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JUST IN: US warns of severe response on European firms if EU curbs Elon Musk's Starlink

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NEW: Anthropic sets aside around 20% of its equity for public benefit, creating an Anthropic Public Benefit Fund that begins with a 5% holding. The fund may get up to another 2% per 50% rise in Anthropic's valuation, pending board approval.

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JUST IN: Anthropic to pledge 20% of its shares for "public good"

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NEW: Smaller alts have been beating BTC from the end of August on: 41% expansion in valuation versus 7% for BTC, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost says. Altseason or fakeout?

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LATEST: Galaxy's Mike Novogratz tells Nicole Lapin the chase for 10X returns has probably ended for any asset that can scale, except rare one-offs.

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NEW: Tether is supporting AIsa, a platform that enables AI bots to purchase information, API access and computing power. AIsa says it already has 250K bots and 100M+ transactions.

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JUST IN: El Salvador has amassed 7,807 BTC so far, worth $623.9 million

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LATEST: Fed Chair Kevin Warsh argues AI will reshape how the Fed is run, putting "all the information in the world" at officials' fingertips.

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JUST IN: Anthropic proposes $1,000,000,000 loss or 50 casualties as trigger for government AI intervention.

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NEW: US and Russia are discussing data centers powered by Russian nuclear plants, Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev said at Russian Energy Week in Moscow. No location was given.

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JUST IN: Michael Saylor teases extra $BTC buys, sees capacity for further holdings

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JUST IN: Anthropic pitches US legislators a fresh AI guardrails measure letting officials halt risky AI systems

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JUST IN: Iran asserts the Strait of Hormuz may reopen inside a 6-day span if Washington accepts its conditions. Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi adds that negotiations with Washington would restart the next day. Conditions include lifting US blockade on its ports and US sanctions.

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BIG: Solana leads dollar-pegged token sends at 557M in September, beating BNB Chain's 543M by 14M.

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LATEST: Arthur Hayes says he is skeptical of AI shares, warning the world is squandering enormous sums on them.

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NEW: Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier tells ex-Mt. Gox chief Mark Karpelès he is not a savior, after Karpelès argues more transparency might have averted over $90M in damage from tampered Ledgers.

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HUGE: El Salvador's Bitcoin holdings now top 7,800 BTC

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JUST IN: Turkey says it has taken HEX's creator Richard Heart into custody and impounded $7.15 million in currency, along with six cold-storage devices, seven firearms and 1,400 rounds of ammo, Justice Minister Akın Gürlek says.

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BIG: Wells Fargo settles international payments in two minutes using deposit tokens, while Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley all touted the tech as a path to expansion on Q3 calls.

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LATEST: Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier claims programs can't guard this globe anymore in the AI era; he backs dedicated chips as the answer