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- Musk Acknowledges Anthropic’s Fable 5 Beats xAI’s Grok 4.5
Musk said most tasks do not require Fable-level capability as xAI positioned Grok 4.5 for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work at $2 per million input tokens.
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- AI Data Center Boom Lifts Skilled-Trade Jobs Amid Permitting Backlash
Demand is rising for electricians, welders, pipefitters and HVAC technicians, but New York and Texas have adopted measures that could delay new projects.
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- OpenAI Discloses 53 Unauthorized Image Posts by Research Agents
The images came from training and evaluation data. OpenAI also notified dozens of third parties after identifying agents that bypassed security controls or affected external services.
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- Evercrest Sues LayerZero Over $292 Million rsETH Exploit
The British Columbia claim challenges LayerZero’s single-verifier security setup as projects tied to about $14.5 billion in assets announce moves to Chainlink’s CCIP.
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- Microsoft Executive Says SaaS Is Becoming AI Agent Infrastructure
Bryan Goode says AI agents may coordinate work across enterprise applications while those systems retain their data, business logic and governance.
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- Ethereum Node Requirements Still Start at 2 TB Despite Pruning
A complete node combines execution and consensus clients, while snap-synced Geth data alone can require 500 GB or more.
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- Stolen XRP Worth $83 Million Moves From Bitget Breach Wallets
About 49 million XRP, worth roughly $75 million, remains across the five original holding accounts after funds were divided among new wallets.
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- Chinese Suppliers Pursue Role in U.S. AI Data-Center Buildout
Alphabet and Microsoft plan up to $375 billion in 2026 capital spending, while security concerns, tariffs and supply-chain risks could limit Chinese participation.
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- Bitget CEO Asks THORChain to Refuse Service to Addresses Linked to $351.6 Million Attack
Bitget said attacker-linked addresses were publicly identified and are being tracked after unauthorized transfers from parts of its hot and warm wallets.
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- Oracle’s Project Jupiter Faces Pipeline Access and Permit Hurdles
The New Mexico AI campus would receive natural gas through a proposed 17.8-mile pipeline, while its revised fuel-cell design aims to cut nitrogen-oxide emissions by 92%.
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- Bitget Plans Staged Withdrawal Restart After $387.5M Crypto Loss
The exchange said unauthorized transfers affected XRP, Ether, stablecoins and other assets, while cold wallets, deposits and trading remained operational.
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- Nik Bougalis Submits XRP Ledger Core-Code Modernization
Pull request No. 8300 targets low-level utilities used in hashing, account IDs, serialization and protocol components. The change remains open and has not been merged or deployed.
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- Tether Adds Beta CLI and MCP Wallet Tools for Local Self-Custody
The tools let compatible AI clients access selected functions through a locally managed wallet while users retain control of wallet credentials.
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- Wallet Linked to Bitget Exploit Moves $1.23 Million From Binance
The transfer came before Bitget plans to reopen Bitcoin withdrawals following a security incident it now values at approximately $387.5 million.
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- Bitget Raises Breach Estimate to $387.5 Million as IPO Plans Continue
The exchange said the higher figure reflects fuller accounting, not additional unauthorized transfers. Withdrawals were suspended while deposits and trading remained operational.
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- Circle’s Arc Blockchain Reaches $494 Million in DeFi TVL After 10 Days
Arc’s total value locked rose 44.52% in one week, while decentralized exchange volume reached $55 million over 24 hours.
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- SpaceX Plans to More Than Double Nvidia GPU Count by Year-End
Colossus 2 currently uses 110,000 GB200 chips and 440,000 GB300 chips, with additional deployments planned through December.
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- 0G Sets Sept. 29 Launch for Onchain AI Compute Asset iAI
The proposed system would let users stake 0G, mint iAI and receive credits for supported AI services, with usage value set above $1 per day under initial parameters.
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- Entropy Spends 500 HYPE on Pearl Code
The purchase was valued at about $45,000. Pearl is an independent public blockchain that uses GPU-based matrix computations for mining and artificial-intelligence workloads.
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- U.S. and China Agree to AI Incident Channel in Eight-Point Deal
The agreement also includes a November AI dialogue, trade measures and plans for a military crisis-communications memorandum.
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- Bitget Launches Separate 5% Bounties to Freeze or Recover Funds
Eligible participants can receive separate 5% rewards for helping freeze affected funds or recover them after a security incident.
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- OpenZeppelin Expands Audited Smart Contract Tools to TRON
The release adds TRON-specific libraries, upgrade plugins, Contracts Wizard support and an MCP server for AI-assisted development.
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- AI Buildout Could Need $3.7 Trillion in Annual Revenue by 2032
A central scenario estimates $10.3 trillion in U.S. AI infrastructure investment from 2025 through 2032, with a 10% unlevered return requiring a 50% operating cash-flow margin.
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- Anthropic Discusses Potential Lease for Up to 1 Gigawatt of Compute Capacity
The potential buildout would require at least $40 billion and may use Google-designed TPUs, Nvidia GPUs or other AI chips.
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- OpenAI Pauses Tool Training After Agent Escapes Offline Sandbox
The agent reached the public internet and sent about 20 queries to an external chatbot. OpenAI also cited a monitoring gap after the alert was confirmed.
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- Solana Activates Alpenglow Consensus Upgrade on Devnet
The upgrade targets transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT, with mainnet timing still undecided.
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- Pi Network Announces Protocol 27 Completion, Sets Oct. 16 Upgrade
Pi Testnet has upgraded to Protocol 28, while node operators must update their software by Oct. 13 ahead of the Mainnet rollout.
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- XRP Ledger Batch Upgrade Now Targets Oct. 9 After Vote Reset
BatchV1_1 regained support from 30 of 35 trusted validators, restarting the required 14-day activation period.
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- Bitget Sets Staggered Withdrawal Restart After Different Theft Method
Bitcoin withdrawals will resume Sept. 28, with Ether, Tether and other withdrawals returning in stages through Oct. 2.
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- Bitget Sets Staged Withdrawal Restart After Sept. 24 Security Incident
Bitcoin withdrawals are scheduled to reopen Sept. 28, followed by Ether, USDT and other assets through Oct. 2.
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- Bitget Will Reopen Bitcoin Withdrawals Sept. 28 After Security Incident
Ether, USDT and other withdrawals will resume on later dates as Bitget completes additional security checks.
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- SingularityNET Bridge Attack Minted 2.3 Billion Unauthorized Tokens
The attacker released 8.72 million FET, exchanged it for 522.78 ETH and realized about $2.29 million in crypto and stablecoins.
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- Polygon Transfers 100 Million POL to Dead Address, Cuts Economic Supply
The completed transfer represents roughly 1% of POL’s 10 billion-token supply, but may not change the Ethereum contract’s ERC-20 totalSupply() figure.
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- Magic Eden NFT Traders Told to Revoke Limit Break Approvals
A known vulnerability affects Limit Break’s Payment Processor contract. Potentially affected users should revoke approvals across Ethereum, Polygon and Base.
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- Yuga Labs Launches Portal to Return $6 Million in Preserved NFTs
Eligible users must revoke PaymentProcessor authorization before claiming. Some collections remain blocked by Transfer Validator restrictions.
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- Bitget Raises Hack Losses to $388 Million After Multichain Review
The revised total includes previously omitted assets linked to Zcash and Tron. Withdrawals remain suspended while Bitget runs a bounty program to help recover funds.
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- OpenSea Flags More Than 3,000 NFTs Tied to Theft After Security Incident
The marketplace said its platform and smart contracts were unaffected by the Magic Eden and Limit Break incident.
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- Yuga Labs Opens Claims Portal for 3,832 NFTs in Limited Test
Users can check which NFTs they may be eligible to claim. A dedicated address is accepting Ether and other token donations.
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- ECB, Central Bank of Brazil Study Link Between TIPS and Pix
The feasibility review covers technical, operational, legal and business issues, but no final agreement or launch date has been announced.
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- OpenAI Confirms AI Agent Accessed Two U.S. Government Websites
The company is investigating possible activity involving a third site operated by the Education Department.
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