🤖 Elon Musk Pushes 'SI' Over 'AI' and Plans SpaceXSI Rebrand

Musk declared on X that 'No more AI SI It’s better,' quickly agreeing to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI after a user's suggestion.

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🇺🇸 Trump announces formation of AI "Super Intelligence Force"

President Trump announced Sunday the formation of a "Super Intelligence Force," after meeting with leaders of the country's largest AI companies last week amid growing calls for guardrails on the technology.

"Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World's most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF)," — the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.

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🤑 Stellar (XLM) Secures 37% of Global 24-Hour Real-World Asset Tokenization

The market capitalization of RWA tokenization across the top 10 blockchain networks increased by $96.5 million over the past 24 hours. According to RWA Foundation citing Token Terminal, more than a third of this inflow — $36.4 million — went to the Stellar (XLM) network.

This allowed the blockchain platform to account for 37% of the global market's total daily expansion and confidently take the top spot. 🏆

#Stellar

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🛢 OPEC+ Agrees to Keep Oil Output Targets Steady in November

A sub-group of seven countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia will keep targets steady in November, the coalition said in a statement following a monthly video conference on Sunday. It’s in line with their existing production roadmap.

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🇱🇻 Leader Surges to Big Election Win

Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ party won a record number of seats in Latvia’s parliamentary election. United List was set to take 42 seats in the Baltic nation’s 100-member parliament, the central election commission said, with more than 95% of ballots counted. The result is the best recorded by a single party since Latvia regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

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🇺🇸 Bernie Sanders makes a late push for California billionaire tax

Bernie Sanders calls the proposed tax on California billionaires the most important ballot measure in America.

“The whole country, and frankly people from around the world, are paying attention to what is happening here,” — he told a rapturous crowd on Saturday. “People are asking: ‘Is it possible?’ And you are going to do it and show the world it is possible!”

The initiative, a health care union’s bid to offset federal cuts with a one-time, 5% tax on California billionaires, has scrambled the politics of this Democratic stronghold while reverberating far beyond the state.

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🇷🇺 Russia uses digital rubles to pay salaries for first time

Russia’s Finance Ministry paid some employees in digital rubles for first time on October 1. Receiving salary in digital rubles remains optional. Employees can continue receiving wages through existing payment methods, while people who choose the digital version must open an account on the central bank platform themselves.

Russia moved nearly 16 million rubles through digital budget trials during 2025 before this rollout. Major banks began offering digital ruble services nationwide on September 1 under Russia’s phased rollout. The move reflects accelerating momentum among major economies to deploy functional CBDCs as alternatives to traditional monetary systems.

This pilot opens the door for broader government applications of digital rubles across budget cycles and international state-level transactions. 👏

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🤖 OpenAI, Blackstone, Softbank form US data center lobbying group

Challenges to data center development in the US are about to have the battle weighted against them with the unveiling of the American Infrastructure Alliance (AIA), a group of companies and unions that seek to overturn objections to new facilities.

Comprising OpenAI, global data center company QTS, investment company Softbank, management experts Blackstone, and seven unions including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, this coalition plans to establish guardrails for data center development in 2027.

The American Infrastructure Alliance plans to launch its initial defensive strategy in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Indiana and South Carolina.

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🇩🇪 Germany Unveils Open AI Model for Public Sector

German company Aleph Alpha introduced Kolibri, an open-weight AI model designed for government organizations and companies in regulated industries.

Kolibri is built on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and contains 78.1 billion parameters, with approximately 3.46 billion engaged for each token processed. The model supports reasoning and external tool invocation, with a maximum context window size of 1,048,576 tokens.

Aleph Alpha described Kolibri as a ‘sovereign’ AI model for critical tasks in government, industry, and aerospace sectors. The model was developed by teams in Germany and trained on German and Finnish infrastructure, adhering to EU and German regulations.

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🇲🇾 Malaysia Plans First AI Law in 2027 as Scrutiny Intensifies

Malaysia plans to introduce its first dedicated AI law in early 2027, as governments worldwide step up efforts to regulate the technology that’s drawing growing scrutiny over its risks and potential misuse.

The government is drafting an AI Act that will take a “risk-based approach,” and is also working on mechanisms to enforce rules governing the technology, Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo said in parliament on Monday.

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🧠 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for brain research tool called optogenetics

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel are the joint recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics,” the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden announced on Monday.

The researchers developed a method that uses light, combined with genetic modifications of neurons, to switch on or off individual cells in a living brain. Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Karl Deisseroth transformed the protein into a light-controlled switch for nerve cells.

This makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behavior in the brain, and is being studied as a treatment for disease. The laureates have laid the foundation of a new era in neuroscience.

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📊 Visa, CoinShares find growing crypto appetite among consumers and affluent investors

Consumers are increasingly seeing stablecoins as a potential payments tool in Asia Pacific, while affluent investors in the U.S. and Europe report sizeable crypto allocations, according to two surveys released Monday.

👉 In one study conducted in June and July, Visa found that 46% of 14,250 respondents across 14 Asia Pacific markets were likely to use stablecoins within five years, compared with 16% who had used them in the previous 12 months.

👉 Nearly half of the respondents expect stablecoins to be adopted widely in international transfers within five years, the study said, while also pointing to online purchases, travel, and overseas shopping as among the potential uses identified by respondents.

👉 At the same time, adoption intent is also influenced by who is handling stablecoins. Government or central bank-linked entities were the most trusted providers at 27%, followed by banks and regulated financial institutions at 26%.

“Consumers want stablecoins to feel like a natural part of the payments they already trust,” — Visa’s Nischint Sanghavi, its head of digital currencies for Asia Pacific, said.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump plans executive order seeking to bring down high diesel costs

President Donald Trump plans to announce a slate of executive actions Monday that include directing the Treasury Department to review possible ways to lower record-high diesel prices while urging more state action to address the painful fuel costs.

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🧑‍⚖️ SEC approves a 3x fix for bitcoin and ether traders who miss the wild swings

Traders who miss bitcoin's BTC early volatile years have something new to look at. 👀

On Oct. 2, the agency approved a Cboe BZX rule change to allow six ETFs issued by Volatility Shares, each aiming to deliver three times the daily return of the underlying asset. Besides bitcoin and ether, the lineup covers gold, silver, crude oil and natural gas.

❗️That's a major milestone because, until now, crypto funds in the U.S. had been capped at 2x leverage.

The funds can't trade yet, as the issuer still needs the SEC to declare its registration statement effective, and the order doesn't set a deadline. These products will hold regulated futures tied to bitcoin and ether and not actual tokens. Market veterans have been quick to point out who these funds are built for.

"Leveraged ETFs are for trading, not investing," — Bloomberg's Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas said on X.

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💊 Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women’s health

Utah regulators on Monday announced a plan to allow an AI product to evaluate patients and write new drug prescriptions without prior human review.

A startup called Nolla Health will launch an AI-powered service in the state that will assess a patient for mild-to-moderate acne treatment using a structured intake and by analyzing photos of their skin. The product may determine whether one of a list of low-risk drugs is appropriate.

In the first stages of the pilot, the decisions of the AI will be reviewed by a licensed clinician who will sign off on prescriptions, but Nolla may eventually be allowed to prescribe drugs without this review.

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⚡️📹 Schumer Demands Flock Delete Personal Data, Disclose Its Use

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is demanding that Flock Safety delete personal data not connected to crimes and disclose whether federal agencies have accessed the company’s nationwide license-plate database.

“A company can’t just come in and collect personal information about our entire lives and not answer any questions about it,” — Schumer said.

“We have no insight into what contracts this company has here, or how much of this information law enforcement is using.”

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🧑‍⚖️🇺🇸 CFTC proposes new federal framework for leveraged retail crypto trading

The CFTC on Monday launched a rulemaking process to establish a federal regulatory framework for leveraged and margined retail crypto trading, including a new registration category for exchanges offering such products.

👉 The agency is considering creating a new “crypto asset market” category of CFTC-registered exchanges that could offer such products under a single federal regulatory regime, through proposed rules called Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM.

👉 The proposal would provide an alternative to state-licensed exchanges, but would not require crypto assets to trade on CFTC-registered platforms without congressional action.

"Today's action is a critical step in the CFTC’s ongoing efforts to ensure America remains the crypto capital of the world," — CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said. 🏆

"The American people deserve clarity, certainty, and consumer protections in the crypto asset markets and the agency is committed to delivering this by incorporating crypto asset transactions into its uniform national market regulatory framework."

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