
Microsoft launches an AI model built to fight hackers
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house vulnerability-hunting model, plus Perception — a platform where AI agents attack, defend and patch code on their own.

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house vulnerability-hunting model, plus Perception — a platform where AI agents attack, defend and patch code on their own.

Minnesota was about to jail people for running prediction markets. A federal judge stopped it, ruling that event contracts fall under CFTC jurisdiction, not state gambling law.

Decentralized cloud storage firm Storj Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US. STORJ token holders are being offered a stake in the reorganized company — the token has dropped 16%.

Nvidia is negotiating a roughly $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt Ohio data center built on a former uranium-enrichment site. A separate $350 billion deal for chips is also on the table.

After $650 million in bridge hacks, crypto projects moved over $7 billion onto Chainlink's CCIP protocol — and Fidelity and State Street are now building on the same rails.

Sberbank plans to launch crypto trading infrastructure and a digital depository by December 1, 2026, following Russia's new crypto market law — though only a handful of coins will clear the liquidity bar.

Crypto exchange BitMart is winding down after nine years: trading stops August 26, the platform closes for good in January 2027. Its BMX token crashed nearly 60% in a day, and the ousted CEO says he had no say in it.

Attackers took over Vlad Tenev's X account and posted about a token called Vladhood, calling it Robinhood Chain's official mascot. The scam vanished within the hour, but not before netting roughly $1.3 million.

A day after BitMEX shut down for good, former customers sued the exchange and its founders, alleging a secret desk used customer data to trigger liquidations and froze servers on purpose during crashes.

At Galaxy Unpacked in London, Samsung showed a wallet mockup carrying USDC and confirmed native stablecoin support is coming to Galaxy phones — ahead of Apple Pay and Google Wallet, though no launch date is set.

The EU Council added Justin Sun's crypto exchange HTX to its new Russia sanctions package. From August 23, EU residents will be barred from transacting with the platform, following the UK's move in May.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at the same price as its predecessor, but with results nearly double on real-world work benchmarks. Here's what changed and why it matters for enterprise AI costs.

Singapore's Poolin, which once controlled a fifth of Bitcoin's hashrate, has filed for bankruptcy. The firm owes $164 million to 11,700 users whose funds have been frozen since 2022.

For seven years, Ledger's Zilliqa app generated predictable signatures, letting anyone rebuild a private key from public blockchain data alone. Zilliqa halted native transfers as the token dropped nearly 20%.

AMD unveiled Helios, its first full AI server rack packing 72 Instinct MI455X chips. Anthropic has ordered 2 gigawatts of capacity, and Microsoft is building Azure around it.

The SEC settled Coinbase's lawsuit over former Chair Gary Gensler's vanished texts, agreeing to pay $150,000 and reform how the agency preserves official records.

The company revised its computing budget through 2030 upward — from $600 billion to $750 billion in just a few months. Demand for its services is outrunning data center construction.

Nine of the biggest names in institutional Bitcoin, including BlackRock and Coinbase, have formed an alliance with a $15 million fund to prepare the network for quantum computing threats.

The exchange that invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap is closing on September 23. The company cites a "strategic review," not a hack or regulatory order, as the reason.

The White House accused Moonshot of stealing Anthropic's tech to build Kimi K3, and Treasury threatened sanctions and export blacklisting. The Chinese firm is also accused of dodging a ban on Nvidia chips via Thailand.