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Japan’s MMX spacecraft launched aboard an H3 rocket toward Phobos. The mission plans a rover survey, surface sampling and an Earth return in 2031.
JPMorgan’s JPM Coin deposit token is available on Ethereum for institutional clients, adding a second public network alongside Base for bank-money transfers.
BlackRock proposes PBIT, an options-based Bitcoin fund with capped upside and an initial loss threshold near 10% per tranche. Outcomes depend on timing and fees.
Anthropic proposes a 5% share pledge, subject to stockholder approval. Its board could add shares as company value rises, with workers among the fund's priorities.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash from MiniMax: a low-cost model for coding agents. Release date, access, capabilities and current terms, checked on 20 October 2026.
Muse Spark Open from Meta: downloadable weights for multimodal agents. Release date, access, capabilities and current terms, checked on 20 October 2026.
Google's Willow experiment reduced magic-state errors 40-fold. Its 99.99% fidelity result retained 8% of attempts, making yield central to the engineering picture.
YFarmX reproduced all five recovered NIST prime-curve seeds against OpenSSL. The interesting security question concerns how candidates and base points were selected.
Circle's Jeremy Allaire outlined expansion into about 40 emerging markets. Mastercard and BVNK separately launched a platform connecting fiat accounts, stablecoins and payouts.
Hacken, Midnight Foundation and seven other organisations formed the Quantum Alliance to develop shared migration standards for blockchains, wallets and proof systems.
Tesla demonstrated a new Roadster driving upside down, turning through the air and landing with cold-gas thrusters. Production is targeted for 2028.
ORCA launched its PT-3 alongside NVIDIA computing in London, reporting better protein-design results and a faster energy-scheduling workflow than its previous generation.
AstraZeneca agreed to pay insitro $40 million upfront, with up to $1.46 billion in milestones, to discover targets and medicines for liver and heart diseases.
Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams are live on Stellar, giving developers market prices for lending, collateral and tokenised-asset applications.
Innovate UK awarded Infleqtion £9 million to develop deployable Rydberg-atom radio direction-finding equipment with Leonardo, building on the QuDiFi prototype project.
Google Quantum AI researchers propose using saved error records and two decoders to reduce statistical bias after quantum execution. The headline result comes from simulations.
US prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan after a covert recorder was found behind a conference-room television at OpenAI. The allegations were disclosed on 13 October.
Ripple and Stripe-owned Privy announced programmable XRPL wallets for fintechs and AI agents, supporting XRP, RLUSD, transaction signing and key export.
French MPs propose taxing gains on conversions into e-money stablecoins from 2027. The current private-investor flat rate is 31.4%; the measure remains under debate.
Alice & Bob reports a synthetic-data GPU decoding test. Fujitsu's diamond-spin prototype and SEALSQ's satellite-security investment show other quantum developments.
IBM, IonQ, Atom Computing and Diraq enter DARPA's final verification stage, testing plans for quantum computers whose value exceeds their cost by 2033.
Oxford physicists used qubits and vibrating trapped ions to observe magnetic-flux interference in a simulated particle system. The study appeared in Nature Physics on 25 September.
Satya Nadella wants authorised people to stop AI models mid-task, with permissions and audit records controlled independently. His proposal treats powerful models as insider risks.
Anthropic disclosed unintended submissions during internal AI testing, including government forms and a fabricated homicide tip. US officials demanded immediate incident reporting and remediation.
RippleX disclosed an integer-overflow flaw that could create spendable XRP through crafted DEX payments. The emergency xrpld 3.4.1 release fixed it on 25 September.
The Ledger thief put 100 ETH more through Tornado Cash on 16 October, after 390 ETH on 15 October, and earlier withdrawals were sold for USDT and sent to cash-out desks on Tron.
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