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US sanctions BitBank over Iran’s bitcoin toll booth at Strait of Hormuz

On September 18, 2026, the U.S. Treasury blacklisted the Iranian crypto exchange BitBank and software firm Pishtaz Simorgh Electronic Trade Company, accusing them of...

Fake AI trading bot silently swaps 7 crypto wallet extensions

Two major campaigns documented by HP Wolf Security and McAfee show how attackers exploit the credibility of artificial intelligence and the familiarity of browser...

Comp AI raises $34M Series A to automate compliance with agentic AI

On September 17, 2026, Comp AI closed a $34 million Series A co-led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures to scale its agentic AI...

Noetive raises $41M to bring self-improving AI to factories

Noetive officially came out of stealth on September 16, 2026, with a $41 million seed round led by Eclipse Ventures. Its ambition: bring a...

Goldman Sachs flips Fed forecast, now eyes October rate hike

Goldman Sachs has executed a sharp reversal of its Federal Reserve trajectory forecast, now anticipating another rate hike as early as October after Chair...

Euclyd raises $230M Series A to build craftwerk chip for AI agents

Dutch semiconductor startup Euclyd has closed a $230M+ Series A round to fund craftwerk, an inference-focused ASIC designed to power AI agent workloads. Backed...

47 Ronin Director Sentenced to 30 Months for Netflix-Funded Crypto Bets

American filmmaker Carl Erik Rinsch, known for directing « 47 Ronin » (2013) with Keanu Reeves, was sentenced on June 29, 2026 to 30...

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google secretly team up on AI safety

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind confirmed on September 15, 2026 that they had spent several weeks collaborating on a shared safety framework for artificial...