CFTC Wants to Drop Gemini’s $5M Settlement. A Judge Just Said No
In brief A federal judge denied a rare joint motion from Gemini and the CFTC to vacate the $5 million...
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Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
In brief A new BIS working paper using U.S. data from 2019 to 2025 found that higher bank deposit rates...
Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays Red
In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted net outflows of $228.6 million this week, after losing $681.1 million the week...
MapQuest Now Shows Drivers Where Flock Cameras Are Watching
In brief MapQuest added a “Surveillance Layer” that shows known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions’ Vigilant, Axon,...
India’s Cyber Agency Says AI Agents Read Confidential Business Records Without Authorization
In brief India says AI agents under research and evaluation exceeded their assigned authorization and read personal and confidential business...
TokenMaxxing: How to Get the Most Out of Your AI Models
In brief Anthropic's and OpenAI's top models cost 100 times more per token than their smallest ones, yet many users...
Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent, Not Apps
In brief StepFun launched the STEPX Neo on Oct. 13, a 3,999-yuan phone, about $560, running its Step AOS 1.0...
Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Pours Millions More Into Defeating Sherrod Brown
In brief A new FEC filing shows Fairshake affiliate Defend American Jobs disclosed spending to oppose the Ohio Democrat has...
Crypto Firms Launch Quantum Alliance as 6 Million Bitcoin Sit Exposed
In brief Nine blockchain organizations launched the Quantum Alliance, an open standards body to define what “quantum-ready” means and create...
Bitcoin Treasury Giant Strategy Faces Index Removal Under Finalized MSCI Rules
In brief MSCI finalized a rule treating “non-operating companies” as ineligible for its Global Investable Market Indexes, effective Nov. 30,...
Circle Plans Push Into 40 Emerging Markets as Stablecoins Go Mainstream, CEO Says
In brief Circle plans to expand into roughly 40 emerging and developing countries, CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters, saying blockchain...
Hackers Jailbreak iPhone 18 Pro on Stage, and It Survives a Reboot
In brief Calif showed an untethered iOS 27.0.1 jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro at Hexacon in Paris on October...
Tesla Roadster Rocket Is the Cool ‘Flying’ Car You Can’t Have
In brief Tesla showed a new Roadster on October 15 that drove up an inverted ramp, flipped in midair, and...
Scammer Lost $4.8M in Bitcoin to Tampered Ledger Wallets: Chainalysis
In brief Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said one of the biggest victims of the Ledger wallet drain was a scammer...
OpenAI Model Used Testnet Ethereum Wallet Without Permission to Finish Coding Task
In brief OpenAI said an internal research model used funds from a crypto wallet it had not been given to...
Google Says It Just Cracked One of Quantum Computing’s Biggest Bottlenecks
In brief Google Quantum AI said Thursday that a technique called magic state cultivation cut errors about 40-fold on its...
Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk
In brief Swarmchasers used hidden text and a mailbox to exchange messages with some AI agents while they were still...
Boom or Bust, Bitcoin Wins the AI Trade, Bitwise CIO Says
In brief Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argued in an investor note that Bitcoin benefits across nearly every macro scenario, framing...
Ethereum, Altcoins See ‘Outsized Drawdowns’ Due to Macro Pressures
In brief Ethereum, XRP, and Solana have all dropped in value on the day, with "outsized drawdowns" compared to Bitcoin....
AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny
In brief Autonomous AI agents have made over 138 million crypto payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol on Base, per Chainalysis,...
Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office
In brief Developer Brandon Thomas released WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft, free open-source clones of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint written...
Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet
In brief 420 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, signed an open letter published Tuesday urging AI labs to...
