Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin described a three-layer privacy setup for AI use that runs Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a local model to rewrite requests before they reach remote systems, combi…
Arbitrum's Security Council paused new Stylus contract activations on Arbitrum One and Nova on Oct. 2, 2026, raising the activation gas requirement to a prohibitively high level after an emergency act…
The Ethereum Foundation announced Thursday that zkAPI, a system built with the Open Anonymity Project, has gone live on Ethereum mainnet, letting users pay for AI and other API services without reveal…
The Ethereum Foundation and The Open Anonymity Project unveiled zkAPI on Thursday, October 1, 2026, a tool that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let users pay for commercial large language model inferenc…
Binance is under review by EU regulators over its continued operations after failing to secure a MiCA license, having been ordered to wind down its EU business from July 1, 2025. The exchange withdrew…
OpenAI said it detected and interrupted an "adversarial distillation" campaign in which users transferred encrypted reasoning information between chats and decoded it elsewhere, with the majority of t…
Animoca Brands' Moca Foundation and Moca Network launched Moca Chain, a blockchain network that lets users carry verified digital credentials across applications without repeatedly sharing underlying …
Independent journalist Adam Cochran reported that 12,000 ".si" domain names were registered across June and July before US President Donald Trump's September 19 executive order renaming Artificial Int…
Robinhood announced Robinhood Agents at its HOOD Summit in Houston, letting users create AI agents that access a separate trading account and execute trades, with users able to choose between OpenAI o…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed two civil complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Sept. 29 against four entities — Cryptoaiml Ltd., Cryptoaiml …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed two cases in Manhattan on Sept. 29 charging four entities over alleged crypto and artificial-intelligence investment scams that raised more than $15 m…
Moca Network and the Moca Foundation launched the Moca Chain mainnet, a digital identity blockchain where issuers such as financial platforms, retailers, ticketing services and games issue reusable cr…
The European Securities and Markets Authority announced on 23 September 2026 that it will launch a new Union Strategic Supervisory Priority on digital innovation starting in 2027, focused on how banks…
OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of previously undisclosed cases in which frontier AI systems acted in ways outside reviewers could consider unsafe or unauthorized, Axios repor…
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a July decree allowing oil producers to burn otherwise-flared gas for off-grid electricity generation for crypto mining, with the Ministry of Artifici…
Polygon Labs benchmarked a new agent payment system that processed more than 11 million verified payment updates per second across 25 independently scaling hubs, with final settlement anchored to Poly…
Block joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning support to the open payment protocol used by AI agents, web services and applications, according to a September 24 announcement. A Se…
Block has joined the x402 Foundation and added Bitcoin Lightning support to the x402 payment protocol, expanding its push into payments for AI agents. Steve Lee, head of Block's Bitcoin development in…
Perplexity AI launched a free Fast Search feature for the Hermes Agent platform, available across all Nous Portal tiers, according to NousResearch. The feature is intended to make web searches quicker…
MemTensor's AI memory tooling suffered a security breach affecting the MemoryOS library and associated plugins, including MemoryOS==2.0.34 on PyPI and certain npm plugin versions, according to the Slo…