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Judge rules against Gemini attempt to erase order not to mislead the CFTC
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Alvin Hellerstein, rejected the joint bid by the Gemini crypto exchange (NASDAQ: GEMI) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to remove a permanent order barring the exchange from misleading the US regulator. Judge Hellerstein of the SDNY declined to reopen a consent order that...
Fri, Oct 16
Israeli ad firm used online ads to deliver zero-click spyware, researchers say
Israeli advertising firm Discover-Tech used ordinary online ads to track people and install spyware to their devices, as per Reuters. It was able to distribute ads across a vast network of websites and apps using advertising platforms operated by Google, Comcast and Yandex. Independent investigations by Citizen Lab and Confiant revealed how the operation worked....
Fri, Oct 16
Tesla Unveils its New Flying Roadster
Tesla finally revealed its second generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters on Thursday via a livestream. The announcement was made at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, just outside Waco. The demonstration included a driverless prototype climbing a curved ramp, flipping off of it and landing smoothly on its wheels. The car also used thrusters...
Fri, Oct 16
Tencent Cloud AI agent fleet pulled five Amap answers through Jina's cached reader
AI agents on Tencent Cloud made 35,300+ requests to Alibaba's Amap from Sept 28 to Oct 5. Five runs got answers through Jina's cached page reader.
Fri, Oct 16
General Atlantic targets 2027 IPO at up to $10B valuation
General Atlantic is planning to pursue a public listing in the first half of 2027, with a valuation as high as $10 billion, as per Financial Times. This amount refers to the potential market value, not the proceeds raised from the IPO. Although General Atlantic has over $130 billion in assets under management, investors will...
Fri, Oct 16
Meta says a pair of Apple Mac Studios can run its 816B-parameter Muse Spark Open
Meta's Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion-parameter open-weight model, runs on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios, Meta says. Chinese models still score higher.
Fri, Oct 16
Volvo furthers automated hands-free driving partnership with Nvidia
Volvo Cars is expanding its partnership with Nvidia to bring more advanced hands-free and automated driving features to future models, with plans to extend the technology across its lineup, including hybrids and gasoline-powered cars, without limiting it to only EVs. Three pieces of Nvidia tech going into future Volvos According to the matching press releases...
Fri, Oct 16
Rakuten Wallet offers physical SHIB coins to holders at Osaka event
Rakuten Wallet will give away physical Shiba Inu (SHIB) coins at an investment seminar on November 3 in Osaka. Participants who show their SHIB holdings in the app will be able to take home the souvenir. This gives the exchange with one more way to convert the excitement about the meme coin into customer engagement....
Fri, Oct 16
Anthropic lets METR publish safety findings without its approval
Anthropic embedded six METR researchers with employee-level access and can no longer block their safety reports, only redact narrow categories.
Fri, Oct 16
Amazon launches two new portable AI devices that listen to you all day
Amazon has announced the introduction of two AI-powered listening devices under its Bee brand. These include the Frontier wristband and Eclipse phone attachment, both built to capture conversations which they can use in generating summaries and product recommendations. The devices are the first Bee products to launch since Amazon acquired the San Francisco-based wearables startup...
Fri, Oct 16
Ripple Prime opens 24/7 RWA swaps to institutions, with Virtu already trading
Virtu is trading Ripple Prime's new RWA perpetual swaps, which reference 100+ markets in stocks, metals, energy and FX and run 24/7, weekends included.
Thu, Oct 15
BitFuFu may abandon its 80 MW Ethiopia Bitcoin mine purchase over a power dispute
BitFuFu may scrap its 80 MW Ethiopia mining deal after the site's power supplier threatened to seize equipment, with $4.1 million already paid.
Thu, Oct 15
CNN licenses journalism to Google as publishers embrace AI deals
CNN has entered into a multiyear deal whereby Google will be entitled to use its journalism in experimental generative AI products. The agreement, which was revealed on October 15, 2026, will provide CNN with compensation for its content, although specific financial terms have not been disclosed. The agreement provides an important option for media companies....
Thu, Oct 15
Sweden reconsiders digital krona as digital euro and dollar stablecoins rise
Sweden’s Riksbank says the digital euro and dollar-backed stablecoins may soon warrant another look at a digital krona, although no issuance decision has been made. In an October 7 letter to parliament, it argued that changes since an earlier inquiry could justify reassessing Sweden’s need for digital central bank money. Why the central bank is...
Thu, Oct 15
Task-scam operator loses $4.8M in Bitcoin to Ledger implant theft
A so-called task-scam hacker has lost about 60 Bitcoins—or around $4.8 million—due to the Ledger hardware-wallet hack. As per Chainalysis, the scam operator transferred the proceeds from his crime into three Ledger wallets on September 22. The hackers moved all the Bitcoins on October 9 to one wallet already known to be used for stolen...
Thu, Oct 15
DeFi Development raises CHAD dividend to 14% to fund more Solana buying
DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV) is lifting the dividend on its CHAD preferred stock to 14% from 13% starting November 2. This increase comes roughly five weeks after launching the security. The Solana treasury firm says the move will pull in more buyers to fund its SOL purchases. What did DeFi Development Corp. increase? DeFi...
Thu, Oct 15
NYC’s pension watchdog turns Amodei’s “slow down” essay against Anthropic’s $2T IPO
New York City (NYC) Comptroller Mark Levine has asked Anthropic to pause its planned IPO in a letter addressed to Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei. Levine wants the company to first address the safety and other unprecedented risks that AI poses before going ahead with the IPO. He pointed to CEO Dario Amodei’s own essay where...
Thu, Oct 15
Germany bets on “physical AI” with a state-funded Nvidia partnership
Germany is laying the groundwork for a state-backed partnership with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and about 12 other indigenous AI labs to fund “physical AI” for use by robots and autonomous vehicles. The government is looking to provide funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of euros, per Handelsblatt. Two goals: train robots, train industrial...
Thu, Oct 15
ByteDance close to deal with Mediatek to acquire data center custom AI chips
ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy custom data center chips from Taiwan’s MediaTek, Bloomberg has reported, with the TikTok owner after another source of AI computing power while US export restrictions continue to block its access to Nvidia’s most advanced processors. Bytedance wants to secure application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) chips tailored to a single...
Thu, Oct 15
FCA to automate supervision with AI, rules out new AI rulebook
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans to automate much of its supervision and enforcement using AI. The FCA plans to become what it calls an “agentic regulator,” and it is doing so without writing any AI-specific rules for the firms it oversees. How will the FCA become an agentic regulator? MPs on the Treasury Committee...
Thu, Oct 15