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The Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Mike Selig, stated that the proposed regulatory framework for crypto assets by the CFTC will establish a federal-level regulatory system to protect exchange customers from risks such as fraud, market manipulation, and theft of customer funds, preventing a repeat of the FTX collapse.Mike Selig pointed out that the CFTC is working to introduce a market-based regulatory mechanism for crypto exchanges; he stated that critics opposing relevant measures and supporting the status quo may objectively benefit fraudsters, manipulators, and those misappropriating customer funds, and warned that the lack of appropriate regulation could leave opportunities for the next figure similar to Sam Bankman-Fried.

The official account of the AI assistant Claude from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic stated that the application volume for the Claude Startups program has exceeded expectations, and they will suspend the $1000 API credit offer for Claude Team.Claude mentioned that there have been hundreds of thousands of applications for the program, and the team is re-evaluating to cover as many startups as possible. Accounts that have already received the discount can still retain their related rights; accounts that have applied or have been approved but have not yet claimed will enter a review process, and some previously approved accounts will not be able to receive the discount.Claude stated that accepted program members can still use Startup Stack and Applied AI office hours. Users on the Claude Max or Team plan can continue to use their monthly API credits as usual in the Console.

The Australian artificial intelligence data center operator Firmus, supported by Nvidia, has withdrawn its planned large initial public offering (IPO). The company stated that the withdrawal was due to market volatility and considerations regarding the market environment.Firmus originally planned to raise 5 billion Australian dollars through the IPO, with a share price set at 11 Australian dollars.

On October 8, Anthropic announced that Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion have entered beta testing. Docs, Slides, and Design have exited testing and are available in all Claude plans, including Free; since these features entered each Claude conversation, users have created over 45 million documents, presentations, and designs.Claude Dashboards is open for testing in paid plans and can connect to data platforms such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, Snowflake, and tools like Salesforce. After users ask questions in natural language, dashboards can be generated and continuously updated; clicking on numbers reveals corresponding queries, and charts display the last refresh time of the data. Dashboards can be sent to Amplitude, Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, Omni, Perplexity, PostHog, Sigma for further analysis, with Looker, monday.com, and Tableau support coming soon.Claude Motion is entering testing in Team and Enterprise plans, allowing users to generate playable animated explanations based on prompts, supporting modifications in the editor or adjustments by Claude, and can be downloaded as MP4.

B.AI platform announces that Anthropic's latest Haiku model, Claude Haiku 5.5, is officially launched, with API and Web Chat both open for experience. This model is designed for high-frequency calls and latency-sensitive workloads, achieving a better balance between speed, cost, and intelligence, suitable for well-defined sub-agent tasks. The model defaults to adaptive thinking, supports five levels of reasoning intensity, has image understanding and tool invocation capabilities, and supports 1M Token ultra-long context with a maximum output of 128K. It is applicable in scenarios such as classification, routing, information extraction, summarization, real-time customer service, code-assisted retrieval, and interface automation. From now on, developers and users can directly call Claude Haiku 5.5 through the B.AI platform.

According to The Block, Kishu Inu founder Alexander Sisemore faces three counts of telecommunications fraud related to a so-called "rug pull" scheme involving an amount of $9 million.Prosecutors allege that Sisemore secretly sold off the tokens allocated to him at the project's launch while making false statements to investors. Currently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking Kishu Inu investors.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, claiming it to be the company's cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model to date. This model is designed for high-volume tasks such as document summarization and database queries, as well as speed-sensitive scenarios like real-time customer service and browser automation. When developers integrate it into their own products, prompts of up to 100,000 tokens are charged at $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens, consistent with the pricing of OpenAI's competing small model GPT-6 Luna released on September 22.The corresponding prices for Haiku 4.5 are $1 and $5, with the new prices being 90% lower, and prompts exceeding 100,000 tokens receiving a 50% discount. Since about 90% of requests for the old model fall below this threshold, and Haiku 5.5 has a slightly higher token count, Anthropic estimates an average savings of about 75%. Benchmark tests show that Haiku 5.5 achieved a success rate of 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1, higher than GPT Luna's 48.9%; on Terminal-Bench 4, it scored 39.2%, surpassing Luna's 16.4% and Haiku 4.5's 0%, but lower than Sonnet 5.5's 70.6%.This is the first Haiku model with adjustable effort settings, allowing users to balance cost and answer quality.

The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued a circular on the audit of reserve assets, clarifying the minimum requirements for independent audits of Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP). VASP must maintain reserves of no less than 100% of customer liabilities throughout the review period and hold the same virtual assets in a 1:1 ratio, conducting daily reconciliations.The audit scope must cover hot wallets, warm wallets, cold wallets, third-party wallet infrastructure, and third-party custodial assets, and verify customer asset segregation, wallet control, and whether there is any re-staking, lending, or other usage scenarios.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California stated that a 26-year-old man, Adam Iza, who calls himself the "Godfather," has been sentenced to 78 months in prison and must pay $23.4 million in restitution. He pleaded guilty in January 2025 to charges of conspiracy to violate rights, wire fraud, and tax evasion, and has been in custody since September 2024. This sentence will run concurrently with the 15-year sentence he received last month for an attempted Bitcoin robbery, which will not increase his actual time served.From August 2021 to April 2022, Iza hired off-duty Los Angeles County police officers as private security and admitted to conspiring with them to obtain law enforcement confidential records and personal data of individuals he had disputes with, obtaining court-authorized search warrants to track these individuals, and having the officers intimidate and threaten them. The Department of Justice stated that five former officers have been convicted for working for him, including 42-year-old Eric Chase Saavedra, who set up a security company providing these officers, and was sentenced to 21 months; 45-year-old Michael David Coberg, who assisted in extorting rivals and arranged false drug arrests, is serving a 63-month sentence. The prosecution wrote in the sentencing memorandum that wealthy individuals cannot buy "search warrants, arrests, badges, or guns" for private disputes.In another fraud case, since December 2020, Iza gained access to a Meta Business Manager account and its associated credit line, reselling it to advertising companies, with Meta clients being charged for ads they never purchased. After discovering this, Meta refunded the clients and absorbed the losses.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), Star stated that the cryptocurrency industry will enter a mainstream phase starting in 2025. He reviewed that the industry has gone through four stages: geek exploration, formation of financial markets, ICO and DeFi experiments, and compliance construction. Currently, OKX has obtained licenses or is under regulation in markets such as the United States, Europe, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, and Turkey.He added that Deloitte has become OKX's global auditing firm, and OKX may be one of the few international exchanges currently audited globally by one of the Big Four accounting firms.

According to Decrypt, Carli Michelle Heller, a woman from Bonita Springs, Florida, was arrested for using Claude as a diary. Investigators stated that she wrote about "shooting" the Lee County Sheriff's Office on September 26, and the next day claimed she had acquired a new gun. Anthropic's safety system flagged these conversations as serious, and the platform handed them over to a human review team, which reported to law enforcement. Officers then identified Heller, went to her residence, and detained her. She was charged with making written threats of violence, and the case is scheduled to go to court in November.Anthropic's consumer terms explicitly reserve the right to "decide on their own" to report user inputs, outputs, or behaviors to law enforcement. Its privacy policy, effective September 10, 2026, also allows the company to share data with police when it reasonably believes that disclosure is necessary to prevent serious harm. Even if users choose not to use their data for model training, Anthropic can still use their data within three months, rather than five years; conversations flagged for review will also be used to improve harmful content detection capabilities.This is not the first case. The San Francisco Standard reported in September that Anthropic had referred a user to the police, who allegedly wrote that they purchased an AR-15 rifle and had the company's CEO Dario Amodei in their sights, claiming it was just a joke. At the time of the report, the user had not been arrested or charged, and an Anthropic spokesperson stated that this was "our protective process working as intended."

According to market news, the Saudi east-west oil pipeline has suspended operations after being attacked again.

Greek police dismantled a cryptocurrency investment fraud gang and arrested 17 people, including 9 military personnel. Preliminary investigations by the police show that about 10,000 people participated in the investment, with an average investment of around 800 euros per person, and the amount involved is estimated to exceed 8 million euros.The gang operated by recruiting new members to obtain higher returns, exhibiting clear "pyramid" characteristics. In addition, the gang recently froze the withdrawal function and claimed that investors could receive double their principal back after 50 days if they doubled their investment. The police have currently seized about 280,000 euros, and the investigation is ongoing.

According to official news, WasabiCard has launched various AI subscription cards, catering to the global AI tool subscription and payment needs of enterprises and teams, supporting subscription payment scenarios for mainstream AI applications such as OpenAI and Claude. Through card-based payment solutions, companies can handle the procurement and expense management of AI services for different teams, projects, or business lines more flexibly.In addition to AI subscription payments, WasabiCard also supports bulk card issuance for enterprises, fund budget management, and multi-currency account setup, as well as various scenarios such as advertising, business travel, payroll, and e-commerce subscriptions. It helps companies configure payment permissions and budget limits by department, employee, or specific purpose, enhancing the management efficiency of AI-related expenditures and the transparency of fund usage.As AI tools gradually enter daily workflows in research and development, content production, customer service, and operations, cross-border subscription payments and expense management are becoming important infrastructure for global operations of enterprises. It is important to note that currently, WasabiCard-related products are not open for application to enterprises and individual users in mainland China.

According to CBS Atlanta, a 35-year-old woman from Stone Mountain, Georgia, named Mercedes Henry, a former universal bank employee at Ameris Bank, has been accused of unauthorized linking of six customers' bank accounts to the cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase between September and November 2021, and in collusion with others, transferring approximately $931,000 into a Coinbase account under her control.A federal grand jury has charged her with multiple counts of bank fraud, access device fraud, and bribery. Henry was arrested on September 25 and appeared in court, and the case is still under investigation by the FBI.

Cindy Leow, co-founder of the Solana perpetual contract exchange Drift (now Velocity), stated thatVelocity has completed audits with OtterSec and Asymmetric Research this week and is fully open-sourced, with the exchange restarting today.At the same time, as the exchange restarts and enters the next phase, she will step down. Previously, ChainCatcher reported on April 1 that Velocity was hacked by North Korean hackers due to a security vulnerability, resulting in a theft of $295 million.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed two lawsuits in New York, accusing Cryptoaiml and TSAI of fraud under the guise of AI trading, involving approximately $15 million.The two lawsuits claim that investors were shown fabricated profit data and were asked to add more funds when attempting to withdraw.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announced that the licensed virtual asset trading platform DFX Labs Company Limited reported "dfx[.]cn", "dfxcn[.]com", and other four websites as fraudulent websites. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has listed the relevant websites as suspicious virtual asset trading platforms.

Canadian "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski will appear in court on his own due to not being granted an extension. He faces charges of fraud and money laundering for allegedly defrauding investors of approximately 40 million dollars and squandering the funds.