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AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really
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.
2026-09-13Revolut Leaks Passports, Bitcoin Transaction Histories to Fake Government Request
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.
2026-09-12GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too
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.
2026-09-12Crypto Billionaires Hand Reform UK $97M in Record Donations
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.
2026-09-12GTA Mod Adds Flock Cameras—And Lets Players Destroy Them
The surveillance mod on GTA V brings the privacy fight to Los Santos, where players can demolish the cameras tracking them.
2026-09-12ChatGPT Images 2.5 vs Nano Banana 2: Which One is Better?
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.
2026-09-12Cyberattacks on Law Firms Nearly Double as Stolen Documents Hit the Dark Web
Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025.
2026-09-11Bitcoin Golden Cross Flickers Off as Rate-Hike Bets Firm Up
A rapidly changing interest rates market has changed the near-term outlook on the Bitcoin chart. Here’s why.
2026-09-11OpenAI Asks Congress Whether an AI Slowdown Would Be Legal
The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks.
2026-09-11Robinhood Crypto Trading Volume Jumps 61% in August
Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company's fastest-growing business these days isn't traditional trading at all.
2026-09-11Bitwise to Close Dogecoin ETF Before Its First Anniversary
BWOW will stop trading October 14, with cash payments to remaining shareholders expected October 22.
2026-09-11Bitcoin Rises as Markets Digest Inflation Data Ahead of Fed Rate Decision
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.
2026-09-11Blockstream Refuses Ransom for Return of $47M in Bitcoin from Liquid Hack: 'It Is Theft'
With 598.5 BTC still outstanding, the company says it will go to law enforcement should the funds not be returned.
2026-09-11Morning Minute: AI Agents Cut BTC Quantum Attack Benchmark by 86%
Crypto majors are shaky ahead of this morning’s CPI print, but onchain is heating up for another big potential weekend.
2026-09-11EU Regulator Says Prediction Markets Are 'Rife With Inside Trading'
ESMA also asks why Kalshi and Polymarket block some EU countries but not others, and notes VPNs get around the blocks.
2026-09-11Albuquerque Bans Bitcoin ATMs, Giving Operators 45 Days to Remove Them
A councilor said 90% of crypto kiosk transactions in the city are tied to fraud, calling the machines a conduit for crime.
2026-09-11Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Supreme Court to Overturn FTX Fraud Conviction
SBF’s lawyers say he was barred from arguing customers lost nothing, and call the $11 billion forfeiture an "crushing fine."
2026-09-11Senate Republicans Release Revised Clarity Act Ahead of September 15 Vote
The draft adds registration requirements for controlled trading protocols and leaves its ethics provisions largely unchanged.
2026-09-10DeepSeek's New Model Nearly Matches GPT-6 Astra on Design—at 1.4% of the Cost
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.
2026-09-10AI Agents Just Slashed the Cost of a Quantum Attack on Bitcoin
The ECDSA.Fail challenge cut a resource benchmark for one component of a potential quantum attack by 86%.
2026-09-10Coinbase Wallet Rebrands to Chase 'Anything, Anywhere' Trading as Robinhood Chain Heats Up
Head of Product Ryan Kass says the return to Coinbase Wallet reflects a broader trading strategy, with the self-custody app serving as a testing ground for new assets and experiences.
2026-09-10Bitcoin Rally Cools, But a Golden Cross Is Coming
Bitcoin couldn't escape today's inflation-driven selloff, but a bearish pattern on its chart is about to flip for the first time since November.
2026-09-10Banks Have Minutes, Not Weeks, to Fix Flaws as AI Speeds Up Attacks: BIS
The Bank for International Settlements says routine patching schedules are increasingly inadequate and cites guidance urging banks to accept planned downtime for urgent fixes.
2026-09-10This Guy Cloned Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Zuckerberg Into AI Bots. They Immediately Started Fighting
Kun Chen built chatbot versions of four AI CEOs on SpaceXAI's new Grok Bot templates, locked them in one chat, and told them to debate the AI race until they agreed on something.
2026-09-10Anthropic Discloses Fourth Claude Hacking Incident as Debate Around Regulation Grows
The company now says attacks during security tests exposed model behavior failures, after initially emphasizing errors in its testing infrastructure.
2026-09-10Bitcoin at $400K by 2030 Still 'Reasonable Target': Coinbase CEO
Brian Armstrong argues the bottom is in, a year into the downturn, with the next halving roughly 18 months out.
2026-09-10Morning Minute: Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Crashes
The meme coin plunged on its debut, as recent alt leaders and many onchain darlings slipped in a nasty day for crypto.
2026-09-10Nasdaq Invests $100M in Kraken Parent Payward at $21B Valuation
Deutsche Börse's April stake implied a $13.3 billion valuation. Five months on, Nasdaq is paying at $21 billion.
2026-09-10Vitalik Buterin Pushes Ethereum Plan to Slash Quantum-Safe Privacy Costs
Buterin wants EIP-8288 in I-star, the upgrade after Hegota, and adopting it would make RISC-V Ethereum's canonical instruction set.
2026-09-10Bitcoin Wallet Maker Trezor Says Hackers Breached Its Email Provider
The hardware wallet maker said a fake security alert claimed a hardware flaw could expose users’ recovery phrases.
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