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Mastercard brings fraud and sanctions screening to stablecoin payments
Mastercard announced the launch of Stablecoin Security at Money20/20 USA on October 19, 2026, which enables banks to identify fraud and sanction risks ahead of time when their clients make stablecoin payments on-chain. The company isn’t building another payment network. It aims to provide the risk intelligence needed by banks as more business payments move...
Tue, Oct 20
Former OpenAI engineer detained as prosecutors cite Saudi ties
A federal judge ruled on October 19, 2026, that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former engineer with OpenAI, would remain in custody until the trial. As per the prosecutors, his links with members of the Saudi royal family facilitated his family traveling across countries. This case has raised an important question for American companies working in the...
Tue, Oct 20
OpenAI rushing to raise funds worth $30 billion before Anthropic's IPO
OpenAI is pushing to accelerate a funding round of about $30 billion that could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $1.4 trillion. Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the company wants to secure the investment before rival Anthropic’s expected IPO in mid-November. The timing is tight Anthropic is expected to go...
Tue, Oct 20
Nscale and Anthropic in talks for $45 billion computing deal
Nscale is in talks to supply Anthropic with $45 billion worth of AI computing capacity, according to reports. The proposed deal would expand their existing partnership and strengthen Nscale’s pitch for a $30 billion valuation ahead of its planned IPO. The proposed deal revolves around a second building at Nscale’s Monarch data center campus in...
Tue, Oct 20
Europe's telecom giants chase satellite sovereignty without a fleet
On October 19, 2026, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone entered into a letter of intent to explore a possible joint bid for the European satellite spectrum. Their goal is to enable regular mobile phones to connect to satellites without the need of a proprietary, dedicated system. No license has been issued in connection with...
Tue, Oct 20
JPMorgan brings JPM Coin to Ethereum to test bank-money settlement
JPMorgan brought its dollar deposit token, JPM Coin, to Ethereum on October 19, 2026. The token has already been launched on Base before. With this new launch, institutional clients will now have another option for settling transactions using bank-issued money. It also offers J.P. Morgan a chance to see whether deposit tokens can compete with...
Tue, Oct 20
CFTC asks a federal court to dismiss CME Group's lawsuit over crypto perpetual futures
On October 16, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asked a federal judge to throw out CME Group’s lawsuit over US crypto perpetual futures. The regulator argues that CME has not shown how allowing competing exchanges to offer these contracts would hurt its business. In its latest filing, the CFTC challenged CME’s standing in...
Mon, Oct 19
Tether's Ardoino disputes Blumenthal report on Iran sanctions timing
Tether’s CEO Paolo Ardoino has rejected a Senate Democrat’s findings on the company’s Iran compliance. Senator Richard Blumenthal had asked the Treasury and Justice departments to investigate whether Tether broke sanctions law. How is Tether linked to Iran? Paolo Ardoino, the CEO of Tether, wrote on X today that the company froze flagged addresses an...
Mon, Oct 19
13-year-old Bitcoin wallet moves $33.4M amid Noah Doe case
A long-neglected Bitcoin wallet sent 411.45 BTC, valued at around $33.4 million, just yesterday. This wallet is among 39,069 neglected wallets that a New York lawsuit is trying to classify as abandoned property. However, a recent transaction from this wallet runs counter to that classification. The wallet woke up after 13 years of silence According...
Mon, Oct 19
Exposed AI hacking panels reveal criminals hunting cards and crypto
Ordinary criminals can now run hacking campaigns using cheap AI tools that a year ago they needed a government to achieve. A report NorForge published Monday states that researchers found more than 20 control panels left open on the internet. They show who the hackers targeted and what they stole, and the targets include Deere,...
Mon, Oct 19
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...
Mon, Oct 19
Saylor's Strategy buys 267 BTC for $22.1M as STRC buyback cash pile shrinks to $447M
Michael Saylor’s Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) disclosed in its October 19 filing that it paid $22.1 million for 267 BTC during the previous week. During the same week, the firm wrote a $193.1 million check to repurchase its own STRC preferred shares and raised the cap on its digital credit buyback program to $3 billion. Notably,...
Mon, Oct 19
Korea’s FSS chief apologizes for leveraged ETFs as “bring money home” plan backfires
South Korea’s top financial supervisor has admitted to lawmakers that regulators pushed single-stock leveraged ETFs through review to meet a launch date. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) chief Lee Chan-jin is now the third senior official to admit fault for products that cost retail investors trillions of won. What did the FSS chief admit to?...
Mon, Oct 19
Musk vows SpaceX shares for 72 million kids hours after telling Anthropic how to give
SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) founder and CEO, Elon Musk announced early Monday that every child in the United States will receive one unit each of his shares in the Starship maker next year. Musk committed to the giveaway estimated at roughly $10.5 billion within a day of publicly criticizing the new charity fund that Anthropic announced...
Mon, Oct 19
Microsoft quits Nscale’s Essex AI site, leaving another Trump-visit AI pledge without its backer
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reportedly walked away from the Loughton, Essex, data center agreement it entered into with Nscale during the September 2025 state visit of US President Donald Trump to the UK, citing potential power delays to the facility into the 2030s, per the Telegraph. Microsoft was supposed to be the headline name of...
Mon, Oct 19
MARA public wallets send 1,000 BTC to Binance and Gate, stoking 2026 selling rumors
MARA Digital Holdings prepared to sell another 1,000 BTC, with transactions from the company's known wallets to Binance and Gate.
Mon, Oct 19
Accenture puts its $1.5 billion China unit under review after unsolicited approaches
Accenture has reportedly hired JPMorgan to review its Greater China unit, valued at up to $1.5 billion, after unsolicited interest over the past year.
Mon, Oct 19
Cysic's blacklist came 76 minutes after the mint, once 7.2 million CYS were dumped
An attacker minted 10 million CYS via Cysic's bridge, sold 7.2 million and moved ~$727,000 to Ethereum before a blacklist landed 76 minutes later.
Mon, Oct 19
MapQuest maps license plate readers from Motorola, Axon, Verkada, and Flock
MapQuest's Surveillance Layer plots license plate readers from Motorola Solutions, Axon, Verkada and seven other vendors next to Flock Safety's.
Mon, Oct 19
LIVE: Markets open high in tech’s first earnings week as Trump-Iran tensions remain high
U.S. stock futures are up despite fears of a Black Monday, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq try to recover from last week’s losses. Asian markets are mostly down, oil prices have eased, and the euro is slipping as unrest spreads across France. Meta (META) and Tesla (TSLA) report earnings this week, with investors hoping...
Mon, Oct 19