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CenterPoint Energy told the Texas Attorney General that a breach compromised Social Security and driver's license numbers of 1,062,060 Texans. A forum actor claimed 7.49 million records; the all-state total is unclear.
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Tron Inc. filed to sell up to $200 million of common stock, a ceiling equal to 84% of the $237 million of TRX it holds. Shares opened 4.7% lower the next day, but they were already down about 67% in a year, so one opening print cannot isolate dilution worry.
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Istanbul police detained HEX founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14, according to three Turkish outlets, though no official had confirmed it at press time. Holders of his tokens are weighing legal and key-person risk on press reports alone.
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Standard Bank Group has signed a subscription agreement to invest in OPay, a deal that completes only if OPay's proposed NYSE IPO goes ahead. The amount is not disclosed, so the stake cannot yet be sized against anything.
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Strategy spent $176.3 million repurchasing STRC preferred stock in the week to Oct 4, against $28.7 million for 334 bitcoin. The shares cost about $99.60 each, and retiring them cuts roughly $21 million a year of 12% dividends.
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A September 17 order lets qualifying platforms trade fully backed tokenized NMS stocks without registering as exchanges or dealers. Every stock takes 30 days of notice to an issuer that is free to refuse it.
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Activists aimed a record 82% of their 179 campaigns this year at five sectors, led by industrials and technology, according to Barclays. Fewer funds are running those campaigns, so boards in industrials and technology face a smaller and slightly busier pool of challengers.
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Ripple Prime writes total return swaps for US leveraged ETFs and collects the financing fees, while XRP fell more than 8% in a week to $1.39. Swap clients need no XRP, so the revenue builds Ripple's value without adding token demand.
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President Trump is expected to name intelligence director Jay Clayton as AI tsar, six months after David Sacks left, with Clayton keeping his spy-agency job. The record points to pressure on firms that limit military use of their models, with Anthropic first in line, and little sign of a sector-wide crackdown.
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Hoth Therapeutics renamed itself Rocket One in May to make AI chips for satellites, two months after its auditor doubted it could survive. Its stock went from under $1 to nearly $2 on a licensed chip design that has not been built, the story-first pitch that cost SPAC buyers most of their money.
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Algorhythm Holdings' CEO cited more than $6 million in cash while the same release showed just under $5 million spendable plus about $3 million restricted. Quartz's review of SEC enforcement leaves shareholders in small AI rebrands to run that check themselves.
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Strategy shares closed at $151.47 on October 8, about 11% below their weekly high, as Bitcoin fell 6.3% from its peak. The stock moved about 1.7 times as much as Bitcoin both that week and across September, short of the more-than-double swing The Crypto Times calls typical.
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Annuity holders have sued Delaware Life and Clear Spring, two Mark Walter-controlled insurers, alleging they hid $21 billion of loans to affiliates. The insurers had told regulators and rating agencies that 3% to 4% of assets sat with affiliates, so the size of their combined books decides how far off that figure was.
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Winklevoss Asset Services filed for a spot Zcash ETF with a 0.25% sponsor fee, a tenth of the 2.50% Grayscale charges on its $751 million fund. Grayscale's recent withdrawals came before the filing and tracked a 21% fall in ZEC, so the fee gap has not yet been tested.
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Grayscale's XRP ETF now lets Virtu and Macquarie swap XRP directly for fund shares, according to an Oct. 5 SEC filing reported by Bitcoin.com News. Grayscale itself warns that limited dealer participation can widen spreads, so for now the fund's tracking of XRP rests on those two firms.
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Bitwise's Matt Hougan says the Senate's 49-50 cloture failure will not end the crypto rally, and points to a summer in which prices rose as the odds of passage halved. Only Congress can give the CFTC spot authority.
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Crypto's 635-page Clarity Act stalled in the Senate with no realistic path back before year-end, Cato's Ryan Chan-Wei wrote. He blames an ethics dispute over conflicts at the highest levels of government, and that dispute will meet whatever bill the next Congress writes.
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Evernorth pushed its merger close to Oct. 9 and the Nasdaq debut of XRPN, set to hold about 473 million XRP, to Oct. 12. Armada II's public trust supplies about a sixth of the deal's cash; private placements and notes supply the rest.
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OpenAI submitted a draft S-1 confidentially in June, and Sam Altman has now told Fortune the safety work is unfinished, so for another year the figures on OpenAI are the ones OpenAI reports about itself.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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