Innovation

Anthropic Says AI Agents Ran Almost Every Step of the Cyberattacks It Disrupted

Sep 13, 2026

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Anthropic Says AI Agents Ran Almost Every Step of the Cyberattacks It Disrupted

Anthropic's September 2026 threat report details cyberattacks, scams, and state espionage it caught between December 2025 and August 2026, and its through line is that AI agents now do most of the work.

Aaron Rafferty

Global Affairs

MoneyGram Launches a Stablecoin Visa Card in Colombia, Letting Users Spend USDC Anywhere Visa Works

Sep 13, 2026

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MoneyGram Launches a Stablecoin Visa Card in Colombia, Letting Users Spend USDC Anywhere Visa Works

The MoneyGram Card runs on the Stellar network and was built with crypto card platform Rain, starting in Colombia with a physical card and ATM withdrawals planned for late 2026.

Aaron Rafferty

Innovation

Coinbase and Moov Will Put Stablecoin Payments Inside More Than 1,000 Community Banks and Credit Unions

Sep 12, 2026

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Coinbase and Moov Will Put Stablecoin Payments Inside More Than 1,000 Community Banks and Credit Unions

The partnership embeds Coinbase's stablecoin rails into Moov's platform, letting small banks accept, settle, and fund payments without building crypto systems of their own.

Aaron Rafferty

Technology

Nasdaq Invests $100 Million in Kraken Parent Payward to Expand Tokenized Stocks

Sep 12, 2026

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Nasdaq Invests $100 Million in Kraken Parent Payward to Expand Tokenized Stocks

Nasdaq Ventures backs Payward at a $21 billion valuation and deepens a partnership to trade tokenized equities across regulated and on-chain venues, with a launch targeted for the second quarter of 2027.

Aaron Rafferty

The Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, Leaving Out Anthropic's Claude

Sep 11, 2026

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The Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, Leaving Out Anthropic's Claude

The Defense Department launched OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government on GenAI.mil on August 31, joining Google Gemini across a workforce of more than 3 million, while Anthropic's Claude stays out after a supply-chain-risk fight a federal judge called illegal.

Aaron Rafferty

Legal

Wyoming Adopts Chainlink Proof of Reserve for Its State-Issued FRNT Stablecoin

Sep 11, 2026

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Wyoming Adopts Chainlink Proof of Reserve for Its State-Issued FRNT Stablecoin

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve for its state-issued Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), adding near real-time onchain reserve verification on top of daily attestations and the GENIUS Act baseline.

Aaron Rafferty

Legal

Revolut Wins Conditional OCC Approval for a US National Bank Offering Stablecoins and Crypto

Sep 11, 2026

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Revolut Wins Conditional OCC Approval for a US National Bank Offering Stablecoins and Crypto

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted Revolut conditional approval on September 3 to form Revolut Bank US, clearing a path to loans, FDIC-insured deposits, stablecoins, and crypto once the FDIC and Federal Reserve sign off ahead of a 2027 launch.

Aaron Rafferty

Coinbase's AI News Alert Called a World Cup Result Before Kickoff

Sep 11, 2026

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Coinbase's AI News Alert Called a World Cup Result Before Kickoff

Coinbase sent users an AI-generated breaking news alert saying Norway beat Brazil 3-2 nearly six hours before the match started, and the company says it has made updates to prevent a repeat.

Aaron Rafferty

Legal

AMC Fights Robinhood Over Stock Tokens It Says Are Not Real Shares

Sep 11, 2026

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AMC Fights Robinhood Over Stock Tokens It Says Are Not Real Shares

Adam Aron wants Robinhood to halt tokens that track AMC's price, while Robinhood says they are separate securities issued offshore, not company stock.

Aaron Rafferty

Global Affairs

Chainlink Partners With Swift Provider Bottomline to Move Bank Payments Onchain for 600 Banks

Sep 11, 2026

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Chainlink Partners With Swift Provider Bottomline to Move Bank Payments Onchain for 600 Banks

Bottomline, a top-three Swift service provider that moves more than $16 trillion in payments a year, will use Chainlink's CCIP and Runtime Environment to offer cross-chain, cross-border settlement to its 600-plus bank customers while staying compatible with existing Swift and ISO 20022 systems.

Aaron Rafferty

Innovation

SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq 100 With $4.3 Billion in Forced Index Buying

Sep 11, 2026

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SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq 100 With $4.3 Billion in Forced Index Buying

SpaceX enters the Nasdaq-100 before Tuesday's open just 15 trading days after the largest IPO on record, and index funds tracking the benchmark have to buy roughly $4.3 billion of the stock.

Aaron Rafferty

Global Affairs

XPeng's Robotics Unit Raises Over $900 Million at a $6.3 Billion Valuation Ahead of Humanoid Production

Sep 11, 2026

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XPeng's Robotics Unit Raises Over $900 Million at a $6.3 Billion Valuation Ahead of Humanoid Production

IDG Capital led the first outside round for XPeng's robotics business, with Gaorong Ventures and strategic backing from Tencent and Alibaba. The company calls it the largest single private financing in China's embodied AI industry and expects its IRON humanoid in mass production by the end of 2026.

Aaron Rafferty

Nvidia Is in Talks to Back Perplexity at More Than a $30 Billion Valuation

Sep 11, 2026

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Nvidia Is in Talks to Back Perplexity at More Than a $30 Billion Valuation

The Information reported the discussions on Sunday. A round at that price would put the AI search company more than 50 percent above its roughly $20 billion valuation last year, as annualized revenue climbed past $750 million from under $250 million in January.

Aaron Rafferty

WYDE Ecosystem

Sep 11, 2026

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WYDE's Aaron Rafferty Tells Benzinga How to Vet Tokenized Stocks

A Benzinga feature published Monday walks through the exchanges selling tokenized stocks and the backed-versus-mirror distinction Rafferty says decides whether you own anything at all, weeks after $1 billion in tokenized SpaceX orders collapsed.

Aaron Rafferty

Philanthropy

Checkout Charity Raised $275 Million in 2024, and Shoppers Are Split on the Ask

Sep 11, 2026

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Checkout Charity Raised $275 Million in 2024, and Shoppers Are Split on the Ask

Point-of-sale roundup campaigns pulled in over $275 million across 92 campaigns in 2024, including $36 million for food security, but more shoppers say the checkout ask bothers them than say they like it.

Aaron Rafferty

Innovation

White Hat Hackers Say a Patched Aptos Flaw Could Have Put $70 Billion at Risk

Sep 11, 2026

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White Hat Hackers Say a Patched Aptos Flaw Could Have Put $70 Billion at Risk

Security firm Hexens disclosed a patched vulnerability in the Aptos MoveVM that researchers simulated with a $3,000 server at a near 90 percent success rate, estimating up to $70 billion in systemic exposure.

Aaron Rafferty

Global Affairs

JPMorgan Adds Five Asia-Pacific Currencies to Its Kinexys Blockchain Settlement Network

Sep 11, 2026

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JPMorgan Adds Five Asia-Pacific Currencies to Its Kinexys Blockchain Settlement Network

JPMorgan added the Australian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Japanese yen, Chinese renminbi, and Singapore dollar to its Kinexys blockchain settlement platform, giving institutional clients eight currencies for around-the-clock cross-border payments and FX after more than 4 trillion dollars in transactions.

Aaron Rafferty

Innovation

'Whitehat' Hackers Drain Nearly 4,000 Bitcoin From Blockstream's Liquid Network, Pausing the Sidechain

Sep 10, 2026

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'Whitehat' Hackers Drain Nearly 4,000 Bitcoin From Blockstream's Liquid Network, Pausing the Sidechain

A self-described whitehat withdrew about 4,000 BTC worth roughly $320 million through the SideSwap peg-out authorization key, dropping the Liquid Network federation reserve from about 4,200 BTC to 207 BTC and freezing the Blockstream Bitcoin sidechain.

Aaron Rafferty

Anthropic Says Claude Wrote the First Computer-Checked Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Sep 10, 2026

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Anthropic Says Claude Wrote the First Computer-Checked Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Anthropic said on September 4 that Claude worked largely autonomously for 11 days to formalize Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean proof assistant, producing 13 million lines of code and the largest formal math proof ever built.

Aaron Rafferty

Legal

Block Files With the OCC to Launch Builders Bank, a National Trust Bank for Bitcoin and Stablecoin Custody

Sep 10, 2026

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Block Files With the OCC to Launch Builders Bank, a National Trust Bank for Bitcoin and Stablecoin Custody

Jack Dorsey's Block applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for Builders Bank and Trust, an uninsured national trust bank that would custody bitcoin and stablecoins without taking deposits or making loans.

Aaron Rafferty

Healthcare

Insilico's AI-Designed Drug Rentosertib Reversed Biological Age Across Six Aging Clocks in a Trial

Sep 10, 2026

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Insilico's AI-Designed Drug Rentosertib Reversed Biological Age Across Six Aging Clocks in a Trial

Insilico Medicine's AI-designed TNIK inhibitor rentosertib reversed predicted biological age across six proteomic aging clocks in a Phase IIa trial published in Nature Biotechnology.

Aaron Rafferty

Global Affairs

Tether and Fasanara Launch a $400 Million Stablecoin Fund for Small-Business Lending

Sep 10, 2026

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Tether and Fasanara Launch a $400 Million Stablecoin Fund for Small-Business Lending

Tether and Fasanara Capital seeded StableFund, a $400 million stablecoin private credit vehicle routing USDT rails into small-business and consumer lending across more than 60 countries.

Aaron Rafferty

OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Produced a Proof of the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Sep 10, 2026

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OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Produced a Proof of the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

OpenAI says an internal AI model with roughly 10,000 coordinating agents produced a Lean-verified proof that the Navier-Stokes equations can form a finite-time singularity, resolving a Clay Mathematics Millennium Prize Problem.

Aaron Rafferty

Legal

IDScan Confirms a Data Breach Exposing More Than 150 Million Driver's Licenses

Sep 10, 2026

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IDScan Confirms a Data Breach Exposing More Than 150 Million Driver's Licenses

The identity verification company IDScan confirmed hackers stole full names and driver's license and passport numbers tied to more than 150 million records in its cloud, and the FBI is investigating the data breach.

Aaron Rafferty

Ninth Circuit Overturns Amazon's Block on Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent, Ruling Users Do the Accessing

Sep 10, 2026

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Ninth Circuit Overturns Amazon's Block on Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent, Ruling Users Do the Accessing

A three-judge panel vacated the injunction that kept Perplexity's Comet assistant off Amazon, finding the user, not the AI company, accesses Amazon's servers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Aaron Rafferty

Innovation

Anthropic Says AI Agents Ran Almost Every Step of the Cyberattacks It Disrupted

MoneyGram Launches a Stablecoin Visa Card in Colombia, Letting Users Spend USDC Anywhere Visa Works

Coinbase and Moov Will Put Stablecoin Payments Inside More Than 1,000 Community Banks and Credit Unions

Nasdaq Invests $100 Million in Kraken Parent Payward to Expand Tokenized Stocks

The Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, Leaving Out Anthropic's Claude

Wyoming Adopts Chainlink Proof of Reserve for Its State-Issued FRNT Stablecoin

Revolut Wins Conditional OCC Approval for a US National Bank Offering Stablecoins and Crypto

Coinbase's AI News Alert Called a World Cup Result Before Kickoff

AMC Fights Robinhood Over Stock Tokens It Says Are Not Real Shares

Chainlink Partners With Swift Provider Bottomline to Move Bank Payments Onchain for 600 Banks

SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq 100 With $4.3 Billion in Forced Index Buying

XPeng's Robotics Unit Raises Over $900 Million at a $6.3 Billion Valuation Ahead of Humanoid Production

Nvidia Is in Talks to Back Perplexity at More Than a $30 Billion Valuation

WYDE's Aaron Rafferty Tells Benzinga How to Vet Tokenized Stocks

Checkout Charity Raised $275 Million in 2024, and Shoppers Are Split on the Ask

White Hat Hackers Say a Patched Aptos Flaw Could Have Put $70 Billion at Risk

JPMorgan Adds Five Asia-Pacific Currencies to Its Kinexys Blockchain Settlement Network

'Whitehat' Hackers Drain Nearly 4,000 Bitcoin From Blockstream's Liquid Network, Pausing the Sidechain

Anthropic Says Claude Wrote the First Computer-Checked Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Block Files With the OCC to Launch Builders Bank, a National Trust Bank for Bitcoin and Stablecoin Custody

Insilico's AI-Designed Drug Rentosertib Reversed Biological Age Across Six Aging Clocks in a Trial

Tether and Fasanara Launch a $400 Million Stablecoin Fund for Small-Business Lending

OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Produced a Proof of the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

IDScan Confirms a Data Breach Exposing More Than 150 Million Driver's Licenses

Ninth Circuit Overturns Amazon's Block on Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent, Ruling Users Do the Accessing

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