https://crypt0snews.com/ Daily AI and cryptocurrency reporting by Omar aka Crypt0. Decentralizing The World. en-us https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-betfred-ended-nine-years-of-super-league-title-sponsorship-a.html2026-09-25-betfred-ended-nine-years-of-super-league-title-sponsorship-aFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0Nine years of rugby sponsorship ended this week with a tax bill as the reason. Betfred confirmed on September 21 that its Super League title sponsorship ends after the 2026 season closes. The bookmaker has backed the competition since 2017, added the Challenge Cup in 2021, and sponsored England's men's, women's, and wheelchair national teams. Founder Fred Done described the decision as a heavy heart call, and the numbers behind it explain why. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-obsidian-keeps-its-creative-leadership-inside-bethesda-and-t.html2026-09-25-obsidian-keeps-its-creative-leadership-inside-bethesda-and-tFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0Sixteen years after Fallout New Vegas, the partnership is back. Xbox confirmed a restructuring on September 22 that places Obsidian Entertainment under Bethesda management, and Bethesda president Jill Braff moved fast to reassure the studio. In an internal memo published by IGN, Braff told Obsidian staff the move is primarily a change in reporting structure, and that the creative identity and strengths that make Obsidian distinct will remain at the core of the studio's work. CEO Feargus Urquhart and his leadership team continue to run the studio directly. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-saber-is-waiting-for-the-half-life-2-of-ai-and-rideshare-sim.html2026-09-25-saber-is-waiting-for-the-half-life-2-of-ai-and-rideshare-simFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0The games industry is still waiting for its Half Life 2 of AI, and Saber Interactive's Tim Willits is openly asking someone to build it. At Gamescom 2026, the Saber chief creative officer told VGC he believes some developer will land a use of AI so brilliant that the whole industry has its 'that's it' moment. By his own admission, that game is still waiting to be built. What does exist is Saber's small bet on where it might come from, Rideshare Simulator, a smaller comedic driving title the studio is using as a testbed for AI tools. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-chainlink-dipped-on-the-infosys-headline-then-rallied-on-wha.html2026-09-25-chainlink-dipped-on-the-infosys-headline-then-rallied-on-whaFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000CryptoOmar aka Crypt0Chainlink's week is a masterclass in reading past the headline. On September 22, Chainlink announced a partnership with Infosys, the $40 billion IT services giant whose digital banking platform supports 1.7 billion customer accounts worldwide. Infosys is standardizing six Chainlink products into its Finacle Digital Assets platform, the Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol, the Chainlink Runtime Environment, the Automated Compliance Engine, Proof of Reserve, Data Streams, and Data Feeds. The two companies will jointly build solutions for tokenized assets, payments and settlement, and next generation financial market infrastructure. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-grayscale-filed-to-move-litecoin-s-trust-from-otc-to-nyse-ar.html2026-09-25-grayscale-filed-to-move-litecoin-s-trust-from-otc-to-nyse-arFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000CryptoOmar aka Crypt0Litecoin's eight year wait for real ETF plumbing is nearly over. On September 11, Grayscale Investments filed an amended registration statement with the SEC to convert its Grayscale Litecoin Trust into the Grayscale Litecoin Trust ETF, with plans to list the shares on NYSE Arca. The trust has been trading over the counter under the ticker LTCN since January 2018, and the filing keeps that familiar ticker while upgrading everything underneath it. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-bitget-lost-352-million-to-spoofed-authorizations-and-its-46.html2026-09-25-bitget-lost-352-million-to-spoofed-authorizations-and-its-46Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000CryptoOmar aka Crypt0The biggest exchange incident of the year came from tricking the system itself. On Thursday, Bitget disclosed $351.6 million in unauthorized transfers from its hot and warm wallets, which chief executive Gracy Chen confirmed publicly. The figure makes it potentially the largest exchange incident of 2026, exceeding the Liquid Network's $320 million loss earlier this month. Cold wallets stayed secure, deposits and trading stayed online, and withdrawals were paused while the security review runs its course, with a full incident report promised within 24 hours. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-google-s-899-googlebook-packs-a-year-of-gemini-in-the-box-an.html2026-09-25-google-s-899-googlebook-packs-a-year-of-gemini-in-the-box-anFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000AIOmar aka Crypt0Google's new laptop line starts at $899, and the hardware is the least interesting part of the story. On September 21, Google opened preorders for Googlebook, a new premium laptop category built around Gemini intelligence and designed to work hand in glove with Android phones. Five manufacturers are shipping first wave hardware, Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Prices run from $899 to $1,299, US retail begins October 4, and Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and Australia follow on October 5. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-typesafe-shipped-an-ai-model-that-decides-instead-of-talking.html2026-09-25-typesafe-shipped-an-ai-model-that-decides-instead-of-talkingFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000AIOmar aka Crypt0The smartest bet in AI this month might be named after a 19th century economist. TypeSafe AI, a San Francisco startup founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida alongside Erik Gafni and Sasha Sheng, emerged from stealth on September 15 with a $40 million seed round led by DCVC and a first model called Jev. The name honors William Stanley Jevons, the economist behind the Jevons paradox, when a resource gets cheaper, total consumption of it tends to rise. TypeSafe is betting the same logic applies to AI decisions. Make each decision radically cheaper, and software will ask AI to make vastly more of them. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-trump-left-bessent-at-treasury-and-renamed-artificial-intell.html2026-09-25-trump-left-bessent-at-treasury-and-renamed-artificial-intellFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000AIOmar aka Crypt0Washington just started calling artificial intelligence by a new official name. At the UN General Assembly this week, President Donald Trump said he would direct the administration to rename artificial intelligence to 'super intelligence' in all official government documents. He arrived at the term after posting public polls with options like 'superior intelligence,' 'extreme intelligence,' and 'supreme intelligence,' and he settled on 'super intelligence' because it conveys power. In his view, 'artificial intelligence' makes the technology sound fake. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-nvidia-just-set-a-firm-date-for-the-end-of-windows-10-driver.html2026-09-25-nvidia-just-set-a-firm-date-for-the-end-of-windows-10-driverFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0PC gaming just got a firm date, delivered through the GPU driver rather than the operating system. NVIDIA has confirmed that its GeForce driver branch for Windows 10 ends in November 2026. After that point, new Game Ready drivers, performance optimizations, and day one support for major releases target Windows 11 exclusively. Your PC keeps working, and the software that keeps it fast moves on. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-intel-just-moved-its-best-graphics-chip-to-a-later-platform-.html2026-09-25-intel-just-moved-its-best-graphics-chip-to-a-later-platform-Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0Intel's most exciting desktop graphics plan just changed addresses. The 12 core Xe3P integrated GPU planned for Nova Lake S desktop processors has been reassigned to a later platform, Razor Lake S, according to reports tracing to hardware leaker Jaykihn. VideoCardz, which first detailed the shift, says Jaykihn confirmed directly that the 12 Xe core configuration is absent from the Nova Lake S desktop lineup. Intel has kept both configurations out of its public announcements, so the reshuffle lives in leak territory for now. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-a-judge-just-told-roblox-its-age-checks-sit-outside-free-spe.html2026-09-25-a-judge-just-told-roblox-its-age-checks-sit-outside-free-speFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0A Los Angeles judge just redrew the legal map for online platforms. Superior Court Judge Dean Kitchens rejected Roblox's bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Los Angeles County accusing the gaming giant of exposing children to sexual predators, and he did it on grounds that will echo across Silicon Valley. The ruling says Roblox's age verification choices are product design decisions, subject to ordinary liability law, rather than protected expression or third party content. The case moves forward, and the industry's favorite shields just got smaller. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-bitcoin-etfs-just-stacked-2-65-billion-dollars-in-five-days-.html2026-09-25-bitcoin-etfs-just-stacked-2-65-billion-dollars-in-five-days-Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000CryptoOmar aka Crypt0US spot Bitcoin ETFs just posted one of their strongest stretches of the year. Cointelegraph reported Wednesday that the funds pulled in about 347 million dollars in a single session, extending the inflow streak to five straight trading days and roughly 2.65 billion dollars in total. The streak included multiple sessions above 500 million dollars, a pace that puts steady institutional demand on full display. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-new-york-just-sued-polymarket-and-the-whole-prediction-marke.html2026-09-25-new-york-just-sued-polymarket-and-the-whole-prediction-markeFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000CryptoOmar aka Crypt0New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket on Tuesday, accusing the prediction market platform of operating an unlicensed gambling business in the state. The suit says New Yorkers have wagered over 1.1 billion dollars on the platform since 2020, including users the state says are underage, and seeks restitution plus civil penalties. It is the sharpest state level challenge yet to an industry that has grown enormously while its legal status stayed blurry. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-the-fed-just-wrote-the-first-draft-of-who-gets-to-mint-a-dol.html2026-09-25-the-fed-just-wrote-the-first-draft-of-who-gets-to-mint-a-dolFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000CryptoOmar aka Crypt0The Federal Reserve published two proposed rulemakings on Thursday that sketch the first real shape of stablecoin licensing under the GENIUS Act. The bigger package is a 60 page application notice, Docket R 1900, that lays out how a state member bank or a subsidiary of one would apply for approval to issue payment stablecoins. The second, RIN 7100 AH30, proposes capital requirements for state member banks and holding companies. Both are open for public comment, so this is a draft regime, but the architecture of American stablecoin law is now visible. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-the-alt-text-that-decides-whether-an-ai-agent-can-buy-from-y.html2026-09-25-the-alt-text-that-decides-whether-an-ai-agent-can-buy-from-yFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000AIOmar aka Crypt0A new study puts a number on something accessibility advocates have said for years. When websites are built so screen readers can use them, AI shopping agents work better too. AudioEye, a digital accessibility company, tested six leading AI models across 1,560 shopping tasks on major retail sites, and found that agents completed purchases far more reliably on pages with strong accessibility foundations. The least accessible site in the study saw agents finish only 31 percent of tasks, while its accessible version reached 96 percent. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-alibaba-just-shipped-the-whole-ai-stack-at-once-and-the-sili.html2026-09-25-alibaba-just-shipped-the-whole-ai-stack-at-once-and-the-siliFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000AIOmar aka Crypt0Alibaba used its Apsara Conference in Hangzhou this week to present something unmatched on a single stage in the West, the entire AI stack from silicon to agents. The announcement bundles a new agent platform called AgentCore, a three layer agentic cloud architecture, fresh model roadmaps, upgraded data infrastructure, and a new AI accelerator chip, all revealed together. The message is vertical integration at national scale. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-microsoft-just-gave-its-ai-agent-an-employee-badge-and-copil.html2026-09-25-microsoft-just-gave-its-ai-agent-an-employee-badge-and-copilFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000AIOmar aka Crypt0Reuters reported Thursday that Microsoft rebuilt Copilot as an agentic platform with real workplace muscle. Autopilot is the new mode that lets agents pursue work over time, remember context, and act across Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365. A new Home hub organizes everything around goals and priorities. A Code tool builds working software from natural language prompts. The centerpiece is the Company Directory, an identity layer that issues AI agents permissions inside Microsoft's own access system, the same way an employee gets badge access to certain rooms. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-denuvo-sued-an-anonymous-cracker-over-26-games-in-a-case-bui.html2026-09-25-denuvo-sued-an-anonymous-cracker-over-26-games-in-a-case-buiFri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0Denuvo has sued a ghost. The company behind the anti tamper software in many major PC releases filed a DMCA complaint on September 14 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, targeting a person or group operating as voices38, accused of stripping Denuvo's protections from 26 games. The named titles include Resident Evil Requiem, the latest Doom, and Black Myth Wukong. The defendant is listed in court documents as an unknown individual or entity, alongside ten more unnamed defendants. https://crypt0snews.com/news/2026-09-25-crimson-desert-shipped-on-a-homemade-engine-and-pearl-abyss-.html2026-09-25-crimson-desert-shipped-on-a-homemade-engine-and-pearl-abyss-Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000GamingOmar aka Crypt0While most of the industry rents its technology from Epic, Pearl Abyss built its own. In a gamescom 2026 interview with Mein MMO, lead engineer Jin-hwan Kim and engine graphics senior leader Jin-ho Yoon explained why Crimson Desert runs on the studio's homegrown Blackspace Engine instead of Unreal Engine 5. The team wanted its core competencies on technology it fully controlled, and waiting on outside updates would have slipped the schedule the studio wanted.