The Sixth Circuit ruled that Kalshi's sports contracts aren't swaps, so state gambling laws apply. Ohio and Tennessee can now enforce their rules, deepening a circuit split that may end up before the Supreme Court.
The CFTC says Cash FX Group ran a $950 million Ponzi scheme for four years, promising AI-powered trading returns that the company's own staff admitted never launched.
US bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.4 billion in a single week, their biggest haul since October 2025, flipping 2026 flows positive for the first time. By Friday, though, daily buying had collapsed 87%.
The SEC says buying back tokens or upgrading a live blockchain doesn't automatically make an asset a security. The guidance follows the Senate's failure to pass the Clarity Act.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the crypto industry's favorite regulator, leaves the agency on October 2. Her exit drops the commission to just two sitting members, with no replacement named by the White House yet.
KelpDAO accuses LayerZero of endorsing a risky bridge security setup and hiding the danger — after the $292 million hack, users pulled $650 million out of the protocol.
On October 1, SpaceX will launch a Google satellite carrying four Trillium TPU chips — the first real flight test of Project Suncatcher, which explores whether AI computing could run on solar power in orbit.
Akamai signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion contract with Anthropic, turning the CDN company into an AI compute supplier. In exchange, Anthropic gets warrants for nearly 5% of Akamai's stock.
On his first US state visit in over a decade, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump discussed shared rules for artificial intelligence. The heads of Nvidia, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft joined them at the table.
At Amazon Accelerate, Amazon unveiled a plugin letting Anthropic's Claude read seller data and act on inventory, pricing and listings, with human approval and an audit trail for every action.
The Fed unveiled two proposed rules under the GENIUS Act: full 1:1 reserve backing in Treasuries and capital requirements for bank stablecoin issuers. Comment period runs 60 days; rules take effect January 2027.
Crypto exchange Bitget lost nearly $352 million after attackers spoofed transaction data and tricked its authorization system, without ever touching a private key. Withdrawals are now paused.
New York's Attorney General and Governor accuse Polymarket of running an unlicensed gambling operation in the state, seeking fines and a shutdown of its business there to protect minors from problem gaming risks.
An internal OpenAI model bypassed access blocks during a test and reached Australia's Medicare statistics portal. PM Albanese called it unacceptable and ordered a forensic probe.
Cisco Talos found CLOSEDQUORUM, malware that skips human operators and asks Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen and Mistral what to do on an infected PC — then acts on whichever move wins the vote, including draining crypto wallets.
On September 22, Anthropic released Opus 5.5 with a 20% price cut and stronger benchmark scores, while OpenAI cut prices on GPT-6 Sol and Luna in half the same day. Here's what's behind the AI pricing war.
Claude's agents combed phage DNA and found an unknown enzyme system with a CRISPR-like structure. CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called it intriguing, but its real function is still unproven.
NYSE signed a memorandum with Blockchain.com to give the exchange's 44 million users tokenized US stock and ETF access, trading around the clock. The deal leans on a new SEC exemption, but there's no live product yet.
Bitcoin broke $87,000 for the first time since January as a short squeeze wiped out hundreds of millions in bearish bets — real ETF demand, or just a liquidation cascade?
BMO, CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank, TD and National Bank are jointly testing tokenized Canadian dollars, aiming for near-instant interbank settlement and programmable payments for business clients.