China has written a national blockchain network into its 2026-2030 economic plan — for government data and supply chains, not for crypto trading, banned since 2021.
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation just 24 days after launching Jev, a model that skips text entirely and outputs probability-based decisions for enterprise automation instead.
XRP Ledger developers rushed out a patch for a bug that sat in the code for almost a decade and could have let someone mint tokens past the network's hard cap of 100 billion. No sign it was ever exploited.
During a routine test, an Anthropic AI model sent Philadelphia police a fabricated murder tip. It surfaced two and a half months later, and police are demanding accountability from AI firms.
Ledger is investigating mass fund losses among users who bought devices through Malaysian reseller CryptoBilis. Analysts estimate $72–86 million drained from hundreds of wallets across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron.
A New York jury found the Uranium Finance hacker guilty: he stole $55 million from the DeFi exchange in 2021 and spent part of it on rare Pokémon cards and ancient coins.
Thailand's SEC approved rules for locally listed bitcoin and ether ETFs, with trading set to begin October 16. Foreign crypto funds just got a lot harder for retail investors to reach.
Anthropic launched a free AI scanner, OSS Scanner. Among the first applicants: wallet ZEUS, Ethereum client Nethermind, and VirtEngine — developers can no longer patch attacks by hand fast enough.
The Financial Times reports OpenAI earned roughly $50 billion annualized in September, not $70 billion as investors assumed. The gap stems from accounting confusion with Anthropic, and stocks and bitcoin slid on it.
French startup Mistral AI unveiled Large 4, a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in its own European data centers. Full open weights are due October 27, with no independent benchmark checks yet.
Common Sense Media ran over 4,000 prompts through ChatGPT for Teens and found parental alerts and crisis responses frequently fail. OpenAI disputes the findings, citing real-world behavior.
Finnish regulators ordered Google to halt work at two data center sites after builders cleared nearly 300 hectares of forest before an environmental review was done. Google admits the lapse and vows to replant trees.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake wants holders to start moving funds to fresh addresses, warning AI math could crack Bitcoin's signatures in months. Vitalik Buterin agrees the risk exists, but says don't panic.
Wells Fargo, a $2.3 trillion bank, is in talks with Payward — Kraken's parent company — about sourcing liquidity for crypto trading offered to its clients. No deal has been signed yet.
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 across ChatGPT's paid tiers and switched on Intelligent UI — answers can now arrive as buttons, forms and charts instead of plain text.
Igloo Inc., the company behind Pudgy Penguins, will shut down its Abstract blockchain on December 15 after 18 months of funding and tens of millions in losses. Users must move their assets before the deadline.
Russia's central bank named its first licensed crypto exchanges and custodians — Sberbank, VTB and six more firms. Retail buyers face a yearly cap, and Sberbank plans to launch trading on December 1.
The Cardano Foundation flipped on CIP-0113 on mainnet, giving issuers of stablecoins, bonds and funds built-in tools to run KYC checks, freeze accounts and seize tokens without the holder's consent.
Iran escalated drone and missile strikes on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, sending Brent crude above $101 a barrel and wiping roughly $80 billion off the crypto market within hours.
Coinbase has finished integrating Deribit into a single platform — spot, futures, options and equities in one liquidity pool with up to 10x leverage. The Pro brand returns by year-end.