OpenAI says its AI found 948 Linux kernel flaws and wrote an attack for each one
OpenAI says its AI found 948 security flaws in the Linux kernel and wrote a working attack for each one, at a cost of $1,279 per flaw, according to CoinDesk.…
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OpenAI says its AI found 948 security flaws in the Linux kernel and wrote a working attack for each one, at a cost of $1,279 per flaw, according to CoinDesk.…
Riot Platforms has signed a $28 billion, 15-year agreement to host Anthropic's AI compute in Texas, and the number worth staring at is not the headline figure. It is the interest rate. Riot could end up paying Anthropic, its own tenant, 12% a year on billions in construction cost…
OpenAI says a prototype pipeline built on an upcoming cyber model scanned the Linux kernel and produced 948 local privilege escalation (LPE) exploits, the kind that turn an unprivileged local user into root.…
Schroders, the London-based asset manager overseeing $1.1 trillion, is bringing an emerging markets bond fund to Solana, its first deployment on the network, CoinDesk reported Wednesday.…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) cleared perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to trade on regulated U.S. exchanges on Tuesday, marking the first time this crypto-origin derivative has been approved for traditional equities.…
Arbitrum's Security Council moved about $30 million out of an address tied to the Binance exploit last Friday, and it did it without the hacker's signature, CoinDesk reports. No private key, no approval from the wallet's owner. Nine people agreed, and the money moved.…
The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance said Tuesday it views Canton Coin (CC) as a digital commodity and will not recommend enforcement action over the token's programmatic issuance, according to a no-action letter reported by The Block.…
Every LBTC on the Liquid Network is backed by a real bitcoin again, nearly two months after a software bug let an attacker drain almost the entire reserve, CoinDesk reports.…
Anthropic swung to a $567 million operating loss in the third quarter, reversing a $974 million profit from Q2, according to an amended IPO filing reported by CoinDesk. The timing is awkward. The company is weeks away from its planned November IPO.…
Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin froze deposits and withdrawals on Monday after wallets tied to the exchange were drained across at least 10 blockchains, with security firms estimating the loss at $40 million or more, CoinDesk reports.…
BTCPay Server, the free open‑source tool that enables businesses to accept Bitcoin without a custodial intermediary, issued an urgent advisory on Sunday urging operators to shut down their servers.…
Morgan Stanley downgraded Coinbase to underweight from equalweight on Monday and cut its price target to $120 from $258, a 53% reduction, CoinDesk reports. Analyst Michael Cyprys said the exchange's earnings recovery looks weaker than expected.…
An AI agent planned and carried out brain surgery on a mouse last night, according to a thread posted on X by Gabriel Ocana-Santero. There is no paper yet and no outside confirmation. It is still one of the strangest lab stories I have read this year.…
The FBI has formally blamed North Korea for the largest crypto theft on record, confirming Saturday that the TraderTraitor hacking group carried out Thursday's raid on Binance, which lost more than $6 billion.…
Chainalysis, the blockchain analytics firm that tracks crypto hackers for a living, says a hacker using AI broke into its own systems this month.…
Binance says it has replenished 90% of the cryptocurrency stolen in Thursday's $6.3 billion hack and expects to reopen withdrawals on Sunday, Nov. 1, according to CoinDesk.…
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by volume, was exploited on Thursday for more than $6 billion, making it the biggest crypto theft on record. The company estimates the damage at around $6.3 billion in stolen assets. Chainalysis later updated its estimate to roughly $5…
Binance lost roughly $6.3 billion to hackers on Thursday, and the firms that trace stolen crypto for a living say North Korea is probably responsible.…
Binance's investigation into the record $6.3 billion hack has uncovered security breaches beyond the compromised employee laptop it first suspected, co-CEO Richard Teng said Friday, according to CoinDesk.…
Binance lost an estimated $6.3 billion to attackers on Thursday, the largest crypto theft in history, and the exchange says it will cover the whole thing with company money.…
Binance says an attacker stole roughly $6.3 billion from its wallets across several blockchains on Thursday. The largest single chunk - about $2.5 billion in ether and tokens - left one Ethereum wallet in under four minutes. According to CoinDesk's reconstruction of the on‑chain …
A machine with about 30,000 physical qubits could break the cryptography protecting bitcoin wallets in just over an hour. That is the new estimate from researchers at quantum computing firm Alice & Bob, reported by CoinDesk.…
Intercontinental Exchange, the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, plans to bring perpetual futures to U.S. traders through a partnership with Trade[XYZ], the largest builder of markets on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. The venue, branded ICE[XYZ], needs CFTC …
Bitcoin Core has disclosed three vulnerabilities found by an AI scan, and one of them lets a stranger crash your node. Any computer connected to a node running Windows, macOS, or BSD could flood it with data until it ran out of memory and died, according to CoinDesk.…
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, and the pitch is not a friendlier chatbot but a better security researcher. Google calls it "our strongest model," with the gains concentrated in cybersecurity and long-horizon agentic work.…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation went live with its tokenization service on Wednesday, and 20 Wall Street firms, including JPMorgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and UBS, have signed agreements to use it, CoinDesk reports.…
Google is unveiling a security system for institutional crypto custody at its inaugural digital assets symposium in New York City on Wednesday, CoinDesk reports. The product, called Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), is in private preview. Several major financial institutions are …
Ripple now has a federally supervised bank. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency gave final approval to Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced on X late Monday, according to CoinDesk and Cointelegraph.…
Keystone is destroying 18,835 unsold hardware wallets and suspending shipments after a breach of its website exposed customer data and, worse, a key that lets counterfeit devices pass the company's authenticity checks.…
Janus Henderson, the London‑based asset manager overseeing roughly $500 billion, launched a tokenized fund tracking the Nasdaq‑100 on the Stellar blockchain Tuesday, built with tokenization platform Centrifuge under a licensing deal with Nasdaq.…
Intel, Oracle, IBM, and IonQ have formally objected to having their shares traded as tokens on OKXICE, the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange, bringing the total number of issuer objections to 26.…
Anthropic filed to go public on Monday morning, and the S-1 puts the numbers behind Claude in an SEC filing for the first time. The headline figures: $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, against a net loss of $80.7 billion.…
OpenAI announced GPT-6.1 Terra, a model built for computer use and visual reasoning that it positions as a major step up from GPT‑5.6 Terra at half the API price.…
SpaceX has raised $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs, and Elon Musk used the announcement to predict that most of the smaller AI cloud providers renting out that same computing power are headed for a shakeout.…
A bug in Electrum, one of Bitcoin's oldest software wallets, let malicious servers trick users into signing payments straight to attackers, and at least one person lost bitcoin before developers shipped a fix, CoinDesk reported.…
Early Riders published an essay called The Singularity Stack, and it is the most coherent framing of the AI buildout I have read this year. The argument is that the whole thing is one conversion chain. Electricity becomes compute, compute becomes models, models become harnesses, …
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX has confirmed a loss of 15.99 million USDT (about $16 million) after an attacker drained deposit wallets that the exchange had retired following its July 2025 hack. The admission was posted in a blog update early Sunday, days after co‑founder and CE…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is demanding records from Tether over reports that the stablecoin issuer paid millions of dollars to a consulting firm founded by Bo Hines, the former White House crypto adviser, and his father.…
New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking nearly $1.37 billion from NovaTech founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion, the couple behind a crypto investment scheme that pulled in more than $1.16 billion in deposits, according to The Block's reporting on a court filing Thursday.…
HSBC launched its first stablecoin on Friday, a Hong Kong dollar token called RedCoin (RCHKD), and it's going straight into PayMe, the payments app more than 3.3 million people in Hong Kong already use.…
OpenAI said Friday it will stop training its frontier models on the live internet, switching to cached copies and simulated versions of the web because the models have become too unpredictable to trust online.…
Ethereum developers have called off Monday's Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi test network after security researchers showed that proposed gas changes could alter how existing smart contracts handle failed transactions, in some cases letting errors become permanent.…
China state-aligned hackers broke into IT management giant ConnectWise and used the access to spy on roughly 2,250 organizations, TechCrunch reports, citing security researchers at Microsoft.…
Chinese prosecutors are seeking to confiscate more than 61,800 Bitcoin tied to a $5.7 billion fraud scheme, CoinDesk reports, citing coverage by Chinese outlet The Paper. The move comes days after a UK High Court ruled that Chinese law should govern victims' claims to the coins, …
Solana switches on its Alpenglow upgrade Wednesday, the biggest overhaul of how the network reaches agreement since 2020, and the headline number is hard to argue with: transaction finality of roughly 150 milliseconds, down from about six seconds today.…
SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a merger, Elon Musk said Tuesday, and if the deal happens the combined company would hold 30,221 bitcoin.…
OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and Codex agentic workflows to Google Cloud's Model Garden, as announced on Wednesday OpenAI blog. Customers will get native access to the models inside the environment where they already work, backed by Google Cloud's data governance and hi…
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion on Wednesday, the largest penalty yet to come out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which broke nearly a decade ago.…
OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio on Tuesday, a four-year-old startup whose AI agents help biopharma companies coordinate drug development. Terms were not disclosed. TechCrunch reports the startup had raised around $20 million as of 2025, with backers including Andreessen Horowitz, A…
The CFTC filed a brief in federal court Friday arguing that CME Group has no legal standing to challenge the agency's new perpetual futures policy, because the derivatives giant hasn't shown the policy is hurting it.…
JPMorgan is bringing JPM Coin, its blockchain token representing dollar deposits at the bank, to Ethereum, Bloomberg reported. The token, almost a year old, has lived on Base, the layer-2 network built by Coinbase. Now the largest bank in the US is taking it to the public network…
Google Quantum AI said Thursday it has demonstrated "magic state cultivation" on its Willow processor, a result that attacks one of quantum computing's worst bottlenecks and has crypto observers once again doing Q-day math.…
Visa Direct's stablecoin prefunding service is now in commercial production, with payments processor Inyo Global as the first to offer it to clients. Visa announced the launch on Thursday, The Block reported.…
Circle Internet Group reported roughly $1.4 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026 and retained about 7 cents of net profit for every dollar of revenue, according to a company blog post published on Friday and covered by The Block.…
MSCI finalized rules on Thursday that could remove Strategy and Metaplanet, the leading bitcoin-holding companies, from its global equity indexes. The rules, first proposed in August, make companies that mostly hold investments rather than running a real business ineligible for M…
The European Banking Authority said Wednesday it has classified Circle's USDC as a "significant" e-money token under MiCA, the first of 45 e-money tokens notified in the bloc to meet that threshold, according to The Block.…
Hardware backdoors planted in Ledger crypto wallets were used to steal an estimated $102 million last week, and the compromised devices are not coming from fly-by-night online sellers. They are coming from authorized resellers, including, apparently, one of Europe's biggest elect…
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, agreed to acquire Saldo Bank, a small Lithuanian lender, in a deal that would make it the first crypto firm to buy a European bank. The price was not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and expected t…
AI agents have made more than 138 million crypto payments through Coinbase's x402 protocol, according to a new Chainalysis report covered by CoinDesk. The agents are buying data, computing power, and access to AI models, paying in cryptocurrency on Base, Coinbase's blockchain.…
The Dutch central bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) has granted Qivalis an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence, moving the 37‑bank consortium one step closer to issuing a euro‑denominated stablecoin under the EU's Markets in Crypto‑Assets Regulation (MiCA).…
Standard Chartered is now letting wealthy clients in the United Arab Emirates buy and sell Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) directly through their existing bank accounts - a service described by CoinDesk as one of the first of its kind from an international bank in the UAE [1].…
Coinbase has published a set of technical priorities for Bitcoin's post‑quantum transition, and the short version is simple: start now, because the work can take years.…
Google released Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, its new frontier model, now available through the API in AI Studio, the Gemini app, and AI Mode in Search at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens (cached input tokens are 95 % off) sour…
Ledger has confirmed that hardware signers sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis contained an implant that reads the 24-word recovery phrase off the screen during setup and transmits it over LTE using a provisioned eSIM.…
South Korea is blocking the websites of 27 unregistered crypto exchanges, extending a crackdown that until now had only reached mobile apps. KuCoin and BitMart are among the blocked, and MEXC is on the list too.…
Standard Chartered's Dubai branch now offers regulated institutional custody of RLUSD, Ripple's dollar-pegged stablecoin, on the XRP Ledger. The custody service is live. The more interesting half of the announcement is not.…
Ledger has confirmed that at least one hardware wallet sold through a Southeast Asian reseller contained an unauthorized hardware implant, and losses tied to the tampered devices may exceed $86 million.…
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has failed to advance in the Senate, and with it goes the industry's best shot at a statute settling who regulates what. According to CoinDesk, the next phase of U.S. crypto regulation now runs through the SEC and CFTC, agencies that are expec…
Cloudflare is acquiring Deno, the JavaScript runtime company co‑founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder. The acquisition was announced on Deno's blog on Friday, confirming that the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare. Financial terms were not disclosed. Deno has r…
Ledger is investigating wallet drains involving buyers from CryptoBilis, and the estimated losses top $86 million, The Block reports.…
MARA Holdings transferred roughly 996 BTC, worth about $81.1 million, to an address identified as belonging to Galaxy Digital, according to blockchain data flagged by Lookonchain and reported by CoinDesk.…
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia police, and the only reason no detective ever read it is that a spam filter got there first.…
Senator Richard Blumenthal has sent a letter to Cantor Fitzgerald's CEO demanding details on the firm's partnership with stablecoin issuer Tether. The request lands as Democrats eye a Senate majority and push harder on crypto‑related security issues.…
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 in early October 2026, and the number that matters is not a benchmark - it's the price. The company says the new small model costs around 75 % less to run than Haiku 4.5, on average.…
Wells Fargo is in talks with Kraken's parent company Payward to secure crypto trading liquidity. The talks are private, and both firms declined to comment, but two sources with direct knowledge say Payward would supply the liquidity needed for the bank's digital‑asset trading des…
Samsung is turning Samsung Wallet into a cross-border remittance tool, with eligible US Galaxy users able to send USDC abroad starting in the last week of October, CoinDesk reports.…
Standard Chartered said on Thursday that it plans to offer digital‑asset custody services in Singapore for selected cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, as well as tokenized real‑world assets. The service will be aimed at institutional clients and corporate clients that qualify as a…
OpenAI is bringing GPT‑6 to everyone. The company says a new GPT‑6 model is rolling out to the more than 1.2 billion people who use ChatGPT each week, a month after the first GPT‑6 models went to paid customers.…
Stablecoin payments company Rain has applied for a national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, becoming the twelfth crypto firm to seek one.…
The U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has withdrawn two proposed rules that hung over crypto for years, CoinDesk reports. The first, dating to December 2020, would have forced banks and crypto businesses to report transfers of more than $10,000 involving custom…
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday, a multimodal model with 1 trillion parameters that the French lab is pitching as an alternative to both closed American models and open Chinese ones. The internal nickname, per TechCrunch, is Le Chonk. The political framing comes fr…
OKX has attracted new investors, and the names matter more than the amount of money. Circle, Ripple, quantitative investment manager QRT, and SC Ventures - the venture arm of Standard Chartered - have all bought into the exchange at a $25 billion pre‑money valuation, according to…
DeepSeek is closing in on a funding round of at least $12 billion, backed by Tencent and battery maker CATL, with an IPO planned for early 2027. That's per a Bloomberg report picked up by CoinDesk, which adds that demand could push the round to around $15 billion, past its initia…
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange wants to trade tokenized U.S. stocks around the clock, and it has told the SEC so.…
Payward, the financial‑infrastructure company behind Kraken, has integrated Singapore Gulf Bank's real‑time clearing network so institutional clients can settle digital‑asset transactions and fund trading around the clock, even on non‑banking days.…
The Independent Community Bankers of America sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in federal court on Friday, accusing the regulator of exceeding its legal authority by granting national trust bank charters to crypto firms, CoinDesk reports.…
OpenAI announced a new $4 billion revolving credit facility with a consortium of major banks. The facility sits on top of $6.6 billion in fresh equity funding, giving the company access to more than $10 billion in liquidity [OpenAI].…
The Clarity Act failed a procedural vote in the Senate on Sept. 15, drawing 49 votes in favor and 50 against, well short of the 60 needed to advance. The bill was the industry's best shot at a lasting U.S. rulebook for digital assets, one that would have settled which tokens fall…
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, will lead a new Super Intelligence Force, a task force meant to coordinate the federal government's AI efforts.…
A federal court recently rejected Elon Musk's request for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, finding that he had not shown a "likelihood of success on the merits" and dismissing several of his claims outright. The decision moves the lawsuit closer to dismissal.…
OpenAI announced a $40 billion funding round that values the company at $300 billion. The capital comes from a partnership with SoftBank Group, which the blog post describes as a company that "few companies understand how to scale transformative technology." The announcement also…
OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to add 4.5 gigawatts of Stargate data‑center capacity in the United States OpenAI. The new build pushes the total under development to just over 5 GW and will run more than 2 million chips OpenAI.…
Samsung, SK, and OpenAI announced new strategic partnerships under OpenAI's Stargate initiative to expand AI infrastructure globally and in Korea OpenAI announcement.…
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services announced a multi‑year strategic partnership worth $38 billion. The deal gives OpenAI immediate access to AWS's infrastructure and promises continued growth over the next seven years OpenAI blog.…
BNY is in talks with Payward, the Wyoming-based parent of crypto exchange Kraken, over a broad partnership spanning digital assets and financial-market infrastructure, CoinDesk reports, citing two people familiar with the matter.…
Zano's attacker created 36.9 million unauthorized ZANO and roughly 1.8 quadrillion Freedom Dollar (fUSD) tokens before the team decided to roll the blockchain back by a full month, according to a post‑mortem published Thursday and reported by Cointelegraph.…
OpenAI announced a new agreement with the Department of War that adds explicit language banning domestic surveillance of U.S. persons. The update was posted on March 2, 2026 and clarified that the Department cannot use OpenAI tools for tracking or monitoring Americans, even if it…
OpenAI announced that its GPT‑5.2 models have topped the GPQA Diamond and FrontierMath benchmarks. The company says GPT‑5.2 Pro hit 93.2% on the graduate‑level GPQA Diamond test, while GPT‑5.2 Thinking reached 92.4% on the same set. On FrontierMath Tier 1‑3, the Thinking variant …
OpenAI announced a $110 billion investment round at a $730 billion pre‑money valuation. The cash comes from three headline investors: $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from NVIDIA, and $50 billion from Amazon [OpenAI].…
The Hyperliquid Policy Center wants the European Commission to regulate crypto perpetual futures under MiFID II, the EU's rulebook for financial instruments first passed in 2014, instead of folding them into MiCA. Circle used the same MiCA review to push for changes to the regula…
The SEC proposed a new custody framework for crypto assets on Thursday, one that would let investment advisers and regulated funds hold client crypto themselves when no qualified custodian will take it.…
OpenAI submitted a confidential draft S‑1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 8, 2026. In a brief blog post, the company announced the filing, noting that it expects the document to leak and that it wants to be transparent about the move.…
OpenAI announced that one of its general‑purpose reasoning models has produced a proof that disproves a long‑standing conjecture about the planar unit distance problem.…
OpenAI's supposed announcement page for GPT‑5.6 now shows a 404 error. The URL that was circulating in newsletters and on social feeds leads to a dead end, with only navigation links and a poem about "a new leaf." There is no official blog post, no release notes, and no pricing t…
A new paper proposes shielded, private bitcoin transfers on the base layer, with no soft fork, no new chain, and no trusted bridge operators. The proposal, called Shielded Bitcoin, comes from Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin, and it's laid out in a plain-lan…
OpenAI introduced GPT‑6 Astra last week, positioning it as the most capable model for professional tasks. The model is now live in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and via the API.…
Apple sued OpenAI in early August 2026, accusing former employees of stealing trade secrets. The complaint paints OpenAI as careless, but the details OpenAI released tell a different story.…
Bitcoin ETFs took in $2.4 billion last week, their largest weekly inflow since October, which was enough to push them positive for all of 2026. The Block reported the numbers on Saturday.…
A wallet tied to the Bitget hacker swapped about $6.3 million in ether for 75.2 bitcoin through THORChain on Monday, and the protocol refused to do anything about it.…