AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith in AI.
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How the SEC’s lack of leadership could facilitate crypto rulemaking
A recent change in the SEC’s rules on quorum could make it easier for the agency to amend its approach to crypto regulation in the absence of a market structure bill.
Cointelegraph · Oct 13, 2026
Bitcoin Shakes Off Spooky Season Jitters: Can Bulls Keep It Going?
Bitcoin dipped below $81,000 before buyers stepped in, but the Fear and Greed Index says traders aren't convinced yet.
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Decrypt · Oct 13, 2026
Trezor Cuts Its Resellers After Ledger Finds Spy Implant in Crypto Wallets
Trezor is ending reseller authorizations on January 1, 2027, after Ledger confirmed that wallets sold by a Southeast Asian retailer carried a hidden implant that sent out users' recovery phrases.
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Decrypt · Oct 13, 2026
Strive reports $208M in warrant exercises as Bitcoin holdings jump 11%
Strive is now the fifth-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder, with 32,773 BTC, as it continues to expand its treasury through equity financing.
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Cointelegraph · Oct 13, 2026
Crypto exchange MNX takes on OKX, BitGet offering pre-IPO futures for AI giants
MNX is offering a different way to trade the future valuations of private AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek.
CoinDesk · Oct 13, 2026
Bitcoin keeps up pressure on $84K as US stocks skirt Korea tech sell-off
Bitcoin price action preserved overnight gains as US stocks quickly rebounded after opening lower on the back of Korea’s tech-stock rout.
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Cointelegraph · Oct 13, 2026
UK crypto trader says almost $800,000 lost in knife attack as wrench attacks proliferate
A crypto trader in the U.K. claimed masked intruders stole nearly $800,000 in cryptocurrency at knifepoint, furthering concerns of "wrench attacks" spreading in the country.
CoinDesk · Oct 13, 2026
AI Powered PlayStation Crack Could Let You Play GTA 6 on PC at Launch
AnyPS5 is working to get any PS5 game running natively on PC—and gamers are hoping it'll work for the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto.
Decrypt · Oct 13, 2026
Anthropic warns ‘AI worms’ may autonomously spread across devices like a virus
Anthropic warned that rogue “AI worms” are months away from the ability to self-replicate and autonomously infect user devices such as home appliances and other internet-connected devices.
Cointelegraph · Oct 13, 2026
Is Bitcoin kidding itself about the Lightning Network?
Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc says Bitcoiners are lying to themselves about Lightning. Developers claim usability has improved, but questions remain over everyday adoption.
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Cointelegraph · Oct 13, 2026
Digital cash offers ‘cash-like privacy,’ but bank data breaches threaten users: BIS
BIS said that digital cash can achieve “cash-like privacy,” however, the technology isn’t yet production-ready due to risks such as bank data breaches.
Cointelegraph · Oct 13, 2026
Russia clears Sberbank for crypto trading ahead of December launch
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has secured crypto exchange authorization as it prepares to offer Bitcoin, Ether and Tether USDt trading.
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Cointelegraph · Oct 13, 2026
South Korea blocks 27 crypto exchanges, including Bitmart and Kucoin
The country’s regulators are stepping up their earlier restrictions on mobile apps to websites, targeting unregistered exchanges before investors report losses.
CoinDesk · Oct 13, 2026
Federated Hermes joins Wall Street's tokenization push with plans for first onchain fund shares
The $911 billion Pittsburgh-based asset manager is teaming up with Prometheum to bring blockchain-based share classes of its funds to traditional brokerage accounts.
CoinDesk · Oct 13, 2026
Ledger Finds LTE Implant That Stole Recovery Phrases in Suspected $86M Drain
Ledger says the hidden chip reads the 24-word phrase off the screen during setup, leaving the Secure Element and its software untouched.
Decrypt · Oct 13, 2026
Morning Minute: Bitcoin Gets Spooked as ‘Uptober’ Lets Down
Crypto majors are red, alts are down bad and onchain is facing capitulation. This was not the ‘Uptober’ that was promised…
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Decrypt · Oct 13, 2026
Stacks' STX, a Bitcoin layer-2 token, has surged by 50% in four weeks
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 13, 2026
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CoinDesk · Oct 13, 2026