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McDonald's AI ‘Pricing Engine’ Gauges What Customers Will Pay for a Big Mac: Report
Machine-learning models set an 'optimal price' per item per restaurant, and have widened the gap between branches two miles apart.
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US Senator Blumenthal Calls Tether's USDT a 'Superhighway' for Iranian Sanctions Evasion
The Connecticut Senator's subcommittee released its report on Monday and referred the findings to Treasury and the Justice Department.
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Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money
Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network, letting users make private stablecoin payments using readable tags.
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Cboe's New S&P Deal Opens the Door to Tokenized Options
The renewed agreement preserves Cboe's exclusive rights to S&P 500 index options through 2051 while opening the door to pairing the flagship benchmark with blockchain infrastructure.
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Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August
Bitwise's NRR began trading on NYSE Arca Tuesday, giving brokerage accounts NEAR exposure and staking rewards as the AI-focused token soars.
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Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion
The company's IPO prospectus shows revenue up twelvefold, a $518 billion spending plan, and a risk section warning that its own AI could pose existential risks to humanity.
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Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games
Linear Fox founder Nathan Fargo released a public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, while Sony argues in court that players don't own their digital games.
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OpenAI Gave AI Agents Their Own Computers at DevDay 2026. Here's Everything It Announced
OpenAI's DevDay launched dots, always-on AI agents with their own computers, plus a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol and a $500 speed tier. Here's every announcement, explained for people who don't speak AI.
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Crypto ETFs Surge as Bitcoin Funds Add $2.95 Billion in 30 Days
Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to eight straight days on Monday, bouncing back from the Clarity Act sell-off in a big way.
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BBC Director-General Deems AI-Generated Doctor Who Episode 'Pretty Good'
Matt Brittin, who joined the BBC from Google, argued that "not all creativity is bad," while noting that the technology won't replace humans.
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Is the Red September Curse Over? Bitcoin Set for Best September on Record
Bitcoin is up 7.33% in September, edging past 2024 as the best September on record, with one day left before the monthly candle closes.
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Bitcoin Hovers at $84K as Treasury Yields Hold Near Multi-Year Highs
Analysts point to crude prices capping non-yielding assets, while spot ETFs have taken money in for eight sessions running.
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Morning Minute: Citi and Coinbase Just Made Stablecoins Invisible
Plus, crypto majors rebound as oil and yields fall and Saylor’s Strategy returns to buying Bitcoin.
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Canada's 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski to Represent Himself at Fraud Trial
The judge has told Pleterski he will raise objections on his behalf, to keep inadmissible evidence away from the jury.
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Coinbase Now Owns Every Layer of Its Derivatives Stack After CFTC Approval
Coinbase Clearing will take USDC as collateral and settle around the clock, though margined products stay with partners.
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OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites
OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, but it's pausing training while it adds safeguards.
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A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.
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Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto
Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.
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After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.
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Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out
OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.
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Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC
Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5 million last week, lifting its holdings to 27,462 BTC, with its SATA preferred stock supplying 85% of the capital.
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Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.
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Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.
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Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump's Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher
Bitcoin extends last week's pullback as Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire plan, sending oil above $100 and yields higher ahead of Wednesday's PCE report.
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply
Bitmine has staked 84% of its tokens, a position it projects will generate some $358 million a year in staking rewards.
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Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase
Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.
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Morning Minute: SEC Clears Token Buybacks for Crypto Networks
The Gary Gensler era is long gone and now the SEC is providing clarity on what crypto protocols can and can’t do with their tokens.
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California Bans Public Officials From Issuing Meme Coins Under New Newsom Law
Governor Gavin Newsom’s legislation bars public officials from issuing meme coins and exchanges from listing tokens tied to politicians.
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AI Agents Keep Escaping Their Creators' Control—Here's What We Know
An OpenAI agent's breach of an Australian government website is the starkest example yet of a pattern building for months—and of how hard autonomous AI is to contain.