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BitMEX September Shutdown Leaves Users With Force-Close Deadline

Anthropic CEO Separates Open-Weight AI From China Risk

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BitMEX September Shutdown Leaves Users With Force-Close Deadline

BitMEX will shut down in September after 11 years, giving users until Aug. 25 to trade before reduce-only mode and a Sept. 23 force-close deadline, Banking Dive reported.

#BitMEX #crypto exchange #perpetual swaps

July 28, 2026Read More →

Anthropic CEO Separates Open-Weight AI From China Risk

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Anthropic CEO Separates Open-Weight AI From China Risk

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected claims that the company wants broad open-weight AI bans, while TechCrunch reported that he still backed chip controls, distillation crackdowns and global safety testing for the most capable models.

#open weight AI #Anthropic #AI safety testing

July 28, 2026Read More →

Thailand SEC Complaint Sends Bitkub Reporting Case To Prosecutors

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Thailand SEC Complaint Sends Bitkub Reporting Case To Prosecutors

Decrypt reported that Thailand's SEC filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub and two former directors over allegedly false reports after a 2021 hack, while Bitkub says customer assets were restored.

#Bitkub #Thailand SEC #crypto exchange

July 28, 2026Read More →

UAE And Indonesia Push Cross-Border Payment Links As Trade Grows

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UAE And Indonesia Push Cross-Border Payment Links As Trade Grows

Economy Middle East wrote that UAE and Indonesian officials discussed cross-border payment links, local-currency transactions and secure digital financial solutions as 50-year diplomatic ties deepen.

#cross border payments #UAE #Indonesia

July 27, 2026Read More →

AT&T And Ericsson Use 5G Towers To Track Drones Without Radar

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AT&T And Ericsson Use 5G Towers To Track Drones Without Radar

AT&T and Ericsson demonstrated passive drone detection using three commercial 5G sites, positioning network sensing as a lower-capex enterprise service while leaving classification accuracy and field performance unproven.

#5G #network sensing #AT&T

July 27, 2026Read More →

UAE Statistics Programme Targets AI-Ready Official Data

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UAE Statistics Programme Targets AI-Ready Official Data

The UAE has approved a national programme to improve official statistics as government agencies seek higher-quality data for economic policy and artificial intelligence systems.

#AI infrastructure

July 27, 2026Read More →

CFTC Warning Narrows Prediction-Market Contract Filings

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CFTC Warning Narrows Prediction-Market Contract Filings

CoinDesk reported on July 26 that the CFTC warned prediction-market operators against broad template certifications, tightening the filing burden for event contracts while courts still test the regulator’s authority.

#prediction markets #CFTC #event contracts

July 27, 2026Read More →

CIRCIA Rule Faces September Deadline As Industry Seeks Narrower Filings

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CIRCIA Rule Faces September Deadline As Industry Seeks Narrower Filings

CISA is working toward a September target for the delayed CIRCIA rule as industry groups seek fewer covered entities, narrower incident triggers and leaner reporting requirements. The law sets 72-hour incident and 24-hour ransomware-payment reporting deadlines, while the proposed rule could cover more than 300,000 entities.

#cybersecurity

July 26, 2026Read More →

AI Kill Switch Bill Would Give Homeland Security Emergency Model Control

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AI Kill Switch Bill Would Give Homeland Security Emergency Model Control

The proposed AI Kill Switch Act would give Homeland Security emergency authority to slow, limit or shut down covered frontier AI systems, while exempting red-team incidents such as the OpenAI sandbox escape that triggered the debate.

#AI regulation #AI safety #OpenAI

July 26, 2026Read More →

US Tech Letter Warns Against Broad Open-Weight AI Restrictions

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US Tech Letter Warns Against Broad Open-Weight AI Restrictions

CNBC coverage identified Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies urging policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Chinese systems and distillation claims draw White House scrutiny.

#open weight AI #Nvidia #Microsoft

July 25, 2026Read More →

Bond Investors Price AI Capex As Credit Risk

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Bond Investors Price AI Capex As Credit Risk

CNBC reported that bond-market anxiety is rising around AI capital spending, with hyperscaler spreads widening, Oracle CDS trading at a multi-year high and Meta data-center financing facing higher borrowing costs.

#AI capex #bond market #hyperscalers

July 25, 2026Read More →

OCC Denies Wise Trust Bank Charter Over AML Deficiencies

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OCC Denies Wise Trust Bank Charter Over AML Deficiencies

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency denied Wise’s national trust bank application after citing AML and governance concerns, leaving the fintech to rebuild its U.S. charter plan under a GENIUS Act framework.

#Wise #OCC #trust bank charter

July 25, 2026Read More →