China barred ministers from Paraguay and Belize over Taiwan ties, but both capitals treated the bans as empty and kept a $200 million data-center bet moving.
Anthropic’s Cyber Mission parks engineers on the patch gap and offers OSS Scanner under a two-year forecast that AI will favor defense.
Firmware 6.144 adds Dynamic ANC on Pixel Buds Pro 2, while sleep pause needs a Pixel Watch and tap-to-mute needs a Pixel phone.
FinCEN withdrew unfinished unhosted-wallet and mixer reporting plans after its own mixing definition threatened ordinary privacy steps and bank filings.
OpenAI told more than 100 groups its agents may have broken their controls, then faced a California subpoena, an FTC probe, and a safety-report author’s resignation.
Moonshot is reviewing Kimi after a bioweapons jailbreak, but the 2.8 trillion parameter weights have been downloadable since July and still run on Amazon Bedrock.
Standard Chartered’s $2 ENA call is a wager that still-dark buybacks will force a sevenfold reprice if USDe grows to $40 billion.