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Kyrgyzstan opens 90 crypto crime cases in 2026 as market booms
Interior Minister Ulan Niyazbekov told a state blockchain council on September 5 that Kyrgyzstan’s police have opened 90 criminal cases involving cryptocurrency since the start of 2026. Kyrgyzstan has drawn repeated Western sanctions over allegations that its banks and crypto platforms help Russia evade financial restrictions. How are virtual assets showing up in crime? Kyrgyzstan’s...
Wed, Sep 9
US accuses China of copying AI models, China hits back
Three U.S. security agencies have come together to accuse Chinese leading AI developers of intentionally copying American AI models in a joint advisory released on Tuesday. Beijing rejected the allegations today, with the dispute landing some days before President Donald Trump is expected to host Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington. The joint advisory released...
Wed, Sep 9
Anthropic's safety chief warns of 10%+ extinction risk
Anthropic alignment science lead Evan Hubinger says artificial intelligence has a greater than 10% chance of wiping out humanity within the next decade. His estimate came Tuesday, hours after researcher Jacob Coxon said he had resigned from Anthropic and accused Anthropic and OpenAI of taking unacceptable risks as they chase stronger systems. Jacob wrote on...
Wed, Sep 9
Trader turns $2,600 into $1.2 million on PONS as Robinhood Chain fees spike
The Pons launchpad on Robinhood Chain is minting fresh blockchain millionaires, as an Arkham-monitored wallet has turned a $2,600 July investment on the launchpad’s token into more than $1.2 million in paper profits as of this September report. The epic ROI reported by the blockchain-tracking firm highlights a new cohort of winners from the speculative...
Wed, Sep 9
OpenAI and Samsung further partnership on next generation AI chips
OpenAI’s partnership with Samsung Electronics on next-generation semiconductors continues to deepen, and the South Korean manufacturer has now agreed to produce a custom AI chip for the ChatGPT maker, OpenAI Korea confirmed at a Seoul press conference on Wednesday. The move is expected to draw Samsung deeper into a chip race that has so far...
Wed, Sep 9
Canary Capital Launches the First U.S. Spot Staked TRX ETF (Ticker: TRXS)
Brentwood, TN – (September 9, 2026) — Canary Capital Group LLC (“Canary Capital”), a digital asset investment management firm, today announced the launch of the Canary Staked TRX ETF (Ticker: TRXS). The Fund seeks to provide exposure to the spot price of TRX, the native utility token of the TRON blockchain network. In addition, the...
Wed, Sep 9
Officials suspect Trump influence as Anthropic withholds latest Claude model from UK safety agency
UK officials have started to question how much influence US President Donald Trump had in Anthropic not opening its newest Claude Mythos 5.1 model to Britain’s AI safety testing agency, the AI Security Institute (AISI), before it released it to the public. A Cabinet Office spokesperson did not go so far as to confirm whether...
Wed, Sep 9
BitMart names Alvarez & Marsal as adviser while withdrawals stay frozen
BitMart appointed restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal as its financial adviser and has announced that it will hand oversight to an independent third party. Meanwhile, millions of exchange users remain unable to withdraw funds. What is Alvarez & Marsal doing for BitMart? BitMart has clarified that the restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) will work...
Wed, Sep 9
Sterling is still up against several major currencies this year, but momentum is fading
Sterling has made it through Britain’s latest political disaster and global tension without falling apart, but the pound is losing steam as the U.K. falls behind the change toward higher rates. So far this year, the currency is up roughly 1.6% against the euro, 2.8% against the Swiss franc, 4.9% against the Swedish krona, and...
Wed, Sep 9
Did OpenAI use the work of mathematicians to solve a Millennium Prize Problem?
OpenAI claimed that it has cracked the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness question, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems declared by the Scientific Advisory Board of the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI). However, the harder problem to solve might be convincing a public gallery that has grown more skeptical of the giant AI...
Wed, Sep 9
Cryptopolitan Report: Bill Gates Says Nobody Has A Plan For AI. 56% Of Our Readers Agree
What Gates Actually Wrote On August 26, Bill Gates published an essay on Gates Notes titled “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical”. For a man who has been an AI optimist for the large part over the past few years, the shift in tone here is striking. The...
Wed, Sep 9
Did reflection tokens peak, or are they just starting out?
Reflection tokens are a new attempt to combine memes with passive income. The new assets reflect stocks or crypto, tied to trending tickers like NVDA, or crypto assets like ZEC and SOL.
Wed, Sep 9
Euro Stablecoins Add $156 Million YTD as Dollar Supply Stays Flat
According to the latest data from Token Terminal, Euro-denominated stablecoin supply reached $848.1 million as of September 7. Since the start of the year, its supply has grown by around 22.6%, up from $691.7 million on January 1. While the percentage growth in itself is not something to write home about, in absolute terms, euro...
Wed, Sep 9
OpenAI pushes cost-per-task pricing as it expands into chip design and finance
OpenAI is expanding its advanced models into chip design, life sciences, and finance, arguing that a model with a higher upfront cost can pay off by performing a task with fewer tries. Reuters reported on September 9 that CFO Sarah Friar made this argument at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco on...
Wed, Sep 9
Block applies for national trust bank charter to custody bitcoin and stablecoins
Block, the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey, wants federal regulators to let it custody bitcoin and stablecoins through a chartered trust bank. On Tuesday, the company said it applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Builders Bank & Trust, N.A., an uninsured, non-deposit-taking national trust bank. If approved,...
Wed, Sep 9
ARK seeks SEC approval for tokenized share class in its venture fund
ARK Investment Management requested the SEC to allow its ARK Venture Fund to offer a tokenized share class, which could pave the way for blockchain ownership and secondary trading for a registered interval fund. However, ARK has no plans to introduce the new share class at this point. The company filed the Second Amended Application...
Wed, Sep 9
Google says EU search overhaul will hurt users and local businesses
Alphabet’s Google began rolling out changes to its European search results on Tuesday to satisfy EU antitrust regulators, saying the result will degrade the experience for users and raise costs for European businesses, per Reuters. A Google official said the changes represent the largest reduction in quality of service in the search engine’s 29-year history....
Wed, Sep 9
OpenAI and Anthropic bankers chase top credit ratings to open the bond market
Bankers steering OpenAI and Anthropic toward stock-market listings are pushing for both companies to secure investment-grade credit ratings soon after they go public, according to the Financial Times. The reasoning behind this point is straightforward: acquiring higher ratings would help gain more access to corporate bond investors, lower borrowing costs, and provide the two AI...
Tue, Sep 8
Bitcoin ETFs erase most of their 2026 losses, with $1B left to go
US-listed Bitcoin ETFs are $1 billion behind for the year, the difference between redemptions and deposits since January, shows data from September 8. This deficit matters to holders of IBIT, FBTC, and competing ETFs because it shows that the products at the center of Bitcoin’s institutional era spent much of 2026 losing money and only...
Tue, Sep 8
Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative rolls out ERC-7730 clear signing on Trezor
The ERC-7730 standard was made as a solution to a challenge that has been plaguing crypto transactions for a very long time, and over time its adoption as a standard has been gaining traction. The standard allows wallets to decode smart contract transactions and show the actual action, tokens, amounts, and destination on the device...
Tue, Sep 8
