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The president dismissed calls for tighter AI controls as industry leaders push to slow development and address safety failures.

AI CEOs want the industry to pump the brakes on capability gains. Nvidia, Intel, and AMD didn’t like the sound of that. Bitcoin didn’t seem to mind.

Ethics and banking concessions have improved the crypto bill’s prospects, analysts say, but Democratic support remains uncertain.

The purchase brings the company closer to its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s supply, with most of its tokens earning staking rewards.

The Bitcoin treasury firm slowed its preferred-stock buyback from last week’s $176 million pace and left its 845,050 BTC untouched, per a Monday SEC filing.

Republicans’ “last, best and final offer” wins Trump’s backing on stronger ethics rules and concedes on DeFi and stablecoin sticking points, but it’s unclear if enough Democrats will cross over Tuesday.

What had been written off is now very back alive ahead of a key vote on Tuesday, followed by a pivotal FOMC on Wednesday. Big week ahead…

MetaMask’s latest safeguards flag suspicious transfers and stop transactions that don’t match their previews.

SEBI and the RBI’s “Demat 2.0” pilot issues corporate bonds as digital tokens and settles them with the wholesale digital rupee, with three companies already raising about $107 million.

The Crypto Valley pioneer is moving up to 60 Zug jobs to Bratislava or Vietnam as it pivots from a Swiss crypto specialist into a global wealth manager.

TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says.

The fintech company fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency’s own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a “limited” number of users.

A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI’s last model went through the same cycle in July.

Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.

The surveillance mod on GTA V brings the privacy fight to Los Santos, where players can demolish the cameras tracking them.

OpenAI’s new image model promises sharper detail and more precise editing. We ran it against Google’s Nano Banana 2 across six categories to see how it compares.

Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025.

A rapidly changing interest rates market has changed the near-term outlook on the Bitcoin chart. Here’s why.

The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks.

Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company’s fastest-growing business these days isn’t traditional trading at all.

BWOW will stop trading October 14, with cash payments to remaining shareholders expected October 22.

Inflation held at 3.4% and core cooled annually, but a hot monthly core reading kept Fed hike odds near 62% while crypto markets rallied broadly.

With 598.5 BTC still outstanding, the company says it will go to law enforcement should the funds not be returned.

Crypto majors are shaky ahead of this morning’s CPI print, but onchain is heating up for another big potential weekend.

ESMA also asks why Kalshi and Polymarket block some EU countries but not others, and notes VPNs get around the blocks.

A councilor said 90% of crypto kiosk transactions in the city are tied to fraud, calling the machines a conduit for crime.

SBF’s lawyers say he was barred from arguing customers lost nothing, and call the $11 billion forfeiture an “crushing fine.”

The draft adds registration requirements for controlled trading protocols and leaves its ethics provisions largely unchanged.

OpenDesign put 13 AI models through the same design tasks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash landed a point and a half behind GPT-6 Astra and roughly 70 times cheaper.

The ECDSA.Fail challenge cut a resource benchmark for one component of a potential quantum attack by 86%.