France's finance committee backed a 2027 budget amendment taxing conversions of crypto into MiCA-regulated e-money stablecoins at the standard 31.4% capital-gains rate, while leaving USDT, DAI and PAXG untouched.
Finland wanted Richard Heart for tax fraud, not crypto — but the arrest still tanked his empire. HEX and PLS lost a quarter and a third of their value within a day.
The Philippine central bank has restricted transfers through Coins.ph's e-wallet amid claims it processed payments for banned offshore gambling operators, putting the exchange's license on the line.
A new IDC report shows Nvidia's share of China's AI chip market fell to 34% in H1 2026 while Huawei's nearly doubled to 28%. US export curbs are accelerating the rise of homegrown rivals.
Amazon is negotiating to buy Israeli AI startup Decart at nearly double its May valuation. A month earlier Anthropic wanted the same company — until a dispute over relocating staff killed the deal.
South Korea's Supreme Court issued Rule No. 3280: starting November 1, courts get a standardized way to freeze and sell a debtor's bitcoin — on exchanges and in private wallets alike, including pending cases.
The AI chatbot pioneer Google valued at $2.7 billion for a tech license in 2024 has filed for Chapter 11. Disney bids $20 million for some assets, and the platform could be wound down without a better offer.
The UK government ran AI models through 548 code repositories across 18 departments and uncovered over a thousand flaws — from auth bypass to remote code execution. The scan cost just £13,000.
A London court ruled claims over 61,000 seized bitcoin, worth roughly $5 billion, in fraudster Zhimin Qian's case will be governed by Chinese law, narrowing victims' path to the coins' value.
South Korea is blocking not just mobile apps but entire websites of offshore exchanges — KuCoin, MEXC, Phemex, Bitrue and more than twenty other platforms. Withdrawing funds from them just got harder.
Meta unveiled Muse Wonder, its first true frontier AI model. On the Artificial Analysis index it beat GPT and Gemini, losing only to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 — and it costs about the same as the leaders.
The EU Council agreed to let ESMA directly supervise the biggest cross-border crypto exchanges — but only 10 to 15 of 360 licensed providers will qualify; the rest stay with national regulators.
France's budget committee approved a rule forcing holders of self-custodied crypto above €100,000 to report it to tax authorities — or face fines up to €10,000. Full Assembly vote comes October 13.
FSB chair and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told G20 finance leaders that rules for the $300 billion stablecoin market are finalized in only 11 of 28 jurisdictions, leaving cross-border crisis tools undeveloped.
Evernorth closed its merger with Armada Acquisition and went public on Nasdaq as XRPN, holding 473 million XRP and about $300 million in cash — the biggest publicly traded XRP treasury yet.
DWF Labs-linked funds are suing custodian BitGo in London, claiming it dumped Falcon Finance and ESPORTS tokens onto exchanges two months before their lock-up ended, crashing the price.
Security researchers at iVerify and Censys uncovered P7 DarkSword, iPhone spyware that scans devices for crypto wallets and exfiltrates passwords, recovery phrases and notes every 15 seconds.
The US derivatives regulator ruled bets on elections, sports and weather are financial swaps, not gambling, shielding Kalshi and Polymarket from state bans. The fight may still reach the Supreme Court.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling for an AI 'emergency brake' — a guaranteed human right to pause or shut down a model mid-task, since vendors' promises alone aren't enough control.
OpenAI exposed two covert propaganda networks tied to Russia and Iran. ChatGPT helped draft fake articles and forged letters. The Russian operation earned the highest threat rating OpenAI has ever issued.
