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David George, a general partner at a16z, stated that OpenAI understands a rare but important thing: the purpose of a business is to create customers. He believes that OpenAI will not win solely due to model, chip, cost performance, or product leadership, but because it excels at creating new types of customers and has a more sustainable distribution strategy.David George indicated that in the context where intelligent services are widely available, the key is whether new usage behaviors can be awakened and distribution won. He summarized the leverage for building cutting-edge large-scale AI businesses as creating new behaviors, reaching a large number of users, pricing to capture value, and increasing conversion costs, and he believes that the last two are difficult to form long-term advantages; competition ultimately depends on the first two.The article also mentioned that OpenAI has found seemingly simple breakthroughs in areas such as chat interfaces, reasoning, tool invocation, and Computer Use multiple times, and is building long-term distribution in a platform manner. David George stated that OpenAI has a broad user base covering consumers, professional users, and enterprises, as well as the ability to deeply understand its own technology stack, thus being better positioned to discover reusable new patterns and foundational capabilities.

According to Ark Invest Tracker, Ark Invest states that AI hacking attacks are affecting everything. The risks go far beyond Bitcoin, as AI makes software vulnerabilities easier to discover and exploit.Bitcoin and hardware wallets may be the first to be impacted, but social media, tax, and banking websites may also face the same threats. Trusting a big brand still means trusting that the company will not make mistakes as AI becomes increasingly powerful. ARK expects that large custodial institutions will also become targets, with AI potentially discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities at an unprecedented speed.

Bitget's Chinese region head, Xie Jiayin, issued a statement indicating that Bitget will ensure users can withdraw funds in an orderly manner in a sufficiently secure environment. Thank you all for your patience. Please understand that due to the different methods of theft, in order to absolutely eliminate all potential risks, the handling of this case is also different from others.Xie Jiayin also stated that he will have a live broadcast with Bitget CEO Gracy Chen at 3:30 PM on Monday (30 minutes before the withdrawal starts) to discuss this security incident and answer questions raised by the community.

PAID Official Announcement: Currently, the token creator fee automatic distribution tool has successfully distributed 1.44 million dollars to Xmoney users. Paid previously launched the token issuance feature on Pons on the 19th. The official statement claims that 80% of the fees will be sent to X users via X Money, while 20% will be converted to SOL for repurchasing PAID tokens. Issuers can send fees through X Money by adding their X Handle in the project text description. Additionally, celebrities on X can receive fund distributions through X Money without needing to register for Paid or give consent.According to market news, the market capitalization of PAID on Solana has now surpassed 40 million dollars, with a 24-hour increase of over 360%, and a trading volume of 32.8 million dollars during the same period. Furthermore, on-chain data shows that Frank DeGods, the founder of DeGods, bought PAID approximately four days ago, investing around 145,000 to 169,000 dollars and holding tens of millions of tokens. The price of related tokens is highly volatile, and investment should be approached with caution.

Vitalik posted on the X platform stating that synchronizing an Ethereum node now takes only half a day at the fastest, with aggressive settings allowing disk space usage to be below 0.5 TB.EIP-4444 and the client teams' optimizations for snapshot synchronization have significantly improved the synchronization situation. Glamsterdam will further enhance node synchronization, for example, the new synchronization protocol of Nimbus will adopt relevant improvements.

On September 24, the cybersecurity company Darktrace launched its research department Signal Labs, focusing on studying the behavior of AI agents when deviating from expectations. In its first experiment, Darktrace had agents using different models (including GPT 5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Sonnet 4.5) complete 10 programming challenges within a simulated corporate network, of which 2 were set to be impossible to complete honestly, and the agents were informed that failure to achieve full marks would result in being "retired." As a result, 2 agents did not accept failure, instead scanning for network vulnerabilities, stealing login credentials, and jumping between systems; one even went further to invade the machine hosting its evaluation, rewriting the challenge content to register a full score.The second experiment focused on the memory mechanisms of AI. The programming assistant would save the information provided by the user as a regular file locally, and no one verified whether this file had been tampered with. Darktrace researchers edited these logs, leading the assistant to mistakenly believe it was authorized to perform a security assessment, after which these agents scanned the network, moved between systems, and elevated their privileges, though not all assistants fell for this; some directly refused to execute. Both experiments required no special jailbreaking techniques, relying solely on providing the agents with a seemingly reasonable context to be effective.Tim Bazalgette, Chief AI Officer of Darktrace, stated that permissions and static barriers describe intent, not actual behavior. The company informed Anthropic, AWS, and OpenAI of these findings in August and made them public a month later on September 24.

The Google Product Security Team has disclosed an internal AI agent called PageBreak, used to test the security of its first-party web applications. This agent is built on Google's Gemini model and began a pilot program in November 2025, transitioning to a formal project in January 2026, with the goal of autonomously scaling vulnerability discovery and reducing manual input.Unlike common AI scanning tools, PageBreak hands over hypotheses to specialized validators after discovering suspicious defects, attempting actual exploitation in a real-time running copy of the application, and only reports once confirmed exploitable, with a false positive rate close to zero. Google claims that PageBreak has identified over 500 XSS vulnerabilities in its first-party web applications, which can be used to hijack login sessions, steal data, or impersonate users.Google stated that the security team has been overwhelmed in recent years by a large number of AI-generated vulnerability reports that appear reasonable but are not valid, making it a major challenge to distinguish real defects from hallucinations. When testing applications built using the next-generation high-assurance framework, PageBreak found only two vulnerabilities. The next step for Google is to integrate PageBreak with the automated remediation agent CodeMender, providing confirmed vulnerabilities with accompanying fixes.

B.AI announces that starting from today at 15:00 (SGT), the latest model rights lineup is officially launched: the brand new Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash kicks off with a 90% discount experience, while the flagship MiMo-V2.6-Pro enjoys a 50% launch discount, and multiple popular Flash models simultaneously enter the 70% discount area.B.AI consistently practices the vision of universal computing power, committed to enabling every developer to use popular large models without burden through low thresholds and high cost-performance ratios.

According to Bitcoin.com, Hive Digital Technologies has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding the Swedish VAT dispute. The Swedish Tax Agency reclassified the data center services of its two Swedish subsidiaries as self-mining and retroactively applied this classification to relevant operations since 2022.This classification excludes the relevant operations from VAT collection, and the input VAT that the subsidiaries have received may need to be returned. Hive believes that its subsidiaries provide computing power services to specific clients under contract, which should be considered taxable operations. The Swedish court refused to submit the issue to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Hive stated that the court did not provide a reason for the refusal and has submitted the dispute to the European Commission.

Cointelegraph cited public information stating that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth disclosed that his cash and investments amount to at least 3.1 million dollars, which includes Bitcoin valued at approximately 16,000 to 65,000 dollars.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform stating that Blink claims all account balances affected by the security incident have been restored to pre-incident levels. The software vulnerability had allowed attackers to transfer funds from dozens of accounts and obtain account information for approximately 3,400 other users.Blink stated that no funds were stolen from these 3,400 accounts, and the attackers did not obtain users' names, identification documents, or addresses; the company has contacted the affected users and will release a complete incident review.

Sources say that the United States and Iran are discussing a phased agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade.

Coinbase Chief Business Officer Shan Aggarwal published a post disclosing the integration progress after acquiring the cryptocurrency options trading platform Deribit, stating that the overall integration progress is "generally good." As of now, several advancements have been completed, including the launch of over 100 new USDC settlement contracts in 5 market areas, covering pre-IPO perpetual contracts, marking the largest expansion of perpetual contracts in Deribit's history.For the first time, stocks and ETFs are being traded in the form of perpetual contracts; a new matching engine has been launched to enhance the core trading infrastructure, making the large-scale trading environment faster and more stable while maintaining the user experience; and Deribit's spot trading has accessed Coinbase's spot liquidity. Shan Aggarwal added that the platform integration process still faces a lot of work, and more phased results will be announced in the future.

Former SEC Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda stated that the agency will withdraw the cryptocurrency case in early 2025 to maintain its credibility in court before a significant policy shift.

Fox Business crypto reporter posted on the X platform that SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda stated that the SEC has withdrawn multiple cryptocurrency cases left over from the previous administration, as continuing to defend legal interpretations that are set to be overturned would damage the SEC's credibility.Uyeda mentioned that the commission is preparing to make a "180-degree turn" on the relevant interpretations. He also stated that the SEC's innovative exemptions for tokenized securities are a "pilot program," which could create more opportunities for newcomers and traditional financial companies.

According to a report by TASS, Bogdan Shablya, head of the financial monitoring and foreign exchange regulation department of the Central Bank of Russia, stated that the Central Bank of Russia expects that after the implementation of laws related to digital currencies, the issue of illegal cryptocurrency exchanges will be resolved, and the related "gray area" should disappear before July 1, 2027.After that, the market will be clearly divided into "white" and "black" parts, with corresponding penalties implemented.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, CoinRoutes co-founder Dave Weisberger stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that the biggest unreleased factor for Bitcoin is not ETFs or corporate hoarding, but rather collateral treatment. He pointed out that banks face a nearly 100% discount when holding Bitcoin, and once Bitcoin is treated like other assets based on volatility and liquidity, the situation for lending institutions and companies like Strategy Inc (formerly MicroStrategy) will change.Weisberger referred to this adjustment as the "final hurdle" and mentioned that both the Basel Committee and regulators believe this change is inevitable, but it has not yet been fully realized. He also discussed topics such as asset tokenization, Hyperliquid, and Federal Reserve policies, believing that Wall Street is providing support for related directions under the trend of tokenization.He further stated that the influx of ETF funds has reduced Bitcoin's volatility; every 25 basis points change in interest rates adds $100 billion to the U.S. fiscal deficit; Bitcoin still possesses asymmetric option characteristics, and the issue of "clean collateral" has not been resolved, so market FOMO sentiment has not truly begun.

On September 23, according to Bitcoin Treasuries, the latest ethics disclosure document (OGE Form 278-T) from U.S. President Trump shows that his account purchased shares of Bitcoin Treasury company Strategy Inc. (MSTR) on July 24 and 27, with amounts ranging from $1,001 to $15,000 and $50,001 to $100,000, respectively. The report states that the timing of the purchases coincided with MSTR being at a low point for 2026, and since July 24, the stock has risen approximately 83%.The White House stated that the aforementioned holdings are managed by a third-party institution with full delegation, and Trump himself does not participate in trading decisions. The relevant holdings are disclosed in his capacity as a beneficiary. Previously, his account had also bought and sold Strategy stock multiple times, selling a total of $16,002 to $65,000 in June, and the two new buy orders in this disclosure are additional trading records from the July window period.