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Google has launched Nano Banana 2.1 across its consumer and developer products, promising stronger image generation and editing. Developer API prices start at $0.0336 for a standard 1K image, about half the price of the previous version, while independent testing was unavailable at launch.
Adam Iza, who called himself “The Godfather,” received a 78-month federal sentence for a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded Meta of more than $37 million. He must also pay $23.4 million and faces a separate concurrent 15-year sentence for an attempted Bitcoin robbery.
Adam Iza, who called himself “The Godfather,” received a 78-month sentence and a $23.4 million restitution order over a scheme involving former sheriff’s deputies, more than $37 million in Meta fraud and cryptocurrency-linked tax evasion.
OKX and Intercontinental Exchange plan a blockchain venue that could offer more than 60 tokenized U.S. stocks around the clock. The shares would be backed one-for-one, traded against stablecoins through liquidity pools, and face corporate, regulatory and liquidity hurdles.
Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC and repurchased 11,000 in the third quarter to demonstrate to creditors that it could turn Bitcoin into cash. The transaction lifted holdings to 44,000 BTC, but the company paid more to buy back the coins.
OKXICE, the joint venture between OKX and NYSE owner ICE, has notified the SEC of plans for a 24/7 venue trading tokenized U.S. stocks against USDC, USDG and USDT. The platform would operate under the SEC’s Innovation Exemption, but has no announced launch date.
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Nvidia shares reached a record $237.88, lifting the chipmaker’s market value to roughly $5.7 trillion. The advance followed a larger buyback authorization, strong AI-related revenue and weaker U.S. jobs data that reduced expectations for a Federal Reserve rate increase.
Meta says Muse’s Mac Messages integration requires both Full Disk Access and a separate connector, rejecting a journalist’s claim that the AI synchronized private texts while permission was disabled. A second dispute over a home address has intensified scrutiny of AI-agent privacy controls.
MetaMask is exiting Ethereum validators operated through Lido after an infrastructure security incident. The companies say wallets and stETH holders are not immediately threatened, but the precautionary withdrawal could take up to 45 days and may affect staking rewards.
MetaMask is exiting affected Ethereum validators after an incident diverted an estimated 0.36 ETH in block-production payments. The company reported no immediate threat to wallets, while researchers estimated about 17,000 validators holding 523,000 ETH could face exits and temporary lost rewards.
The Bitcoin Policy Institute is questioning MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rules, which could exclude Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes. The institute says metadata suggests the broader review may retain elements of an earlier crypto treasury proposal and wants clearer classification criteria.
MetaMask is exiting Ethereum validators operated through its staking infrastructure while investigating an undisclosed security incident. The company says it has found no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets, while Lido expects the final affected validators to exit by Oct. 7.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon leads several AI coding and cybersecurity comparisons, including a 0.7% attack success rate on an indirect prompt-injection test. Google is restricting its initial cyber release to vetted defenders before expanding access to paid API customers and AI Ultra subscribers.
President Donald Trump has unveiled a voluntary AI safety accord signed by leaders from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, X and Nvidia. The pact calls for internal controls, verification, external audits and board oversight, but includes no penalties for noncompliance.
OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia and xAI signed a voluntary White House agreement to permit independent reviews of AI safety controls. The pact covers cyber, biological and chemical risks, but includes no penalties, disclosure requirement or deadline for implementation.
Metaplanet’s independent directors defended a revised executive stock-rights plan after shareholder backlash, citing management’s early financial risk and restructuring role. The letter cuts the potential pool to 188.2 million shares but leaves questions about CEO Simon Gerovich’s exercised shares and MMXX Ventures unresolved.
BBC director-general Matt Brittin has called a 50-minute AI-generated Doctor Who episode “pretty good,” while saying artificial intelligence will not replace humans. His comments follow audience backlash to an earlier BBC experiment using generative AI for Doctor Who marketing.
