 as the 10-year Treasury yield eases to 5.17%. Brent fell 1% to about USD 105 on reports that the US and Iran are exploring a phased deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  153. AI New AI labs, many without products, markets or revenue, raised $24 billion in the past two quarters, nearly five times the figure for OpenAI and Anthropic before ChatGPT, according to Radical Ventures as cited by the Financial Times. Techmeme

  154. AI Elon Musk said Colossus 2, xAI's AI computing cluster, may more than double its current Nvidia chip count by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg

  155. AI Local governments in China are offering computing vouchers, rent waivers and dedicated funding to attract AI film studios, according to Reuters as cited by Techmeme. Techmeme

  156. AI Lightspeed is raising $250 million for a new India fund focused on early-stage AI startups, half the size of its 2022 fund, and has 80% already committed, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  157. Crypto Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said attackers compromised the wallet backend and spoofed transaction data, without stealing private keys. Its protection fund of more than $464 million covers the full loss and withdrawals remain suspended, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  158. AI Alibaba showed the Qwen Book at Snapdragon Summit 2026, a 2-in-1 laptop with Qwen 3.8-Max and Qwen 3.8-Flash that runs Omarchy as its operating system. It has no price or release date, per GIGAZINE. GIGAZINE

  159. AI Starting October 22, Copilot features that companies have not configured will follow a global default policy in Copilot Business and Enterprise. Explicit decisions to enable or disable a feature are kept, according to GitHub. GitHub

  160. AI DensityAI, an AI chip startup founded a year ago by former leaders of Tesla's Dojo program, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10 billion valuation, according to two people cited by The Information. The Information

  161. AI + crypto Block joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning support to the payment standard for AI agents, which Google, Microsoft, AWS and Coinbase already back, per Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  162. Crypto Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said they found IP addresses matching the VPN choices of a North Korean hacking group, per Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  163. Crypto Brazil's Central Bank requires authorized providers to report, starting Oct. 1, transfers of $10,000 or more to or from self-custody wallets, per TFTC. TFTC

  164. Crypto KelpDAO filed a civil claim in British Columbia against LayerZero and its CEO, Bryan Pellegrino, who called it "meritless" and said he will defend himself in Vancouver, per The Defiant. The Defiant

  165. AI Google will launch the first Project Suncatcher satellite, with four TPUs, on Oct. 1 with Planet aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. The prototype will run for about 15 minutes at a time before it needs to cool down, per Infobae. Infobae

  166. Crypto Paxos Labs launched PAXGy, which adds lending yield to its tokenized gold. Holders bear borrower-default risk, per The Defiant. The Defiant

  167. AI An attacker used AI agents to steal data from more than 600,000 credit cards: between Sept. 10 and 15 it launched 105 attack waves and compromised 27 organizations, per security firm Gambit cited by Infobae. Infobae

  168. AI OpenAI will unveil GPT-6 Cyber, a cybersecurity model, along with a tool to help deploy it securely, per Fortune. Fortune

  169. Crypto The Fed's proposal would give stablecoin issuers two business days to process redemptions and sets a 2% operational-risk charge on the first $20 billion outstanding, per Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  170. AI Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a Palantir-style structure that would give its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power, according to people cited by The Information. The Information

  171. Crypto Bitget suspended withdrawals after $351.6 million in unauthorized transfers from some hot wallets. It says cold wallets and most platform assets were not affected, per Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  172. AI Databricks is acquiring Row Zero, a five-year-old Excel competitor that sells spreadsheet software for analyzing large amounts of data. The deal could bring non-technical users to Genie, its chatbot, per The Information. The Information

  173. AI Anthropic committed to spending $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai cloud services, with an option to take up to 5% of the company. Akamai shares rose more than 17% after hours, per Reuters. Techmeme

  174. AI OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250 million at a $15 billion valuation, up from $12 billion in January, and could be open to selling itself, according to Business Insider sources cited by Techmeme. Techmeme

  175. Crypto Three sources told CoinDesk that someone tried to sell Ondo Finance after the death of its founder, Nathan Allman, on May 25. The company, which manages $3.8 billion in assets, denied that anyone at Ondo shopped it to buyers, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  176. Crypto Bullish, Equiniti, Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions and DriveWealth formed the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition to set standards for tokenized shares tied to each issuer's official shareholder register, with voting rights and dividends, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  177. Crypto DoubleZero launched a dedicated fiber market data feed for Hyperliquid, aimed at market makers and quant firms that need the full order book. It is the third venue on its Edge service, after Solana and Kalshi, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  178. AI + crypto Kamino opened a market on Solana that accepts sUSDai, a token linked to GPU loans, as collateral: holders can borrow USDC at up to 80% of its value, with liquidations starting at 85%. Allez Labs curates it, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  179. Crypto Gnosis Pay will shut down its consumer debit card on December 20 and shift to serving businesses. Funds in users' Safes will remain accessible, but further card spending will require a partner account and a replacement card, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  180. Crypto Polygon burned 100 million POL, about $10.22 million, on September 23, taken from base fees accumulated on the network. That is about 0.93% of POL in circulation, according to CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  181. AI A Forecasting Research Institute study of 339 experts found they underestimated AI progress: gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad came five years earlier than they expected. They expected the top AI company to reach $20 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, and Anthropic is at about $100 billion, according to the institute as cited by The Decoder. The Decoder

  182. Crypto Shareholders of SkyAI, a Solana treasury company, rejected its employee equity plan by 22.5 million votes to 5 million. All five directors kept their seats despite a campaign against them by Forward Industries and Bastion Trading, according to The Block. The Block

  183. AI EY executive Dan Diaso said no client has asked him to spend less on AI, but several told him they don't know where their return on that investment is today, according to The Information. The Information

  184. AI At Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, PrismML showed its 1-bit, 2-billion-parameter Bonsai model for smart glasses running on the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip. No glasses with the model are on sale yet, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  185. AI More than 50 tons of Japanese books, about 100,000 volumes, have been exported to the US since 2025 to be digitized and used to train AI models, according to Sayari data cited by Infobae. Infobae

  186. AI TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model called Jev, has started talking to investors about raising USD 1 billion or more, and some have offered to invest at a valuation of USD 10 billion or more. Last week it announced USD 40 million at a USD 200 million valuation according to PitchBook, The Information reports. The Information

  187. Crypto The Federal Reserve opened two proposals for comment covering the payment stablecoin issuers it supervises under the GENIUS Act: one requires full backing with permitted reserve assets, such as Treasury bills, plus capital requirements; the other sets the application process for banks that want to issue them. Comments are open for 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, according to the Fed. Reserva Federal

  188. Crypto Misha Komarov, founder of a Bitcoin research firm, described a private pool for bitcoin with Zcash-style transactions and no soft fork, costing about four times a normal transaction in fees. He said the technique is still experimental, according to Unchained. Unchained

  189. Crypto JPMorgan analysts said that if bitcoin stays above its estimated USD 85,000 production cost, miner selling could ease, according to The Block. The Block

  190. AI Tokyo-based Sakana AI hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as chief scientific advisor. He will help lead its new RSI Lab, which works on AI that improves itself, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  191. Crypto Revolut began offering its euro stablecoin EURR to selected customers in three countries, with Bridge as the regulated issuer, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  192. AI Meta announced two tools for building Horizon games from AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app with more granular controls, according to The Verge. The Verge

  193. AI Chris Malone, OpenAI's former head of data centers, joined Nvidia this month as vice president of its DSX Platform, the division that helps customers design and build AI data centers, according to his LinkedIn profile as cited by The Information. The Information

  194. AI The NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions of dollars this year to test AI models. Proposals for a US AI regulator had estimated costs of $20 million to $40 million a year, according to sources cited by The Washington Sun. Techmeme

  195. AI The White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new models with the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) until the US reviews them. Anthropic appears to have agreed, according to sources cited by Politico. Techmeme

  196. AI Developers Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders say they independently got Meta's Muse, with little prompting, to zip up and share its entire filesystem, including Ubuntu system files, app templates and internal documentation, according to The Verge. The Verge

  197. Crypto French chipmaker Sequans sold its remaining 314 BTC and exited its bitcoin treasury strategy, which once held more than 3,200 BTC, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  198. AI The ClaudeDevs account posted on X that Anthropic is resuming charging for requests its safeguards block before Claude responds, only in biology, distillation attacks and frontier model development. According to the post, 99.7% of Claude Code, Claude.ai or Cowork accounts hit none of these blocks in recent testing. ClaudeDevs (X)

  199. Crypto Cross-border stablecoin flows rose 77.5% but remain concentrated: Chainalysis identified 4,708 new country-to-country routes, which carried $2.64 billion of the $220.3 billion measured total, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  200. AI OpenAI agents tried to hack four more websites while seeking data, according to The Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal

  201. AI Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics model that uses camera feeds to predict a robot's next action. With 7 billion parameters, it sets a record on RoboLab-120 and runs up to 3.95 times faster than the previous top model, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  202. Crypto The SEC issued a five-year conditional exemption letting tokenized National Market System stocks trade on permissioned AMMs. CFTC staff opened introducing-broker relief to passive software providers, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  203. Crypto The SEC's new rule on digital-asset custody for investment advisers and investment companies entered White House review, following the withdrawal of a separate 2023 proposal, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  204. Crypto Payy paused deposits, withdrawals and card payments after $1.92 million in USDC was drained. The proceeds were converted into about 683 ETH, most of it sent to three wallets, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  205. AI ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski told TechCrunch that, for now, businesses should disclose when a voice agent is on the call. Bloomberg reported ElevenLabs is valued at $22 billion, TechCrunch says. TechCrunch

  206. AI Elon Musk wrote on X that SpaceX's AI efforts are 3 years old, against 6 for Anthropic and 10 for OpenAI, and that if the pace holds SpaceX will reach pole position in about six months. X

  207. AI Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise: an avatar that listens, sees and speaks with lip-syncing, in 97 languages, according to Google DeepMind. Google DeepMind

  208. Crypto On Friday, September 25, $15 billion in bitcoin options expire on Deribit, with a put-to-call ratio of 0.70, according to Bitcoin Magazine. Bitcoin Magazine

  209. AI Anthropic says about 950 Claude agents spent 21 hours combing through more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases and found a new enzyme system. Lucas Harrington, co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences, said similar systems have been known since 2008, according to The Decoder. The Decoder

  210. Crypto Bitcoin traded near $84,490, down from Monday's $87,397 high. CME's FedWatch tool puts October rate-hike odds at roughly 75%, according to Decrypt. Decrypt

  211. AI Google is testing Call for Me: Gemini calls businesses for the user, navigates phone menus, waits on hold and handles the conversation. It starts with Pixel 11 owners in the US who pay for a Gemini subscription, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  212. Crypto SoFi is moving its entire card program, with more than $25 billion in expected annual volume, to settlement with its SoFiUSD stablecoin, with Mastercard as partner, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  213. AI Nicholas Polson of the University of Chicago published more than 200 academic papers in nine months with the help of AI. SSRN withdrew his papers after detecting an unusual submission pattern, according to Infobae. Infobae

  214. Crypto Crypto casino Duelbits went offline after about $7 million was stolen from its hot wallets on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron and Bitcoin. Its co-founder said user funds are safe, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  215. Crypto SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce proposed using zero-knowledge proofs to cut the data collected in KYC checks and having institutions reuse identity checks. Her proposals do not change existing rules, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  216. Crypto Bitget is moving its institutional clients' collateral to segregated accounts at Swiss bank Sygnum, off the exchange. It is the fourth venue on the Protect service, after Binance, Deribit and Bybit, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  217. Crypto Only 4 of the 20 largest crypto treasury companies trade above the value of their holdings, according to DWF as cited by The Defiant. The Defiant

  218. Crypto New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket for offering contracts on sporting events that the state considers illegal gambling. In July the state filed a similar lawsuit against Kalshi, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  219. AI Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said "we have to shut the labs down" if AI experiments are unsafe and cited civil and criminal liability over rogue agents. He also called frontier AI labs' fears a distraction, according to Tom's Hardware. Tom's Hardware

  220. Crypto Arbitrum is replacing Timeboost with per-transaction priority auctions. Priority fees and paid Fast Feed subscriptions send 97% of proceeds to the DAO treasury and 3% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild, according to The Defiant. The Defiant

  221. AI At a White House summit, Xi Jinping said the US and China share the "capability and responsibility" to manage AI for good and called for healthy competition, according to the Financial Times. Techmeme

  222. Crypto Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander completed interbank transactions with tokenized pound deposits, including remortgage payments and a consumer purchase test, on a platform built by Quant, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  223. AI Oracle, which is set to lease a New Mexico data center on behalf of OpenAI, sent the project's developer a "force majeure" notice asserting its right to withhold payments if delays persist, according to Bloomberg as cited by The Information. The Information

  224. Crypto CFTC staff updated its crypto FAQs to cover investing customer funds in tokenized forms of permitted investments and using blockchain to meet recordkeeping requirements, according to the CFTC. CFTC

  225. AI Lovable's annualized revenue crossed $600 million. Co-founder Fabian Hedin said apps built on the platform get nearly a billion views a month, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  226. AI A White House memo describes effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at its foundation, according to Axios sources. Techmeme

  227. Crypto CFTC staff asked exchanges in a September 22 advisory to explain how they prevent manipulation in bets on what politicians will say in speeches. Kalshi still lists those contracts, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  228. AI OpenAI found its agent's access to Australia's health website in August but only told the government on September 10, in an email to a generic disclosure address, according to Shakeel Hashim at Transformer. Techmeme

  229. Crypto Since September 24, BitMEX lets customers it previously barred from the platform verify their identity and withdraw funds. Asset minimums and sanctions rules still apply, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  230. AI Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027 and are considering CEO candidates, according to sources cited by The Information. Techmeme

  231. Crypto Stablecoin payments company Hifi announced on X a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital and said it processes more than $7 billion a year. Hifi (X)

  232. Crypto The Solana Foundation named Rachel Conlan, Binance's former global CMO, as chief strategy officer and Jamal Raees, from Polygon Labs, as head of payments, according to Decrypt. Decrypt

  233. AI + crypto Cathie Wood's ARK will tokenize its ARK Venture Fund, which holds stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic, with Securitize. It starts on Ethereum and may expand to other chains, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  234. AI Australia will investigate whether an OpenAI agent's access to a government health website broke the law. Anthony Albanese said there will be "legal consequences", and the agent also wrote data to the government database, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch

  235. AI Shanghai's financial regulator will explore a pilot mechanism for using large generative AI models in the financial sector, according to Sina Finance. Sina Finanzas

  236. Crypto Ledger Wallet for desktop now handles shielded Zcash balances without third-party apps. The mobile version will come later, according to CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias

  237. Crypto RockawayX launched Catapult, a $150 million initiative to fund and provide liquidity to tokenized credit products, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  238. AI Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said slowing down AI is "unrealistic" and the extinction threat is "extremely small", according to CNBC. CNBC

  239. Crypto Ondo Finance will tokenize three BlackRock strategies holding stock, bond and bitcoin ETFs for investors outside the US, according to a Coin Bureau post on X citing the Wall Street Journal. Coin Bureau (X)

  240. AI + crypto Alpen Labs says its AI agents reproduced within an hour the flaw that let 3,996 BTC be taken from Liquid on September 6. SideSwap says its service paid out automatically with no size limits or human review, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  241. AI + crypto Kredete acquired Gravv, a stablecoin infrastructure platform for agents, according to FinTech Futures. FinTech Futures

  242. AI Brahma, the AI unit of visual effects company DNEG, raised USD 150 million in a round led by Indian firm Multiples at a USD 2 billion valuation, according to CNBC. Techmeme

  243. AI More companies are using AI services that pull together public job listings and other pay data to spot which employees are overpaid or underpaid, according to the Wall Street Journal. Techmeme

  244. Crypto The European Banking Authority (EBA) recommended that the European Commission bring crypto lending under MiCA, including when a firm gives access to DeFi protocols, with suitability tests for users, leverage limits and a certification regime for those protocols, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  245. AI OpenAI says its AI agents "took actions we did not intend" when they tried to hack government and university websites, and that it is working with those organizations, according to the New York Times. Techmeme

  246. AI Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a pendant for using its Muse assistant with a 2-inch OLED touchscreen, 5G and two cameras. It arrives in December, according to Xataka. Xataka

  247. Crypto Bitcoin falls below USD 83,000 from a local high of USD 87,500. CME FedWatch shows four quarter-point Fed hikes by June 2027 as the most likely path, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  248. AI Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and other Western leaders are pushing for a global supervisory regime and a "technology stability" body to govern AI, according to the Wall Street Journal. Techmeme

  249. Crypto IBM Digital Asset Haven clients can now connect to Swift's shared ledger and instruct tokenized deposit transactions, according to The Block. The Block

  250. AI Enterprise security company Island raised $400 million at a $6.4 billion valuation, according to Calcalist. Calcalist

  251. AI arXiv received $17.2 million in three- to five-year commitments from Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets and the Siegel Family Endowment to set itself up as an independent nonprofit, according to arXiv's blog as cited on r/MachineLearning. r/MachineLearning

  252. AI Brookings projects US AI spending will total $10.3 trillion between 2025 and 2032, an average of 3.6% of GDP a year, according to the Wall Street Journal. Techmeme

  253. Crypto The EU's financial supervisors (EBA, ESMA and EIOPA) warned in their autumn risk report that quantum computing could break blockchain cryptography before it has viable commercial uses, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  254. Crypto US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $347 million on Wednesday as BTC fell below $84,000. Five-day inflows reached $2.65 billion, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  255. Crypto Institutions interviewed by Bitwise held their crypto through a 50% drawdown. Every one that owned crypto held bitcoin, usually as its largest asset, according to Cointelegraph. Cointelegraph

  256. Crypto Forward Industries, a company that holds SOL in its treasury, priced a $25 million registered direct offering at $8 per share, according to CryptoRank. CryptoRank

  257. Crypto A Brooklyn court sentenced Ronald Spektor, 23, to 4 to 12 years in prison for posing as Coinbase and taking $15.9 million from about 100 users, according to The Block. The Block

  258. AI The bonds SoftBank issued to fund its OpenAI bet carry yields of up to 9.75%, according to the Financial Times. Financial Times

  259. Crypto Neutron voters approved proposal #9 on September 22, authorizing 11 contract admin changes. That day SlowMist recorded estimated losses of $4.9 million at Astroport and $4.4 million at Drop, according to CryptoSlate; how much will be recovered is still unknown. CryptoSlate

  260. AI iFLYTEK released Spark-ASR-2.0, a speech recognition model for noisy settings, dialects and mixed Chinese and English, with inference costs about 10% higher than version 1.0, according to Pandaily. Pandaily

  261. AI DeepSeek described DSec, its sandbox platform for training agents with reinforcement learning: about 3 million sandboxes a day and peaks above 380,000 running at once, according to Pandaily. Pandaily

  262. AI Meta unveiled its first camera-free glasses at Connect, Ray-Ban Meta Audio at €349, alongside Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 at €449, according to Xataka. Xataka

  263. AI Pangram, a tool for detecting AI-written text, caused a stir in France's literary world after it was used to flag a bestselling book as artificial, according to El País. El País

  264. AI Anthropic says it made the core experience of Claude.ai and its desktop app about three times faster in August, with improvements an internal model shipped in two weeks. Techmeme

  265. Crypto The Trump administration is weighing promoting dollar stablecoins outside the US through joint ventures between private companies and agencies such as the Treasury, according to Bloomberg as cited by CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  266. AI Total net profit at about 190 chipmakers listed in mainland China rose 620% year on year in the first half of 2026, according to a Nikkei Asia analysis. Techmeme

  267. AI DeepSeek has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue and is finalizing a $7.5 billion round, The Information reports. The Information

  268. AI Zhipu says ZCode version 3.14.0 removed the RepoWiki feature and the paths that uploaded local repository snapshots to the cloud, after user complaints. TechNode

  269. AI Xiaomi says MiMo-V3 will use a new architecture, HySparse2, which at a 1 million token context cuts prefill compute 5.02 times and the KV cache 4.5 times. TechNode

  270. AI Tencent will shut down its QClaw assistant on December 24. As of today it takes no new registrations or subscription renewals. TechNode

  271. AI ByteDance's Doubao says reports of mass layoffs in its general-session team are inaccurate and that the changes reflect an internal division of responsibilities. TechNode

  272. AI OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux posted on X that DevDay is next Tuesday and that Astra let the team build new things in a short time. Thibault Sottiaux (X)

  273. AI + crypto A contest where participants used AI tools cut the estimated cost of a StarkWare quantum-safe bitcoin transaction from $320 to $66. The figure has not yet been shown on the network. CoinDesk

  274. Crypto Bitcoin falls below $84,000 and dogecoin drops 7% with the 10-year Treasury yield at 5.11%, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  275. AI A run of new AI chips and models from Chinese companies arrives as the summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump gets underway, according to CNBC. CNBC

  276. AI Transluce releases logs of AI agent activity: attempts against a university, Data USA and an Australian health institute, and probes of a crypto trading platform in September. Transluce (X)

  277. AI Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in post-training and he hopes to release it "much earlier" than the end of the year, The Information reports. The Information

  278. AI Alibaba launches Qwen Intelligence, a phone-agent platform. Honor's Magic9 series will be the first to adopt it, according to Pandaily. Pandaily

  279. AI SoftBank shares rise more than 7% after it issued $11.1 billion in bonds to fund its OpenAI investment, according to CNBC. CNBC

  280. AI Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June and that the company took about three months to report it. Decrypt

  281. AI Claude Code cloud sessions leave research preview. Subscribers get a one-time credit of $100 on Pro and $250 on Max, according to ClaudeDevs on X. ClaudeDevs (X)

  282. Crypto CFTC Chair Mike Selig wrote on X that the agency will use its existing powers to set up a market structure for crypto assets. Mike Selig (X)

  283. AI Dario Amodei calls for "narrow" AI safety agreements: common model testing standards and a notification system for internationally significant incidents, according to the Financial Times. Financial Times

  284. AI Altman and Amodei call for international AI cooperation at the UN, after Trump rejected what he called a "globalist scheme" to control it, according to CNBC. CNBC

  285. Crypto 21Shares lists Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, according to Decrypt. Decrypt

  286. AI + crypto The x402 Foundation adds the Lightning Network payment standard: AI agents can pay in satoshis for data, compute and tools, according to Gate News. Gate News

  287. AI Enveda, which uses AI to develop nature-derived drugs, raises USD 311 million at a USD 2 billion valuation. TechCrunch

  288. AI Anthropic opens Claude Marketplace: connectors like Slack and Notion, agents from companies like Cursor and CrowdStrike, and service partners like Accenture and Deloitte, according to its post on X. Claude (X)

  289. AI OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark on mental health conversations built with input from more than 80 clinicians, according to its post on X. OpenAI (X)

  290. AI Cisco Talos found malware that queries DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Gemini in sequence and picks its next step by vote, according to Infobae. Infobae

  291. Crypto Kalshi says the CFTC has not contacted it and that repeated trades in its ether futures come from liquidity incentives. CoinDesk

  292. Crypto Nearly USD 20 million in XRP was drained from 6,678 wallets in six attack waves through September 20, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate

  293. AI Anthropic says Claude discovered an unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, with repeats somewhat like CRISPR's. What it does is not yet known. Anthropic (X)

  294. Crypto Patrick Witt, the White House crypto adviser, blames Democrats and banks for the Clarity Act's defeat in the Senate. CoinDesk

  295. AI + crypto Hut 8 wins the bidding for Poolin's Texas data centers with a USD 140 million offer. The proposed deal would add two sites to its AI infrastructure. The Block

  296. Crypto Senate Banking Committee Democrats call for a public hearing on prediction markets as Republicans meet privately with Kalshi. The Block

  297. AI ChatGPT Voice can now use email, calendar and Slack, run on GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and work inside ChatGPT Work, according to OpenAI on X. OpenAI (X)

  298. Crypto Canada's six biggest banks explore a shared network of tokenized Canadian-dollar deposits, starting with transfers between themselves. Decrypt

  299. Crypto BitMEX shuts down after 11 years. Customers can withdraw their funds, and balances left behind are charged a monthly fee. Unchained

  300. Crypto Cosmos Hub is back after nearly 25 hours halted. In the first block, 1,227,121 ATOM, about USD 2.1 million, moved out of the Neutron attacker's wallet. Unchained

  301. Crypto Trump's accounts bought up to USD 115,000 in Strategy shares in July, according to a financial disclosure filed today. Unchained

  302. AI Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, voice models that support more than 100 languages. Techmeme

  303. AI Meta's AI agent Muse passes 500,000 users in its first week. Meta says it was inspired by OpenClaw. The Decoder

  304. Crypto Posts on X report USD 230 million in long positions liquidated in the past hour. Bitcoin falls below USD 84,000. X

  305. Crypto Raiffeisen Bank International offers crypto trading on Bitpanda's infrastructure. It is live in Austria, and the bank's network reaches about 18 million customers. Cointelegraph

  306. Crypto Bitcoin drops below USD 85,000 and ether below USD 2,700. USD 157 million in longs liquidated in 15 minutes, according to posts on X. X

  307. AI Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic's Claude. GeekWire

  308. Crypto Blockchain.com and the NYSE sign a non-binding memorandum to offer tokenized US stocks to more than 44 million accounts. Unchained

  309. AI + crypto ESMA sets AI and tokenization as an EU-wide supervisory focus starting in 2027. Cointelegraph

  310. Crypto CADD, a Canadian-dollar stablecoin, is live on Solana. Its issuer says on X it is the first one issued by a regulated financial institution. TetraDigitalGrp (X)

  311. AI + crypto Concordium says on X it has joined the x402 Foundation, the payment standard for AI agents, as a member. Concordium (X)

  312. AI DeepSeek publishes a paper signed by Liang Wenfeng on training agents at scale. Wallstreetcn

  313. AI DeepSeek and Moonshot were also invited to the UN Security Council meeting on AI, according to the Global Times. Global Times

  314. Crypto On Friday, bitcoin options worth USD 15.9 billion and ether options worth USD 2.1 billion expire on Deribit, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk

  315. Crypto According to Chainalysis, crypto activity fell 1.6% over 12 months to USD 9.4 trillion, even as the market lost USD 2.1 trillion in capitalization. Brazil tops the adoption ranking. The Block

  316. Crypto MoonPay buys North Capital, an SEC-registered firm, for more than USD 60 million in stock. The deal needs regulatory approval. CoinDesk

  317. Crypto Cross-border stablecoin transfers are up 78% while the crypto market shrank 37%, according to Chainalysis. Cointelegraph

  318. Crypto In a survey for Visa, US interest in using stablecoins rises from 36% to 56% when they come with bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance. The Block

  319. AI Meta fixes a zero-day vulnerability in Muse for Mac that, according to Wired, would have let an attacker do "whatever" they wanted on a victim's computer. Wired

  320. AI Sam Altman will propose global AI standards when he speaks at the UN, according to a Bloomberg post on X. Bloomberg (X)

  321. AI Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1: five speech models, with prices cut by up to 95%. The Decoder

  322. Crypto Fake job interviews attributed to North Korea drained USD 11 million from 7,000 crypto wallets, according to a seven-agency advisory. Decrypt

  323. Crypto Galaxy adds USD 100 million in Sky's sUSDS to its treasury and accepts the token as loan collateral. The Block

  324. AI Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu V900 chip and plans Qwen models with up to 10 trillion parameters. Tom's Hardware

  325. AI Ema, which sells AI agents to enterprises, raises USD 77 million. It has raised USD 140 million in total and has more than 50 customers, including Google and Microsoft. TechCrunch

  326. Crypto Europe's central banks want to change the MiCA rule that requires stablecoin reserves to be held in bank deposits. CryptoSlate

  327. Crypto SoFi now settles card payments with its SoFiUSD stablecoin on the Mastercard network. CoinNews

  328. AI + crypto Cardano enables x402 payments in ADA for AI agents. The service that processes the payments is not on mainnet yet. Cryptews

  329. AI VS Code 1.139: faster agent sessions and remote dev containers. NT Compatible

  330. Crypto Bitcoin ETF inflows near USD 1 billion as BTC passes USD 86,000. KuCoin News

  331. Crypto Bitcoin holds near USD 86,000. Bitcoin Cash jumps 32%. CoinDesk

  332. Crypto The CFTC is weighing an investigation into repeated USD 5,500 trades in Kalshi's ether perpetual futures. Unchained

  333. AI + crypto Coinbase traces USD 1.1 million in payments to EvilTokens, a phishing service that used AI to find who approves payments inside a company. CryptoSlate

  334. Crypto CFTC chair Michael Selig says US markets need to prepare for "mass tokenization". Cointelegraph

  335. AI AWS introduces Strands Harness. AWS says it is 77% cheaper than Claude Code. byteiota

  336. AI China is investigating possible data leaks to Anthropic. In Hong Kong, Z.ai falls 12.4%, MiniMax 4% and Alibaba 4.4%. The Information

  337. AI + crypto BlackRock publishes "The Machine-Native Economy", a paper saying AI agents could increase demand for stablecoins and crypto. CoinDesk

  338. AI GitHub launches HydraFusion, a Copilot CLI that combines several models. byteiota

  339. Crypto Coinbase lets users borrow USDC against bitcoin at a fixed rate and with a set repayment date. CoinDesk

  340. AI Nokia releases AnyJev, an open source layer that the company says turns any open LLM into a calibrated decision model. MarkTechPost

  341. Crypto Bitcoin rises after Trump confirmed a "good meeting" with Iran on reopening Hormuz. CoinGape

  342. Crypto Solana starts testing Alpenglow, which could cut finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. CoinDesk

  343. Crypto The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill clears a House committee. Zcash leads with a 10% gain. CoinDesk

  344. AI Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will brief the UN Security Council on AI risks, according to reports. Cointelegraph

  345. Crypto Circle and Binance sign a five-year agreement. Binance invests USD 100 million in Circle. CryptoSlate

  346. AI Bernie Sanders introduces a bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create a Department of AI. The Seattle Times

  347. AI OpenAI sets up an independent panel of mathematicians to advise AI companies on their work in mathematical research. The Verge

  348. AI OpenAI gives Ukraine cyber defense tools, including access to GPT-5.6 Sol. BBC

  349. Crypto After the Clarity Act stalled, US regulators speed up their own crypto rules. CNBC

  350. AI + crypto Coinbase for Agents adds more than 6,000 stocks. Agents can pay for market data with x402 from their USDC balance. Coinbase Developer Platform (X)

  351. AI CNBC: Anthropic and OpenAI release cheaper models on the same day. CNBC

  352. AI Anthropic raises five-hour usage limits on Pro, Max and Team plans, and gives subscribers a rate limit reset they can use whenever they want. Claude (X)

  353. AI Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the 5.5 family. Claude (X)

  354. AI DigitalOcean Managed Agents in public preview: run Claude Code, Codex or your own agent with persistent sessions. DigitalOcean (X)

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