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CFTC fines Trump teleprompter operator $172,000 over speech bets
Gabriel Perez, who ran President Donald Trump’s teleprompter for nearly a decade, has agreed to hand over more than $172,000 to settle Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges that he bet on Trump’s own speeches using words he read ahead of anyone else. Prediction markets have rapidly gained popularity in 2026 and this settlement is the...
Sat, Aug 29
Reform UK conference draws tech giants as crypto industry takes a back seat
Reform UK is playing up its international diplomacy and distancing itself from crypto backing to position itself as a credible choice to lead the UK. The latest attendance lineup for its upcoming conference clearly indicates this. Crypto firms are completely missing from the sponsor lineup for next week’s three-day Birmingham conference, a massive shift from...
Sat, Aug 29
Banks move stablecoin plans forward as BIS questions their role
Despite the opinion expressed by the head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) that stablecoins do not qualify as money on a large scale, the largest banks in the world are shifting financial settlement and regular transactions to publicly accessible blockchains. Addressing the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium on August 28, BIS general manager Pablo...
Sat, Aug 29
OpenAI pulls models from Cursor after SpaceX takeover
OpenAI stated that it would stop supplying its models to Cursor, the AI coding tool that SpaceX bought in a deal worth $60 billion only two weeks earlier. The shutdown will begin on November 12. This separation occurs as competition is rising in the fast-growing generative AI market. According to Fortune Business Insights, the value...
Sat, Aug 29
TRON DAO Engages Brazilian Authorities at DCGG and CNMP Digital Asset Recovery Forum
Geneva, Switzerland, August 28, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), participated in a training forum organized by the Digital Currencies Governance Group (DCGG) and Brazil’s National Council of the Public Ministry (CNMP) in Brasília, Brazil, on August 26-27, 2026. ...
Sat, Aug 29
Kraken's late switch pushed Solana's disinflation vote over the two-thirds line
Solana validators approved SGP-0002 with 67% support, clearing the two-thirds supermajority by 0.33 points after Kraken reversed its stake in the final hours.
Sat, Aug 29
Ottawa funds a Toronto quantum plant while Xanadu's packaging stays offshore
Xanadu secured a C$195 million repayable federal loan for a Toronto photonics plant, but still sends most chip packaging and assembly to contractors abroad.
Sat, Aug 29
Honda and Nissan are set to run their 2029 cars on the same software
Honda and Nissan are expected to agree as soon as Monday to develop one operating system and one onboard computer for vehicles arriving in 2029.
Sat, Aug 29
Meta pilots data center robots as staff say the machines could cut technician jobs
Meta is piloting robots to swap cables, reboot servers, and inspect gear in its data centers, and staff say the machines could shrink the technician ranks.
Fri, Aug 28
Bitcoin's tie to gold has reached a level Bitfinex says its history keeps breaking
Bitfinex says that the relationship between Bitcoin and gold is close to the highest point of a range that it never stays at for long.
Fri, Aug 28
Claude gamed its own safety benchmarks in 39 runs, Anthropic's monitor found
Anthropic said a monitor reading about 1,600 of Claude's alignment research sessions flagged 39, about 2.4%, as attempts to cheat the test.
Fri, Aug 28
Kevin Warsh said rates could rise this year if inflation does not cool enough
Trump-appointed Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh made clear during his Friday appearance at Jackson Hole that interest rates could get hiked this year if inflation refuses to settle down fast enough. Kevin said summer inflation figures came in cooler than expected, but that was not enough to show the bigger trend had changed. “While this...
Fri, Aug 28
Avici token sinks 39% as hackers drain up to $1 million from Solana neobank
Avici, a neobank built on the Solana blockchain, is investigating a security breach that emptied user funds on August 28. Anything from $600,000 to more than $1 million may have been lost, per initial reports. Avici’s AVICI token lost roughly 39% of its value in a single day following the hack. How much was lost...
Fri, Aug 28
Apple opens its September 9 event with a foldable iPhone and no base model
Apple affirmed a September 9 iPhone event where a foldable iPhone Ultra and two Pro models lead a fall rollout, with no base iPhone 18 until spring 2027.
Fri, Aug 28
Circle's FCA license clears the way for USDC on Chelsea's shirt this season
Chelsea signed Circle as front-of-shirt sponsor, putting USDC on its shirts two months after the FCA told clubs to vet unauthorized crypto backers.
Fri, Aug 28
Trump administration drafts rule to close China's remote chip loophole
The Trump administration is preparing a rule that would stop Chinese companies from renting American AI chips through data centers in other countries. This is a channel that the current US export controls do not cover currently. Who is writing the rule and when will it land? The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security...
Fri, Aug 28
Google commits to adjust 'parasite SEO' policy to avoid EU regulators fine
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has announced that it will end manual search penalties under its “parasite SEO” rules throughout Europe on August 30. The announcement is supposed to put an end to a European Commission inquiry that threatened Google with a fine of almost 10% of Google’s global revenue. Manual demotions come to a halt throughout...
Fri, Aug 28
SlowMist flags fake Qwen 3.8 27B GitHub repo hiding StealC info-stealer
An information-stealing virus was uploaded to a GitHub repository disguised as downloadable weights for Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 27B model. SlowMist’s security team reported the incident on August 28, and anyone who runs open-source AI models locally could be at risk of credential theft. There’s a fake Qwen AI model on GitHub On August 28, the...
Fri, Aug 28
First HMRC crypto figures show a young, male minority booking most of the gains
HMRC split cryptoasset gains out for the first time, showing 17,600 filers declared £1.38 billion in 2024-25 and 240 of them took £717 million.
Fri, Aug 28
MANTRA post-mortem pins $3.6M exploit on a cosmos/evm integer bug
MANTRA Chain stopped short of committing to a fund recovery plan in the full incident post-mortem report it published on August 28. Instead, the publication presented a formal recap of the August 20-21 incident where an attacker drained roughly 720.9 million MANTRA, worth about $3.6 million from the project. Today’s disclosure formally assigned a dollar...
Fri, Aug 28
