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Anthropic builds biology lab for AI drug research
Anthropic has opened a physical biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it will run hands-on experiments as the AI company moves beyond computer-based modeling and deeper into drug research. Its head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, confirmed the lab to Reuters. The research will focus on diseases that the pharmaceutical industry has...
Fri, Sep 18
Investigators credit crypto tracing as UAE arrests Swedish fugitive wanted by Interpol
The UAE has detained a Swedish fugitive accused of running an international money laundering network, as crypto tracing tools were reportedly used to dismantle an operation that spread to organized crime and contract killings. Swedish police simultaneously picked up six other suspected members of the fugitive’s gang. The seven arrests were announced on Thursday by...
Fri, Sep 18
Crypto bears retreat as BTC holds, LSK, ARB, NEAR and ZEC lead altcoin bounce
Altcoin holders are having a great day Friday as a market-wide bounce has seen major tokens print green over the last 24 hours. Bitcoin also reclaimed $78,000, as the leading crypto brushed off the letdown from the CLARITY Act stalling and the Federal Reserve’s rate hike. BTC’s return above the $78,000 level capped three straight...
Fri, Sep 18
Group earns $6,500 using Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI weeks after Hugging Face incident
A three-person team at security startup Hacktron AI chained two flaws to hijack an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT account and reach the company’s private code. The whole break-in took less than 72 hours, and the attackers made use of Anthropic’s Claude to build the memory-corruption exploit. How did Hacktron AI access OpenAI’s private code? OpenAI has...
Fri, Sep 18
HYPE Hits Record High Above $90 After SEC Exemption and Hyperliquid Borrowing Launch
HYPE has hit a new all-time high, breaching its previous high which was set on September 6. Hyperliquid’s token is now trading above the $90 mark, following a rally of more than 15% in the last two days. Among the ten cryptocurrencies by market cap, HYPE is the best performing asset year to date, with...
Fri, Sep 18
Stakeholders debate Zcash Dev Fund as Bitcoin comparison grows
Some of the most active investors and cryptographers have entered the public debate about how Zcash funds its own development, arguing on both sides of a 20% tax on block rewards and a growing push for ZEC to behave more like a typical store of value. The Zcash Dev Fund is a mechanism that routes...
Fri, Sep 18
Arbitrum rallies near 2026 high as network becomes major RWA trading hub
Arbitrum shows increased activity as it became a hub for real-world asset tokenization, with adoption driven by its usage on Robinhood.
Fri, Sep 18
BOJ raises rates to a 31-year high as AI demand adds to inflation risks
On Friday, the Bank of Japan(BOJ) raised its benchmark interest rate from 1% to 1.25%, the highest level since 1995, as it moves to combat economic strain and normalize borrowing costs. The increase marks the first rate hike since June and moves the BOJ closer to neutral rates and further away from the yen’s cheap-funding...
Fri, Sep 18
Unlocking the Trillion-Token Era: B.AI’s Global Settlement Layer for the Agent Economy
Summary: Positioned squarely between foundation models and AI agents, B.AI is integrating compute routing, decentralized settlement, and full-stack agent infrastructure to establish itself as an undoubted spearhead in AI infrastructure. Just five months after its launch, B.AI has already set a new industry record with a daily throughput of over 1.51 trillion tokens—a 71,500x-plus increase...
Fri, Sep 18
Robinhood bets $25M on Crusoe’s shift from Bitcoin to AI
Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) invested about $25 million in Crusoe, a firm that once mined Bitcoin but now focuses on AI data centers. The deal, which closed on August 31, was part of Crusoe’s $3.9 billion Series F fundraising round. It offers retail investors a way to gain exposure to Crusoe without investing directly...
Fri, Sep 18
ASUS and Poesis test autonomous AI agents that research, manage risk and trade
ASUS and Poesis partnered for a week-long experiment in which autonomous AI agents conducted market research, managed risk, and performed real trades. According to the announcement from the two companies, the agents worked on the ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 laptop with the use of NVIDIA tech. The significance of the experiment lies not only...
Fri, Sep 18
Apple’s AI push puts its privacy premium to the test
Apple has always benefited from a superior market valuation, based on hardware quality, a strong ecosystem, and unwavering customer loyalty. However, in the age of AI, the company faces a more complex challenge in terms of how to maintain its reputation when it comes to the respect for privacy, while its technology becomes more personalized,...
Fri, Sep 18
DefiLlama ranks crypto exchanges on reserves and execution, not volume
DefiLlama announced the launch of its new REAL Ranking tab on September 16, providing an alternative to the exchange leaderboard, which was mainly based on reported volume. At the time of writing, the live ranking was showing 59 different exchanges, ranked based on their reserves, execution, activity, and liquidity. This provides traders and institutions with...
Fri, Sep 18
Treasury hits Iran-linked BitBank as sanctions target crypto rails
The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on September 17 against BitBank, the cryptocurrency exchange, which they say is owned by Babak Zanjani, who is also under U.S. sanctions. The Treasury states that between June and July, Zanjani used BitBank to send hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This...
Thu, Sep 17
CFTC, SEC deliver on regulatory promise with exemptions despite stalled CLARITY Act
The CFTC’s Market Participants Division has extended no-action relief to providers of passive crypto-trading software, sparing them from registering as brokers, two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act. The relief is set out in CFTC Staff Letter 26-25, signed by division director DJ Hennes. Division staff said they will not recommend enforcement against...
Thu, Sep 17
King Charles warns AI leaders to seize control before it is "too late"
During a summit hosted in Scotland, King Charles III told the heads of the world’s largest AI companies that they must find ways to keep the technology under human control. The King warned that the people who built it now fear it could develop “darker capacities” and even be turned to killing. What does King...
Thu, Sep 17
World launches new super app with Stripe, Kalshi, and payment integration
World, the identity project formerly known as Worldcoin, launched its financial super app called World Money today across over 150 countries. The self-custodial wallet brings stablecoins, payments, yield, and investing into one app, with integrations for services including Stripe, Kalshi, and Morpho. The launch aims to give World ID holders access to new financial service...
Thu, Sep 17
SEC grants five-year exemption for blockchain venues to trade tokenized US stocks
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a five-year, conditional “Innovation Exemption” that lets Blockchain venues list and trade tokenized US stocks without needing to register as exchanges. The regulator’s new directive creates a new category known as a Tokenized Securities Venue, or TSV, and changes two definitions that normally apply to it. A...
Thu, Sep 17
Jaime Leverton takes the CEO seat at Zcash miner Fortitude before its Nasdaq debut
Fortitude Mining has named the former CEO of Hut 8, Jaime Leverton, as its new CEO, effective September 21. The company is bringing in an executive who has already run a listed crypto miner to take over the job of steering the Zcash-focused company through a planned Nasdaq listing. An operator who has done the...
Thu, Sep 17
JPYC restores Ethereum issuance after outage, Polygon still paused
JPYC, the issuer of Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin, said on Thursday that it has restored the issuance-reservation function on Ethereum after a temporary shutdown. Meanwhile, the same function on Polygon remains offline. A disruption hit the process users rely on to mint new tokens on the same day that JPYC made its South Korean...
Thu, Sep 17
