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Friday, October 23, 2026 · 23 stories · Issue No. 573

AI

5 stories
Anthropic · Claude

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 tops AI index with 61.7 score

Artificial Analysis has released its Coding Agent Index v2.0, showcasing the performance of AI models across 290 software tasks. The update highlights Anthropic ’s Claude Opus 5.5 as the leader, scoring 61.7 overall and dominating the FrontierCode benchmark.

2 min
Business

SK Data Center Arm Aims to Fund $350 billion AI Buildout

Chung Suk-geun, CEO of SK Group's Data Center arm, SK Hyper, says the firm is in talks with big tech firms and financial investors to secure funding for an envisioned $350 billion infrastructure buildout, as AI demand heats up. He speaks…

2 min

Tech

4 stories

Business

4 stories
Business

Vietnam joins forces with Denmark to propel its wind energy ambition

A wind energy partnership between Vietnam and Denmark has fuelled expectations of the Southeast Asian country boosting its competitiveness in renewable electricity to serve overseas and domestic markets. Vietnam is well placed to grow its…

2 min

Finance

1 story

Politics

5 stories
US Senate · Republicans

Michigan Democrat endorses GOP’s Mike Rogers in Senate race

A Michigan Democrat has publicly endorsed Republican candidate Mike Rogers in the state’s contentious U.S. Senate race, citing concerns over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s perceived stance on security issues.

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Republicans

Kentucky Democrat Dembo confronts backlash over law enforcement stance in tight race

Democrat Zach Dembo, a candidate for Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, is facing criticism following a statement from a Kentucky state trooper. The trooper accused Dembo of favoring criminals over law enforcement, a claim disseminated via social media by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

2 min

Crypto

4 stories

AI

25 stories
Microsoft · Nvidia

NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Teach, Evaluate and Deploy World Models

To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints.

2 min
  1. Same story · 2 sources United Kingdom
  2. Same story · 2 sources The ChatGPT-maker confirmed it had shipped a program to check if the PHP service is secure
  3. Same story · 3 sources Barclays · Cut · 5 · 000 · Jobs
  4. Topic · 4 stories OpenAI
  5. Topic · 2 stories Google
  6. AI could displace one in 11 workers, Goldman says, but the layoffs are likely waiting for a recessionFortune Technology
  7. The U.S. market has never been more focused on one single bet—but AI’s payoff will likely take decadesFortune Technology

Tech

7 stories
Germany · Nvidia

Open models provide a path forward, letting governments evaluate them, adapt them to local languages and public services

NVIDIA partners and European governments are teaming to bring advanced models to boost the efficiency of public administration while retaining control of data and infrastructure. Several are also building editions of the NVIDIA Nemotron-Personas collection, the partner-grounded datasets behind NeMo User Sim, NVIDIA’s…

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Also covering:NVIDIA Blog

Business

4 stories

Finance

4 stories

Politics

1 story
Donald Trump · New York

Hochul is only the second Democratic governor to join, after Colorado Gov

The decision came days after Albany’s top Democrats urged her to stay out. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) warned that the federal rules “would undercut New York’s ability to establish meaningful guardrails, leaving the state with little control over which schools and expenses qualify or how…

2 min

Crypto

16 stories
White House · Donald Trump

Senate's top Democratic investigator looking into Tether payments to Bo Hines' firm

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal has added another Tether probe to the many irons he has in crypto fires, this time demanding answers about reported payments the company made to a firm owned by Bo Hines — the former White House crypto adviser who is now in charge of the U.S. arm of Tether.

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  1. Same story · 2 sources Data · Dune · Feeds · Onchain
  2. Same story · 3 sources Bitcoin · ETFs
  3. Crypto is making a splash in U.S. elections, but chiefly in jabs about industry influenceCoinDesk
  4. Crypto for Advisors: Stablecoins are ready for prime timeCoinDesk
  5. Bitcoin’s $80,000 floor runs into Friday inflation test as ETF inflows lose momentumCryptoSlate

AI

38 stories
  1. Same story · 8 sources SpaceX · Tesla
  2. Same story · 2 sources Google
  3. Same story · 2 sources Open Source
  4. Same story · 6 sources SpaceX
  5. Same story · 3 sources Claude
  6. Topic · 2 stories AI Agent
  7. Topic · 2 stories Google
  8. Topic · 2 stories NVIDIA
  9. Topic · 2 stories OpenAI
  10. Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.Hugging Face
  11. Blackstone’s Jas Khaira confirms fears over AI-buildout debt are overblownTechCrunch AI
  12. Critical flaws in commonly applied web code spark rush to update systemsNBC News Tech
  13. Deepseek AI Predicts That Chainlink (LINK) is About to do Something Major99Bitcoins

Tech

10 stories
San Francisco · Google

Learning to live with Waymos

The wheel turns: when one of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles is in motion, its steering wheel moves, too—twitching out the car’s maneuvers from the usual position, facing the front-left seat. Generally, on American roads, this is known as the driver’s seat.

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  1. Same story · 2 sources Intel
  2. Flying Roadsters can’t lift Tesla’s flat Q3 revenuesThe Verge

Finance

1 story

Politics

8 stories
India · Donald Trump

Trump's green card curbs test Indian tech workers' American dream

For millions of Indians, the road to the ultimate career aspiration had a familiar script - an engineering degree to get a tech services job, then a posting in the US, repeated visa renewals and then the green card that gave them permanent residency in the country.

2 min

World

1 story

Crypto

12 stories
  1. Same story · 2 sources OCC
  2. Kraken’s $80 stablecoin fee gap exposes hidden costsCryptoSlate
  3. Irish drug lord’s lost Bitcoin fortune comes back to life as $41 million moves to CoinbaseCryptoSlate

AI

36 stories
San Francisco · Anthropic

Orchestra’s team and platform will be folded into Rosalind, OpenAI’s family of AI models and tools for biologists and chemists

Getting a new medicine from first idea to U.S. approval takes time—up to 15 years according to OpenAI. The process is also absurdly expensive: bringing one approved drug to market can cost more than $2.6 billion, and fewer than 10% of candidates that enter human testing ever make it to pharmacy shelves.

2 min
Also covering:TechCrunch AI
  1. Same story · 7 sources SpaceX
  2. Same story · 3 sources DeepSeek · China
  3. Same story · 5 sources SpaceX
  4. Topic · 3 stories OpenAI
  5. Spain-Based Startups Advance Regional Innovation With Barcelona Supercomputing CenterNVIDIA Blog
  6. For example, frontier AI labs routinely distill their own models to create smaller, cheaper versions for their customersAnthropic
  7. Zuckerberg spent years building on Apple’s terms. His $100 billion-plus AI bet is about owning everythingFortune Technology
  8. DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference engine behind its production modelsCrypto Briefing
  9. An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still UnfoldingWired
  10. FX market tightens AI governance as autonomous trading spreadsCrypto Briefing
  11. Goldman Sachs signals power delays may hinder AI data center growthCrypto Briefing

Tech

6 stories

Business

3 stories

Finance

2 stories

Politics

1 story

Crypto

17 stories
Bitcoin ETF · Bitcoin

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $526.7 million on Monday, their biggest single day since Sept. 22, 's ETF tracker

The inflow interrupted two weeks of selling in which the funds shed about $910 million, including a $484.9 million exit on Oct. 7, which was their worst day since June. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) did the heavy lifting with $665.2 million, more than the entire net total, according to Farside Investors.

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Also covering:CoinDesk
  1. BlackRock seeks to shield bitcoin investors from losses after rival fund weathers 50% crashCoinDesk
  2. France's parliament approves vote to hit stablecoin trades with 31% capital gains taxCoinDesk
  3. Kazakhstan court bars Coinbase, five others from unlicensed crypto services in Astana International Financial CentreCoinDesk
  4. Crypto firms, Wall Street push SEC to revise Regulation Crypto Assets as comments closeThe Block
  5. OKX is putting its money where its mouth is with new protection plan: Former NY Gov. CuomoThe Block

AI

35 stories
Jensen Huang · Germany

Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help

In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial applications of AI.

2 min
  1. Same story · 2 sources AI Agent · Claude
  2. Same story · 2 sources SpaceX
  3. Topic · 6 stories AI Agent
  4. Topic · 4 stories Anthropic
  5. Topic · 3 stories OpenAI
  6. Topic · 2 stories Hugging Face
  7. Galaxy’s AI data center business is undervalued amid CoreWeave debt concerns, StoneX confirmsThe Block
  8. Edge AI changes this by letting inference happen close to where data is generatedIEEE Spectrum AI
  9. WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulatorredact.dev
  10. Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting flaw had Saudi support, argues prosecutorsBBC Technology
  11. In Dublin, tech workers raise concerns about AINPR Technology
  12. Investors are buying on Monday despite fear the AI trade nightmare scenario is far from overCNBC Technology
  13. TorchNeuron works with PyTorch, a free, open source toolkit that developers tap to build, teach, and run AI modelsTechCrunch AI
  14. Tolan snags $30 million for its AI companion that helps users navigate lifeTechCrunch AI
  15. World rolls out ID suite for banks, makes Zoom deepfake check generally availableCrypto Briefing

Tech

5 stories
Qualcomm · Nvidia

Creality Pika 3D scanner review: Good things come in small packages

The Creality Pika is easy to use, with the look, feel, and size of a point-and-shoot digital camera. A 3D scanner is an amazing tool to add to your 3D printing workflow, allowing you to scan real-life objects to import into sculpting or CAD software, then print out your own modified copies on a 3D printer.

2 min
AI Agent

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

M3.1 Flash improves across a broad range of benchmarks, reaching the level of leading models in complex agentic tasks (cowork), computer use, software development (coding), and cybersecurity. Complex Tasks and Automation:.

2 min

Business

6 stories
  1. The proposed nuclear plant would provide 960 megawatts to power the grid — and Amazon’s data centersThe Verge

Politics

1 story

Crypto

11 stories
Tether · Iran

Tether: Senator's investigation overlooks positive work that's led to lower Iran volumes

Tether is answering back against a report issued last month by Democrats on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that had accused the stablecoin firm of providing "a significant financial lifeline within Iran's shadow banking network," with Tether CEO Paulo Ardoino saying Monday that the probe missed the positive work it's doing to observe sanctions.

2 min
Tokenization · OKX

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Wall Street’s push to put stocks onchain is running into an unexpected obstacle: the companies behind the stocks.

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  1. Same story · 2 sources Stablecoin
  2. U.S. CFTC rebuffs CME legal stance in consequential fight over perpetual futuresCoinDesk
  3. Zerohash rolls out a new system to move crypto without copying wallet addressesCoinDesk
  4. Crypto PAC pours $362K into California race voters essentially decided in AugustCointelegraph
  5. BlackRock files for bitcoin ETF offering downside protection and upside exposure to IBITThe Block

AI

17 stories
San Francisco · Anthropic

While machines running AI usually need a fair amount of computing power

In addition to evoking the horcruxes that kept pieces of Lord Voldemort’s soul alive within objects in the Harry Potter series, the report alarmed some professionals because the generally weak security of smart televisions and many other “internet of things” devices would be hard to correct, even with a concerted…

2 min
Anthropic · OpenAI

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control.

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  1. Topic · 3 stories Anthropic
  2. Topic · 2 stories AI Agent
  3. Topic · 2 stories Google
  4. OpenAI quietly lists three aurora alpha models in its APICrypto Briefing
  5. World Bank confirms ‘small AI’ could transform developing countriesThe Guardian Technology
  6. Ledger Debuts $849 Atom Device To Secure Crypto, Apps And AI ActivityBitcoinist
  7. Don't fall for this - how to protect yourself from AI scamsBBC Technology
  8. Trump names Jay Clayton AI czar to lead new Super Intelligence ForceCrypto Briefing

Tech

7 stories
Nvidia · China

Whoever can raise capital cheaply and at scale will set the pace

For China and Europe, the road to closing the technological gap runs through the financial one. Technological revolutions tend to be remembered for their technologies: steam engines, railways, the internet.

2 min
SpaceX · Ukraine

Zelensky speaks to Witkoff and Kushner amid U.S.-Ukraine crisis

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Sunday with President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner about the crisis between the countries and U.S. efforts to resume peace talks with Russia.Why it matters: It was the first call between Zelensky and senior U.S. officials since tensions spiked between their countries after Trump cut a diesel deal with Russia 10 days ago.

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  1. Nvidia RTX 5090 shipment worth $470,000 goes missing in Brazilian airportTom's Hardware

Business

10 stories
Amazon · Apple

Apple's latest Apple Watch Series 12, debuted in September, will have Siri Recap

Meta's popular smart glasses can take photos, capture video and record voice notes or reminders. The devices have fueled concerns that they could erode privacy, by enabling covert recording without obtaining bystanders' consent and collecting sensitive data that's potentially accessible to others.

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  1. The climate crisis is coming for some of the world’s greatest surf breaksWired
  2. Starlink has two $55 gears up that are wildly different, here's howEngadget
  3. Apple initially rolled out Image Playground in December 2024Engadget
  4. Boeing, Meta and EchoStar recorded steep charges and expenses a year agoMarketWatch
  5. While many argue eSIM is a superior technology because it requires no moving partsEngadget

Finance

2 stories
Germany · U.S.

U.S. custodianship continues to decline

Then the Dutch central bank, known as the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), moved more than 78 tons of gold in New York and seven tons in Canada to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest” and the need to improve its “crisis preparedness.”

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Politics

9 stories
Democrats · US Senate

Anti-party, anti-politician candidates surge in midterms

In red states and blue, unconventional candidates are downplaying — or even disowning — party labels to tap into voters' deep disdain for Washington.Why it matters: They might not all win, but the sheer number of political outsiders connecting with voters tells us something about the electorate: It's angry and willing to take risks.The candidates — whether they come from the pulpit or the NFL sidelines — are making the same bet: Voters are tired of career politicians.Zoom in: Consider three unorthodox Democrats leading in Senate contests in three red states: a Presbyterian seminarian in Texas (state Rep.

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Axios · Republicans

Rivals pile on Beshear over his resistance to Latinos' push for Texas funds

Andy Beshear is in open war with prominent Latino lawmakers, and his potential 2028 rivals for president are taking advantage.Beshear, as head of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), has resisted pressure from Latino leaders to invest heavily in Gina Hinojosa's campaign for Texas governor, opting to focus on races in other states.In response, Illinois Gov.

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Republicans · Democrats

Decades-old GOP winning streaks are suddenly at risk

Democrats are running surprisingly competitive races in traditionally Republican territory across the country this midterm election cycle, and it's putting GOP winning streaks at risk that stretch as far back as the 1930s.Why it matters: Democrats hope ending political droughts in states such as Kansas, Texas and South Carolina will help make inroads in what has long been off-limits territory.Kansas - 1932Sen.

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  1. MapQuest, the mapping service many Americans last leveraged to print driving directionsDecrypt
  2. RepRapMicronGitHub
  3. Trump once questioned Obama's citizenship. Now Obama is speaking out for Ilhan Omar.Axios
  4. Zcash’s prepared Sprout freeze would leave private keys unable to move fundsCryptoSlate

Economy

2 stories
China · Donald Trump

Wright calls Trump's diesel agreement a peace incentive. Rubio confirms Russia would sell anyway.

President Trump's top aides offered sharply different explanations this weekend of his Russian diesel deal amid a barrage of bipartisan criticism calling the move a gift to Russia.Why it matters: Oil, gas and petroleum products help finance Russia's war on Ukraine, and Trump's moves are bringing rifts within the GOP ahead of midterm elections.Catch up quick: Late Friday, Trump waived new sanctions against Russia and tariffs on top buyers of Russian energy that would have taken effect under the bipartisan Graham Act he signed last month.That came days after the administration waived certain sanctions as part of a deal aimed at enabling higher exports of Russian diesel after high prices have become a political millstone for Republicans.Driving the news: Energy Secretary Chris Wright argued Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that Russia could only benefit from the diesel deal if it scales back its war on Ukraine enough to increase exports."This is a carrot to try to end a war.

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World

3 stories
China

How land power could help US forces counter China in the Indo-Pacific

Senior US commanders have highlighted the importance of land-based troops and equipment stationed in the Asia-Pacific in any conflict with China, countering assumptions that such a war would be fought mainly at sea and in the air.

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Crypto

10 stories
White House · CLARITY Act

The White House's crypto chief departs: State of Crypto

White House Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets Patrick Witt is leaving government service and returning to the private sector.

2 min
  1. Topic · 2 stories Bitcoin
  2. Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays RedDecrypt
  3. Two Aave stablecoin backstops shrank $12.4 million as reward rates roseCryptoSlate
  4. Chinese suspect in $75 million international crime network arrested in BangkokCointelegraph

AI

26 stories
  1. Same story · 3 sources TL;DR: Tokenization infrastructure firm Fission has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital
  2. Topic · 7 stories Anthropic
  3. Topic · 2 stories AI Agent
  4. Topic · 2 stories OpenAI
  5. Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap, and scary, Chinese AIThe Guardian Technology
  6. Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sitesThe Verge
  7. AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to tune AI robotsTom's Hardware
  8. Ben Horowitz confirms AI fast takeoff is unlikely as key conditions go unmetCrypto Briefing
  9. Flexport Is Hiring a Biz Ops Leader in Office of CEOflexport.com
  10. Musk tells Isaacson "AI and robots" will need to patch deficitAxios

Tech

7 stories
DeepSeek · China

DeepSeek launched V4.1-Flash on September 10, 2026

It uses a sparse mixture-of-experts design, or MoE, where only about 8 billion parameters are active when the model processes input and roughly 16 billion kick in when it generates output. It also ships with a 1 million token context window, allowing the model to hold a large amount of text in working memory at once,…

2 min
  1. Unlike the endless stream of aftermarket adapters designed solely to prevent 16-pin power meltdownsTom's Hardware

Business

13 stories
White House · Canada

Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides

Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security.

2 min
Germany

Close to 1 billion meetings take place each day around the world

Planning for and spearheading meetings eats up the lion’s share of managers’ time. Given the enormous time spent in workplace meetings, do Ars Technica know what they accomplish or how to make them as worthwhile as possible?

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  1. Topic · 2 stories Musk
  2. ‘France, truly, is on the brink’ and just days away from a make-or-break moment in its debt crisis, analyst warnsFortune Technology
  3. Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systemsThe Register
  4. Palantir patient data tech rejected by many NHS trusts in EnglandThe Guardian Technology
  5. Susan Dell is the one running the Dells’ $10 billion giving operation—and her biggest bets are on kids, health care, and UT AustinFortune Technology
  6. Is Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo worth $2,000? See how it stacks up against other foldable phones.MarketWatch
  7. In September, HTC started selling its $499 Vive Eagle smart glasses in the USWired

Finance

2 stories
Goldman Sachs · Tokenization

Goldman Sachs CEO Sees Tokenization as Wall Street’s Next Act

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon sees tokenization reshaping financial markets, potentially opening new revenue opportunities rather than simply threatening traditional finance (TradFi) and Wall Street businesses.

2 min

Politics

9 stories
Donald Trump · Russia

Trump waives new Russia sanctions in the "national interests"

President Trump waived new sanctions on Russia late Friday night, saying it was in the "national interests" to hold off on the sweeping levies under the Graham Act that he signed last month.

2 min
White House · Donald Trump

Trump ratchets up the chaos in an October barrage

President Trump is carrying his insatiable appetite for controversy into the most unforgiving stretch of the electoral calendar, fortified by a decade of political survival."Bottom line, it's gonna all work out.

2 min
  1. Mark Carney makes closing argument to Alberta against path to independence from CanadaFortune Technology
  2. Katie Zacharia ousted as White House press secretaryAxios
  3. Black voters test the socialist left's ceilingAxios

World

2 stories

Crypto

11 stories
Goldman Sachs · Circle

Goldman, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley see tokenization as a growth play, not a threat

Tokenization, or the process of bringing financial and real-world assets onto a blockchain, has been generating headlines in recent months, with a growing number of companies saying they’re offering, or planning to offer, versions of equities, bonds and commodities that can be traded around the clock with few, if any, geographic restrictions.

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  1. Same story · 2 sources Hex · Founder · Richard · Heart
  2. Michael Saylor pitches Bitcoin as digital capital at ParaFi Investor DayCrypto Briefing
  3. Ethereum sets October 26 for Hoodi’s 200 million gas testCryptoSlate
  4. When an owner approves a payment, the wallet signs the transaction without giving the computer those keysCryptoSlate
  5. Taiwan Blocks Coinbase And Kalshi Websites Over Election Betting ConcernsBitcoinist

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