The Bank of Korea warned that leveraged trades tied to Samsung and SK Hynix could amplify market volatility if the AI chip cycle weakens.

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ByteDance signed a $29.6 billion loan involving 28 banks as the TikTok developer increases spending on AI chips and data centers.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO, citing safety and alignment work while declining to set a firm listing date.

PayPay has added UnionPay QR at Japanese merchants, while SMBC is deploying an OpenAI-powered interpreter for multilingual banking.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has questioned the financial motives behind proposals to slow frontier AI development.

Advanced AI has cut the time banks may have to repair software flaws from weeks to minutes, according to a new Bank for International Settlements paper that calls for faster security decisions and patching. The Bank for International Settlements paper,…

OKX has introduced pre-IPO derivatives tied to OpenAI and Anthropic alongside 100 tokenized stock markets for eligible European traders. The Sep. 10 announcement from OKX said its new pre-IPO X-Perps allow eligible European customers to trade changes in the implied…

Ant International has partnered with Visa and Mastercard to develop common standards for identifying and monitoring AI agents as autonomous software takes on a larger role in global payments. Ant International said Thursday that the companies will work on an…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the exchange is building financial accounts for AI agents, with isolated portfolios and controlled trading access.

NVIDIA and eight Australian infrastructure partners plan up to 2GW of AI factory capacity by 2027 using the company’s DSX platform.

TRM Labs doubled its valuation to $2 billion through follow-on funding as the blockchain intelligence firm prepares an AI crime platform.

Mastercard has launched Agent Connect to give merchants one integration for product discovery, cart creation and customer-approved payments across AI shopping platforms. Mastercard Agent Connect reduces separate merchant integrations Mastercard said in a Sep. 9 announcement that Agent Connect allows…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson praises OpenAI’s mathematical progress while raising questions about research privacy and attribution.

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Plattsburgh is considering a 12-month moratorium on new crypto mining, AI and data centers using at least 300 kilowatts.

With the continuous integration of artificial intelligence and digital asset technology, XRPPower has officially launched its intelligent automated trading system, providing global users with a more intelligent and automated digital asset service experience. This system combines AI-powered intelligent data analysis,…

Vitalik Buterin rejected a prediction that AI security threats could crash Bitcoin by over 50%, citing upgrade options and resilient cryptography.

Kraken is offering OpenAI and Anthropic pre-IPO perpetual futures with up to 5x leverage, synthetic pricing and no equity ownership.