Apple is expected to launch Apple Pay in India next month in partnership with Axis Bank, according to people familiar with the matter. According to ChainCatcher, the rollout would mark a further expansion of Apple’s payments service in the Indian market.

Zhipu has launched GLM-5.3-FlashX, and its API and experience center are now open. According to PANews, the company said the model's maximum inference speed reaches 200 tokens per second. The company said the speed increase is based on inference computing power provided by 100,000 domestic chips, along with additional infrastructure and inference optimization investment. Zhipu said its base model, GLM-5.3-Flash, was open-sourced on August 26, with 320 billion total parameters, 18 billion activated parameters, and a context window of 1 million tokens. It had previously been tested anonymously under the name "Ox Alpha."

HP Wolf Security said a fake AI crypto-trading assistant was used to distribute malware that could replace browser wallet extensions on infected Windows computers. According to NS3.AI, the replacement extensions showed counterfeit login screens that could capture wallet IDs and passwords entered by users. HP did not disclose a campaign-wide victim count or total crypto losses. The company said the malware targeted browser wallet extensions on Windows systems, creating a risk that attackers could steal login credentials through the fake screens.

Let's discuss in detail what the SEC's "innovation exemption" policy for tokenized stocks actually allows and disallows.

Starknet lending protocol Nostra paused its money market on Thursday after a manipulated price oracle let one account borrow roughly $3.5 million against NSTR collateral. Lending, borrowing, withdrawals and liquidations remain unavailable while the team reconciles each asset, according to BeInCrypto, and recovery prospects remain unclear. The account pledged NSTR and drew ETH, STRK, USDC, USDT, WBTC and DAIv1. PeckShield said $1.92 million was bridged to Ethereum, including 234.57 ETH and 1.3 million DAI.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying ordinary Americans are finding it harder to afford high energy costs during the Iran war. According to Sina Finance, Sanders said Trump had described high oil prices as a "very low price" to pay for the war, and added that Americans cannot afford gasoline at $4.44 per gallon, truckers cannot afford diesel at $6.40 per gallon, and families cannot afford heating oil at $5.50 per gallon. According to the American Automobile Association, the national average gasoline price on Thursday was $4.4386 per gallon, while the diesel average was $6.3956 per gallon. Sanders said, "End this war now!" As gasoline prices continued to rise, the Federal Reserve raised its interest-rate range by 25 basis points, drawing criticism from people on both ends of the political spectrum. U.S. President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro said higher rates would hurt the economy amid volatile oil and gas prices, arguing that those prices have effectively become a hidden rate hike. Illinois Governor Jay Robert Pritzker also sharply criticized the decision, saying the Fed raised rates because of the Iran conflict and that drivers have spent an additional $107 billion since the conflict began in February. Meanwhile, the United States may also impose restrictions on diesel exports. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the government may be willing to consider such measures to control domestic prices.

Private equity firms that had previously circled Evergrande Property Services Group Ltd. are considering fresh offers for the Hong Kong-listed real estate management business, people familiar with the matter said, according to Bloomberg.

According to the announcement from Binance, the platform will support cash dividend distribution for Broadcom (AVGO), Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), Meta (META), and Seagate (STX) through the bStocks tokens AVGOB, QQQB, METAB, and STXB. The net cash dividend, after applicable withholding taxes, fees, costs, and other deductions, will be reinvested into additional units or fractions of the same underlying security. Eligible users will receive the dividend in the form of AVGOB, QQQB, METAB, and STXB bStocks, while on-chain holders of these tokens will receive the dividend through a multiplier adjustment. Trading of AVGOB/USDT, QQQB/USDT, METAB/USDT, and STXB/USDT will not be affected. For AVGOB, QQQB, and METAB, the token conversion service for 1:1 swaps between AVGO/AVGOB, QQQ/QQQB, and META/METAB will be suspended at 2026-09-18 23:30 (UTC), and deposits and withdrawals of these tokens will be suspended at 2026-09-20 23:30 (UTC). Users with holdings on the record date snapshot at 2026-09-21 00:00 (UTC) will be eligible for the distribution. For STXB, the token conversion service for 1:1 swaps between STX stock and STXB bStocks will be suspended at 2026-09-23 23:30 (UTC), and deposits and withdrawals of STX will be suspended at the same time. Users with STXB holdings on the record date snapshot at 2026-09-24 00:00 (UTC) will be eligible for the dividend distribution. Binance said deposits, withdrawals, and token conversion services for AVGOB, QQQB, METAB, and STXB will resume when the distribution is completed, and no further announcement will be posted. The company added that dividends earned from assets held in other accounts, including Savings Account and Margin Account, will be credited to the Spot Account. Binance will handle the technical requirements for users involved in the event, and reinvestment and distribution will occur after deduction of withholding tax. Binance Convert will pause the conversion of AVGOB, QQQB, and METAB and all associated pairs at 2026-09-20 23:30 (UTC), while conversion of STXB and all associated pairs will pause at 2026-09-23 23:30 (UTC).

Zcash developers are targeting Nov. 5 for NU7 mainnet activation. According to NS3.AI, testnet activation is planned for Oct. 6. NU7 would reduce block times from 75 seconds to 25 seconds while preserving Zcash's halving schedule.

Anthropic, which propelled the AI ​​race to its peak, is now calling for a "slower pace." However, the rapid advancement of AI infrastructure, such as investments in chips, servers, and data centers, has already been built on the expectation of high-speed growth.

This marks the first time that an on-chain AMM mechanism has been formally incorporated into the compliance framework of securities trading in the name of a federal securities regulator, representing a significant institutional breakthrough.

World is betting that the future of global finance will need more than digital money. It will need a way to prove that there is a real person behind the account.

The SEC is beginning to give on-chain securities trading real-world operational space. In the future, government bonds, funds, money market products, and even more traditional financial assets may all enter the on-chain market along the same path.

Analysts believe the core logic behind the rebound lies in: declining oil prices easing energy concerns, lower long-term interest rates softening expectations of rate hikes, and short covering forcing positions, creating passive upward momentum. However, Goldman Sachs believes this rebound was almost entirely driven by AI stocks.

US and Chinese experts want AI banned from independently attacking nuclear command systems or deciding to use nuclear weapons. They also called for stronger human controls and a hotline to prevent AI-related accidents from triggering a nuclear crisis.

The effort has been compared internally to Israel's model of closely aligning military priorities with cybersecurity startups, VC investment and academic research

The SEC has approved a temporary, conditional "innovation exemption." Eligible tokenized securities exchanges may conduct limited pilot trading of tokenized NMS shares within licensed AMMs and liquidity pools.

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