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He Yi links Binance freeze rumors to funds from Southeast Asian scam compounds
Binance co-founder He Yi has dismissed rumors that the exchange is indiscriminately freezing user funds to shore up liquidity, citing a warning she issued earlier in the week about receiving funds linked to Southeast Asian scam compounds. The Friday X post by the executive cited law-enforcement orders to explain any actions users might have noticed...
Fri, Nov 13
Operation TorNado nets 354 arrests, $234M in cash and crypto seized
The US Justice Department (DOJ) and Europol announced on November 12 that they arrested 354 individuals and seized more than $234 million in cash and cryptocurrency in an operation that ran from May 2025 to October this year. The operation involved law enforcement agencies in 14 countries to pursue drug sellers and buyers on the...
Fri, Nov 13
Bitcoin Slips Below $69K as It Tests the 200-Week Moving Average
Bitcoin has dipped below $69,000, reaching its lowest level in three months. At the time of writing Bitcoin has witnessed a sharp selloff of more than 7% over the past two days. The broader crypto market has also seen a notable downturn with the total crypto market cap now falling by over 9% this past...
Fri, Nov 13
Cisco boosts AI revenue target by $1.5B after strong quarter
Cisco bumped up its full-year sales forecast after it topped Wall Street’s first-quarter revenue expectations. It raised its annual revenue outlook to between $74.8 billion and $75.8 billion, well above its earlier ceiling of $73.4 billion. For the upcoming quarter ending in January, the firm is also now eyeing about $18.1 billion in revenue, outpacing...
Fri, Nov 13
Is Microsoft’s cloud dependence becoming a risk for AI platforms?
Users of Microsoft 365 continued to experience service disruptions early Friday. At 2:14 a.m. UTC on November 13, Microsoft’s service-health dashboard continued to report service degradation for business and consumer products. The issues were not limited to Outlook. Other services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Microsoft connectors utilized in systems like ChatGPT and Claude,...
Fri, Nov 13
Meta's Muse now phones businesses for paying US subscribers
Meta's Muse agent now phones US businesses about insurance, cable and DMV chores, but only for paying subscribers on its $20 and $100 plans.
Fri, Nov 13
Tether, Tron and Chainalysis launch DCTF to replace disbanded T3 unit
On November 12, Tether, Tron, and Chainalysis formed a new alliance, known as the Digital Crime Task Force (DCTF). It aims to identify illegal USDT transactions on the Tron blockchain and take preventive actions to block them before the money is moved. The DCTF comes after the dissolution of the T3 Financial Crime Unit, which...
Fri, Nov 13
FBI says FaceStealer hackers faked trusted contacts on crypto video calls
North Korean hackers replayed webcam clips of trusted contacts on video calls to plant malware, the DOJ said, tying FaceStealer to $400M+ in crypto theft.
Fri, Nov 13
Arthur Hayes buys crypto risk before Anthropic listing but keeps exits close
Arthur Hayes is adding crypto risk before Anthropic's Nasdaq listing, sized small to medium so he can close fast, a week after vowing Maelstrom would sit out.
Fri, Nov 13
BlackRock's BUIDL fund gets a weekend USDC exit through Securitize and Ethena
Securitize and Ethena opened a BUIDL liquidity facility with $50 million funded, letting eligible holders swap into USDC on weekends.
Fri, Nov 13
186 fake AI domains funnel ChatGPT and Claude typos into malware
A mistake in spelling in an AI tool’s domain may mean more than just seeing an error page. In a report released on November 12, enterprise-browser security company Island found 186 domains that look similar to the domains of 27 known AI brands. This number corresponds to web addresses rather than actual confirmed cases of...
Fri, Nov 13
Claude for Manufacturing hands plant teams 17 skills for quotes, inspections and repairs
Anthropic's Claude for Manufacturing plugin brings 17 skills and connectors to Autodesk Fusion, Infor, Microsoft 365 and Oracle NetSuite to plant teams.
Thu, Nov 12
SpaceX commits over $74B to Texas and Arizona AI supercomputing campuses
On Thursday, SpaceX announced its plans to invest over $74 billion in the construction of two AI supercomputing facilities in Texas and Arizona. More than $24 billion will be invested in Texas, while an estimated $50 billion will be spent in Arizona. These amounts are planned, not amounts already spend. The issues of energy supply...
Thu, Nov 12
Western Union's USDPT becomes a Visa settlement asset through Anchorage
Visa and eligible partners can now settle VisaNet obligations in Western Union's USDPT, issued by Anchorage Digital's federally chartered bank.
Thu, Nov 12
AI giants face legal war as safety advocates seek development freeze
Four nonprofit organizations sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and SpaceXSI in San Francisco on November 12. They want development of new frontier AI models halted, arguing the risks could be catastrophic. No freeze has been ordered. The case comes as Anthropic prepares to go public and worldwide AI spending accelerates. What the plaintiffs are asking...
Thu, Nov 12
Uniswap, a16z and Paradigm back challenge to Illinois DeFi tax
A coalition of DeFi builders led by Uniswap, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Paradigm have filed a court brief supporting the crypto industry’s lawsuit against Illinois’s 0.2% digital asset tax. The coalition is warning that the state’s draft rules would turn fee-charging decentralized exchanges and their frontends into tax-collecting brokers. It is like a repeat of...
Thu, Nov 12
Jensen Huang faces a third affair allegation hours after resigning as Nvidia CEO
Jensen Huang is facing allegations of a third extramarital relationship, with Reuters reporting that the former Nvidia (NVDA) CEO was involved with another woman employed by the chipmaker. The report surfaced just hours after Huang resigned on Thursday, ending his 33-year run at the company he co-founded. Two sources allegedly told Reuters about the relationship,...
Thu, Nov 12
NYDFS makes licensed crypto firms answer for their promoters and impostors
New York’s Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued new rules that make licensed crypto firms responsible for the influencers they hire for ads and for their impostors too. Crypto firms have until May 10, 2027, to comply with its new rules. What does the new NYDFS guidance require from crypto firms? Licensed virtual currency...
Thu, Nov 12
Tether freeze proposal left a Tron wallet 64 minutes to move $15.2M USDT
One Tron address sent 15.2M USDT five minutes after Tether proposed its freeze, FreezeCheck data shows. 219 wallets moved 65.4M in such windows.
Thu, Nov 12
BlackRock's bitcoin fund loses $269.73M as nine-day exit passes $2B
BlackRock's IBIT lost $269.73 million on November 11, its ninth straight day of outflows, taking withdrawals since October 30 past $2 billion.
Thu, Nov 12