Meta’s New Muse Wonder Finally Puts Zuckerberg in the Frontier AI Race
In brief Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, the first frontier-class models from Meta Superintelligence Labs,...
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AI Will Hit 40% of Jobs, IMF Warns. Young People Are First in Line
In brief IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Monday in Bangkok that AI investment is keeping global growth near 3%...
Standard Chartered Will Hold Ripple’s Stablecoin in Dubai—And Let Clients Trade With It Without Moving It
In brief Standard Chartered's Dubai International Financial Centre branch now offers institutional custody for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin issued on the...
NEXTPredict Paid $12,000 to Hedge Its Conference on a Prediction Market
In brief NEXTPredict bought contracts on Kalshi that pay out if more than half of flights into JFK are canceled...
UK Freezes $12M London Penthouse of Alleged Prince Group Finance Chief
In brief UK authorities have frozen the £8.9 million London penthouse of Thet Li, the alleged finance chief of Prince...
DWF Labs Subsidiaries Sue BitGo for $141 Million Over Early Token Sales
In brief DWF Maas and Falcon Digital, two firms tied to market maker DWF Labs, sued custodian BitGo for $141...
Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs All in the Red for October
In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs are down a net $386.3 million for October after Wednesday’s $484.9 million exit, their...
Tokenized Stocks Show Real Demand But Remain Volatile and Illiquid, IMF Finds
In brief The IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report found that more than 50% of tokenized stock trading occurs outside...
How Zcash Plans to Hide Your Keys From AI and Quantum Attacks
In brief Zakura said its team expects post-quantum signature opcodes to land in Zcash in January, enabling hash-based signatures for...
Ethereum L2 Starknet Jumps 20% After Saying It Wants to Become an L1
In brief Starknet is "actively considering" becoming an independent layer-1 blockchain, with 2027 as the target to become the first...
Here’s a Way to Predict When AI Chatbots Will Turn Bad
In brief George Washington University physicists Neil Johnson and Frank Yingjie Huo published a formula that estimates how many good...
This Sam Altman-Backed Life Insurer Runs Entirely on Bitcoin, and Just Raised $37.5 Million
In brief Meanwhile, which calls itself the first life insurer licensed to operate entirely in Bitcoin, raised $37.5 million from...
CFTC Draws the Line Between Prediction Markets and Gambling in New Rules
In brief The CFTC issued two measures Friday: a proposed rule expanding the “swap” definition to include event contracts ,...
French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget
In brief France's Finance Committee adopted an amendment treating swaps of crypto into MiCA-regulated stablecoins as taxable sales from Jan....
Blockchain.com Seeks Approval for US Prediction Markets and Crypto Derivatives
In brief Blockchain.com has applied to the CFTC for two licenses—a designated contract market and a futures commission merchant—to offer...
Senate Democrat Presses Cantor Fitzgerald on Tether Ties and Lutnick Family Profits
In brief Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent Cantor Fitzgerald a 13-item request for records on its Tether business arrangement, with responses...
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe
In brief Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately war-gaming the political fallout of a catastrophic AI...
Bitcoin Rebounds After Rough Week, But Traders Are Pricing In More Downside
In brief Bitcoin rebounded 1.38% to $82,837 on Friday after dipping to $80,427 on Thursday, while total crypto market cap...
UK Targets Cryptomus and TokenSpot in New Russia Sanctions Package
In brief The UK has sanctioned three crypto exchanges, two payment platforms and one individual it suspects of helping Russia...
Ethereum Test Network Raises Block Limit to Over 3x Its Current Capacity
In brief Ethereum's Sepolia testnet activated Glamsterdam on October 6 at epoch 353,024, with a block gas limit of nearly...
Google Wants Gemini to Be Your Next Coworker—Complete With Its Own Email Address
In brief Google Cloud introduced the Gemini agent on Thursday, a single AI for work that runs in the cloud...
AI Startup Manus Raises $500 Million After China Nixed Meta’s $2 Billion Acquisition
In brief Manus parent Butterfly Effect raised more than $500 million, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital with Tencent,...
