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Senator Blumenthal Investigates Financial Ties Between Cantor Fitzgerald and Tether

Senator Richard Blumenthal, a senior Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has launched a probe into the relationship between financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald and Tether, the operator of the world's largest stablecoin, according to a report from CoinDesk. The investigation comes as Democrats gain momentum toward potentially reclaiming a Senate majority in upcoming elections.

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Anthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Motion, taking on OpenAI in enterprise data tools

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Dashboards, a new beta feature that allows users to build live dashboards connected to enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift and ClickHouse. The company also launched Claude Motion, which uses code to animate reports and charts, and announced that Claude Docs, Slides and Design are now generally available. The move comes roughly a month after OpenAI introduced a similar data agent for ChatGPT Work.

Hardware & Devices

Apple Announces October 13 Event Titled 'Welcome Home' Expected to Launch Smart Home Products

Apple has announced a special event scheduled for Tuesday, October 13, at 9:00 a.m. ET in New York, with the tagline 'Welcome home,' signalling a major push into the smart home market. The company is expected to unveil several new home products including a smart home hub with a display (rumoured to be called 'HomePad'), an updated Apple TV 4K, a second-generation HomePod mini, and smart home accessories co-developed with LG.

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Australia proposes AI safety laws modelled on banking and aviation regulation

Australia will require AI companies to demonstrate they are properly testing models and preventing harm under proposed new laws modelled on banking and aviation safety standards, Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy Andrew Charlton has announced. The federal government is finalising plans to regulate frontier artificial intelligence through national standards due by the end of the year, with recent incidents involving rogue agents sharpening the case for tougher oversight.

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OpenAI deluges mathematicians with 377 newly solved equations, sparking debate on AI creativity

OpenAI has released 377 newly solved mathematical problems covering algebra, number theory, theoretical computer science, mathematical logic and topology, stunning mathematicians with the accelerating capabilities of artificial intelligence. The findings, released earlier this week, follow last month's announcement that the company cracked the Navier-Stokes equation, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's seven Millennium Prize Problems and accompanied by a $US1 million reward offer.

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Ethereum researcher warns AI could break crypto wallet security within months

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake has warned that artificial intelligence advances could undermine the cryptography protecting cryptocurrency wallets, calling on the industry to adopt what he described as 'bunker mode' and to begin moving assets to fresh addresses. In a social media post on Wednesday, Drake pointed to recent breakthroughs from OpenAI's mathematical work as evidence that AI might break the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) used to secure blockchains sooner than quantum computers.

Tech

FCC to vote on auctioning 'prime spectrum' for satellite-to-phone services, benefiting SpaceX and Amazon

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Wednesday it will vote on a proposal to auction 25 megahertz of prime spectrum to support direct-to-device (D2D) services connecting satellites to smartphones, a move that could benefit companies like SpaceX and Amazon. The commission also plans to vote on Oct. 29 to seek public comment on making an additional 482MHz of spectrum available for supplemental coverage from space and modernizing rules for D2D services in licensed spectrum.

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Security

Auckland man dies by suicide after AI-generated 'sextortion' scam, coroner warns

A 41-year-old Auckland man took his own life in 2024 after being blackmailed by an AI-generated online persona in a sextortion scam, a coroner has found. Coroner Janet Anderson ruled that the actions of the scammer, who used the name 'Donna Chase', were the primary relevant factor in the man's death. Police believe the account the man paid money into belonged to an overseas organised criminal network.

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OpenAI's former safety lead warns company ships 'new capability and risk every Tuesday'

David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports for OpenAI's frontier models, has warned in his first interview since resigning that the company now ships 'new capability and risk every Tuesday,' as reasoning training, tool integrations and coding agents change what models can do between major releases. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman responded by saying the company is working to keep its models from outpacing its safety measures.

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Cryptomining malware targets exposed AI servers worldwide

A cryptomining campaign codenamed PoeLLM has infected more than 3,400 exposed AI servers, using a poem stored on GitHub to generate its command-and-control addresses, according to researchers at Lumen's Black Lotus Labs. The malware has been active since at least April and has primarily targeted poorly configured AI tools such as LiteLLM and Ollama, turning compromised systems into launchpads for further attacks and cryptocurrency mining.