This AI Is Already Fooling People on Video Calls Into Thinking It’s Human, Company Says
In brief Tavus says 26 of 54 participants (48%) believed Griffin-Lite was a real person after a one-minute video call,...
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Circle Pushes Back on MiCA’s Bank-Deposit Mandate for Stablecoins
In brief Circle submitted recommendations to the European Commission's MiCA review, arguing the framework has produced many regulated issuers but...
California Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Models That Hacked Their Way Out of a Test
In brief California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Oct. 1 that his office served OpenAI with an investigative subpoena over...
Ethereum Now Lets You Pay for AI Without Revealing Who You Are
In brief The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project announced zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet on October 1, letting users...
‘Uptober’ Off With a Bang as Bitcoin Surges to $86K
In brief Bitcoin traded at $86,757 Friday, up 3% on the day and 2% over the week. August core PCE...
Spanish Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Accused of Running KillSec Ransomware Group
In brief Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old Romanian national in Alicante, suspected of being KillSec's administrator and main operator. A...
SEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold Crypto
In brief The SEC proposed a tailored framework for how registered investment advisers and regulated funds can custody crypto, seeking...
Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over
In brief Zcash trades at $1,333.50, down 7.29% on the day and about 21% below its $1,698.00 peak, after climbing...
Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User’s Messages Without Consent
In brief Meta communications chief Andy Stone said Wednesday that Muse's Messages integration on Mac is opt-in, requiring both Full...
Minecraft, Candy Crush Among 11 Games in EU Virtual Currency Crackdown
In brief EU consumer authorities have opened coordinated actions against nine games companies over how they sell in-game currencies. The...
EU Presses Binance Over ‘Reverse Solicitation’ Exemption for Users: Report
In brief ESMA and national regulators in France, Germany and Greece are looking at how Binance continues to serve EU...
Dogecoin Is Getting Apps as DogeOS Opens Its Public Testnet
In brief DogeOS opened the public testnet of its EVM-compatible application layer for Dogecoin on Sept. 30. Fees on the...
Gemini 4 Is Here, and Google’s Flagship Tops All Other AI Models on Cybersecurity
In brief Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, scoring 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 and leading 12 of 18 benchmarks...
Bitcoin ETFs Extend Win Streak to 9 Days, Matching August Rally
In brief Bitcoin ETFs took in $66.19 million on Sept. 29, their ninth straight day of net inflows. The Sept....
Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August
In brief Bitwise's Near ETF began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR, with a 0.75% annual fee....
Cboe’s New S&P Deal Opens the Door to Tokenized Options
In brief Cboe Global Markets and S&P Dow Jones Indices extended their exclusive licensing agreement through 2051, and said they...
Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money
In brief Aztec Labs relaunched zk.money, a privacy wallet it shut down three years ago, on its privacy-first Ethereum layer-2,...
Is the Red September Curse Over? Bitcoin Set for Best September on Record
In brief Bitcoin is up 7.33% for September, just ahead of 2024's 7.29%, which would make it the best September...
A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here’s What It Means for Crypto
In brief Researchers at UC San Diego and France's INRIA forged RSA signatures on a 1,024-bit key inside a hardware...
OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites
In brief OpenAI paused training of its latest models over the weekend after its agents interacted with U.S. government websites,...
Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto
In brief Citi's institutional clients can now accept stablecoin payments through Spring by Citi, with Coinbase converting the tokens to...
Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump’s Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher
In brief Bitcoin trades near $83,000, down about 1.8% over 24 hours, as most of the top 10 cryptocurrencies extend...
