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Over 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, warned of deeper isolation ahead of Israel’s October 27 national election.

Twenty-two companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, after Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna. and Intuit joined the list.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.

A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Intelligence AI features.

Sweden’s Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, steering civil servants to Microsoft Copilot as the only AI that passed its security review.

Robert Bowling, who spent six years working on Call of Duty, told Decrypt that Activision suggested cutting discs nearly two decades ago.

HSBC switched on its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin inside PayMe on Friday, testing whether a bank-issued token can become everyday money.

Days before Israel’s election, Netanyahu said he has asked for a blockchain plan in case banks are hit with sanctions, and told Israelis to prepare for a rainy day after Trump.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded Tether’s records on payments to Nxum, a firm co-owned by former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines.

SpaceX’s latest 10-Q filing quietly confirms any Tesla combination requires sign-off from its “controlling shareholder.”

The regulator’s Division of Examinations named “super intelligence and other advanced technologies” as a focus area alongside tokenization risks.

Vibe coding your TV is impressive. Doing it without knowing exactly what you’re touching is how you lose a rooted LG set and get a very sincere apology from an AI.

Developers will now backport fixes and cut releases immediately for flaws flagged as “easily discoverable,” abandoning long embargoes for bugs an attacker can surface with a single AI prompt.

New York’s attorney general asked a court to order NovaTech’s founders, who fled the country, to pay about $1.37 billion, and settled with four top promoters for nearly $6 million.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $635.6 million on Thursday, their biggest outflow of the month, pushing October flows back to a loss of about $176 million as Ethereum and Solana funds also bled.

The name change is symbolic of the fund’s future investing focus, though the firm will continue investing in crypto.

Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests across 21 countries, while Angolan police seized more than 2,000 crypto mining devices.

The Hoodi testnet fork is off after ChainSecurity found gas changes that could let contracts lock in failures, citing 13 real-world cases.

The Bitwater element swaps a tank’s resistance wire for 20 mining chips, and Heatbit says it uses the same electricity to heat the water.

The crypto market has been quiet as of late. Market analysts think that might actually be a good sign and that a bull market might be near.

PHP shipped its fix, attackers launched millions of attempts, and governments say no one has broken in yet. Here’s what that means for your passwords, your crypto, and your browsing.

Lionel Messi’s ChatGPT ad has the AI teaching him chess on a board with kings and queens swapped, then suggesting an opening that loses in four moves on that board.

Andreessen Horowitz is renaming its crypto fund a16z Frontier and widening its scope to AI, autonomous machines and biology, saying the line between crypto and everyday tech has blurred.

Meta will hand shareholders a free non-voting share for every share they own in January, giving it a way to raise equity for AI spending without diluting Zuckerberg’s 60.6% vote.

The Central Bank of Ireland penalized Coinbase Ireland €3,252,618 for leaning too heavily on its U.S. parent and leaving its safeguarding account underfunded—its second hit to the exchange’s European arm in the last year.

Tesla earned $787 million last quarter, down from $1.37 billion, as spending on robots and self-driving cars soared. Optimus is in production, and Tesla aims to get Cybercabs to customers by year-end.

Brent crude hit a five-month high while Nvidia, Meta and chip stocks fell, pulling Asia’s benchmark indexes down by up to 3.5% a week after South Korea’s Kospi plunged 7.57%.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs have drawn about $1.07 billion over three sessions, pushing October flows to a gain of roughly $460 million, even as Bitcoin and Ethereum prices slipped.

Neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius rent Nvidia GPUs to AI labs, and several started out mining crypto. Here’s how the AI cloud model works.

Major banks including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citi are moving to restrict third-party AI agents that log in with customers’ credentials.