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.
βConsumers want stablecoins to feel like a natural part of the payments they already trust,β β Visaβs Nischint Sanghavi, its head of digital currencies for Asia Pacific, said.
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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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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.
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," β Bloomberg's Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas said on X.
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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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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 companyβs nationwide license-plate database.
βA company canβt just come in and collect personal information about our entire lives and not answer any questions about it,β β Schumer said.
βWe have no insight into what contracts this company has here, or how much of this information law enforcement is using.β
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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.
"Today's action is a critical step in the CFTCβs ongoing efforts to ensure America remains the crypto capital of the world," β CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said.π
"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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OpenAI just announced its plans to comply with part of the European Union's new AI transparency rules. The company will soon begin adding an invisible watermark to text and code generated in the EU. This follows a similar move by Anthropic earlier this year.
OpenAI is using a proprietary system called textGrain that "adds an invisible statistical signal to the model's word choices." Once added, a detector can spot these signals and ascertain if there's a watermark.
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The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded solar company Overview Energy a contract to develop and test a homing beacon for a space-based solar system designed to beam power from orbit to Earth.
Orbital solar panels could capture sunlight 24/7, avoiding the intermittency of terrestrial solar. Energy could be transmitted to Earth via lasers or microwaves, potentially reducing wasted power and easing the growing mismatch between renewable generation and demand. If the technology proves viable, space-based solar could become a major new source of clean energy.
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Ripple and Brevan Howard, a leading global alternative investment manager specializing in global macro and digital assets, today announced that they are deepening their relationship.
βThere are few firms equipped to provide the next generation of prime services that sophisticated investors expect, and Brevan Howardβs trust in Ripple Prime is recognition of our strong competitive position and cross-asset capabilities,β β said Noel Kimmel, President of Ripple Prime.
The expanded relationship builds on Brevan Howardβs existing support for Ripple. Funds managed by affiliates of Brevan Howard participated in Rippleβs $500 million strategic investment in 2025, underscoring confidence in Rippleβs growth trajectory and long-term vision.
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The order temporarily opens highway use of tax-free dyed diesel, deferring the federal diesel tax on that fuel through the end of the year β no interest, no penalties.
This action will put money directly BACK in the pockets of American farmers, truckers, & workers.
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A circulating document set is being used to make a simple point: in traditional finance landscape charts, XRP and XLM were never drawn as generic public crypto. They were filed under infrastructure built for institutions.
That distinction is the whole argument being revived: XRP and XLM were drawn for the banking stack from early on & those old maps still get pulled up whenever the market asks which crypto protocols were built with institutions in mind.
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Chinese doctors have performed an unprecedented surgery to save an unborn child who developed a fast-growing tumour. A medical team from Shenzhen and Hong Kong recently completed a challenging, precise reduction of a foetal chest tumour while the baby was still in the womb, offering new hope to families facing similarly dire prognoses.
Jointly performed by doctors from Shenzhen Baoan Womenβs and Childrenβs Hospital and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the procedure was detailed and published on August 20 in the peer-reviewed journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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βThatβs because weβre doing well. A strong dollar gives you a lot of a life β and, by the way, you know what a strong dollar does? It gives you no inflation.β
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βIβm disappointed that Congress failed to get market structure legislation to President Donald J. Trump' desk. But the CFTC has statutory authority and we're going to use it to protect Americans and provide a federally regulated path for crypto,β β CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said.
The latest proposals mark another important step toward establishing a more defined regulatory framework for the U.S. digital asset industry.
Clearer rules of the road for crypto are on the way. The future of crypto regulation is looking brighter.
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𧬠Unlocking plant DNA in hours, instead of years
Scientists are using AI to identify the DNA mutations that give crops valuable traits, like drought resistance and higher yields.
Living Models paired Gemma 4 with BOTANIC-1, an AI trained on the DNA of 320 plant species. In one test, the system identified the correct yield-related mutation in a melon in under four minutes, ranking it #1 out of 2,494 possibilities.
The bigger goal goes beyond melons: this AI pipeline could dramatically accelerate crop research and help scientists develop climate-resilient crops faster β potentially strengthening global food security as the climate changes.
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Scientists are using AI to identify the DNA mutations that give crops valuable traits, like drought resistance and higher yields.
Living Models paired Gemma 4 with BOTANIC-1, an AI trained on the DNA of 320 plant species. In one test, the system identified the correct yield-related mutation in a melon in under four minutes, ranking it #1 out of 2,494 possibilities.
The bigger goal goes beyond melons: this AI pipeline could dramatically accelerate crop research and help scientists develop climate-resilient crops faster β potentially strengthening global food security as the climate changes.
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The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have been partially responsible for a May outage.
While investigating whether its websites have also been affected by AI agents, Wikimedia found that OpenAI agents made edits to wikis without prior approval, unsuccessfully tried to exploit a public note-taking tool, and made millions of API requests and data queries while scraping Wikimedia sites.
"We've identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in 'sandbox' areas of the wiki," β Wikimedia Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann said.
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OKX and Intercontinental Exchange filed with the SEC to launch 24/7 trading of tokenized versions of over 60 U.S. stocks, using a recent exemption for on-chain securities. This fits into a growing trend of tokenizing RWAs for faster settlements and constant access, with Chainlink often cited for its oracles and cross-chain tools that support pricing, collateral, and interoperability.
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