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Circle sold $222m of ARC to institutions in May, four months before Arc opened
Circle raised $222 million selling ARC at a $3 billion network valuation on 12 May 2026, with a16z crypto leading and BlackRock, Apollo and Intercontinental Exchange among the buyers. Arc opened to the public four months later, on 16 September.
DOE opens a $215m quantum competition with $2.5m appropriated
The Energy Department opened its Quantum Genesis Q Competition on 17 September 2026. It plans up to $215 million for a fault-tolerant machine of at least 100 logical qubits by 2028. DOE's own announcement says $2.5 million of that is Fiscal Year 2026 money.
OpenAI's Astra for Law puts a case-law index behind GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law on 17 September 2026: GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index, legal instructions and firm tooling, for selected law firms. Two separate figures in the announcement both read 54%, and they measure different things.
The SEC and CFTC will write crypto rules now the CLARITY Act has stalled
The Senate rejected cloture on the CLARITY Act 49 to 50 on 15 September 2026. Within a day the SEC chairman said the agency would act with or without legislation, and the CFTC chairman had already said the same thing three weeks earlier.
Novo will test Claude Science on specific drug discovery workflows
Novo Nordisk, which now trades day to day as Novo, announced a collaboration with Anthropic on 16 September 2026. It will test Claude Science on specific research and development workflows, on top of the Claude system that already writes its regulatory documents.
The FCA's crypto gateway opens on 30 September, and it shuts eight months before the rules bite
The FCA published PS26/18, its final cryptoasset perimeter guidance, on 16 September 2026. Applications open on 30 September and close on 28 February 2027, with the regime commencing 25 October 2027.
Arc opened to the public today, and it has been producing blocks since May
Circle opened its Arc blockchain to the public on 16 September 2026. The network had already been running privately since May, and every transaction fee on it is paid in USDC rather than a separate crypto token.
The CLARITY Act fell eleven votes short, and every yea was Republican
The Senate rejected cloture on H.R. 3633 by 49 to 50 on 15 September 2026. All 49 yeas were Republican, four Republicans voted nay, and Senator Tillis entered a motion to reconsider one minute later.
DOJ seeks $61m over Iranian oil proceeds routed through Binance accounts
A 14 September DOJ complaint targets $61m in USDT and alleges Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale used Binance accounts to move Iranian oil proceeds.
DeepMind safety researcher Josh Engels joins METR, warning of severe AI harm
Josh Engels has left DeepMind's AGI safety team for METR, calling for slower development and independent investigation of AI behaviour.
Amodei's AI slowdown call draws rival support and a global sell-off
Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI gains backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk as chip shares fall and the US-China dispute sharpens.
Microsoft proposes human-control rules for its future AI models
Microsoft opens a six-week consultation on its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, proposing shutdown controls and safety rules for model development from 2027.
Senate Republicans add crypto ethics rules before CLARITY vote
A 635-page CLARITY Act draft adds state enforcement of crypto ethics rules and a stablecoin deposit safeguard before the Senate's 15 September vote.
Revolut disclosed customer identity and Bitcoin records after a fraudulent government request
Revolut's customer notice describes a fraudulent request from a mailbox inside a government domain, with identity documents and transaction records potentially disclosed.
Blockstream rejects Liquid ransom as about 598.5 bitcoin remain outstanding
Blockstream has refused a ransom after 3,400 BTC were returned. The transaction trail links the message wallet to an earlier withdrawal and preserves a smaller tracing lead.
IonQ opens Superion 256 orders and estimates a 26-day quantum attack on Bitcoin signatures
Superion 256 deliveries are targeted for 2027. A separate IonQ study models a secp256k1 attack using 19,397 physical qubits with an estimated 63% success probability per attempt.
Diamond chips, faster control and Helix error correction advance three quantum approaches
Fujitsu's diamond-spin prototype, Chalmers' theoretical Floquet method and Quantinuum's Helix experiments address hardware connections, control speed and error correction.
Why AI keeps picking 17: We tested randomness across 12 models
YFarmX tested 12 language models across number ranges, five languages and coin flips. Their answers reveal strong favourites and an unusually tidy idea of randomness.
Trezor phishing alert passed email checks as YFarmX examines the takedown
Brevo confirms access to 120 accounts, closed at 09:30 UTC on 10 September. YFarmX’s later checks found the shared public DKIM key still published.
U.S. quantum awards pair funding for D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum with equity stakes
D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum have finalised CHIPS awards totalling up to $300 million under a programme requiring minority government equity stakes.
Hermes joins Omarchy's desktop and terminal workflow
Omarchy's AI integration connects Hermes Desktop, the terminal command and theme settings around a shared runtime.
Liquid gets 3,400 BTC back as the actor retains about $47m
The 3,400 BTC return is confirmed on Bitcoin. About 598.5 BTC remains with the actor, while Liquid's bridge incident is still active.
Quantinuum signed a non-binding MOU with Aramco, which already runs a rival's quantum computer
Quantinuum announced a memorandum of understanding with Aramco signed in Riyadh on 31 August. Read in full, it commits to technical onboarding, knowledge exchange and benchmarking. Aramco already has a rival's quantum computer installed and running.
QC Ware and IonQ report chemical accuracy on eight qubits, with no paper and no named benchmark
QC Ware said on 1 September 2026 that a hybrid workflow on IonQ's Forte computer got within 0.5 kcal/mol of classical benchmarks for an enzyme active site. The quantum part was eight qubits, and the benchmark it was measured against is not named.
We ran nine methods against Tornado Cash. One of them named the wallet funding the cash-out
A methods paper from a live investigation. Nine techniques run against a real Tornado Cash cash-out, what each one returned, and the one that named the wallet feeding the pool while the operator drained it.
YFarmX investigation: Venus attack proceeds flowed into the funding trail behind Tectonic on Cronos
Venus Protocol named its attacker in March. Those proceeds went to the wallet that five months later funded the Cronos drain. Every hop across three chains, graded by evidence.
Pasqal listed with $360m and 90.57% of the SPAC's public shareholders took their money out
Pasqal began trading as PSQL on 28 August and closed its first session at $19.11. Shareholders redeemed 26,039,602 of 28,750,000 SPAC shares, and $250m of the cash at closing came from convertible bonds sold at a 20% discount.
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