September 9, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Revolut have completed a tightly controlled live test in which an artificial intelligence agent initiated a real purchase on a French Revolut Visa card, authenticated through Visa Payment Passkeys rather than a one-time code, PIN or manual card entry. The trial,… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Router Protocol, a cross-chain interoperability project that spent more than four years building bridges, messaging tools, and related infrastructure, has said it will close remaining operations by September 30, 2026. The team described the move as a planned, orderly wind-down rather than an abrupt collapse,… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rogue agents emanating from OpenAI hijacked a German website this last spring. According to Reuters, OpenAI filed a report with the European Commission about the incident, in another scary example of AI acting on its own. OECD.AI says the rogue agents gained control of the… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal investigators are examining reports that scans of millions of American identity documents may have been exposed through a company that verifies IDs for businesses, Bloomberg News reported after a bureau spokesperson confirmed the inquiry. The warning arrived as an underground service calling itself Nexus… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

StoneX Financial has recently opened its coverage of Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) with a Buy rating and a $170 price objective. The call came from Mark Palmer, managing director and senior research analyst at the firm. Against Tuesday’s close of $117.34, when the shares fell 3.91… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hunter Biden has publicly described how the LAPTOP memecoin will distribute tokens to selected groups and how a large portion of supply will be either destroyed or given away, depending on whether a list of real-world events comes to pass. The coin is scheduled to… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Block Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) has taken a notable step toward deeper integration with the U.S. banking system by applying for a specialized federal charter. The payments and financial technology company, led by co-founder Jack Dorsey, disclosed on September 8, 2026, that it submitted a request… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A researcher who helped train frontier models at two of the world’s leading AI laboratories has left Anthropic, arguing that the industry’s sprint toward systems that can improve themselves is an unacceptable gamble with human survival. Jacob Coxon, 27, spent three years on pretraining work—the… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD)  CEO Vlad Tenev spoke with CNBC this morning after reports that AMC (NYSE: AMC) is unhappy about Robinhood tokenizing its shares and offering them worldwide. AMC CEO Adam Aron said he was unaware his shares were being tokenized, then described the practice as “vile,” “contemptible,” and “inexcusable.” Aron… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Investors are cheering the announcement that Chime, a neobank, has anounced the acquisition of its partner bank, Stride. Chime Financial (NASDAQ: CHYM) agreed to purchase longtime partner Stride Bank in an all-cash transaction valued at $590 million. At the time of writing, Chime shares have moved… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chime Financial (NASDAQ: CHYM) has agreed to purchase longtime partner Stride Bank in an all-cash transaction valued at $590 million, a move that would give the fintech its own nationally chartered bank and a more direct path to owning the infrastructure behind its accounts. The… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has closed a major new financing that underscores Europe’s push for greater technological independence in the sector. The Paris-based firm said it has secured €3 billion in a Series D round that values the company at more than €21… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Tazapay, a Singapore-based specialist in business-to-business cross-border payments. The announcement, made on September 8, 2026, positions the transaction as a way to broaden Circle’s payments infrastructure and… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 6:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A coalition of market operators, including Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) and Börse Stuttgart Group, has urged European Union lawmakers to revisit and strengthen proposed updates to the bloc’s distributed ledger technology framework. The group argues that current and planned restrictions, particularly an aggregate activity limit of… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

El Salvador has not directed taxpayer money toward additional bitcoin purchases since the first review of its IMF-backed loan program last June, according to the International Monetary Fund. Officials in San Salvador instead supplied records showing that coins added after that review arrived as private… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US and UK based investigators have opened a new chapter in the fight against industrial-scale cryptocurrency fraud. On September 3, 2026, officials from both countries signed a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding that commits them to pursue the overseas compounds behind investment and romance scams that… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 1:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has published a new toolkit designed to help companies stand up conversational shopping and operations assistants on Claude, and payment networks Visa and Mastercard are among the partners helping merchants put those templates into production. The company framed the release as a practical “blueprint”… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 12:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A SWIFT service provider has teamed up with Chainlink in a move designed to give hundreds of banks a simpler path onto blockchain networks. Bottomline, frequently described as one of the three largest firms that help institutions use the Swift messaging system, entered a strategic… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 12:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monero (XMR) trading has grown more fragmented after successive exchange delistings, and that fragmentation now shows up in liquidity and pricing. Traders who want XMR cannot actually treat every single swap path as interchangeable. They have to compare routes because the same pair, quoted at… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s financial sector has taken another step toward exploring a digital Swiss franc. On 8 September 2026, organizers of the CHF Stablecoin Sandbox confirmed that the project has entered its live testing phase and that two additional partners — SIX and TWINT — have joined… Read More