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Crypto hacks triggered over 766 million dollars in losses during the month of September, according to initial estimates from PeckShield and Certik. This is the heaviest toll of the year. However, it was revised to 772.4 million dollars by Certik, with Bitget and Liquid Network suffering the bulk of the damage.

World Summit AI brings together on October 7 and 8, 2026, near Amsterdam, nearly 10,000 participants and 300 speakers expected, according to the organizer. The published program includes no sessions dedicated to crypto, but it gives a large place to AI agents, software capable of acting alone, which payment networks are already preparing to settle in stablecoins. Cointribune explains what a crypto reader can learn there, who speaks, and how much the ticket costs.

NEAR Intents suffered a hack estimated at $3.8 million on October 1st, caused by a bug between its smart contract and a deposit and withdrawal infrastructure. The protocol promises to fully reimburse users and now claims to have identified the attacker, granting them 48 hours to return the funds.

OpenAI is already preparing a new massive financial operation. The company is reportedly looking to raise at least $30 billion from investors, with a target valuation close to $1.4 trillion. This amount mainly shows how costly the AI race has become. Between data centers, chips, and computing power, financial needs continue to explode.

World Summit AI returns to Amsterdam on October 7 and 8, 2026 for its tenth edition, at Taets Art and Event Park. The summit annually brings together companies, major tech groups, researchers, investors, and public decision-makers around artificial intelligence. Cointribune is a media partner for the 2026 edition and provides a discount code for its community.

As it approaches its stock market debut, Anthropic delivers an unusual warning. In its prospectus, the Claude designer thinks that advanced AIs could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity".

Bitget resumes withdrawals after a $388 million crypto hack, as investigators trace stolen funds and scrutinize weaknesses in third-party security.

Vitalik Buterin believes that Hegota, the Ethereum fork planned for 2027, could be the last update based on technologies familiar to developers from 2015. The network will continue to evolve afterward. Its future transformations will rely more on cryptographic proofs, parallel execution, and formal verification.

On 1 April 2026, the Akash network reported that its customers had passed 5 million dollars in cumulative spending on compute, real money paying for real processing power on a blockchain marketplace. That figure captures the shift of the year: in 2026 the fusion of artificial intelligence and crypto stopped being a story the sector told itself and became a layer other things are built on. AI-focused crypto tokens are worth roughly 21 billion dollars as of August 2026, and 40 cents of every venture dollar invested in crypto companies in 2025 went to firms building both AI and crypto, more than double the share of a year earlier. The pitch is no longer that a token will moon; it is that AI is concentrating inside a handful of very large companies, and open networks can offer an alternative for compute, for training, for payments and for the agents that will transact on-chain. This article maps how that infrastructure actually works, layer by layer, and, just as important, what each part does not prove.

Claude's exclusion from the Pentagon's systems and contracts has just been validated by a U.S. court of appeals. This new setback weakens Anthropic ahead of an IPO that would value it at $2 trillion, but it does not close the legal battle.

Bill Gates thinks that artificial intelligence now holds enough power to trigger events that could lead to up to one billion deaths. Indeed, in an excerpt from an interview given to the American show "Meet the Press", the Microsoft co-founder essentially invokes the danger that the use of the most advanced models by malicious actors could represent. He calls for swift public authority intervention, as he considers self-regulation by tech companies insufficient.

In 2026, Kaspa stopped being "just" a fast payments network. After the Crescendo hard fork took the network to 10 blocks per second in 2025, the Toccata upgrade added native smart contracts, KRC-20 tokens and zero-knowledge (ZK) verification in late June 2026. That leaves the question anyone following the project actually cares about: what comes next? The answer is three build-outs, DAGKnight, the climb to 100 blocks per second, and VProgs, plus a Layer 2 ecosystem taking shape, not without friction. Here is what the next upgrades are preparing, and what they do not yet prove.

AI giants DeepSeek and Kimi are under Beijing's scrutiny following accusations of query transfers to Claude. The case reignites concerns about data and digital sovereignty.

Solana is generating more fees than Ethereum, but ETH still leads on burn. The gap reveals two very different crypto economic models.

Most mining stories begin with a warehouse full of specialized machines and an industrial power contract. Qubic tells another. Here, the computer you already own, a laptop, a desktop, an idle office machine, can join the network today and start earning QUBIC. And instead of burning electricity on puzzles that serve no one, every cycle you provide powers Aigarth research, the open source artificial intelligence built on top of the network. This is the promise of Useful Proof of Work (uPoW): mining that pays you and produces something. This guide is the complete reference: why Qubic mining is truly different, the hardware, a step-by-step installation, the two 2026 updates that changed mining, the miner's progression to validator, a pool comparison, optimization, security, and a glossary.

Europe was not lacking in conferences on artificial intelligence. What it lacked, according to the organizers of the AI Summit Barcelona, was a place where the people building AI come with what they have already done, not what they promise to do. On September 22 and 23, 2026, the World Trade Center in Barcelona, on the waterfront, hosts the second edition of this summit which aims to be the European stage of applied AI. And the scale jump is spectacular: about 1,500 participants last year, more than 10,000 expected this year.

Bitcoin Core 32.0 nears release with performance upgrades, security fixes and a server vulnerability uncovered with help from an AI model.

Canopy has announced it completed its first named protocol upgrade, Banyan (v2.0), live and with no downtime. The company, which builds a framework for launching onchain apps and sovereign blockchains, ran a network-wide consensus change through its Canopy Auto Update feature. The headline is not only the technical feat: according to Canopy, the same in-place upgrade ability now belongs to every application built on its infrastructure.

King Charles III will bring together several heavyweights of AI this week in Scotland, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google DeepMind, and IonQ. The meeting will be held at Dumfries House and organized with the Ditchley Foundation. Discussions will focus on the responsible development of the most advanced models and the possibility of defining common principles. The summit comes a few days after new calls to slow down the race to artificial intelligence.

Anthropic's IPO is expected to welcome Nvidia as a lead investor for up to 10 billion dollars. Indeed, the designer of Claude could seek up to 100 billion dollars, however these amounts remain under discussion and neither company has confirmed them.

OpenAI seeks a legal answer to an unusual question: can several AI giants jointly decide to slow down the development of their models without violating U.S. antitrust law? According to WIRED, the company has questioned members of Congress in recent weeks. The move follows a call from its chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, for coordinated slowdowns when safeguards no longer keep pace with model capabilities. OpenAI has not announced a pause. It first wants to know if coordination with its competitors would be legal.

Now, Claude''s intrusions concern four cybersecurity exercises that reached real systems without authorization. The last reported case dates from January of this year, but Anthropic only discovered it in August.

Terence Tao sounds the alarm: AI outpaces theorists. Real threat or scientific revolution? Read our analysis.

Malone Lam, 22, has admitted to running a crypto crime ring behind a $245 million haul that included 4,100 bitcoin.

One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona keeps the technology momentum going. AI Summit Barcelona takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026, at the World Trade Center, on the port. It is only the second edition, but its ambition is huge: to grow from around 1,500 participants last year to more than 10,000 this year, with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic on the bill. A Cointribune community rate is available for your pass.

Meta has launched Muse, an AI agent capable of booking a trip, sending an email, filling out forms, and especially making online purchases after user validation. Presented on September 8, Muse operates in a secure virtual machine and notably uses Stripe Link to pay. Meta is first deploying it in the United States on iOS, Android, and muse.ai.

Under the “AI crypto” label, search engines lump together networks that do not do the same job. Some sell an intelligence market, others graphics rendering, software agents, or model training.

The flaw related to Liquid a Network allowed the unauthorized withdrawal of 3996 bitcoins, valued at nearly 320 million dollars. Since then, the perpetrators have already returned 3400 BTC, however the exact technical origin and the fate of the remaining 598.5 BTC remain unknown.