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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) süni intellekt şirkəti olan Anthropic-in planlaşdırılan IPO-su öncəsi bir «ankor» investor tapmağa çalışdığı vaxt, Anthropic-ə qədər 10 milyard dollarlıq investisiyanı nəzərdən keçirir.
Mənbələr Reuters-ə iddia olunur ki, sövdələşmə indiyə qədər ən böyük ola biləcək IPO-nun bir hissəsi ola bilər. Anthropic dəyərini təxminən 2 trilyon dollara yaxın qiymətləndirməklə, mümkün qədər çox vəsait, hətta 100 milyard dollara qədər cəlb etməyə çalışır.
Müzakirələr hələ də özəl olaraq qalır və şərtlər dəyişə bilər. Mənbələr müzakirələrin məxfi olması səbəbilə adlarının çəkilməməsini istəyib. Nvidia-nın rolu bundan əvvəl bildirilməyib. Əgər çip istehsalçısı erkən razılıq verərsə, Anthropic ümumi satışın başlamasından əvvəl artıq böyük bir investorun öhdəliyini təmin edə bilər.

Simbioz Cümə günü yerli Bitcoin körpüsünü bağladı; hücumçu BridgeV2 müqaviləsindən istifadə edərək çox böyük miqdarda təminatsız sintetik BTC mint etdi. Buna baxmayaraq, hücumçu yalnız real dəyərdə təxminən 336.000 ABŞ dolları çıxara bildi.
Bu boşluğun əhəmiyyəti gözardı edilməməlidir. Xüsusilə vurğulamaq lazımdır ki, Bitcoin-in təhlükəsizliyi pozulmayıb; əksinə, BTC-nin DeFi-ə keçdiyi bu infrastrukturun özü zəif olduğu ortaya çıxdı.
Bu insident Liquid Network sızması baş verdikdən cəmi bir neçə gün sonra baş verdi və nəticədə 320 milyon ABŞ dolları itki oldu; bu da belə bir sual doğurur: Bitcoin təhlükəsiz görünür, amma onun körpüləri dəfələrlə sıradan çıxırsa, kross-zəncirli infrastruktur nə qədər təhlükəsizdir?

Artemis’in hesabatlarına görə Base-də ödənilməmiş kreditlər 10 sentyabr tarixində avqustun sonlarında kreditləşmə fəaliyyətinin artmasından sonra misli görünməmiş 2,75 milyard dollara çatıb. Bu rekord Coinbase-in Layer 2 şəbəkəsində kreditin sürətlə artmasını və Morpho ilə Aave-nin payını əks etdirir.
Artemis 11 sentyabrda yazır:
@base üzərində kreditləşmə sürətlənir.
Əvvəlki araşdırmasına görə, kreditləşmə indi daha çox modulluğa doğru yavaş-yavaş gedir: çünki kreditləşmə bir-birindən ayrılıb və hər biri bu proses üçün zəruri olan yaranma (origination), paylanma (distribution), risk və infrastrukturun müəyyən hissələrini öz üzərinə götürən çoxlu ixtisaslaşmış müəssisələrə bölünüb. Base bu transformasiyanın böyük miqyasda necə göründüyünü nümayiş etdirməyə başlayır.

FTX dağıldıqdan sonra prokurorlarla əməkdaşlıq edən keçmiş Alameda Research CEO-su Caroline Ellison Manifundda, qeyri-kommersiya qrant platformasında, tamştatlı işə qəbul olunub. Manifund elanında həmtəsisçi Austin Chen bildirib ki, Ellison onun maliyyələşdirmə platformasını təkmilləşdirməyə və xeyriyyə məqsədli pulların daha effektiv şəkildə necə yönləndirilə biləcəyini araşdırmağa kömək edəcək.
O, 13 iyulda iş sınağına başladı, 10 avqustda isə tamştatlı vəzifəyə keçdi və ilk iki ayını “Carol” təxəllüsü ilə işləməklə keçirdi.
Kripto izləyiciləri üçün əsas məsələ Ellisonun götürdüyü işin növüdür. O, ticarət masasında işləməyə və ya xəzinədarlığa nəzarət etməyə geri dönmür. Ellisonun işi texniki infrastruktur, logistika və müştəri dəstəyinə yönəlib. Onun ilk tapşırıqlarından biri, Manifund bazasında “5-6 rəqəm” məbləğində bəzi yanlış bildirilmiş əməliyyatları üzə çıxaran uzlaşdırma (reconciliation) aləti olub.

Ethereum, the second-biggest crypto, jumped as much as 8.3%, its biggest move in three weeks. Traders who bet against it got burned.
Over a 24-hour period, shorts on Ether totaled more than $255 million being wiped out. Shorts on Bitcoin, over the same period, saw losses totaling $172 million.
Usually, Bitcoin sees the bigger leverage wipeout. This time, Ether did. The rally came while U.S. markets bounced around after a pile of economic data came out and oil prices fell.
It looked a lot like late August. Bitcoin ran higher then, setting off the biggest short-liquidation wave recorded since 2021. On Friday, Ether was doing it. The price moved so fast that it looked like traders were chasing the rally more than buyers were piling into spot.
A lot of traders had been sitting back since August. After the last big leverage flush, there still had not been much fresh news to bring everyone back.
Ethereum burns through shorts as traders pay to keep betting against it
According to Coinglass, around $188 million in Ether positions were wiped out in one hour as the price kept climbing.
Across crypto, close to $500 million in long and short positions disappeared over the past day. That was one of the biggest totals since Bitcoin’s record short wipeout last month.
Binance saw about $76 million in Ether positions liquidated over 24 hours. McCarthy said most were shorts that had to close. Ether perpetual futures were also showing negative funding rates. Those contracts are used for leveraged crypto trades.
Where financing costs are below zero, the short-siders on Ether had to pay for their positions, while those on the other side were being paid to take the position. But now that Ether has begun moving higher, those shorts have less room to just wait it out.
Bitcoin has been rising too. The Bitcoin price has moved by some 20% over the past month, putting it back above $80,000. But 2026 is negative for Bitcoin. It is down close to 10% this year. The coin also went above $81,000 in late August before losing some of those gains.
The rebound came after crypto began recovering from the August 19 liquidation event, one of the biggest leverage blowups the market has seen in recent years. Even that was small next to October 10, 2025, when roughly $19 billion in leveraged crypto positions were wiped out in one day.
Bitcoin ETF flows have picked up too. The iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ: IBIT) brought in about $3.5 billion in net inflows over the past month. That left the fund close to even for the year after earlier outflows.
Bitcoin traders now have Congress and tech stocks sitting in the background
There is another problem with Bitcoin. There has been no clear differentiation of Bitcoin from technology stocks. The correlation data indicates that there is still linkage between Bitcoin and the appetite for risk associated with tech stocks.
In cases where investors become scared, the risky positions are trimmed, which might also include Bitcoin.
Then there is Washington. The U.S. Senate is expected to hold an important procedural vote next week on the Clarity Act. The bill is supposed to set federal rules for digital assets. Lawmakers have spent most of the year trying to get it through Congress, and it still has not made it over the line.
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” this week that he thinks the bill will pass after crypto companies, law-enforcement groups and several banks found common ground.
Brian also said the industry would still have another way forward if Congress does not pass it. “Frankly, if it doesn’t pass, it’s also going to be a good outcome because the SEC and the CFTC have said that they’re ready to publish rulemaking, and we’re going to get regulatory clarity one way or another on the 15th or the day or two after,” he said.
Prediction markets are less sure. Traders there still do not see the bill as a sure thing after Congress spent the year trying, and failing, to get major crypto legislation passed.
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Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) Iridium Communications-ın (Nasdaq: IRDM) satınalmasını 54 dollar/səhər qiymətlə, nağd və səhmlə bir razılaşma çərçivəsində tamamlayıb və peyk liderini 8 milyard dollara qiymətləndirib. Satınalma əməliyyatı Rocket Lab-a güclü abunəlik əsaslı şəbəkə əlavə edəcək — bu, kosmik gəmi istehsalı və buraxılış xidmətləri ilə tanınan bir şirkətdir.
İnvestorlar baxımından bu sövdələşmə tamamilə məntiqlidir. Rocket Lab sürətlə böyüyən bir şirkətdir, amma hələ də nağd pul “yandırır” (cash-consuming). Digər tərəfdən Iridium sabit gəlirlər və güclü əməliyyat səviyyəli EBITDA əsasında yaxşı qurulmuş şəbəkə idarə edir. Bu satınalma, Rocket Lab-ın sabit pul axınları ilə daha çox şaquli inteqrasiya olunmuş kosmik şirkətə çevriləcəyini göstərir.

DeFiLlama-nın Movers paneli kripto dünyasında divergensiyanın artdığını göstərir. Avqustda yüksəlişə səbəb olan bəzi tokenlər 30 gün ərzində rəqiblərindən xeyli yuxarıdadır, amma onların bir hissəsi son yeddi gündə mövqeyini itirməyə başlayıb.
Bu önəmlidir, çünki bu zəiflik özünü ümumi olaraq böyük kapitallı kripto bazarında deyil, bazardakı ən güclü momentum ticarətlərində daha qabarıq şəkildə göstərir.
DeFiLlama-nın token reytinqlərinə daxil edilən bu alət istifadəçilərə 24 saatlıq, 7 günlük və 30 günlük dövrlər üzrə ən yaxşı 100, 200 və ya 300 aktivin göstəricilərini təqdim edə bilər. Sentyabrın 12 yeniləməsi göstərir ki, Zcash (ZEC), Uniswap (UNI), Hyperliquid (HYPE), XRP və Solana (SOL) son ayda hələ də Bitcoin-dən daha yaxşı nəticə nümayiş etdirib.

Ağ Evin Milli İqtisadi Şura direktoru Kevin Hasset deyir ki, prezident Donald Trampın 5 000 dollarlıq ödəniş planı federal maliyyəni pisləşdirmədən irəli aparıla bilər. Təklifin dəyəri 1 trilyon dollardan yuxarı olacaq, ABŞ-ın dövlət borcu isə rekord səviyyələrə yaxınlaşır.
Kevin cümə axşamı borclanma narahatlığına qarşı çıxdı. “Bunu fiskal cəhətdən məsuliyyətli şəkildə edə bilərik”, o dedi. “Bu ciddi təklifdir.” Tramp ödəniş ideyasını bu həftənin əvvəllərində ilk dəfə irəli sürüb və onu respublikaçıların Konqresə nəzarəti saxlaması ilə bağlayıb.
Kevin dedi ki, Ağ Ev ödənişlərin ölkənin iqtisadi qazanclarının bir hissəsinin birbaşa olaraq ev təsərrüfatlarına qaytarıldığını görür. “ABŞ-da baş verən bütün artım və yaradılan bütün var-dövlət fonunda prezident bunun daha çoxunu amerikalı xalqa qaytarmağımız lazım olduğunu düşünür”, o dedi.

Reuters-in məlumatına görə, ABŞ Senatı üzrə danışıqlar aparan tərəflər qanunvericilik variantını nəzərdən keçirir: ən qabaqcıl AI modellərinin tərtibatçıları fəlakətli zərərlərə qarşı qorunma təmin etməyə hüquqi olaraq məcbur edilə bilər və bu, federal hökumətə təhlükəsiz olmayan buraxılışların qarşısını almaq səlahiyyəti verə bilər.
Ən qabaqcıl AI şirkətləri üçün bu, təhlükəsizlik standartlarını əsasən könüllü səylərdən hüquqi öhdəliyə çevirəcək. Daha geniş bazar sualı isə daha sərt qaydaların istehlakçılar və investorlar arasında etimadı artırıb-artırmayacağı, yoxsa sadəcə onları ödəyə bilən bir neçə şirkəti daha da möhkəmləndirib-möhkəmləndirməyəcəyidir.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) məlumatlara görə iPhone Duo-nun daxilində quraşdırılan hər əsas qatlanan panel üçün Samsung Electronics-ə (KRX: 005930) $250 ödəməlidir.
Mənbə Instant Digital Çin sosial şəbəkəsi Weibo-da bildirib ki, təchizat müqaviləsinin müddəti üç ildir. O, həmin dövrdə buraxılan hazırkı Duo modellərini və Apple-ın bu müddət ərzində təqdim etdiyi modelləri əhatə edir. Samsung isə artıq eksklüziv ekran müqaviləsinin sahibi idi; belə ki, Apple istədiyi ekrana uyğun nəticə verə biləcək başqa istehsalçı tapa bilmədiyi barədə məlumat yayılmışdı.
Apple indi telefon istehsalı sənayesində bahalı komponent üzrə əsas rəqibinə bağlanıb. LG Display (NYSE: LPL), Apple üçün mühüm ekran tədarükçüsü, çevik ekranı istehsal etmək iqtidarında deyil.

Bitcoin Suisse, in an effort to reshape itself into an internationally focused financial services group, plans to eliminate as many as 60 of its roughly 120 jobs in Switzerland.
The Swiss financial workforce is taking a hit on multiple fronts, with Bitcoin Suisse cutting up to 60 of its roughly 120 Swiss jobs while UBS, Helvetia Baloise, Raiffeisen Switzerland, and Swiss Life also plan significant layoffs.
Why is Bitcoin Suisse cutting its workforce?
Bitcoin Suisse has announced that it will be eliminating as many as 60 of its roughly 120 roles. The company initially built its reputation on cryptocurrency trading and custody before adding staking and lending.
Now, it intends to serve wealthy private clients, family offices, asset managers, and institutional investors with services that reach beyond crypto, and the shrinking of its workforce is integral to that.
The jobs that will be most affected by this cut are in back-office and administrative work, along with software development.
The eliminated roles are set to be moved to either Bratislava or Vietnam, where Bitcoin Suisse intends to build a new site over the coming years.
Rather than weakness in the crypto market, the company says the cuts are about cost and efficiency. The firm also pointed out that there are more efficient working methods and new technology, including artificial intelligence, which changes how many people it needs.
Zug, where the company was founded in 2013 by Niklas Nikolajsen, remains the headquarters, and the Bitcoin Suisse name is not changing. The company says Switzerland will stay the base for its “customer-facing business,” which includes client advisory, relationship management, and wealth and asset management for private and institutional clients.
Is Bitcoin Suisse ready to serve international clients?
In preparation for its international ambitions, Bitcoin Suisse’s European arm has secured a MiCAR license in Liechtenstein. The group has won digital asset and investment licenses in Bermuda, and in July, its subsidiary BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. received a Financial Services Permission from Abu Dhabi’s FSRA.
Currently, the group custodies about $3.7 billion in crypto assets and ranks as the fourth-largest staking operator globally.
The exact number of eliminated roles will only be settled after a consultation process that runs until September 20. Staff learned of the plan at a town hall on Friday morning, and the first layoffs are due to take effect before the end of 2026.
Notably, UBS is planning to shed around 3,000 Swiss jobs. Helvetia Baloise plans to cut up to 1,200 positions after its merger. Raiffeisen Switzerland has flagged up to 180 cuts, and Swiss Life is expected to eliminate roughly 600 roles.
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Blok-mükafatlı mədənçilər Bitcoindən Zcash-ə keçid edirlər. Burada ən yaxşı mədən avadanlığı indi ən yaxşı Bitcoin maşınından bir meqavatt-saat üçün təxminən 4 dəfə daha çox gəlir gətirir; bu, ZEC-in bahalaşmasının məxfiliyə əsaslanan kriptovalyutanı bazar dəyərinə görə ilk 10-luğa çıxarmasından sonra baş verib.
Son illərdə, xüsusən də son yarılanma (halving) hadisəsindən bəri, mədənçilikdən əldə olunan gəlirləri azalan mədənçilər üçün Zcash-in mədənçiliyindən əldə edilə bilən potensial gəlirlər elektrik enerjisini hara yönəltmək barədə qərar verməyi asanlaşdırır.
Z15 Pro niyə birdən-birə Bitcoinin ən yaxşı ASIC-i ilə müqayisədə daha çox qazanc gətirir?

Oracle-ın (NYSE: ORCL) səhmləri cümə günü yüksəlir; investorlar onun bulud biznesi, AI müqavilələri və gəlir üzrə sifariş portfeli haqqında yeni rəqəmlər aldıqdan sonra.
Səhmlər əvvəlki sessiyada 3% bahalaşıb; çərşənbə axşamı gecə ticarətində isə 7%-ə yaxın artım qeydə alınmışdı. Oracle maliyyə birinci rübü üzrə Wall Street proqnozlarını üstələdi. Həmçinin sifariş portfelinə 26 milyard dollarlıq artım AI infrastrukturuna xərclədiyi məbləğlə bağlı bəzi narahatlıqları azaldıb.
Oracle-ın gəliri 19,35 milyard dollar təşkil etdi; bu, əvvəlki ilə görə müşahidə olunan göstəricidən təxminən 30% yüksəkdir. Halbuki düzəliş edilmiş mənfəətlər 30% artaraq səhm başına 1,92 dollara çatdı.

The UK’s largest listed Bitcoin treasury holder, The Smarter Web Company (LON: SWC), announced plans this Friday to launch a new class of preferred shares, the first of its kind by a British corporate Bitcoin holder, on the main London Stock Exchange.
The preferred share, “MORE,” will be listed with a nominal value of £0.001 each and plans to raise between £15 million and £25 million in gross proceeds, while offering what the Bristol-based company described as a “cumulative variable rate weekly preferential dividend,” plus a liquidation preference and a company option to redeem.
The plan appears to have landed well among investors, as the company’s SWC stock gained over 15% on the day.
What Smarter Web’s MORE preferred share offers?
The MORE preferred share does not confer general meeting voting rights to holders. It is simply a fixed-income-style claim, allowing holders to gain exposure to a Bitcoin balance sheet without actually buying the coin or the firm’s common stock.
Sweden’s Bitcoin Treasury Capital listed Europe’s first Bitcoin-backed preferred in July, paying monthly installments on a flat 10% annual dividend.
Smarter Web’s version will list in the UK in the non-voting category of the FCA’s Official List.
Comparison of Smarter Web and Bitcoin Treasury Capital’s preferred shares.
Smarter Web directors named four routes to raise the funds to cover dividend payments:
Operating cash flow
Cash reserves
Bitcoin treasury
Future sales of ordinary or preferred stock
The company is also counting on selling more preferred shares over time via the at-the-market facility managed by Tennyson Capital Partners.
How is Smarter Web handling its Bitcoin reserve now?
When Smarter Web sold 177.89 BTC to repay an $11.7 million convertible instrument to the TOBAM Group, CEO Andrew Webley said the company was reviewing its position on whether fiat and Bitcoin-denominated convertibles are “the right capital solution.” Notably, Webley left the door open to their benefits.
However, the two-week early repayment halted a potential issuance of more than 7.7 million ordinary shares.
Smarter Web is now moving forward with a long-term capital source that directors are planning to use to fund revenue-generating web businesses acquisitions, general working capital, and to continue to build its Bitcoin treasury.
Smarter Web held 2,747 BTC as of early September, ranking 29th among public corporate holders, after adding 35 coins in a recent update, Cryptopolitan reported.
The FCA still needs to approve the prospectus before Smarter Web can list the MORE share. Completion is also contingent on the firm raising at least £10 million, lining up at least three registered market makers, and having at least half the preferred shares in public hands.
Shareholders will vote on the plan at a September 28 general meeting in Bristol.
Why the timing cuts both ways
The raise arrives during a reshuffle in the treasury sector. Some UK peers are retreating: Satsuma Technology’s shareholders voted by more than 90% in July to sell their 668 BTC and delist, returning far less than the £163.6 million investors put in, according to Cryptopolitan.
The Financial Times reported that Bitcoin treasury companies had lost more than $80 billion in market value from their 2025 peak.
Against that backdrop, Smarter Web is trying to widen its funding options rather than shrink. Whether the MORE listing clears its conditions, and how investors price a weekly variable dividend backed by a volatile asset, will be the test.
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Hindistanın tənzimləyici qurumu tərəfindən idarə olunan pilotu olan Demat 2.0-ın ilk mərhələsində üç şirkət rəqəmsal token kimi 1 025 crore rupilik ($107,2 milyon) korporativ istiqraz satıb.
Pilot, ölkənin mövcud bazar sistemi daxilində Hindistanın şirkətlərinin borc qiymətli kağızlarının (korporativ borc) paylaşılan rəqəmsal reyestr üzərində rəsmiləşdirilməsi və buraxılmasının ilk real sınağıdır.
Hindistan hansı nailiyyəti əldə edib?
Hindistanın Qiymətli Kağızlar və Birja Şurası (SEBI) Demat 2.0 pilotu kimi bir layihəni başlatmaq üçün Hindistanı “ilk ölkə” adlandırıb. Bu sistemdə korporativ istiqrazlar Hindistanın iki rəsmi depozitariyası — NSDL və CDSL tərəfindən məxsus olan paylanmış reyestr üzərində rəqəmsal token kimi buraxılır, saxlanılır və rəsmiləşdirilir.

Metaplanet (TYO: 3350) rolled out a series of big updates after its Friday, September 11 board meeting, announcing a new Hong Kong subsidiary, a new CFO, and a 41% trim of a contested stock-option pool.
The options pool, by Gerovich’s admission, was poorly presented, which led to a 17% rout in the company’s stock last week over stock dilution concerns. Today’s disclosures are now meant to answer those governance and compensation complaints.
Why Metaplanet’s options pool became a fight
The drama around Metaplanet’s 10th Series Stock Acquisition Rights goes as far back as February 2023 when the Gerovich-led firm carried a going-concern warning on its struggling hotel business in Japan. That was when officers and employees bought into the paid stock-option scheme.
Through the years, as the company continued to issue shares to buy Bitcoin, the pool kept being automatically resized to 20% of fully diluted capital, which eventually caused roughly 46 million to explode into 319.46 million potential shares.
However, when the board finally adopted a decision to freeze the mechanism on August 18, the bloated 319.46 million figure they settled on did not satisfy critics.
Tensions boiled over on August 31 when it was disclosed that Gerovich cashed in his own rights and collected 64.032 million shares. Gerovich’s ties to major shareholder MMXX Ventures only added fuel to that fire.
What did Metaplanet change in its stock pool?
The Metaplanet board has now agreed to shrink the pool by 41.1% from 131,274,000 to 188,190,000 shares, converting each option unit into 410 shares instead of the original 696 it proposed.
Stripping out rights already exercised, the remaining overhang falls 55.5%, from 236,640,000 shares to 105,366,000.
Reaching the new figure took some rearrangement, with Metaplanet moving the reference date it used to size the rights back from June 30, 2026, to September 1, 2025. It also abandoned a plan to shift up to 90,000 rights into a separate long-term incentive vehicle.
However, the 10-yen exercise price and a lock-up running to August 17, 2031, stayed unchanged.
Metaplanet has expanded into Hong Kong
As of this month, Metaplanet Asset Management Asia Limited will begin operating as a wholly owned Metaplanet subsidiary, with an initial $1 million capitalization. Gerovich, Darren Winia and Kelvin Lee were named as directors of the new unit that the firm launched as part of its plan to build a financial platform around Bitcoin, called “Project Nova.”
The Hong Kong subsidiary will handle trade execution, position monitoring and risk management during Asian hours, joining the Miami-based Metaplanet Asset Management Inc. operation the company opened in March.
Finance leadership and a capital reset
The board also reshuffled its executive officers, effective the same day. Yoshihisa Ikurumi moved from CFO to Executive Officer, Director of Administration, while Shinpei Okuno, previously head of capital markets and investor relations, took over as CFO.
Separately, Metaplanet will ask shareholders at a virtual-only Extraordinary General Meeting on December 18, with a September 30 record date, to slash capital stock from about 27.8 billion yen to a single yen and cut its capital reserve to zero.
The company framed the reclassification as a way to lift its distributable amount and clear an accumulated deficit of roughly 1.8 billion yen carried at the end of 2025, giving it more room for dividends and buybacks. If approved, the change takes effect December 30.
Metaplanet stock closed at ¥249 on Friday, against a previous close of ¥259 and a 52-week range of ¥192 to ¥779, according to Google Finance. The company remains among the largest listed corporate holders of Bitcoin.
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One of the world’s most targeted nations, Japan, suffered its latest breach on Friday, September 11, as attackers stole around 246,000 personal data record sets from the country’s Digital Agency.
The hack exposed the names, email addresses and phone numbers of Japanese civil servants and contractors after an intruder got into a shared government network.
The Japanese agency insists that the exposed data has not turned up in any confirmed cases, which often range from phishing campaigns to violent attacks.
What did hackers leak in the Japan Digital Agency breach?
The hackers of the Japan Digital Agency stole government emails and personal phone numbers tied to real names from the common work Government Solution Service (GSS) platform used by ministries and agencies nationwide.
246,000 records of government staff and contractors leaked from the shared GSS platform. Source: Japan’s Digital Agency
In terms of scale, it is smaller than the My Number-style incident that actually affected ordinary citizens.
By data type, the incident exposed 236,000 names, 231,000 email addresses, 94,000 phone numbers and 1,000 physical addresses.
How did hackers enter the Japanese database?
According to the Digital Agency disclosure, it detected unusual activity on June 25 after a maintenance and operations contractor account accessed a large number of files. The intrusion began in late May.
Weeks later, investigators fingered a VPN device vulnerability as the likely entry point. They said they had already suspended the account and cut the compromised equipment off from the outside network on the same day they shared the July 9 update.
France’s DGFiP tax authority was breached via a similar internal VPN compromise that, as Cryptopolitan reported.
Japan is a regular hack target
Japan is one of the ten most targeted countries in the world, per CloudSEK’s 2026 cybercrime report. Ironically, the Digital Agency it set up in 2021 to modernize and secure government IT, has now been breached.
Top ten most targeted countries in the world. Source: CloudSEK 2026 cybercrime report.
In July, roughly 12.23 million email addresses and 7.61 million passwords were exposed in a confirmed KDDI breach.
Chinese hackers breached Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity in a 2023 attack suspected to have gone unnoticed data for months.
How hackers use leaked info to target crypto holders
There is a direct route from stolen data to attacks targeting crypto holders, as Telegram founder Pavel Durov called out a personal data leak at a French government apparatus after 41 crypto-linked kidnapping incidents were reported in the country within the first three and a half months of the year.
Chainalysis counted more than $30 million stolen in violent attacks in the first half of 2026, on track to pass 2025’s $58 million.
Analysts will be watching to see whether the 236,000 names and 231,000 emails in this breach turn up in any future exploits.
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OpenAI staff were informed this week that the AI lab would be open to throttling the pace of its work in the most advanced areas of AI. Sam Altman extended the same proposition to AI rivals, including Anthropic, which also acknowledged the risks associated of AI development in a report that disclosed that scientists linked to state institutions attempted to use its Claude models for biological weapons research.
OpenAI said it has already paused some internal training runs and eased parts of model development over safety concerns.
The serial arrival of the disclosures is stoking the fire around the debate about whether the industry is moving too fast ahead of the public offerings, both firms continue to tease.
Why does Altman want to slow down AI development?
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, at a company-wide meeting, informed those present that the AI lab, along with other consenting labs, could slow down the pace of frontier model releases.
Due to the voluntary nature of any such arrangement, Altman conceded that not every company would be on board with the plan, according to sources cited by Bloomberg.
That skepticism comes with precedent. Three years ago, in March 2023, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and more than 1,000 others signed an open letter to halt advanced AI work for six months.
As outlets reported at the time, labs did not actually follow through with the moratorium they jointly agreed to.
The AI risk call also came out in a September 6 post by OpenAI chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, which asked AI firms to coordinate “to slow down future development as needed.” Pachocki expressed hope that voluntary slowdowns would “become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.”
In July, Altman said he told White House officials about the need to throttle AI development. Along with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Altman also previously signed a one-line statement declaring AI a societal-scale extinction risk.
Can AI models be used to build bioweapons?
AI models have advanced to the stage that they may be capable of supporting biological weapons research. Just this week, OpenAI declared that its models had solved the Navier Stokes math problem, even if it came under contested terms.
Anthropic presented fresh fodder for that debate when the lab’s 154-page threat intelligence report, released on September 10, detailed five instances of what researchers attempts to use Claude’s capabilities to support their biological weapons work.
Anthropic said the attempts from “unsupported regions” tried to circumvent location restrictions and disguise the purpose of their work. The lab said it took down the accounts, but it did not name any countries and institutions.
Have AI risks now outweighed the benefits?
The reports arrived amid a run of public alarm from inside the labs. On September 8, researcher Jacob Coxon quit and accused both OpenAI and Anthropic of “gambling with our lives,” saying colleagues believe the technology could “kill us all by the end of the decade” and warning of human extinction by 2030.
His post drew more than 150 million views. Two days later, on September 10, former staff from Anthropic and Google’s DeepMind aired similar concerns and pressed for more transparency.
A late-July petition to create a mechanism for slowing development gathered signatures from more than 1,000 workers across the major AI companies.
OpenAI is now pushing Congress for mandatory, capability-based safety rules covering testing, independent evaluations, cybersecurity and incident reporting. “The prospect of AI-accelerated AI development demands more than voluntary commitments,” Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane wrote.
California moved first: Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 on Wednesday, with a companion bill, AB 1864, aimed at guarding against AI-enabled biological threats.
In Washington, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to pause advanced AI and ban artificial superintelligence, telling the BBC that ignoring scientists’ warnings would make someone “a moron.”
President Donald Trump pushed back, saying on Thursday he worried that “if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position.”
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A New Mexico lawyer defending against a murder conviction case used ChatGPT. He then submitted a brief to the New Mexico Supreme Court that contained made-up police statements and witness accounts.
The New Mexico Supreme Court found that attorney Stephen Aarons failed to verify the AI-generated material. The judges said the document “contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses.”
The court held Stephen in contempt Wednesday and ordered him to pay $5,000. His conduct will also go before an attorney disciplinary board. The judges said Stephen had “demonstrated a lack of remorse and a lack of concern for his client.”
Stephen said he used ChatGPT last year to condense the trial record after taking the appeal. He said he did not realize how far AI “hallucinations” could go or how confidently software could produce facts that never happened.
New Mexico judges punish Stephen after ChatGPT invents testimony inside Oscar’s murder appeal
Stephen, a private attorney based in Santa Fe, represented Oscar Renee Sandoval. Oscar pleaded not guilty to killing the mother of his children. He was later convicted and received life in prison last year. His appeal remains pending.
Stephen allegedly told reporters the error was an honest one. “I am remorseful but hopeful that the disciplinary board takes into account it was an honest mistake,” he said. “It is a lesson learned for all professionals who rely upon this powerful but sometimes unstable technology.”
A number of lawyers have already faced punishments for uncontrolled AI assistance. Cases have been brought against lawyers in both state and federal courts due to briefs that include fake cases, references, and misquoted legal provisions.
Stephen’s application stands out in this category as it includes false testimonies of witnesses in an appeal process.
Oscar’s case moved to Kim Chavez Cook, a New Mexico public defender, on September 2. Kim is now handling the appeal while the case remains open.
Tiru’s family sues OpenAI as Florida officials examine 16,000 ChatGPT chats tied to the FSU shooting
The other court battle involves ChatGPT following the shooting at Florida State University. An attorney representing the family of the deceased, Tiru Chabba, has sued OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Phoenix Ikner in a Federal court.
The case was filed in the United States District Court of the Northern District of Florida on Sunday. It is claimed that OpenAI should have taken action in this situation.
The law enforcement officials in Florida have released the ChatGPT transcripts of Phoenix. This contains queries on how to operate a gun, media coverage, the busiest time on FSU, the Columbine shooting, and making oneself infamous.
Tiru’s family attorney, Bakari Sellers, said the exchanges go back about 18 months and total around 16,000 “disturbing chats.”
“This is the same person who asked, you know, how can he become infamous? He asked about the Columbine shooting. He asked about what time should he go to campus? What time are most people going to be there?” Bakari said.
“He literally utilized open AI and Chat GPT as his co-conspirator, utilized it as a resource to carry out mass murder,” Bakari added. “There was nothing in place to prevent that from happening and so lives were lost. That’s the inherent danger, there has to be something in place to prevent that from happening.”
OpenAI rejected responsibility for the shooting. Spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the company found an account believed to be associated with Phoenix after learning what happened and proactively shared the information with police. Drew said OpenAI is still cooperating with authorities.
“Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,” Drew said.
He said ChatGPT answered with factual material already widely available through public internet sources and did not promote illegal or harmful behavior. Drew also mentioned that hundreds of millions of people daily use ChatGPT for valid reasons.
According to Drew, OpenAI is constantly improving its tools that help in recognizing the intentions of the users, preventing misuse, and acting in case of any concerns about safety issues.
The current lawsuit came after a similar case in Florida. Attorney General James Uthmeier recently revealed that the criminal investigation was launched against OpenAI and ChatGPT by the Office of Statewide Prosecution.
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