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The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued opinions to comprehensively implement the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, promoting the all-round empowerment of various industries by artificial intelligence. The opinions emphasize the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, promote the intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry, and accelerate the promotion and application of agricultural scientific and technological achievements.

The complete trailer for Netflix's upcoming FTX-themed series "The Altruists" was released this week, and former FTX Chief Operating Officer Constance Wang criticized the trailer in a post on X, stating that watching it made her "physically want to vomit." She mentioned that she had served as COO since before FTX was named and viewed the company as her child. She was also the last person to leave the Bahamas after Sam Bankman-Fried was extradited and lost all her assets in FTX, thus she has no intention of defending those responsible for all of this.Wang pointed out that the media is eager to tell the story of FTX's collapse due to the team's partying in the Bahamas, but her workplace was completely different. The core team of the company had fewer than 200 people at its peak, while other exchanges of similar size had thousands of employees, many of whom worked 16 to 18 hours a day for over three years with almost no time to sleep. She also questioned the portrayal of Caroline Ellison in the trailer, stating that she had worked with Caroline and had never seen her as aggressive as depicted in the trailer; she described her as quiet and gentle, often lost in her own thoughts. Most of the team only learned about Caroline's relationship with Sam through reports after the bankruptcy."The Altruists" consists of eight episodes and will premiere on Netflix on November 19, featuring Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison. FTX collapsed in November 2022 due to a liquidity crisis, exposing its close financial ties with Alameda Research and issues of customer fund misappropriation. Bankman-Fried was convicted of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in November 2023 and sentenced to 25 years in prison; Ellison pleaded guilty and cooperated with prosecutors, receiving a two-year prison sentence in September 2024.

According to CryptoBriefing, the Virtual Currency Unit (VCU) led by Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Alona Katz collaborated with the FBI's New York office to conduct a joint operation that seized or shut down 241 fraudulent domain names and 112 servers. This operation marks the conclusion of a three-year investigation into an internationally connected cryptocurrency investment fraud network.The network primarily targeted Russian-speaking communities, directing victims to fake cryptocurrency investment platforms through Russian advertisements on Facebook, and then carried out secondary fraud under the guise of "recovering funds." Investigators estimate the related losses to be in the tens of millions of dollars, with some victims losing their entire savings. The prosecution has currently recovered about $300,000 for the victims, and there have been no reports of arrests from this operation. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center's 2025 Internet Crime Report indicates that cryptocurrency-related fraud losses reached $11.366 billion that year, a 22% increase from the previous year. Losses from cryptocurrency fraud accounted for more than half of all internet crime losses in 2025.

OKX Global Managing Partner and Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique announced that after nearly seven years at OKX, he will step down and take a temporary break to focus on family and personal matters.According to insiders, Haider plans to leave before the end of 2026. He joined OKX in March 2020, where he led the brand upgrade and was involved in facilitating the Intercontinental Exchange's strategic investment of $200 million in OKX this March.

Members of the Solana team shared photos announcing the establishment of an office in Shanghai, China. Core member Vibhu and Foundation Chair Lily Liu announced that Solana occupies the "highest" commercial office space in the world.In response, Binance founder CZ retweeted, stating that it is amazing to see Solana able to advertise in China and even set up an office. BNB Chain has not been able to achieve this so far.

X user Irene Patrikios (@crypto_irene) announced that she has been appointed as the Chief Business Officer of the fully homomorphic encryption company Zama. She stated that she has been working in the cryptocurrency industry for nearly 12 years and believes that blockchain requires institutions, enterprises, and individuals to publicly operate financial activities, a gap that has long existed and is difficult to support large-scale funds on-chain. She joined the company in November 2025, before the launch of the Zama mainnet, and stated that confidentiality is the infrastructure that enables institutions holding global capital to truly go on-chain, and Zama is providing this capability.Irene Patrikios also mentioned that over the past year, Zama's business team has reached collaborations with several major participants to launch confidential DeFi and establish a business pipeline. Zama's CEO Rand Hindi and the board are increasing support for the next phase of the team's development. She expressed her gratitude to Rand Hindi, the board, and the Zama team.

Global leading chip equipment manufacturer ASML's Chief Financial Officer Roger Dassen stated that the company opposes a proposal in the U.S. Congress to restrict its sales of DUV lithography equipment to China, believing it is a bad idea. This statement came during a conference call with reporters following the company's third-quarter earnings release.Dassen said that if the Match Act is passed after the U.S. midterm elections, it will accelerate the development of competitive technologies within China. He also expressed optimism that common sense would prevail. Reuters described the Match Act as a U.S. Congressional proposal to limit ASML's sales of DUV lithography equipment to China.

Brandon Thomas, the developer who previously used AI to reconstruct Adobe Creative Cloud for free, has now turned his attention to Microsoft Office. He has released open-source clone applications WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft on GitHub, corresponding to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively. The three applications are written in Rust, with a single codebase that can run natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD, and can also run in a browser. Thomas refers to this as a clean room reconstruction, meaning it is based on publicly available file format specifications and observations of the original software's behavior, without ever copying Microsoft's code, similar to the legal path taken by Compaq in the 1980s to clone the IBM PC BIOS.WordCraft can read and write .docx format, covering 88% of the features in the Word ribbon. It currently supports revision tracking, footnotes, citations, and mail merge; however, taking into account document fidelity and stability, the team estimates its completeness as a Word alternative for actual work is only about 60%, and it is still labeled as an alpha early testing version. GridCraft has supported 513 out of 523 Excel worksheet functions and 89% of ribbon commands, with the developer self-assessing about 50% as usable for actual work. The next step is to improve compatibility with real .xlsx files.

According to news from the Anthropic official website, Anthropic announced the opening of its fifth office in the Asia-Pacific region in Singapore and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore. Both parties will collaborate in areas such as AI safety, model evaluation, and responsible AI adoption.Singapore is one of the most active markets for Claude globally, with over a thousand government agencies and enterprises, including GovTech Singapore, DBS, Grab, and GIC, already deploying Claude. Among them, over 1,500 engineers at GovTech Singapore have adopted Claude Code to advance the modernization of government systems, while Grab saves approximately 40,000 hours of manpower each quarter with the help of a Claude-driven sales assistant.

Alibaba's AI office product Qianwen Office released its e-commerce version on October 14 and is currently open for invitation testing. Users can switch to the "E-commerce Management" mode in Qianwen Office to experience it.According to public information, this version introduces cross-platform management dashboards, trend insights and selling point analysis, bulk generation of popular materials, and cross-platform ROI intelligent optimization for e-commerce clients' daily work scenarios. It has currently integrated with business consulting tools such as Shiji Canmou, Youzan, and Qianniu. Reports indicate that the project began preparations in June this year, entered a concentrated development phase in September, and is coordinated by Qianwen Office CEO Chen Yusen, with nearly a hundred employees participating. About 20% of the current paid users of Qianwen Office come from the e-commerce industry.

According to Decrypt, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan on October 9. The suspect, 35 years old and of Saudi nationality, has been employed at OpenAI since July 2025 and is accused of using or attempting to use devices to intercept oral communications. He made his first appearance in federal court this Tuesday. OpenAI stated that it has referred the matter to the FBI and thanked the relevant agents and prosecutors for their swift action, while the FBI's investigation is ongoing.OpenAI released a statement on X, stating that the company discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in the office and used its own model to analyze the device and its origin, ultimately identifying that an employee placed it there a few days prior. According to the criminal complaint, the device was discovered around September 30, plugged into a USB port on the back of a television, wrapped in paper towels, with its contents encrypted, and was installed around September 28. Surveillance footage showed that Alfozan was seen near the conference room multiple times before the device was discovered, but he had neither the authority to enter that room nor to attend the related meetings, which typically involved confidential technical and strategic information.The complaint states that before the device was installed, Alfozan used internal productivity tools to inquire about OpenAI's office building address, conference rooms, room capacities, schedules, and locations of meetings between executives and external partners. A chatbot account associated with his spouse asked between September 24 and 30 how to create a continuous recording device, add Wi-Fi connectivity, enhance real-time listening capabilities, and encrypt the device's SD card.

According to official news, the cryptocurrency payment platform MoonPay announced that Anne Giviskos has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

According to Caixin, the asset investigation into the Prince Group of Cambodia, suspected of transnational online fraud and money laundering, is further unfolding in the UK. Following the freezing of multiple luxury properties in London belonging to the group's founder, Chen Zhi, and the individual identified as the "number two person," Hu Xiaowei, the 170 million yuan luxury property and luxury watches under the name of the group's financial officer, Li Tianming, have also been frozen by the UK.In October 2025, when the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced sanctions against the Prince Group and its affiliated individuals, Li Tianming was listed as a close associate of Chen Zhi, indicating that he effectively assumed the role of financial officer responsible for the illegal financial operations of the Prince Group, involving the management of illegal fund flows and large-scale cash smuggling.

According to CoinDesk, the UK Foreign Office announced a new round of sanctions related to Russia, stating that relevant cryptocurrency platforms may assist Russia in evading sanctions.The sanctioned entities include Xeltox Enterprises, which operates Cryptomus, Heleket, and Certa Payments, the Kyrgyz exchange TokenSpot, and the payment platform Processing KG, as well as Tsunami Payments, two of which previously handled transactions related to the A7A5 network.

During a conversation with Cointelegraph's multimedia director Ciaran Lyons at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, Kevin Lee, Chief Strategy Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange BingX, stated that wealthy "old money" investors have a longer holding period for Bitcoin compared to many crypto-native traders. He mentioned that he has encountered a large number of "old money" clients seeking alternative investments, saying, "Their diamond hands are stronger than any of ours." Lee pointed out that Bitcoin has grown large enough that wealthy investors are increasingly viewing it as a tool for diversifying their portfolios rather than expecting it to "increase tenfold in two weeks."Lee sees wealthy investors as an underdeveloped source of crypto capital, believing that their buy-and-hold strategy could make Bitcoin a diversification tool for more investors. He cited examples where investors allocate 5% to gold and another 5% to Bitcoin, rather than chasing short-term quick returns. A survey released by CoinShares on Monday, targeting 2,230 investors with investable assets of at least $500,000, showed that long-term appreciation and diversification are the primary reasons for investing in crypto assets, while short-term speculation ranked last. Among the surveyed digital asset investors, 80% hold Bitcoin.However, crypto assets are still far from becoming a standard allocation for wealthy families. A survey conducted by JPMorgan in February, based on 333 single-family offices across 30 countries, revealed that 89% of family offices have no exposure to crypto assets, with an average allocation to crypto and digital assets of only 0.4%. Only 17% of respondents consider crypto and digital assets as key investment themes.

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.

Bitcoin Magazine reported that the Chief Business Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase stated that the company is working with advisors from six globally systemically important banks to increase exposure to Bitcoin.Coinbase Chief Business Officer: The company views this as an opportunity to expand the market and provide individuals with more ways to access Bitcoin. Globally systemically important banks are large banks identified by the Financial Stability Board that have a significant impact on the global financial system.

According to SEC filings, Coinbase submitted an 8-K form on October 2, disclosing that Chief Accounting Officer Jennifer Jones notified the company of her retirement decision on September 29.She will continue to serve until her successor takes over, while the company has initiated the search for a successor. This decision was not due to any disagreements with the company regarding operations, policies, or practices.

BNB Chain announced the appointment of Thomas Chen as Chief Business Officer. This appointment will drive BNB Chain to further focus on institutional, capital, and chain listing market activities.Thomas has deep experience in traditional finance and digital assets, with 15 years of industry experience, including over 7 years focused on team building in the digital asset infrastructure sector, possessing extensive experience in capital markets, custody, trading, and business growth.After joining BNB Chain, he will focus on bringing institutions and capital on-chain, deepening liquidity, increasing trading volume, and enhancing the long-term value of the ecosystem.

According to The Block, Circle's Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox-Geen plans to step down after more than five years in office, with an expected departure by the end of December, unless the company identifies a successor earlier. Circle stated that it has engaged an executive search firm to initiate the recruitment process for a new CFO.