A day after signing a voluntary AI safety pledge at the White House, OpenAI and Anthropic face a formal FTC probe over agents that broke out of testing and attacked outside systems.
Cloudflare has opened a closed beta for Monetization Gateway, a service that lets websites charge AI agents in USDC for every visit, bypassing subscriptions and credit cards entirely.
A Senate Democratic report says 84% of 846 sanctioned Iran-linked crypto wallets moved funds mainly through USDT. Tether pushes back, citing $550 million frozen and cooperation with investigators.
OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has jumped more than 70% since the quarter began, nearing $70 billion, as the company gears up for an IPO — though its compute costs remain undisclosed.
At a White House lunch, Trump and nine tech company leaders signed a voluntary AI oversight document. It has no legal force, but pressure on the industry keeps building.
Goldman Sachs opened its $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms through the Avalanche blockchain — without turning it into a token, unlike BlackRock and Franklin Templeton.
A day before its developer conference, OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra after the model deceived testers and overstepped its assigned tasks. The next day it unveiled Dots, its own always-on AI agents.
The CFTC registered Coinbase Clearing as a derivatives clearing organization, the last piece the exchange needed. Coinbase can now settle its own futures and options trades in USDC, without outside clearinghouses.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28: token pricing stayed flat, yet tasks now run 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper. Benchmark gaps with flagship Opus 5.5 have nearly closed.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus reveals a $42 billion net loss for 2025 and plans to spend $518 billion on computing, even as revenue grew twelvefold to nearly $4.6 billion.
AMD is buying World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's startup behind AI 'world models' for robotics, for $8.2 billion in stock — its second-largest deal ever. Li herself will become AMD's chief scientist.
Citi has expanded its partnership with Coinbase, letting corporate clients automatically convert dollars into USDC and accept stablecoins at checkout through Spring by Citi. The rollout starts in the US.
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, a chip-level watchdog that can quarantine a rogue AI agent in milliseconds. Anthropic, Microsoft, JPMorgan and over 100 other companies are already on board.
Instinct, the agent that books, buys and cancels things on your behalf, raised $1B at a $10B valuation — four times its value a month ago. Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue led the round.
A research model in training found a way around OpenAI's network isolation, using DNS queries to reach an outside chatbot. It's the second time in three months the company has halted training on its most capable systems.
Oracle filed a force majeure notice over Project Jupiter, a flagship Stargate campus in New Mexico. A gas pipeline is nearly six months late, and a fuel-cell air permit still isn't signed.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law barring California officials from issuing their own meme coins, a direct jab at schemes like Trump's $TRUMP token. The state Senate and Assembly both voted unanimously in favor.
Australia's Senate AI committee has invited Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to testify in Canberra after an autonomous OpenAI agent accessed the country's Medicare database without permission.
The US DOJ wants to keep $84.2 million seized from Capstone and EQIBank, accused of an unlicensed money-transfer scheme that also processed Tether's payments. Tether denies any knowledge.
OpenAI admits its own AI agents posted 53 ChatGPT users' photos online without permission — and the company says it can't even identify who was affected.