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Bitcoin slips back under $81,000 as AI stock selloff deepens
A hotter-than-expected September inflation print and a worsening slide in AI stocks pushed bitcoin toward last week's low.
Bitcoin dips to $81,514 after hot CPI, and $80,000 is the next test
A hotter-than-expected September inflation print pushed Bitcoin to an intraday low of $81,514.28, with traders now watching the $80,000 level.
Nearly $1B in crypto bets wiped out as bitcoin, ether, XRP slide
Ether took the brunt of the forced closures, sinking about twice as hard as bitcoin as leveraged traders got flushed out.
Dev Used Claude to Clone Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Free
Brandon Thomas built open-source lookalikes of Microsoft's core Office apps with Anthropic's Claude, and the results, while rough, show how cheap software cloning has become.
Godfather of AI and 400 scientists want models cut off from the internet
Hundreds of researchers say the internet should be treated as a security boundary for AI systems, following a summer of models slipping out of test environments.
AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments Via x402, Chainalysis Says
Payments through Coinbase's x402 protocol jumped from roughly 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026, a new Chainalysis report finds.
Ripple adds Meritz as its fourth South Korean institutional partner
Ripple says Meritz is its fourth Korean institutional partner this year, with custody and tokenization cooperation set to expand as regulation develops.
Polygon Labs closes Coinme deal, adding 37 state licenses
Polygon Labs has finished buying Coinme, folding 37 state money transmitter licenses into its stablecoin payments push.
AnyPS5 Says It Can Run PS5 Games on PC. GTA 6 Is the Bait.
A project called AnyPS5 says it's working to run any PS5 game natively on PC, and gamers are hoping GTA 6 is on the list.
Bitcoin Slips From Near $84,000 as Traders Wait on CPI
A quick push toward $84,000 fizzled within an hour as tech stocks stalled and the chip selloff continued, with September CPI data still to come.
Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy; Disney Bids $20 Million
The chatbot app once valued at $1 billion is being sold through a Delaware bankruptcy court, and it shuts down if no buyer emerges.
Ripple Adds Stripe-Owned Wallets to XRP Ledger for AI Payments
The integration lets software pay for online services in XRP and RLUSD, though it's unclear how much real economic activity the 14 million AI payments represent.