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Anthropic warns about existential threats to humanity in IPO document
Anthropic has told prospective investors that advanced AI could bring “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” a disclosure buried within an unpublished IPO prospectus, coming as the Claude AI creator chases a valuation above $2 trillion, according to Reuters. Reuters reported that around 80 of the prospectus’s 261 pages are devoted to various risk factors,...
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Google challenges EU Android search engine orders
Google has asked Europe’s General Court to throw out two Digital Markets Act orders that would potentially force the tech giant to feed search data to its rival engines and let competing AI assistants run on Android systems with the same reach as its own Gemini. The appeals are focused on instructions issued by the...
2 hours ago
From CEA Industries to BNB Standard: BNB treasury firm chooses new name with X vote
The company behind the largest corporate BNB treasury, CEA Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: BNC), has announced that moving forward, it will now go by a new name: BNB Standard Corporation. The change is in name only; the firm will retain its BNC ticker. The firm settled on the new name after a BNB community advisory poll...
4 hours ago
Coinbase's payment push goes country-scale as El Salvador pivots into stablecoins
The new remittance and identity app, Sivar, built by Modveon for El Salvador, runs on Coinbase’s payments infrastructure, according to a Tuesday announcement by the US-based exchange. The app built by the firm based in Palo Alto will allow eligible senders to transfer funds from the U.S. to verified recipients in El Salvador for a...
5 hours ago
Megabanks lead as Japan's FSA backs fourth stablecoin pilot
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has given the green light to its fourth stablecoin pilot to allow cross-border trade to be settled with stablecoins, adding trade finance to the list of areas that the regulators have cleared through the programs. The latest pilot brings back some participants in earlier projects, including the country’s three megabanks....
6 hours ago
Former LA Sheriff’s Deputy employed by crypto 'godfather' sentenced to almost 2 years in jail
A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who ran a private security firm for jailed crypto figure Adam Iza has been sentenced. The former sheriff’s deputy, who is the last of five ex-deputies to be sentenced, will spend 21 months in federal prison for abusing his badge to intimidate Iza’s enemies and hiding more than...
6 hours ago
Central bank approves two cryptocurrency banks to operate in Belarus
Officials in Belarus have registered two crypto banks to provide coin-related services as residents of the fintech hub in the capital Minsk. This is the first such move since the nation introduced the new type of entities that will combine cryptocurrency operations with traditional banking activities. Crypto credit institutions to launch operations in Belarus The...
7 hours ago
Bitget attackers look for alternative laundering venues as NEAR, Chainflip reject funds
The suspected North Korean attackers who stole roughly $388 million in the September 24 Bitget hack have started to run into roadblocks as the industry has continued to rally to plug exit routes. As of September 29, NEAR Intents and Chainflip, two cross-chain swap services, have joined Tether and Circle on the list of protocols...
9 hours ago
ETH on track to close the best September since 2016
ETH is on track to close the best September since 2016, after staging a strong recovery in derivative trading. Whales and accumulation also boost demand for ETH.
10 hours ago
AMD wants more than GPUs from its $8.2B World Labs deal
AMD has made arrangements to acquire World Labs, the company founded by AI researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in a transaction that is valued at approximately $8.2 billion. This deal implies that AMD will now have its own research team working on frontier models, and this will help the company move deeper into the realm of...
11 hours ago
Prediction Markets Cross $20 Billion in Weekly Trading Volume for the First Time
Prediction markets have set another record this past week by drawing in a cumulative total of $20.4 billion in trading volume. Data from Artemis shows that this is the first time weekly volume has gone past the $20 billion mark. The week before saw volume come in just under that level at $19.8 billion. The...
14 hours ago
Researchers forge 1024-bit RSA signature without extracting private key
A team of researchers from UC San Diego showed that a 1024-bit RSA signature can be forged by sending multiple queries to a hardware security module (HSM). In this case, the private key was never extracted from the device. This result implies yet another form of risk for crypto custodians: keeping the key inside tamper-proof...
14 hours ago
Nvidia’s CEO draws Pope Leo’s criticism as AI safety concerns surge 50%
Pope Leo XIV has condemned US President Donald Trump and Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, for downplaying the threat posed by AI technology. The Pope said that ignoring the threats posed by technology endangers our common future, and that the world should take human safety more seriously. Earlier this month, Huang rejected the idea of new...
15 hours ago
US senator urges Treasury and DOJ to investigate Tether over Iran-linked USDT
US authorities are expanding the investigation of the crypto system that Iran is reportedly using to transfer money, now putting Tether at the center of the issue. On September 28, Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) called on the Treasury and Justice Department to look further into Tether. The company...
15 hours ago
Bitquery links 56 Robinhood Chain memecoin launches to $15.5M rug-pull operation
A blockchain investigation has extended the suspected rug-pull operations on Robinhood Chain to 56 memecoin launches. It also puts the group’s estimated take at a lower $15.5 million. Bitquery published its results on September 28. The report examines the period of the activity until September 23, which is two days after the date used for...
17 hours ago
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 as AI shifts to cost per task
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, the second in the Claude 5.5 series, as the company prepares for an IPO. This marks an important shift in the criteria used to evaluate AI technologies: while raw benchmark performance remains a key consideration, companies now also care about how costly it can be to deliver...
20 hours ago
SpaceX Starship reaches orbit, deploys 26 Starlinks in shortened Flight 14
SpaceX launched Starship into orbit for the very first time on 28 September 2026, releasing 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites. However, due to engine failure, SpaceX had to cut the mission short. This flight demonstrated that the Starship can lift up SpaceX’s biggest satellite, but it didn’t prove that the company can maintain a sufficient...
21 hours ago
Zuckerberg unveils Meta's enterprise push riding on Muse hype
Meta (NASDAQ: META) has launched a new business called the Meta Enterprise Platform. The platform is built around the recently launched Muse AI agent. Former MongoDB chief Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run the platform as its Chief Enterprise Platform Officer, and the launch is Meta’s entrance into corporate AI sales at a moment Muse is...
Mon, Sep 28
Strategy reaches new BTC reserve record with almost $300M splurge on BTC, STRC
Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has recovered all of the Bitcoin it sold and pushed its reserves to new record levels after paying $142.7 million for 1,665 BTC over the last week. The firm’s SEC filing also confirmed that it spent another $151.7 million repurchasing its own STRC preferred stock. The purchase disclosed in the 8-K filed...
Mon, Sep 28
Apollo warns of 'agentic bank runs' as AI labs admit they can't stop agents from acting in unison
Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok has warned about a threat to the banking system that he refers to as an “agentic bank run.” The concern is that if millions of people permit AI agents to move their savings to chase better interest rates, nothing stops all those agents from acting in the same...
Mon, Sep 28
