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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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Ledger Wallet for desktop now handles shielded Zcash balances without third-party apps. The mobile version will come later, according to CriptoNoticias. CriptoNoticias(opens in a new tab)
Crypto RockawayX launched Catapult, a $150 million initiative to fund and provide liquidity to tokenized credit products, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
AI Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said slowing down AI is "unrealistic" and the extinction threat is "extremely small", according to CNBC. CNBC(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI + crypto Kredete acquired Gravv, a stablecoin infrastructure platform for agents, according to FinTech Futures. FinTech Futures(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI Enterprise security company Island raised $400 million at a $6.4 billion valuation, according to Calcalist. Calcalist(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI The bonds SoftBank issued to fund its OpenAI bet carry yields of up to 9.75%, according to the Financial Times. Financial Times(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI DeepSeek has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue and is finalizing a $7.5 billion round, The Information reports. The Information(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI Tencent will shut down its QClaw assistant on December 24. As of today it takes no new registrations or subscription renewals. TechNode(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI Modal Labs is in funding talks at a valuation of about $15 billion and Baseten at $26 billion, double or more their May and June rounds, according to Bloomberg. Techmeme(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Bitcoin falls below $84,000 and dogecoin drops 7% with the 10-year Treasury yield at 5.11%, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI Alibaba launches Qwen Intelligence, a phone-agent platform. Honor's Magic9 series will be the first to adopt it, according to Pandaily. Pandaily(opens in a new tab)
AI SoftBank shares rise more than 7% after it issued $11.1 billion in bonds to fund its OpenAI investment, according to CNBC. CNBC(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto 21Shares lists Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, according to Decrypt. Decrypt(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI Enveda, which uses AI to develop nature-derived drugs, raises USD 311 million at a USD 2 billion valuation. TechCrunch(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Kalshi says the CFTC has not contacted it and that repeated trades in its ether futures come from liquidity incentives. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Nearly USD 20 million in XRP was drained from 6,678 wallets in six attack waves through September 20, according to CryptoSlate. CryptoSlate(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Patrick Witt, the White House crypto adviser, blames Democrats and banks for the Clarity Act's defeat in the Senate. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Senate Banking Committee Democrats call for a public hearing on prediction markets as Republicans meet privately with Kalshi. The Block(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Canada's six biggest banks explore a shared network of tokenized Canadian-dollar deposits, starting with transfers between themselves. Decrypt(opens in a new tab)
Crypto BitMEX shuts down after 11 years. Customers can withdraw their funds, and balances left behind are charged a monthly fee. Unchained(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Trump's accounts bought up to USD 115,000 in Strategy shares in July, according to a financial disclosure filed today. Unchained(opens in a new tab)
AI Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, voice models that support more than 100 languages. Techmeme(opens in a new tab)
AI Meta's AI agent Muse passes 500,000 users in its first week. Meta says it was inspired by OpenClaw. The Decoder(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Posts on X report USD 230 million in long positions liquidated in the past hour. Bitcoin falls below USD 84,000. X(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic's Claude. GeekWire(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Blockchain.com and the NYSE sign a non-binding memorandum to offer tokenized US stocks to more than 44 million accounts. Unchained(opens in a new tab)
AI + crypto ESMA sets AI and tokenization as an EU-wide supervisory focus starting in 2027. Cointelegraph(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
AI + crypto Concordium says on X it has joined the x402 Foundation, the payment standard for AI agents, as a member. Concordium (X)(opens in a new tab)
AI DeepSeek publishes a paper signed by Liang Wenfeng on training agents at scale. Wallstreetcn(opens in a new tab)
AI DeepSeek and Moonshot were also invited to the UN Security Council meeting on AI, according to the Global Times. Global Times(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto MoonPay buys North Capital, an SEC-registered firm, for more than USD 60 million in stock. The deal needs regulatory approval. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Cross-border stablecoin transfers are up 78% while the crypto market shrank 37%, according to Chainalysis. Cointelegraph(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI Sam Altman will propose global AI standards when he speaks at the UN, according to a Bloomberg post on X. Bloomberg (X)(opens in a new tab)
AI Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1: five speech models, with prices cut by up to 95%. The Decoder(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Fake job interviews attributed to North Korea drained USD 11 million from 7,000 crypto wallets, according to a seven-agency advisory. Decrypt(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Galaxy adds USD 100 million in Sky's sUSDS to its treasury and accepts the token as loan collateral. The Block(opens in a new tab)
AI Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu V900 chip and plans Qwen models with up to 10 trillion parameters. Tom's Hardware(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Europe's central banks want to change the MiCA rule that requires stablecoin reserves to be held in bank deposits. CryptoSlate(opens in a new tab)
Crypto SoFi now settles card payments with its SoFiUSD stablecoin on the Mastercard network. CoinNews(opens in a new tab)
AI + crypto Cardano enables x402 payments in ADA for AI agents. The service that processes the payments is not on mainnet yet. Cryptews(opens in a new tab)
AI VS Code 1.139: faster agent sessions and remote dev containers. NT Compatible(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Bitcoin ETF inflows near USD 1 billion as BTC passes USD 86,000. KuCoin News(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Bitcoin holds near USD 86,000. Bitcoin Cash jumps 32%. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
Crypto The CFTC is weighing an investigation into repeated USD 5,500 trades in Kalshi's ether perpetual futures. Unchained(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
Crypto CFTC chair Michael Selig says US markets need to prepare for "mass tokenization". Cointelegraph(opens in a new tab)
AI AWS introduces Strands Harness. AWS says it is 77% cheaper than Claude Code. byteiota(opens in a new tab)
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(opens in a new tab)
AI + crypto BlackRock publishes "The Machine-Native Economy", a paper saying AI agents could increase demand for stablecoins and crypto. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
AI GitHub launches HydraFusion, a Copilot CLI that combines several models. byteiota(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Coinbase lets users borrow USDC against bitcoin at a fixed rate and with a set repayment date. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
AI Nokia releases AnyJev, an open source layer that the company says turns any open LLM into a calibrated decision model. MarkTechPost(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Bitcoin rises after Trump confirmed a "good meeting" with Iran on reopening Hormuz. CoinGape(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Solana starts testing Alpenglow, which could cut finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
Crypto The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill clears a House committee. Zcash leads with a 10% gain. CoinDesk(opens in a new tab)
AI Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will brief the UN Security Council on AI risks, according to reports. Cointelegraph(opens in a new tab)
Crypto Circle and Binance sign a five-year agreement. Binance invests USD 100 million in Circle. CryptoSlate(opens in a new tab)
AI Bernie Sanders introduces a bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create a Department of AI. The Seattle Times(opens in a new tab)
AI OpenAI sets up an independent panel of mathematicians to advise AI companies on their work in mathematical research. The Verge(opens in a new tab)
AI OpenAI gives Ukraine cyber defense tools, including access to GPT-5.6 Sol. BBC(opens in a new tab)
Crypto After the Clarity Act stalled, US regulators speed up their own crypto rules. CNBC(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
AI CNBC: Anthropic and OpenAI release cheaper models on the same day. CNBC(opens in a new tab)
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)(opens in a new tab)
AI Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the 5.5 family. Claude (X)(opens in a new tab)
AI DigitalOcean Managed Agents in public preview: run Claude Code, Codex or your own agent with persistent sessions. DigitalOcean (X)(opens in a new tab)