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South Korean retirement pension accounts expanded investment options this month to include 10- and 20-year individual investment government bonds, while certain covered call ETFs can now comprise up to 70% of retirement funds. The shift reflects the transformation of retirement pensions from

Kalshi is in late-stage talks to raise $1 billion in new funding at a $40 billion valuation, Reuters reported on September 29. Tiger Global and Dragoneer are among the firms discussing participation in the funding round. If completed, the investment would lift Kalshi's valuation from $22 billion in

The three major US stock indexes traded lower on September 30. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.16%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.41%, and the S&P 500 slipped 0.23% from the previous session. US Stock Indexes Record Declines on September 30 The Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,776.99,

Nvidia announced Monday a consortium of more than 100 companies dedicated to solving rogue AI agents, with OpenAI notably absent from the initiative. While Amazon, Google, and Apple also haven't joined, OpenAI's absence stands out because rival Anthropic is a supporter. An OpenAI spokesperson told

Zcash (ZEC) dropped to $1,356 on Tuesday, September 29, marking a 10.7% decline in 24 hours as traders unwound leveraged long positions. The move triggered $28.74 million in long liquidations over 12 hours, the largest liquidation total among cryptocurrencies during that period according to data

American Bitcoin, a BTC mining firm owned by Hut 8, lost approximately 92% of its value since its reverse merger, after accounting for its reverse stock split. BTC by comparison lost a quarter of its value during the same period. The firm was formed through the strategic contribution of

Bitcoin dropped to $82,939, declining nearly 4% over seven days after touching an eight-month high of $87,251 last week, according to data analytics firm CryptoQuant. The pullback follows CryptoQuant's identification of a technical signal—Bitcoin crossing above its 365-day moving average—which the f

Bitwise launched the NEAR ETF on NYSE Arca on September 29, 2026, under ticker NRR, providing U.S. investors regulated exposure to the NEAR Protocol blockchain. Alongside the launch, Bitwise released a forecast projecting a possible $562.81 price target for the NEAR token by 2030. The ETF marks the

The Trump administration launched America.gov, an integrated platform bringing together federal government information and public resources in one place. The initiative aims to allow Americans to access federal services through a single platform instead of visiting individual websites operated by

CME Group's planned Nvidia GPU futures contracts missed their 5 October 2026 launch date after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission extended its regulatory review by 45 days to 9 November 2026, according to a 21 September CFTC letter reported by The Information on 25 September. The delay

OpenAI announced new workplace collaboration features at its Dev Day developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. The AI lab launched Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where coworkers can collaborate with the chatbot and AI agent personas called Dots. The company also introduced Pages, a

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency appointed by Donald Trump, announced on Monday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will consolidate mortgage pricing onto a single grid that includes both FICO Classic and VantageScore 4.0. The policy change, posted to X, ended FICO's

Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent letters Tuesday to Crypto.com, Hyperliquid and PredictIt requesting records on user verification processes and suspicious trading activity detection. The inquiry focuses on potential insider trading involving nonpublic information on

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said on September 29 that the US would struggle to bring inflation down to the central bank's 2% target in a timely manner if monetary policy remains unchanged. The statement, reported by Walter Bloomberg, suggests Barr sees a need to shift the current policy st

Meta Platforms on Tuesday launched Muse for Small Business, an AI agent designed to help entrepreneurs automate tasks including customer communication, cash flow management, inventory processes, and website creation. Meta President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick announced the launch in an i

Wabi, the AI startup founded by Eugenia Kuyda, announced this week it is pivoting from a prompt-based app builder to an AI messenger format called Wabi 2.0. The shift comes as demand for AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct accelerates. Kuyda described the new product as a "personal agent that

The US Consumer Confidence Index fell to 81.9 in September, down 6.7 points from August's 88.6, according to the Conference Board (CB) released on the 29th local time. The September reading significantly undershot the market expectation of 89.2. The decline was driven by a sharp 7.9-point drop in th

OpenAI introduced new capabilities for its software engineering agent Codex at Dev Day on Tuesday, enabling reusable cloud development environments accessible from any device. The update makes Codex more useful beyond a developer's laptop by allowing persistent and