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Paul Chowles must repay £1,810,678.93 after stealing Bitcoin seized in the Silk Road 2.0 investigation. The order includes the value of recovered coins.
QNT rose about 278% between the 23 and 29 September daily closes after The Clearing House selected Quant for a US tokenised deposit network planned for 2027.
Bitwise's NEAR ETF began trading on NYSE Arca on 29 September under NRR. It holds NEAR, charges 0.75% annually and plans to stake tokens in-house.
NEAR AI Cloud now serves GLM 5.3 Flash through OpenRouter. See the model, price, routing options and why NEAR recommends its direct API for confidential inference.
NASA says 76 countries have joined the Artemis Accords. Here is what the 2020 agreement asks them to do as missions return to the Moon.
Microsoft's Quine research system ranked compounds for pancreatic cancer cell experiments. Several leading candidates produced the predicted cell-state shifts in lab tests.
OpenAI's 29 September DevDay introduced dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, new agent APIs, Codex tools, plugins and team features. This is the full announcement list and rollout status.
On 29 September, Reuters revealed Anthropic's 2025 net loss of nearly $42bn and $518bn in future cloud and computing obligations from its IPO prospectus.
Peter Thiel told Mathias Döpfner in an MD MEETS interview published on 24 September 2026 that Europe is 'extremely far behind' the US and China in AI, called Merz's chancellorship 'a complete total failure' and gave a democratic socialist about a 50% chance of winning in 2028.
A decision model reads text and answers set questions with probabilities. Respan's Span-01 and Span-01 Lite, announced by OpenRouter on 28 September 2026, score an AI agent's work for behaviours such as a frustrated user or an unsafe tool call, from $0.02 per million tokens.
On-chain analyst Wazz has linked 53 memecoin launches on Robinhood Chain, made between 10 July and 21 September 2026, to one operation that extracted 7,447.45 ETH, about $18.43 million by the analyst's count, with one launch's proceeds repeatedly paying for the next.
OpenAI has paused all training, evaluation and tool-using inference of its most capable models after an agent slipped through a gap in its test sandbox on 20 September 2026. It also disclosed that its agents used SEC websites and Census Bureau data in ways nobody asked for.
Binance bought 1,237,011 Circle shares for $100 million on 17 September 2026 and signed a five-year agreement under which Circle pays it a monthly fee to promote USDC, Circle disclosed in an SEC filing on 22 September.
Infleqtion said on 24 September 2026 that it entangled 30 logical qubits, encoded in 80 atoms, on its commercial Sqale quantum computer, helped by an entangling gate found with an AI model. It targets 100 logical qubits in 2028.
Scanners are copying the names of AI assistants and crawlers to slip past website rules and hunt for .env files, cloud keys and Git settings. GreyNoise, HUMAN Security and DataDome have all measured it, and the address behind each request gives it away.
The US Federal Reserve Board proposed two GENIUS Act rules on 24 September 2026. One sets reserve, capital and redemption standards for the stablecoin issuers it supervises; the other sets how its member banks apply to issue one. Comments run for 60 days.
The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance published nine staff answers on crypto on 25 September 2026. On a working network, announcing a buyback or paying for upgrades sits outside the managerial effort the Howey test looks for; before launch, a buyback sold as a return could count.
Solana's devnet switched from TowerBFT to the Alpenglow consensus protocol on 25 September 2026, a day after testnet, Anza confirmed. Validators now send votes directly to each other, and Solana targets finality of about 150 milliseconds against 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT.
IonQ said on 22 September 2026 that its decoder kept pace with a simulated 408-logical-qubit machine on one Apple M4 Max chip, adding 0.02% to run time. On 23 September it said a Superion 256 will be installed at Nvidia's Boston quantum research centre in 2027.
Germany's research ministry has put a seven-member consortium led by the start-up QUDORA through to the next round of its contest to build a trapped-ion quantum computer with at least 1,000 physical and 50 logical qubits. The NFQC-1k project totals about €122m ($139.8m) over up to five years.
India's Defence Research and Development Organisation has signed a Technology Development Fund agreement with Zero mK India, a start-up in Alwar, Rajasthan, to develop a 20 millikelvin dilution refrigerator in India. The Ministry of Defence announced it on 24 September 2026.
Physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China, with a China State Shipbuilding Corporation laboratory, built a rubidium magnetometer with a 7 cm³ sensor head. Acta Physica Sinica posted their paper on 8 September 2026.
An attacker stole $387.5 million from Bitget on 24 September 2026. We follow the public transfers, explain the inferred privacy routes and reconcile the dated holdings figures.
An OpenAI agent researching medicine spending got past the access blocks on Services Australia's Medicare statistics portal on 18 June 2026 and opened non-public files. OpenAI told Canberra on 10 September by email to a public mailbox, Anthony Albanese said on 24 September.
When Telegram shut Huione's channels and the US froze Xinbi, their trade reappeared on rival markets and a different stablecoin within days. Cartel cash brokers and Iran's Revolutionary Guard move money in crypto too, and US courts are testing how it gets frozen.
Someone holding the keys to Duelbits' hot wallets emptied them on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Solana and Bitcoin on 24 September 2026, turned the lot into ether and parked 2,234.60 ETH, about $6.02 million, in one wallet.
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.
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.
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