OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Its Half-Good AI Model at Half the Price
OpenAI's mid-tier model now operates apps and screens more like a person would, with API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and an error rate that OpenAI says fell sharply.
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Unitree Stock Jumps as Investors Bet Chatbot AI Will Finally Give Robots a Brain
Unitree's shares have jumped about 60% in under two weeks as investors bet OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra will give robots the brains they lack, turning the stock into an AI proxy.
NBA Embraces the CFTC on Prediction Markets as the NFL Fights It in Court
The agreement, which follows similar deals with MLB and NHL, establishes information-sharing to guard against insider trading as sports betting migrates to CFTC-regulated venues.
South Korea Arrests Seven in First Big AI-Assisted Hacking Case
Police in Seoul say a 32-year-old with no IT background used AI tools to break into about 90 hospitals, schools and companies, then pressed victims for roughly $270,000 combined.
AI Agents Found a Way Into Anthropic's Business Systems in Under 12 Hours
Cathedral, a startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says its AI agents found paths into Anthropic's sales, HR, and IT systems through third-party software.
Why Prediction Markets Got the Brazilian Election So Wrong
Experts say Brazil's prediction market ban left the odds in the hands of traders with little knowledge about the election.
SpaceX Locks Up $40 Billion for AI Chips as Musk Warns Most Neoclouds Will Die
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed a $40 billion chip deal with Apollo while lenders shut the door on smaller AI cloud firms, a split that could decide who controls computing.
Bitcoin Wallet Fixes Critical Flaw That Redirected Funds to Attackers
A confirmed exploit let rogue servers replace Electrum’s pending transactions, tricking users into redirecting Bitcoin to attacker addresses.
India’s CoinDCX Confirms $16 Million Loss Days After CEO Called It a ‘False Alarm’
The Mumbai-based exchange says 15.99 million USDT was drained from wallets it retired after last year’s $44 million hack, bringing its combined losses to nearly $60 million—and it’s absorbing the hit.
Brazil’s Stock Market Crashes After Lula’s Upset Victory
The iShares Brazil ETF fell as much as 26% after Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro, who prediction markets had at 80%, while the dollar jumped as much as 12% against the real.
Tom Lee's Bitmine Keeps Buying Ethereum But Pivots to Record Share Buybacks
The firm added 10,452 ETH to reach 4.95% of supply, but its bigger move was repurchasing 2.04 million of its own shares—part of what it calls the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury company has run.
'Privacy Horror’: Researcher Uncovers Extent of Samsung Smart TV User Tracking
AI-powered reverse engineering could make it "easier and faster" for researchers to uncover and explain how devices collect and share data.
Anthropic Makes IPO Filing Public, Plans Nasdaq Listing Under ‘ANT’
The S-1 shows revenue up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and a share structure that leaves a trust and the co-founders in control.
Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying, Spends $205M Buying Back STRC
The Bitcoin treasury firm's USD Cash balance fell to $242.4 million after its biggest weekly STRC buyback in more than a month.
Bitcoin Dips Below $80,000 Ahead of Fed Decision, Midterms
Analysts point to a sell-off in AI stocks and ETF outflows, with HashKey's Tim Sun flagging $75,000 as the next key support level.
Bitcoin’s Bear Market Is Over, Galaxy Research Says: 'Now Is an Attractive Time to Buy'
Galaxy Research says Bitcoin’s bear market ended in June, pointing to a reclaimed 50-week moving average, fading selling pressure, and a strengthening debasement case.
Morning Minute: Bitcoin Breaks Below $80,000 as Iran Fears Hit the Weekend
Some relief is appearing this morning as oil and rates fall, with a big macro week ahead featuring major earnings, FOMC and key data drops.
Israel's Central Bank Rebukes Netanyahu Plan to Use Crypto to Dodge Sanctions
Over 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, warned of deeper isolation ahead of Israel's October 27 national election.
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Intuit Among 6 More Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks
Twenty-two companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, after Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna. and Intuit joined the list.
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.