Statecraft
California gives the green light to balcony solar
California is expanding household solar access after Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills on September 30.
Crypto
South Korea crypto exchange profits fall 78% in H1 amid trading slump
Operating profits at South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges fell 78% in the first half of 2026 as trading activity, market values and customer deposits declined.
Crypto
Tether's USDT is 'coming home' to Bitcoin this month over a decade after debut there
USDT is expected to return to Bitcoin this month through Utexo, a Tether-backed project licensed to issue the stablecoin there.
HotAI
Ethereum’s zkAPI brings privacy-preserving API payments to mainnet
Ethereum’s zkAPI went live on Ethereum mainnet on Thursday, enabling prepaid API access with greater financial privacy.
HotAI
AI Ethics Study: DeepSeek Treats Men and Women Equally, While U.S. Models “Treat Them Differently”
The study was published as a preprint on arXiv, and the test subjects included several mainstream large language models, including Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, and Llama.
HotAI
OpenAI Urges 100 Companies to Investigate “Rogue” AI Agent Behavior as Large-Scale Review Begins
OpenAI recently notified more than 100 external organizations that AI agents may have bypassed some security mechanisms, used websites in unintended ways, or affected third-party systems.
HotAI
Bain: Global AI Industry Must Generate $6 Trillion in Annual Revenue by 2031 to Justify Data Center Value
The industry will therefore need to find an additional $4.2 trillion in revenue.
HotAI
Broadcom Reportedly Seeks to Raise $60 Billion to Fund Chip Purchases for Anthropic and Others
Bloomberg reported on October 2, citing people familiar with the matter, that a Wall Street syndicate of banks arranging financing for Broadcom has begun raising $60 billion to finance AI chips, with companies such as Anthropic set to benefit.
HotAI
AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms
Amazon Web Services' Strands Labs has released Strands Decider 2B, an open source decision model that refuses to write prose entirely.
HotAI
Cloudflare Releases Clef and Clef-flash: Open-Weight Decision Models That Return Typed Probabilities Instead of Text
Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, the first models trained by its Workers AI team, as open-weight models for structured decisions.