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SBF misses $37B Anthropic windfall as AI giant prepares for Nasdaq IPO
Sam Bankman-Fried is set to miss out on an almost $40 billion fortune as artificial intelligence company Anthropic prepares to make its Nasdaq debut next week. Through his private crypto trading firm’s investment arm, Alameda Research Ventures, the ex-billionaire poured $500 million into Anthropic in 2021—securing nearly 14% of the AI lab while it was...
Sat, Nov 14
CFTC escalates prediction-market battle as states bring criminal charges
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Michael Selig says the fight over prediction markets now puts company executives at risk of jail. In a November 13 CNBC interview at Cantor Convergence, he called the criminal charges brought by states “really egregious.” Selig argues that the platforms provide legitimate products in accordance with federal regulations. In...
Sat, Nov 14
MEGA trims 20% of staff while betting $30M on new AI products
On November 13, MEGA, previously known as MegaETH Foundation, reduced around 20% of its staff, just three days after allocating $30 million for the development of new products. The layoff included personnel who developed its Ethereum layer-2 blockchain, wallet, and wider ecosystem. Now, MEGA is preparing to launch its AI inference marketplace in December amid...
Sat, Nov 14
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet as AI agents move into checkout
ChatGPT Wallet was introduced to the public by OpenAI on November 13, 2026. With this feature, the company’s always-on, persistent AI agents, known as dots, are able to complete purchases for eligible ChatGPT Pro users living in the U.S. OpenAI is involved in the checkout process, while merchants take care of the sale and card...
Sat, Nov 14
OpenAI, Microsoft, CrowdStrike roll out rival controls for rogue AI agents
OpenAI, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike are taking steps to limit the capabilities of AI agents that act outside their parameters of operation. OpenAI has a way of stopping output from a research model. CrowdStrike stops agents from accessing AI models. Microsoft limits the action that an AI agent can perform. However, an agent might retain access...
Sat, Nov 14
Uber says AI Vendor Breach exposed US drivers' license data
Uber has begun reaching out to thousands of drivers across the US about the recent security incident involving one of its third-party AI providers. The breach resulted in potential exposure of the drivers’ personal data, including their license details. The company detailed the incident in notices sent out to drivers on November 10. How Uber...
Fri, Nov 13
AMD’s Lisa Su named CEO of the Year after 158% stock surge leaves Nvidia behind
Lisa Su has picked up Yahoo Finance’s 2026 CEO of the Year title, and the stock market numbers tell you why. Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) have jumped 158% this year, while its much bigger AI rival Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has gone the other way, falling 7%. Yahoo Finance made the award after...
Fri, Nov 13
White House nominates four to SEC and CFTC as CLARITY Act stalls
On November 12, the White House nominated four candidates to fill vacancies at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of Friday, the SEC only had two commissioners and the CFTC had one commissioner. The nominees are introduced at a time when the CLARITY Act is still stuck in...
Fri, Nov 13
Erigon’s Giulio Rebuffo joins the Ethereum Foundation as it bets on AI-written code
Giulio Rebuffo, Erigon’s former chief technology officer, has joined the Ethereum Foundation to work on applying AI to client development. Rebuffo made the announcement on X on Friday, November 13, where he said that his new role is focused on “applied AI x Client Dev,” adding that he “will be working alongside the technical teams...
Fri, Nov 13
Crypto downturn hits Kraken twice, as exchange and as lender
Kraken’s parent company, Payward, earned much less in the third quarter because fewer people traded crypto, according to the company’s financial results for the third quarter of 2026. The falling price of bitcoin is also hurting Payward’s loans. The company has not listed its shares on the stock market yet, and it is trying to...
Fri, Nov 13
Goyang court convicts fake-coin launderer under Korea's crypto user law
A South Korean court has jailed a money launderer for two and a half years in a fake-coin investment scam, using a new crypto protection law for fraud. Prosecutors are now using the Virtual Asset User Protection Act against ordinary scams, even without a referral from regulators. What did the court decide in the fake-coin...
Fri, Nov 13
Amazon builds World Product Graph to own global product data and fight AI shopping agents
Amazon is building a system called World Product Graph to gather details about almost every product sold around the world. Reuters reported that the project aims to keep people shopping on Amazon instead of using AI tools to find and buy products. Data on every item, whether Amazon sells it or not The idea is...
Fri, Nov 13
Cardano founder Hoskinson says roadmap is already complete
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said he has finished all the work planned for the network and kept every promise he made. However, some ADA investors disagreed, with the token still trading more than 94% below its record high in 2021. Hoskinson made the comments during a YouTube question-and-answer AMA session, where he argued with investors...
Fri, Nov 13
Thailand SEC suggests $148,000 cap on stablecoin transfers
Thailand’s securities regulator plans to limit stablecoin deposits and withdrawals to 5 million baht (about $148,000) per customer each day on each licensed crypto platform. The plan aims to stop money laundering, and people can give their opinions on it until November 26. The proposed 5 million baht limit would apply separately to deposits and...
Fri, Nov 13
Be the board: Durov jokes about Jensen Huang's Nvidia exit
Pavel Durov shared tongue-in-cheek advice for founders to “be the board” in a Friday post in which the Telegram founder compared the Nvidia board’s acceptance of Jensen Huang’s resignation with his own board-led ousting at VKontakte in 2014. Durov has had an eventful week attempting to find the humor in Jensen Huang’s situation at Nvidia,...
Fri, Nov 13
Malaysia furthers probe into Megaspeed chip re-exportation
Malaysia’s trade ministry said it has not cleared data center company Megaspeed or its local unit, Speedmatrix, of any wrongdoing. It is working with customs officials to find out whether Nvidia AI chips brought into Malaysia were later sent to other countries against the law. Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) said on...
Fri, Nov 13
Google meets South Korea's map security conditions, removes territory coordinates
South Korea said on Friday that Google had met the safety rules for sending detailed maps of the country overseas. This brings Google closer to offering full navigation services after 19 years of disputes with the South Korean government. South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on Friday that a team of government...
Fri, Nov 13
How did tokens react to scheduled unlocks over the last 90 days?
Tokens still respond to their respective unlocks or burns. In the past 90 days, tokens split into groups based on the effect of their unlocks.
Fri, Nov 13
Unocoin says BitGo freeze held, but a backup key let funds leave on-chain
Unocoin says crypto left one of its wallets even though it froze its BitGo account in its latest update on the exploit it suffered. Unicoin thinks a backup recovery path in BitGo’s (NYSE: BTGO) multisignature wallets was used to move its funds, but it does not know who the perpetrator is. How did crypto leave...
Fri, Nov 13
Singapore charges a fifth Nvidia server buyer, clears Alice Huang and blames Washington
A fifth buyer implicated in the scheme that diverted AI servers has been charged by Singapore in the latest fallout from the drama that has led to Jensen Huang stepping down from his role at Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). Alice Huang, the Megaspeed executive whose romantic relationship with Jensen Huang started the whole episode, will also...
Fri, Nov 13