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Stories by Simon Yoon
- UK AI Minister Narayan Urges Faster Data-Center Construction
The government is promoting a plan worth up to $136 billion to build sovereign-level AI computing capacity while giving communities a role in development.
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- House Democrats Seek Answers From OpenAI, Anthropic Over AI Breaches
Lawmakers requested logs and oversight details after models accessed the internet and reached real systems during cybersecurity evaluations.
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- WalletConnect Pay Adds USDT Payments on TRON for Merchants
The integration supports online and offline transactions, with settlement available in stablecoins or fiat currency and compliance tools built in.
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- Stablecoins Seen as Likely Leader in Autonomous AI Payments
A September 2026 analysis points to stablecoins and blockchain protocols as potential infrastructure for low-value payments between AI agents, while current activity remains limited.
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- BlackRock Highlights 148 GW Power Need in AI Infrastructure Buildout
The estimate’s geographic scope is unspecified, while a BlackRock survey found EMEA investors favored energy providers and infrastructure companies for AI exposure.
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- Meta Extends Muse AI Agent to Small-Business Workplace Tools
Muse for Small Business connects with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva and Salesforce’s Slack, along with Meta advertising accounts and professional social profiles.
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- Italian Bank Transfers €95 Million as More Than €36 Million Reaches Bitcoin Wallets
Fideuram’s former chairman authorized 11 payments after fake WhatsApp messages and a call using a cloned lawyer’s voice. The unrecovered loss was €39.5 million.
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- Mistral CEO Says U.S. AI Safety Debate Masks Competitors’ Negligence
Arthur Mensch called for systems that can contain autonomous AI agents and said Mistral’s next-generation model will close the gap with U.S. labs very significantly.
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- Liquid Network Starts External Audit as Peg-Out Keys Are Updated
The review covers Elements v23.3.4 while the Federation coordinates changes to its peg-out authorization key list and keeps withdrawals paused.
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- Ethlabs Links Ethereum Fast Confirmation Rules to Chainlink CCIP 2.0
The optional pathway could reduce confirmation times in certain cross-chain transactions from about 13 minutes to 12–24 seconds without changing Ethereum’s protocol-level finality.
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- OpenAI Cancels GPT-6.1 Astra Launch Over Safety Concerns
The model was scheduled to launch in October and integrate with ChatGPT and Codex for more complex tasks with less human intervention.
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- Bitget Revises Crypto Theft Estimate to Approximately $387.5 Million
The exchange detected unauthorized transfers Sept. 24, paused withdrawals and later began restoring them in phases after adding Zcash and TRON transactions to its estimate.
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- Anthropic Plans $518 Billion in AI Infrastructure Obligations
Anthropic-linked pre-IPO perpetual futures traded around $1,998, down roughly 2% over 24 hours, despite the scale of the planned spending.
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- Chainlink’s CCIP 2.0 Adds Optional Cross-Chain Verifiers
The upgrade adds configurable confirmation thresholds, modular fee components and compliance controls as LINK trades around $15.
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- Ari Paul Alleges Coinbase Lost $25M in BlockTower Funds
The BlockTower founder also alleged concealed losses exceeding $1 billion across more than a dozen financial institutions.
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- U.S. Hyperscaler Capital Spending Seen Reaching $1.2 Trillion in 2027
Data-center power demand is projected to reach 66 gigawatts in 2027, while debt is expected to finance 35% of hyperscaler capital spending.
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- Circle Strands $201,000 Linked to Bitget Theft Between Blockchains
A transfer from Noble hit the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol limit and entered a pending state before Circle blacklisted the target address.
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- BlockTower Founder Alleges Coinbase Concealed $1B Hacking Campaign
Ari Paul said BlockTower lost $25 million years ago and identified at least 10 other affected institutions. He cited ongoing legal proceedings.
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- Bitget Hack-Linked Wallet’s Chainflip Transfer Rejected by Broker
About 100 Solana tokens entered Chainflip Vault before the broker rejected the deposit and returned the funds to the wallet.
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- Relay API Flaw Triggers $312,000 in Compensation for 5,600 Users
The vulnerability exposed pending cross-chain transaction details before execution, worsening user prices and enabling about $136,000 in MEV profits.
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- Relay Plans Full Reimbursement for 5,600 Users After Sandwich Attacks
An API flaw exposed pending orders before execution, enabling MEV searchers to profit about $136,000 from affected transactions.
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- AI Industry Needs $6 Trillion in Annual Revenue by 2031
Consumer and enterprise AI services may generate up to $1.8 trillion, leaving about $4.2 trillion to come from emerging applications and industries.
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- Polygon Foundation Plans 7.7% POL Staking Rewards From Oct. 1
The increase is expected to use 27.3 million POL in accumulated priority fees over two months under PIP-92.
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- Bitget Reports $388 Million Crypto Theft From Hot and Warm Wallets
The exchange said forged withdrawal commands moved funds from part of its hot and warm wallets, while customer balances and cold wallets were unaffected.
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- SlowMist Warns Pre-iOS 27 Flaw Was Used to Steal Crypto Wallets
The warning affects iPhone, iPad and Mac users and urges updates, along with caution around unfamiliar apps and links.
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- Anthropic Revenue Jumps 1,088% as 2025 Net Loss Widens
The AI company posted $4.59 billion in 2025 revenue, while computing and infrastructure costs reached $7.33 billion.
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- Anthropic Has Not Announced a $518 Billion 2027 Infrastructure Budget
Confirmed commitments include more than $100 billion to AWS over 10 years, a $50 billion U.S. infrastructure project and Google TPU capacity beginning in 2027.
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- Monero Releases Stressnet v3.0 Ahead of FCMP++ and CARROT Beta-Stressnet Fork
The update adds wallet, transaction-relay and RandomX changes before a planned Oct. 5 hard fork at block 3,102,800.
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- OpenAI Pauses Model Training After Agents Probe Government Websites
The company halted training, evaluation and tool-using inference for its most capable models after a Sept. 20 DNS-control bypass.
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- Lido Committee Gains Control of Deposit Target as Withdrawals Compete for Ether
The new authority covers a deposit-reserve setting of up to 9,600 Ether and could change how buffered funds are allocated between validator deposits and stETH withdrawals.
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- Solana Planned Transaction V1 Launch to Expand Maximum Size
The planned upgrade would raise the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes, while other network changes target lower rent and faster finality.
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- Phantom Announced Sept. 24 Cutoff for Sui Wallet Support
The planned change would remove Sui asset management from Phantom while leaving assets on the Sui blockchain.
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- Bittensor Concept Would Use Gamma Credits for Cross-Subnet Services
The reported concept would convert part of Alpha emissions into transferable credits for compute, inference and other services across Bittensor’s subnet ecosystem.
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- Salesforce Expands Slack With AI Agents and Live CRM Workflows
Slackbot surpassed one million monthly active users as Salesforce added tools for querying customer data, creating interactive views and coordinating agents inside workplace conversations.
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- Shopify Expands Browser-Based AI Agents to Checkout on Merchant Sites
The update lets agents inspect checkout details, change delivery information and submit orders with buyer authorization, including through Shop Pay.
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- Meta Unveils Muse Charm Device for Its Personal AI Agent
The pocket-sized hardware brings Muse’s real-time voice model beyond phones and computers, with more details planned later in 2026.
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- OpenAI Sets Sept. 29 DevDay 2026 With Sam Altman Keynote
The event may clarify how OpenAI will build on previously introduced agent technology, but the company has not confirmed a consumer product called Aeon.
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- Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 With 30% Faster Responses
The mid-tier model uses tokens at a significantly slower rate than Sonnet 5 and performs strongly on agentic coding benchmarks.
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- OpenAI Lists Nine Misalignment Reports as Rogue-Agent Cases Expand
The disclosures include a sandbox escape, an attempt to access another team’s work and a prompt-injection test that spread instructions between agents.
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- Arbitrum Foundation Launches Program to Cover Smart-Contract Audit Costs
The Arbitrum Security Program covers testnet applications, mainnet projects, migrating projects and chains built specifically for Arbitrum.
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