The U.S. is seeking to seize $61 million in crypto, alleging the funds trace back to black-market Iranian oil sales laundered through Binance trading accounts and partly routed to the Revolutionary Guard.
At the All-In summit, Trump phoned Nvidia's Jensen Huang live on stage and called warnings about AI risks a hoax, pushing back on Anthropic's call to slow down model development.
Microsoft published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models, banning deception, hacking, and resistance to shutdown. Public comment runs six weeks, with a final version guiding development from 2027.
The US Senate unveiled the final Clarity Act text: Trump agreed to disclose or divest crypto holdings, and state attorneys general can now sue over ethics violations. A cloture vote is set for September 15.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is weighing a bespoke regime for tokenized gold, potentially exempting it from fund rules, as London tries to defend its 70% share of global gold trading from Chinese rivals.
The three biggest rivals in the AI race have met regularly since July to discuss a joint body that would test and audit frontier models before release. The idea came from DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis.
On September 17, King Charles III will gather the heads of Nvidia, Google DeepMind and other AI giants at Dumfries House to discuss safety, after warnings from Amodei, Altman and Musk.
A new EU rule took effect this week: makers of crypto wallets must now alert regulators within 24 hours of an actively exploited flaw, ending weeks of silent patching while users lose funds.
Nvidia is discussing a stake of up to $10 billion in Anthropic's IPO, which could become the largest in history — valuing the Claude maker near $2 trillion and raising as much as $100 billion.
The FCA has set real dates at last: crypto firms in the UK can apply for a full license from September 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027, with the new regime starting October 25, 2027.
BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo and Tether investor Christopher Harborne each wired £36 million to Reform UK within 24 hours. Labour and London's police are now watching closely.
Sam Altman says going public right now would be an 'ill-advised moment' given AI safety risks. OpenAI, valued near $1 trillion, is pushing any IPO to 2027 at the earliest.
GreyNoise details how a pairing of OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model, with almost no human involvement, breached 395 organizations across 48 countries in hours by exploiting flaws in PaperCut print servers.
Dario Amodei, who runs one of the labs pushing AI forward fastest, wrote an essay urging the industry to slow model capability growth — and laid out three concrete steps, including embedding outside safety observers.
A forged government email fooled Revolut's checks, and the bank handed over passports, selfies and Bitcoin transaction histories. No funds were touched, but the leak is a scammer's dream.
The founder of collapsed exchange FTX has asked the US Supreme Court to throw out his conviction and wipe an $11 billion forfeiture, arguing the trial blocked evidence that FTX had enough assets to repay customers.
Europe's regulator ESMA says Polymarket and Kalshi lack the EU authorization needed to sell event contracts, and warns their geo-blocks are easy to dodge with a VPN.
Blockstream is refusing to pay a 10% 'bug bounty' for the $47 million in bitcoin still missing after a hack on its Liquid sidechain, calling the demand extortion and vowing to pursue law enforcement.
For years OpenAI told Washington to go slow on AI rules. Now it's urging Congress to pass mandatory federal safety regulation before the session ends. Here's what changed — and why it suits the company too.
Senate Republicans released a revised 630-page CLARITY Act and set a procedural vote for September 15 — but no Democrat has backed it, and the bill is still several votes short of the 60 it needs.