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A listening device hidden in OpenAI's premises by an employee was detected and then identified thanks to the company's AI models. The suspect is in the hands of justice.

More than 400 scientists want to seriously strengthen the monitoring of the most advanced AI models. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell are among the 406 signatories of an open letter published in October. They call for an international body responsible for setting containment standards and recording security incidents. Their first recommendation is even more concrete: by default, isolate from the Internet models capable of conducting cyberattacks.

Crypto: Trezor withdraws accreditation from some of its resellers by January 1, 2027, following the Ledger spy implant. Schedule, data, and stakes.

Meta returns to the race for the most powerful AI models with Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. Launched on October 12, the two models feature a context window of one million tokens. On several benchmarks published by Meta, Wonder Full outperforms GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5. Independent tests are more nuanced: Anthropic remains ahead in the overall ranking.

Every project claims to have "the strongest community in crypto." We set out to measure it. On September 28, 2026, we recorded for seven projects their social engagements over 24 hours (LunarCrush), the size and live presence of their Discord and Telegram servers, their subreddits and, above all, what their members actually did this year: votes, fundraising, events, code. The result: XRP leads on volume, Chainlink and Cardano follow, Kaspa and Qubic are the most mobilized small caps, and Dogecoin, with the largest audience of the seven, is not the most active. Here is the ranking, its criteria and its limits.

Taking a photo of your bank card to let an AI do your shopping? That's Elon Musk's crazy suggestion on X. Between the panic of security experts and a wave of hilarious memes, the web is completely amazed. Pure madness or misunderstood genius this Musk?

Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other tech companies privately simulate their response to a disaster caused or amplified by artificial intelligence. These exercises notably focus on a cyberattack against banks, the Internet, or energy networks, but no incident of this scale has occurred.

Pump.fun retained $18.64M in crypto protocol revenue over seven days, according to DefiLlama. A Coin Metrics study shows that 81% of the 150 memecoins analyzed have lost at least 90% since their peak.

On Saturday, November 7, 2026, from 10:00 to 16:00, the Swiss association Qubic AGI Lab hosts "Decentralized AGI on Qubic" in Basel, a free day dedicated to decentralized artificial intelligence built on the Qubic network. Talks, a live demo, workshops capped at 12 seats and a closing panel take place at the Escape Bar, Gasstrasse 1, in English and German, with registration required by October 31 according to the official event page. Qubic's Core Tech Lead, Joetom, will be in attendance, giving participants direct access to the person who runs the network's core technology.

Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, believes that artificial intelligence could discover a method to break certain cryptographic signatures before sufficiently powerful quantum computers arrive. He calls on the sector to prepare a "bunker mode," while specifying that no attack has currently been demonstrated.

AI Expo Europe takes place in Bucharest on November 1 and 2, 2026, with more than 100 announced speakers including NVIDIA, Microsoft, ING and crypto lawyers. Cointribune cross-checked the agenda, biographies and AI adoption figures in Romania.

Nvidia is no longer far from a threshold never reached before on the Stock Market. The AI chip giant is now worth about 5,780 billion dollars, after a new peak of its stock at 239.24 dollars. At constant capital, a rise of just under 4% would be enough to raise its valuation to 6,000 billion. The global race for artificial intelligence infrastructures continues to fuel the movement.

Beldex, a privacy-first Layer 1 blockchain, announced on 6 October 2026 from the Seychelles that its Confidential Assets, also known as Privacy Tokens, are live on its test network. They are activated by the Proto hard fork, at testnet block height 4,242,200 according to the release.

Donald Trump entrusts a new mission to Jay Clayton. Already director of American national intelligence, he becomes the new "tsar" of the White House AI and will head a Super Intelligence Force tasked with coordinating federal policy. Clayton will have 120 days to present a report on the risks, opportunities, and the government's role regarding artificial intelligence.

World Summit AI brings together on October 7 and 8, 2026, near Amsterdam, nearly 10,000 participants and 300 speakers expected, according to the organizer. The published program includes no sessions dedicated to crypto, but it gives a large place to AI agents, software capable of acting alone, which payment networks are already preparing to settle in stablecoins. Cointribune explains what a crypto reader can learn there, who speaks, and how much the ticket costs.

NEAR Intents suffered a hack estimated at $3.8 million on October 1st, caused by a bug between its smart contract and a deposit and withdrawal infrastructure. The protocol promises to fully reimburse users and now claims to have identified the attacker, granting them 48 hours to return the funds.

OpenAI is already preparing a new massive financial operation. The company is reportedly looking to raise at least $30 billion from investors, with a target valuation close to $1.4 trillion. This amount mainly shows how costly the AI race has become. Between data centers, chips, and computing power, financial needs continue to explode.

World Summit AI returns to Amsterdam on October 7 and 8, 2026 for its tenth edition, at Taets Art and Event Park. The summit annually brings together companies, major tech groups, researchers, investors, and public decision-makers around artificial intelligence. Cointribune is a media partner for the 2026 edition and provides a discount code for its community.

As it approaches its stock market debut, Anthropic delivers an unusual warning. In its prospectus, the Claude designer thinks that advanced AIs could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity".

Bitget resumes withdrawals after a $388 million crypto hack, as investigators trace stolen funds and scrutinize weaknesses in third-party security.

Vitalik Buterin believes that Hegota, the Ethereum fork planned for 2027, could be the last update based on technologies familiar to developers from 2015. The network will continue to evolve afterward. Its future transformations will rely more on cryptographic proofs, parallel execution, and formal verification.

On 1 April 2026, the Akash network reported that its customers had passed 5 million dollars in cumulative spending on compute, real money paying for real processing power on a blockchain marketplace. That figure captures the shift of the year: in 2026 the fusion of artificial intelligence and crypto stopped being a story the sector told itself and became a layer other things are built on. AI-focused crypto tokens are worth roughly 21 billion dollars as of August 2026, and 40 cents of every venture dollar invested in crypto companies in 2025 went to firms building both AI and crypto, more than double the share of a year earlier. The pitch is no longer that a token will moon; it is that AI is concentrating inside a handful of very large companies, and open networks can offer an alternative for compute, for training, for payments and for the agents that will transact on-chain. This article maps how that infrastructure actually works, layer by layer, and, just as important, what each part does not prove.

Claude's exclusion from the Pentagon's systems and contracts has just been validated by a U.S. court of appeals. This new setback weakens Anthropic ahead of an IPO that would value it at $2 trillion, but it does not close the legal battle.

Bill Gates thinks that artificial intelligence now holds enough power to trigger events that could lead to up to one billion deaths. Indeed, in an excerpt from an interview given to the American show "Meet the Press", the Microsoft co-founder essentially invokes the danger that the use of the most advanced models by malicious actors could represent. He calls for swift public authority intervention, as he considers self-regulation by tech companies insufficient.

In 2026, Kaspa stopped being "just" a fast payments network. After the Crescendo hard fork took the network to 10 blocks per second in 2025, the Toccata upgrade added native smart contracts, KRC-20 tokens and zero-knowledge (ZK) verification in late June 2026. That leaves the question anyone following the project actually cares about: what comes next? The answer is three build-outs, DAGKnight, the climb to 100 blocks per second, and VProgs, plus a Layer 2 ecosystem taking shape, not without friction. Here is what the next upgrades are preparing, and what they do not yet prove.

AI giants DeepSeek and Kimi are under Beijing's scrutiny following accusations of query transfers to Claude. The case reignites concerns about data and digital sovereignty.

Solana is generating more fees than Ethereum, but ETH still leads on burn. The gap reveals two very different crypto economic models.

Donald Trump wants to strengthen the oversight of artificial intelligence in the United States. On Saturday, the American president announced on Truth Social the creation of an "AI Force" and the upcoming appointment of an AI czar. This announcement comes as debates on the regulation of advanced models intensify in Washington.