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Fairshake backs 32 House races as crypto industry presses for regulation
As it endeavors to push crypto rulemaking forward in Washington, the crypto industry is connecting campaign financing with voter mobilization activities. Through its political campaign, Fairshake, which is the largest super political action committee (PAC) in the industry, is supporting various House campaigns. Moreover, another group supported by Coinbase called Stand With Crypto, indicates that...
Tue, Oct 6
FinCEN scraps proposed crypto mixer and wallet rules
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) pulled back its 2023 proposal against crypto mixing. It claimed the rule would have inadvertently stifled legitimate transactions. It also scrapped a December 2020 proposal that would have forced users to follow strict ID verification and recordkeeping rules for unhosted crypto wallets. In its press release, it wrote, “FinCEN...
Tue, Oct 6
CFTC opens path for true perpetual futures on US regulated exchanges
In an attempt to facilitate the entry of true perpetual futures into regulated US derivatives markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a no-action letter on October 3. In the no-action letter, the Division of Market Oversight stated that the CFTC will not take any enforcement actions against Coinbase Derivatives or any designated...
Tue, Oct 6
Norway plans temporary ban on AI smart glasses in public places
Norway has announced that it intends to impose a temporary ban on the use of AI-powered smart glasses in specific public and sensitive places. The proposal is focused on the matter of privacy, more specifically on the worries stemming from the use of the devices to record people without their knowledge. The privacy concern is...
Tue, Oct 6
OpenAI adds invisible text watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex in Europe
OpenAI has begun labeling text generated by its AI systems ChatGPT and Codex for users in the EU region, the firm stated on Monday, due to the requirement of transparency under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act implemented on August 2. Those rules require AI companies to label machine-generated content in a form other systems can...
Tue, Oct 6
Groq shareholders sue Nvidia over the structure of their $20 billion deal
A lawsuit has been filed against AI chipmaker Groq’s board of directors by two of its ex-engineers. It is alleged that the deal in question was executed in an inequitable manner. The controversy now provides an addition of shareholders’ litigation to an already scrutinized deal on the antitrust front in the United States. The proposed...
Tue, Oct 6
Former AI researchers warn NYC Council humanity could lose control of AI
Jacob Coxon, who left Anthropic in September warning the technology could kill everyone before the decade ends, opened his sworn testimony by calling the approach to building advanced systems extremely reckless. On the present path, he said, he considers it more likely than not that humanity loses control to these systems, with extinction among the...
Tue, Oct 6
Corporate AI costs are falling, but companies are using the savings to deploy more AI
Companies in the United States continue to pay less for AI despite increasing usage levels, according to a recent study released by Ramp AI Index. This information indicates that the AI price wars are not adversely affecting demand. Instead, companies are now finding it easier to deploy AI on a large scale. If the above...
Tue, Oct 6
Compound votes on treasury delays and veto powers as DeFi governance strains
Compound’s COMP holders are voting on Proposal 612, which would extend treasury withdrawal delays from two days to ten and give the protocol’s Governor Timelock power to cancel treasury transactions before they execute. The voting opened on Sunday and will close on Wednesday (October 7), according to the proposal page. Though the changes may seem...
Mon, Oct 5
Ethereum's entry queue holds new stakers for 25 days as MetaMask exits drain
New Ethereum stakers face a 25-day entry wait as the exit queue falls to 767,349 ETH from an 850,736 ETH peak driven by MetaMask's validator exits.
Mon, Oct 5
China P2P stablecoin wallets grow 43x as East Asia's $1.2T market defies rules
East Asia’s five largest markets now hold a crypto economy worth roughly $1.2 trillion. In several East Asian markets, the rules on paper describe a very different market than the one people are actually using due to the fact that crypto is a licensed business in some capitals and a banned activity in others. Do...
Mon, Oct 5
DFDV's cash doubles and its SOL debt shrinks ahead of third-quarter results
DeFi Development Corp. expects cash to have more than doubled and SOL borrowings to have fallen since August 12, with NAV per share up over 100%.
Mon, Oct 5
SpaceX stock jumps 6% to $168 as Musk rebrands AI unit SpaceXSI
SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) stock rose by 6% to approximately $168.78 on Monday, which increased the company’s market cap to around $2.29 trillion, taking the stock beyond the $150 mark that made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire in June. The move comes after Morgan Stanley endorsed the company again, and Musk’s move to rename the...
Mon, Oct 5
Ethereum's fix for Bybit-style heists is still a year away, and it won't stop most of 2026's hacks
The Ethereum Foundation has identified protocol-level defense that could have caught the $1.5 billion Bybit heist and the $50 million Aave swap disaster. However, the Foundation says that the solution will not ship before 2027. It also added that even though it was already available, it would not have stopped the stolen-key and social-engineering attacks...
Mon, Oct 5
OpenAI faces Astra trademark suit as AI naming clashes multiply
OpenAI is facing legal trouble on Monday due to the filing of a trademark infringement lawsuit by software company TradeSun, which is based in Del Mar, California. The case was filed in a federal court in San Francisco and adds to the string of name-related lawsuits faced by OpenAI, according to a report from Reuters....
Mon, Oct 5
OpenAI brings visual ads to ChatGPT images as WeightWatchers pays 15.3% less than search
OpenAI will test visual ads during ChatGPT image generation in the US, as WeightWatchers reports a 15.3% lower acquisition cost than paid search.
Mon, Oct 5
Ofcom's online safety data request is X's most burdensome from any regulator
X told a London court that Ofcom's Online Safety Act data demand is the most burdensome it has faced, as Meta and TikTok also challenge the notices.
Mon, Oct 5
W Group bets $400M on SignSplit, valuing signed-data startup at $1B in seed round
W Group becomes the sole investor and anchor strategic partner of SignSplit’s seed round. The technology startup behind the signed-data platform where people protect their data, work and likeness, license or contribute it to AI, and are compensated for its use. W Group, a global fintech and technology ecosystem serving more than 40 million users,...
Mon, Oct 5
Musk goes all-in on Trump's AI-to-SI rebrand as other chiefs hold back
Elon Musk has jumped onboard the “super intelligence” train after President Donald Trump’s order to drop the artificial intelligence name that has become mainstream since OpenAI’s ChatGPT popularized the technology in 2022. Musk expressed his commitment to the cause on Sunday, posting on X that “No more AI. SI. It’s better.” Asked whether super intelligence...
Mon, Oct 5
ZachXBT infiltrates Chinese laundering crew tied to Bybit and Bitget thefts
Crypto investigator ZachXBT says he spent months posing as a paying client inside a Chinese money-laundering syndicate that has moved more than $1 billion in stolen funds for North Korea’s Lazarus Group. The intelligence gathered by ZachXBT helped freeze proceeds from the February 2025 Bybit breach. Did ZachXBT help recover the $1.5 billion taken during...
Mon, Oct 5
