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DHS orders agencies to purge DeepSeek-built tools from federal systems
DHS ordered federal civilian agencies to drop DeepSeek and any third-party product built on it, under an order signed July 24 and made public in October.
Tue, Oct 20
Sberbank plans December 1 crypto rollout for its 110 million retail customers
Sberbank plans to put Bitcoin, Ether and USDT in front of 110.6 million retail clients on December 1st, after the Bank of Russia cleared it to trade crypto.
Tue, Oct 20
Amazon pledges €16B for Germany as Berlin pushes digital sovereignty
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) will invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany next year. The plan was unveiled at Berlin’s first Invest in Germany Summit, where commitments have passed €225 billion. Is Amazon investing in Germany? David Zapolsky, Amazon’s chief global affairs and legal officer, alongside Chancellor Friedrich Merz, confirmed on Tuesday that Amazon...
Tue, Oct 20
Kazakhstan court puts Coinbase alongside UK- and EU-sanctioned HTX in app store crackdown
Kazakhstan’s Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) has announced that the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Court has named Nasdaq-listed Coinbase alongside UK and EU-sanctioned HTX among the list of products it wants Apple and Google to geo-block from the country’s app stores. The order, which also names BingX, Bitcoin.com, BitMart, LBank and WEEX, is Kazakhstan’s...
Tue, Oct 20
Postquant Labs launches QVM with Ethereum-style gas pricing for quantum computing
Postquant Labs has launched a single programming layer that runs across competing quantum and classical hardware, which it calls the Quip Virtual Machine (QVM). It charges for computation with a gas model that is borrowed from Ethereum. The company stated that QVM is now live on its Aglais testnet at aglais.quip.network, with free compute credits...
Tue, Oct 20
Qualcomm to cut thousands of jobs following performace reviews
Qualcomm has set plans for job cuts across its global workforce in motion, with employees facing the axe expected to be notified from November, according to an internal memo from CEO Cristiano Amon reviewed by Reuters. The chipmaker had about 52,000 employees as of September 2025 but has not said how many jobs it is...
Tue, Oct 20
Mt. Gox’s 34,400 BTC could stay frozen until 2027
Mt. Gox has rescheduled its repayment deadline for October 31, 2027, with a one-year extension from the Tokyo District Court, meaning that some unspecified number of former Mt. Gox customers are still waiting to receive their Bitcoin over a decade after the exchange went bust. Why the deadline slipped again Rehabilitation trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi announced...
Tue, Oct 20
Hyperliquid’s policy center pushes the SEC on airdrops, buybacks and trading
The Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) filed a comment letter on Monday supporting the SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets. The group says the proposed draft is not clear enough about how airdrops, token buybacks, and secondary trading will be treated under securities law. What does the Hyperliquid Policy Center want the SEC to change? On 19...
Tue, Oct 20
FINMA clears Switzerland's first Bitcoin fund as Europe opens retail access
Switzerland’s market regulator, the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), has approved the first exchange-traded retail fund that directly holds Bitcoin on Tuesday, October 20. The first-of-its-kind approval in the country lands in the same week as Sparkassen rolled out crypto trading inside its banking app in neighboring Germany. Switzerland is late to Bitcoin funds despite...
Tue, Oct 20
CME to launch cash-settled tungsten futures in H1 2027, pending regulatory approval
CME Group is set to roll out tungsten futures contracts in the first half of 2027, which could help companies and traders manage price risk on a crucial metal as restrictions from China and increasing defense-related use have tightened its supply around the world. The contract, which will need to be approved by regulators, will...
Tue, Oct 20
Revolut says customers’ money is safe as Google Cloud outage knocks out payments
Revolut has reassured customers who can’t access card payments, transfers and ATM withdrawals that their money and data are safe after a Google Cloud outage knocked out those services on Tuesday. The failure lands exactly one year to the day that Coinbase, Robinhood and Lloyds Bank went down due to an Amazon Web Services outage....
Tue, Oct 20
Moscow targets traders importing Tether's USDT from abroad
Russia’s banks have started cracking down on cryptocurrency traders obtaining Tether abroad and selling it for cash on the domestic market. The stablecoin is quite popular in the Russian Federation, where sanctions are limiting access to fiat finances and traditional cross-border payments. The dollar-pegged token is one of the three leading cryptocurrencies recently approved for...
Tue, Oct 20
Whales and stakeholders fill demand gap as Strategy slows down BTC accumulation
Strategy is no longer a regular BTC buyer, but the slowdown in treasury companies is offset by new whale accumulation.
Tue, Oct 20
Altman’s three AI endgames: an inspector, a merger, or melted GPUs
Advanced AI could end in three possible scenarios, according to OpenAI’s Sam Altman: a nuclear watchdog-style international inspector, a merger of the labs in the AI lead, or a single company that can “melt everyone else’s GPUs.” The Altman comments, reported by The Information, land as OpenAI continues to pursue different edges in potential AI...
Tue, Oct 20
Bitget acquires GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics in Thailand expansion push
Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has announced the planned acquisition of GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a Bangkok-based digital asset exchange and brokerage, through its interest in BTGT Management (Thailand) Ltd. Under the proposed transaction, GMO Internet, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiary, GMO-Z.com Holdings (Thailand) Co., Ltd., amongst others, will transfer their entire...
Tue, Oct 20
German chancellor urges adoption of AI as government partners with Nvidia
Germany has signed an AI partnership with Nvidia as Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged manufacturers to embrace the technology and put their industrial data to work, warning that the country risks falling behind foreign competitors if it fails to adapt. The agreement was announced at the opening of the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin yesterday,...
Tue, Oct 20
AstraZeneca partners with Oracle to bring AI into clinical trials
Oracle announced that it has signed a non-binding agreement with AstraZeneca to test the potential for AI and real world patient data to find trial-eligible patients faster, aimed at easing recruitment, which remains the biggest bottleneck in drug research. The announcement came from Oracle’s corporate newsroom, with AstraZeneca also issuing its own release the same...
Tue, Oct 20
Kalshi Weekly Trading Volume Hits Record $21.5 Billion as Trades Cross 100 Mi llion
Kalshi drew in $21.5 billion in trading volume in the week ending October 18, according to data from Artemis. This makes it the 10th consecutive week in which the prediction market has registered a record. During the same week, the number of trades on the platform also crossed a milestone of over 100 million for...
Tue, Oct 20
Elice shares plunge 30% on KOSDAQ debut as AI valuations cool
Elice Group, a South Korean AI infrastructure firm, saw its stocks drop by 28% on its KOSDAQ debut on October 20, 2026, despite having a solid IPO and a successful first half. Investors are worrying about the future of AI data-center valuations and the impact this is going to have on the market. A debut...
Tue, Oct 20
XRP eyes $2 rally as XRPL transaction volume surges 6,000%
XRP is showing signs of a potential recovery after transaction volume on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) surged to almost $50 billion. With the asset holding firm at its $1.25 support level, market analyst Ali Martinez believes this surge of onchain activity points to a market bottom and a potential run to $2. Santiment metrics show...
Tue, Oct 20