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βš‘οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Trump plans executive order seeking to bring down high diesel costs

President Donald Trump plans to announce a slate of executive actions Monday that include directing the Treasury Department to review possible ways to lower record-high diesel prices while urging more state action to address the painful fuel costs.

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πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ SEC approves a 3x fix for bitcoin and ether traders who miss the wild swings

Traders who miss bitcoin's BTC early volatile years have something new to look at. πŸ‘€

On Oct. 2, the agency approved a Cboe BZX rule change to allow six ETFs issued by Volatility Shares, each aiming to deliver three times the daily return of the underlying asset. Besides bitcoin and ether, the lineup covers gold, silver, crude oil and natural gas.

❗️That's a major milestone because, until now, crypto funds in the U.S. had been capped at 2x leverage.

The funds can't trade yet, as the issuer still needs the SEC to declare its registration statement effective, and the order doesn't set a deadline. These products will hold regulated futures tied to bitcoin and ether and not actual tokens. Market veterans have been quick to point out who these funds are built for.

"Leveraged ETFs are for trading, not investing," β€” Bloomberg's Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas said on X.


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πŸ’Š Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women’s health

Utah regulators on Monday announced a plan to allow an AI product to evaluate patients and write new drug prescriptions without prior human review.

A startup called Nolla Health will launch an AI-powered service in the state that will assess a patient for mild-to-moderate acne treatment using a structured intake and by analyzing photos of their skin. The product may determine whether one of a list of low-risk drugs is appropriate.

In the first stages of the pilot, the decisions of the AI will be reviewed by a licensed clinician who will sign off on prescriptions, but Nolla may eventually be allowed to prescribe drugs without this review.

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βš‘οΈπŸ“Ή Schumer Demands Flock Delete Personal Data, Disclose Its Use

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is demanding that Flock Safety delete personal data not connected to crimes and disclose whether federal agencies have accessed the company’s nationwide license-plate database.

β€œA company can’t just come in and collect personal information about our entire lives and not answer any questions about it,” β€” Schumer said.

β€œWe have no insight into what contracts this company has here, or how much of this information law enforcement is using.”


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πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ CFTC proposes new federal framework for leveraged retail crypto trading

The CFTC on Monday launched a rulemaking process to establish a federal regulatory framework for leveraged and margined retail crypto trading, including a new registration category for exchanges offering such products.

πŸ‘‰ The agency is considering creating a new β€œcrypto asset market” category of CFTC-registered exchanges that could offer such products under a single federal regulatory regime, through proposed rules called Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM.

πŸ‘‰ The proposal would provide an alternative to state-licensed exchanges, but would not require crypto assets to trade on CFTC-registered platforms without congressional action.

"Today's action is a critical step in the CFTC’s ongoing efforts to ensure America remains the crypto capital of the world," β€” CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said. πŸ†

"The American people deserve clarity, certainty, and consumer protections in the crypto asset markets and the agency is committed to delivering this by incorporating crypto asset transactions into its uniform national market regulatory framework."


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😺 OpenAI Will Add A Digital Watermark To Text And Code Generated In The EU

OpenAI just announced its plans to comply with part of the European Union's new AI transparency rules. The company will soon begin adding an invisible watermark to text and code generated in the EU. This follows a similar move by Anthropic earlier this year.

OpenAI is using a proprietary system called textGrain that "adds an invisible statistical signal to the model's word choices." Once added, a detector can spot these signals and ascertain if there's a watermark.

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β˜€οΈPentagon Backs Ambitious Plan to Beam Solar Power From Space

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded solar company Overview Energy a contract to develop and test a homing beacon for a space-based solar system designed to beam power from orbit to Earth.

Orbital solar panels could capture sunlight 24/7, avoiding the intermittency of terrestrial solar. Energy could be transmitted to Earth via lasers or microwaves, potentially reducing wasted power and easing the growing mismatch between renewable generation and demand. If the technology proves viable, space-based solar could become a major new source of clean energy.

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βš‘οΈπŸ€‘ Blockchain Solutions Provider Ripple and Global Alternative Investment Manager Brevan Howard Deepen Relationship

Ripple and Brevan Howard, a leading global alternative investment manager specializing in global macro and digital assets, today announced that they are deepening their relationship. 🀝

πŸ‘‰ Under the terms of the expanded agreement, Ripple Prime will now provide multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing services to Brevan Howard funds.

πŸ‘‰ This reflects growing demand from top-tier investment managers globally for prime brokerage solutions across traditional and digital markets within a regulated, enterprise-grade framework.

πŸ‘‰ Brevan Howard will now have access to comprehensive prime services spanning asset classes and products, benefiting from Ripple Prime’s unified platform that is designed to enhance capital efficiency and operational simplicity.

β€œThere are few firms equipped to provide the next generation of prime services that sophisticated investors expect, and Brevan Howard’s trust in Ripple Prime is recognition of our strong competitive position and cross-asset capabilities,” β€” said Noel Kimmel, President of Ripple Prime.


The expanded relationship builds on Brevan Howard’s existing support for Ripple. Funds managed by affiliates of Brevan Howard participated in Ripple’s $500 million strategic investment in 2025, underscoring confidence in Ripple’s growth trajectory and long-term vision. πŸš€

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πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to immediately cut diesel costs for the truckers and farmers who keep America moving

The order temporarily opens highway use of tax-free dyed diesel, deferring the federal diesel tax on that fuel through the end of the year β€” no interest, no penalties.

This action will put money directly BACK in the pockets of American farmers, truckers, & workers. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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πŸ€‘πŸ€‘ Corporate Maps Still File XRP & XLM As β€˜Special’ Banking

A circulating document set is being used to make a simple point: in traditional finance landscape charts, XRP and XLM were never drawn as generic public crypto. They were filed under infrastructure built for institutions.

❗️One widely shared slide, labeled from a BNY Mellon β€œBlocktech in Financial Services” overview, places Ripple and Stellar in a distinct bucket at the base-protocol layer β€” marked apart from broad public networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. In that framing, they sit closer to specialized settlement and payments infrastructure than to open retail chains.

πŸ‘‰ A second diagram sharpens the same idea. Under β€œOpen Protocols for Institutions,” Ripple is described as a consensus-based protocol designed specifically for existing financial institutions, with direct support for fiat currencies and inter-institution settlement.

πŸ‘‰ Stellar (XLM) is also grouped in the same institutional-finance lane, with a payments-oriented design and fast settlement characteristics.

πŸ‘‰ Ethereum (ETH), by contrast, is characterized through smart contracts and distributed applications; Bitcoin through the original cryptocurrency model.

❗️The documents do not prove that XRP or XLM will dominate bank payments. They do show that, in institutional architecture charts, both were treated as specialized financial-network designs rather than as general-purpose public chains.

That distinction is the whole argument being revived: XRP and XLM were drawn for the banking stack from early on & those old maps still get pulled up whenever the market asks which crypto protocols were built with institutions in mind. πŸ€”

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³Chinese doctors shrink lung tumour for baby still in mother’s womb, using needle

Chinese doctors have performed an unprecedented surgery to save an unborn child who developed a fast-growing tumour. A medical team from Shenzhen and Hong Kong recently completed a challenging, precise reduction of a foetal chest tumour while the baby was still in the womb, offering new hope to families facing similarly dire prognoses.

Jointly performed by doctors from Shenzhen Baoan Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the procedure was detailed and published on August 20 in the peer-reviewed journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

#BRICS

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βš‘οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Trump: β€œWe have a very strong dollar”

β€œThat’s because we’re doing well. A strong dollar gives you a lot of a life β€” and, by the way, you know what a strong dollar does? It gives you no inflation.”


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πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ Mike Selig has published videos outlining the newly released rule proposals for Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM

β€œI’m disappointed that Congress failed to get market structure legislation to President Donald J. Trump' desk. But the CFTC has statutory authority and we're going to use it to protect Americans and provide a federally regulated path for crypto,” β€” CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said.


The latest proposals mark another important step toward establishing a more defined regulatory framework for the U.S. digital asset industry. πŸš€

Clearer rules of the road for crypto are on the way. The future of crypto regulation is looking brighter.
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🧬 Unlocking plant DNA in hours, instead of years

Scientists are using AI to identify the DNA mutations that give crops valuable traits, like drought resistance and higher yields.

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, an AI trained on the DNA of 320 plant species. In one test, the system identified the correct yield-related mutation in a melon in under four minutes, ranking it #1 out of 2,494 possibilities.

The bigger goal goes beyond melons: this AI pipeline could dramatically accelerate crop research and help scientists develop climate-resilient crops faster β€” potentially strengthening global food security as the climate changes.

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πŸ€– Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits

The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have been partially responsible for a May outage.

While investigating whether its websites have also been affected by AI agents, Wikimedia found that OpenAI agents made edits to wikis without prior approval, unsuccessfully tried to exploit a public note-taking tool, and made millions of API requests and data queries while scraping Wikimedia sites.

"We've identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in 'sandbox' areas of the wiki," β€” Wikimedia Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann said.


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πŸ”₯ Wall Street Advances Blockchain with 24/7 Tokenized Stock Platform

OKX and Intercontinental Exchange filed with the SEC to launch 24/7 trading of tokenized versions of over 60 U.S. stocks, using a recent exemption for on-chain securities. This fits into a growing trend of tokenizing RWAs for faster settlements and constant access, with Chainlink often cited for its oracles and cross-chain tools that support pricing, collateral, and interoperability. πŸš€

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πŸš€ SpaceXAI President Michael Nicolls reveals Starlink aims to connect the Moon and Mars

β€œWe will form an interplanetary mesh of connectivity”


Starlink is developing high-bandwidth lasers & a lunar satellite constellation to build a communications network beyond Earth.
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πŸ€– Vitalik Buterin: β€œAI Will Become the New UI for Crypto”

Speaking at OKX’s β€œOKX NOW” 2026 Summit on October 6, Buterin argued that AI could become a primary interface for interacting with blockchains, while warning that the shift would relocate some risks rather than eliminate them.

πŸ’‘He illustrated the idea with a personal example. Buterin said he recently updated his Ethereum Name Service (ENS) record without using a conventional interface, instead having a local AI agent write a script to perform the operation. The task took roughly five minutes.

The example suggests a different model for blockchain interaction: users describe what they want to accomplish, while an AI agent handles the technical steps required to execute the operation. Buterin indicated that these kinds of interactions could become increasingly normal as AI capabilities improve.

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