An AI label alone no longer wins lenders, JPMorgan says
As default insurance on several AI-linked firms hits record costs, companies must show they can finance investment, service the debt and eventually mint cash, JPMorgan says.
Binance files for Brazil crypto license ahead of Friday deadline
The exchange is delisting 22 crypto assets for Brazilian users and hopes talks with the central bank will allow it to restore some services.
Solana bug reports now cost 1 SOL as AI floods security teams with spam
Researchers must now permanently burn 1 SOL for every submission after a monthlong contest drew 809 reports, with AI believed to have helped generate or write nearly all of them.
Bitcoin ETFs claw back $110M after $774M exit
US spot Bitcoin ETFs remained in the red for October, with about $202 million in net outflows for the month despite Monday’s rebound.
Ethereum fixes Glamsterdam bug that could have sent staking deposits to builders
Developers initially rejected the change before reversing course, as testing delays gave them more time to examine a flaw in Ethereum’s upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.
X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused
Whose hand is behind this travesty?
Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants funding, citing $125 million treasury
Sean Bowe’s proposal would send the committee’s 8% share of newly created ZEC to a reserve for future miners. The committee would keep the money it has already received.
Ripple gets a final go-ahead to launch its own U.S. national trust bank
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has approved Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced on X.
RedotPay weighs confidential US IPO filing by year-end: Bloomberg
The stablecoin payments company previously disputed reports that its US listing had been delayed.
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else’s AI agent.
Keystone breach deepens: Hackers stole key used to verify wallets as genuine
Keystone initially disclosed a leak of customer information but has since disclosed that hackers also stole a key that could allow counterfeit wallets to pass authenticity checks.
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
Ripple wins final US approval for national trust bank
The approval clears the way for Ripple to manage reserves backing its RLUSD stablecoin and provide digital asset custody.
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more “major” discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What’s different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as “shepherds” guiding the results in … Read more
Canada’s Draft Stablecoin Rules Cap Redemption Fees at 1% and Ban Yield
Ottawa opened a 60-day consultation on draft rules requiring one-to-one reserves and fast redemption from stablecoin issuers, while keeping the ban on paying holders interest.
Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprise customers
Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: It’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.
Samsung’s Switch 2-ready MicroSD Express card is on sale for less than $50
Running out of space on your Nintendo Switch 2? Thankfully, Samsung’s P9 MicroSD Express card is discounted at multiple retailers, with the 256GB version going for $47.99 (Amazon, B&H Photo) and the 512GB version $99 (Amazon, B&H Photo). The smaller card typically sells for around $80, and the larger option usually sells between $150 and … Read more
Anthropic’s S-1 Shows $16.3B in Half-Year Revenue, a 900% NRR, and an $80.7B Loss That Mostly Isn’t
Anthropic finally put its cards on the table. The public Form S-1 hit EDGAR on October 26, 2026, and the headline numbers are the kind that make a growth investor reach for a stiff drink: $16.3 billion of revenue in the first six months of 2026, net revenue retention of roughly 900%, revenue per employee … Read more
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Its Half-Good AI Model at Half the Price
OpenAI’s mid-tier model now operates apps and screens more like a person would, with API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and an error rate that OpenAI says fell sharply.
Anthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom
As it prepares to go public, Anthropic’s S-1 filing makes generative AI’s methane dependency glaringly obvious. “Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense.” In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, Anthropic acknowledges that data centers are becoming increasingly reliant on “natural gas” … Read more
US OCC calls on community banks to become payment stablecoin issuers
The announcement followed the banking regulator finalizing its rules for the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin law to be implemented in January
The Bicycle That Taught Me My Agent Loop Had No Ground Truth
In June 2026, I wrote a design document for what I called an Autonomous Semantic Vector Graphics Engine: a locally hosted multimodal agent where an LLM acts as an architect, decomposes a prompt into named components, draws them in a see-think-act loop, and hands you back clean, semantic SVG. It was, in the reviewer’s words, … Read more
What India’s 2026 FDI Reforms Mean for Startups Seeking Foreign Investors
I regularly see early-stage tech founders fixated entirely on their product roadmaps, user acquisition costs, and server architecture. When a term sheet finally arrives from an overseas angel syndicate or a cross-border incubator, the immediate instinct is to sign it, wire the funds, and get back to writing code. But for Indian tech startups, the … Read more
Injective launches onchain futures market tracking Nvidia GPU rental costs
The new index tracks rental prices for five Nvidia GPUs, offering leveraged trading and potential hedging against fluctuations in AI computing costs.