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Matt Brittin, who joined the BBC from Google, argued that “not all creativity is bad,” while noting that the technology won’t replace humans.

Bitcoin is up 7.33% in September, edging past 2024 as the best September on record, with one day left before the monthly candle closes.

Analysts point to crude prices capping non-yielding assets, while spot ETFs have taken money in for eight sessions running.

Plus, crypto majors rebound as oil and yields fall and Saylor’s Strategy returns to buying Bitcoin.

The judge has told Pleterski he will raise objections on his behalf, to keep inadmissible evidence away from the jury.

Coinbase Clearing will take USDC as collateral and settle around the clock, though margined products stay with partners.

OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, but it’s pausing training while it adds safeguards.

A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.

Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi’s institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi’s banking rails.

Anthropic’s mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia’s Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.

OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.

Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5 million last week, lifting its holdings to 27,462 BTC, with its SATA preferred stock supplying 85% of the capital.

Chainlink’s CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival’s setup lost $292 million to hackers.

Hegota will be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.

Bitcoin extends last week’s pullback as Trump rejects Iran’s ceasefire plan, sending oil above $100 and yields higher ahead of Wednesday’s PCE report.

Bitmine has staked 84% of its tokens, a position it projects will generate some $358 million a year in staking rewards.

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.

The Gary Gensler era is long gone and now the SEC is providing clarity on what crypto protocols can and can’t do with their tokens.

Governor Gavin Newsom’s legislation bars public officials from issuing meme coins and exchanges from listing tokens tied to politicians.

An OpenAI agent’s breach of an Australian government website is the starkest example yet of a pattern building for months—and of how hard autonomous AI is to contain.

Three developments this week—a cost breakthrough, a new privacy design, and a custody playbook—show a field moving from theory to logistics, even as “Q-Day” remains hypotheti

New SEC staff guidance says announcing a token buyback on a functional network isn’t a promise that turns the token into a security, a shift one attorney says makes securities laws look “opt-in.”

Bitcoin ETFs have drawn nearly $3 billion over seven straight sessions, erasing post-Clarity Act losses and pushing 2026 flows back into positive territory.

After the Clarity Act failed in the Senate, the SEC, CFTC, and the Fed moved within days to write crypto’s rules themselves. Will it be enough?

An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.

Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.

Federal prosecutors are targeting a Montana payments firm and a Caribbean bank accused of moving money without a license.

Darktrace’s new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.

Google’s PageBreak agent autonomously finds and verifies real vulnerabilities in its own web apps, cutting through the flood of noisy AI-generated security reports.