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Arizona food banks are receiving more than 2.1 million eggs this month from egg producers as part of a price-fixing settlement. Attorney General Kris Mayes says Hickman’s Egg Ranch will deliver the eggs to St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix, United Food Bank in Mesa and the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona in Tucson. The allocations total more than 2.1 million eggs, with St. Mary’s receiving 1,318,860, United Food Bank getting 489,960, and the Tucson food bank slated for 361,080. The deliveries follow a June 30th settlement after a multistate investigation with the U.S. Department of Justice found Cal-Maine…
In brief The U.S. Secret Service froze $52.8 million in USDT held across 52 wallets tied to Xinbi Guarantee on September 8, using intelligence from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. Treasury’s OFAC designated Xinbi a “significant transnational criminal organization” the same day, and the DOJ’s Scam Center Strike Force says it has now seized $938 million since launching in November 2025. Xinbi called the freeze “arbitrary” and moved $2.8 million into USDD, a stablecoin that lacks USDT’s built-in freeze switch—though its reserves are partly backed by USDT anyway. The U.S. Secret Service froze $52.8 million in cryptocurrency linked to Xinbi Guarantee…
OpenAI says its latest AI system solved a 90-year-old math problem in 88 hours, reigniting fears over runaway intelligence.On Sept. 8, the company said that an internal model significantly more capable than its recently released GPT-6 Astra coordinated roughly 10,000 AI agents to solve the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. This is one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems.The agents exchanged 2.7 million messages and generated about 130 billion output tokens before Astra spent another 17 hours formalizing and verifying the result in Lean. OpenAI said the system proved that initially smooth fluid motion can develop a singularity in finite…
In brief Trezor said its third-party email provider was breached and used to send phishing emails. The fake alert claimed an STM32 hardware flaw weakened recovery phrases on some Trezor devices. Security researchers said similar emails targeting BitBox users may point to a broader compromise of hardware-wallet email providers. Hardware wallet maker Trezor warned users Wednesday that hackers breached its third-party email provider and used it to distribute a phishing email disguised as a critical security warning.“Please be aware that the email named ‘Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability’ is not coming from us, and it’s a phishing attempt. Do…
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent urged lawmakers to move forward with the crypto Clarity Act when they return from recess next week. Writing on X Wednesday, Bessent said that the bill would stop “bad actors” from exploiting important digital asset tech. Lawmakers were hoping a crucial vote on the long-awaited crypto market structure bill would go ahead in August before their five-week recess. But it was delayed and the Senate will now vote on it next week. JUST IN: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he ‘strongly urges’ the Senate to pass the Clarity Act. 🇺🇸”Failing to do…
In brief Terence Tao argued that AI is depleting the supply of fruitful open math problems faster than mathematicians can identify new ones. His warning follows a real precedent of AI labs solving historically hard problems. Tao wants mathematicians to label certain problems “analysis-required,” so a bare AI-generated answer without explained reasoning counts for little. Terence Tao, the UCLA professor widely considered the best living pure mathematician, has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.Tao, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006, posted a warning on the math-centric Mastodon instance Mathstodon yesterday in…
Bitcoin-focused Block Inc. has become the latest company to apply for a U.S. banking charter. The company, which manages Square, Cash App, and Bitkey, said Wednesday that it had submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Builders Bank & Trust, N.A. Block joins a long-list of digital asset firms that have received conditional approval or are awaiting approval from the regulator to have the license. The charter would allow companies — if fully approved — to have certain banking powers, such as custody assets and move client funds. JUST IN: Block applies to…
In brief Apple introduced Siri AI at its “Surprise and Shine” event on September 9, running on Google’s Gemini technology under a deal reportedly worth about $1 billion a year, and confirmed it won’t work on any iPhone or iPad in the European Union at launch. The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max ship with the A20 Pro, Apple’s first chip built on TSMC’s 2-nanometer process, featuring a dual Neural Engine with 32 cores, double the previous generation. Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999 for 256GB, tops out near $3,000, and won’t reach stores until October, a…
Iran is continuing to use bitcoin as a way to skirt around sanctions as the country’s central bank turns a blind eye, according to reports. The Financial Times on Wednesday reported that the Middle Eastern country was using cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, to settle cross-border transactions through Iranian crypto exchanges after the central bank advised its countrymen to do anything necessary to help the economy. Citing conversations with businesses, regime insiders and analysts, the newspaper said that the central bank had “quietly encouraged traders” to get money flowing to help its struggling economy. Bitcoin is proving to be a tried and…
In brief Brent passed $100 for the first time in six weeks after Houthi strikes on Saudi facilities and U.S. attacks on Iranian tankers. On Myriad, the $120 side of a crude oil market has led $55 since the start of September. Polymarket puts WTI reaching $100 this month at 59%, up nine points. Brent crude traded at $101.09 on Wednesday morning, up 3.2% on the day and above $100 for the first time in six weeks, with West Texas Intermediate at $96.27. Prediction market traders have moved with it, and hard.The trigger was a weekend and a half of…
September 9th, 2026 – New York, NY, USA class=”ql-align-center”>As stablecoin issuance and usage accelerate, the PYUSD ecosystem is expanding alongside it. PayPal becomes one of the first global consumer payments brands to transform its stablecoin into a developer platform: PYUSDx, built by M0 with reserve operations from MoonPay, makes PYUSD the backbone for a new generation of custom stablecoins. Saturn, Concrete, and Cap are live at launch, with approximately $100 million in processed volume on the platform. Stablecoin circulation crossed $300 billion for the first time last October and has held above it since, while global monthly transfer volume topped…