
OpenAI Launches 'Dots', New AI Assistant Powered by GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI introduces Dots, an AI assistant designed to operate independently and continuously, powered by GPT-6 Astra, available for ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium users.
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OpenAI introduces Dots, an AI assistant designed to operate independently and continuously, powered by GPT-6 Astra, available for ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium users.
OpenAI introduces Dots, AI assistants that operate continuously in the background, powered by GPT-6 Astra, to enhance productivity across various platforms.
Reco has raised $55 million to expand its AI agent security platform, addressing the growing need for comprehensive security in AI deployments.
Aiden Pleterski was allegedly behind a crypto Ponzi scheme between 2021 and 2022 that resulted in a kidnapping and related criminal charges.

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Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.

The crypto company is seeking a valuation of up to $6 billion, well below its 2022 peak, as recently listed crypto stocks struggle to hold their gains.

Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.

With the failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, the SEC announced updates on how federal securities laws could apply to token issuers, following similar guidance from the CFTC.

Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.

Fairshake pledged an initial $30 million on media opposing the Democratic candidate in Ohio’s Senate race in what some see as a repeat of spending by the crypto industry in 2024.

Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.

ESMA will focus on CASP resilience, outsourcing and reverse solicitation while pursuing harmonized reporting across national regulators.
From the UAE's 50,000 H100 cluster to Saudi Arabia's 100,000-GPU NEOM AI Campus and France's National AI Initiative, governments are treating GPU compute capacity as a strategic national asset with the same urgency once reserved for energy reserves.

AI agents could trigger a bank run by automatically moving household cash from low-interest checking accounts to higher-yield alternatives, Slok warns.

The new software lets companies add custom security checks so they do not fall victim to the same type of vulnerabilities that plagued rival bridges.

Bitcoin fell below $83,000 to start the week amid US-Iran war developments but remains up more than 40% for Q3 ahead of key inflation and jobs data.

CoinDesk found 27 successful swaps moving about 2,390 ETH into 75.2 BTC, even as Bitget urged THORChain to stop serving addresses tied to the $387.5 million theft.

Ether withdrawals are scheduled to return Tuesday and USDt on Wednesday as Bitget restores services following last week’s $388 million hack.

Bitcoin fell 1.7% to $83,000, though the CoinDesk 100 dropped 2.6% as Friday's biggest gainers reversed and oil climbed back above $100.
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is sharply higher again, rising to a new cycle high above 5.27%.

Overall demand for leveraged exposure remains weak, marked by sliding futures open interest. The capital that's still in the market appears skewed toward bearish positions.
A new category of crypto-native AI infrastructure is emerging, building permissionless marketplaces for AI inference, training, and model deployment that challenge the centralized dominance of OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Azure.