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OpenAI announced that the ChatGPT Finances feature has officially expanded to the Mac desktop application. After users update the app, they can connect their bank, credit card, and investment accounts through the "Finance" entry in the sidebar, allowing them to view balances, analyze spending, manage subscriptions, and track portfolios directly on macOS. This feature connects accounts through the financial data service provider Plaid, enabling ChatGPT to answer questions based on real transactions, balances, and investment data, such as inquiries about the categories with the highest spending this month or subscriptions that should be canceled, providing analysis based on account information.ChatGPT Finances launched in May this year, with main features including tracking expenses by category, reviewing recurring charges, monitoring stock holdings and asset allocation, tracking credit scores, and generating weekly financial updates. Regarding privacy, OpenAI emphasizes that this connection is read-only; ChatGPT cannot transfer funds, pay bills, or execute stock trades, and users can disconnect their accounts at any time. This feature is currently available to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users in the United States.

Analyze, responsible for the extensive marketing and operational strategies of the Elysium ecosystem token issuance platform Ascend, responded to related doubts about Spinor and the Ascend community. Analyze stated that the plan to purchase tokens from the ecosystem issuance platform Montra was made solely by him, and other team members were not involved in that decision. He mentioned that one or two days before the token launch, he transferred $100,000 to a wallet to establish a position, viewing this as a business arrangement for Ascend, believing that companies often purchase equity in competitors through strategic investments, and purchasing Montra was similar. Analyze stated that the relevant tokens were purchased after the launch, and any market participant could perform similar operations.Analyze also mentioned that after learning about the purchase of Montra tokens, a friend created a FOMO wallet and suggested transferring the tokens to that wallet. He admitted that a large number of comments were handled by him before the release, and he did not stop them, allowing them to continue, calling this practice extremely unprofessional and apologizing for it. Analyze stated that unexpected situations arose on the day of the launch, leading him to make irrational decisions, and he also pushed Tommy to acquire more supply, while Tommy initially expressed opposition. Analyze publicly apologized to Tommy, the rest of the Ascend team, and the community, stating that his decision put all parties in the current situation, and he takes responsibility for it.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the Financial Security Institute (FSI), a financial security agency under the Financial Services Commission of South Korea, was hacked, resulting in the leakage of hundreds of pieces of information, including about 300 personal information records of employees from financial institutions.

Personal investment agency Volaren co-founder and CEO Martin Pestana announced that the company has raised $1 million from Y Combinator and Afore, and has officially launched Volaren. Pestana previously worked at Goldman Sachs, and Volaren received support from Y Combinator F26, with another co-founder being Akshat Mittal.Volaren connects users' brokerage accounts, explains the reasons for portfolio changes, suggests next steps, and executes trades on behalf of users, supporting web, app, and SMS usage. Its features include copying trades from investors or political figures, conducting financial analysis, and executing investment ideas proposed by users through a proxy. Pestana also stated that investing involves risks, past performance does not guarantee future results, related content is for reference only, and does not constitute a recommendation or investment advice; other fees may apply.

Regarding the infidelity incident of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, the American elite circle represented by Elon Musk and Bill Ackman has published statements supporting his responsible attitude and advocating for tolerance towards Huang's personal mistakes.Musk retweeted and agreed with the views of Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire. Shaun Maguire stated that Huang is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, that he did something extremely foolish, but speculated that there was no malice, and that two wrongs do not make a right, believing that Jensen's leadership in American artificial intelligence is irreplaceable.Bill Ackman posted that Huang is an amazing person, and even amazing people make mistakes; he should take full responsibility, and he has done so, and all parties should support him and his family. Trump also stated that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is a good person who has made outstanding contributions to the United States, believing that Huang should continue to serve as CEO of NVIDIA.

Binance Co-CEO He Yi published a statement regarding an issue where a user mistakenly transferred the wrong cryptocurrency while using two separate apps. Binance is legally unable to directly transfer funds from another person's account, and she will personally subsidize the user's losses caused by the mistaken transfer.He Yi explained that due to historical compliance reasons, Binance has three completely independently developed local sites, with product architecture and business models different from the main site, primarily focusing on local fiat currency trading. To prevent similar situations from occurring again, the next step will be to add three confirmations during the Binance payment transfer process. Additionally, He Yi stated that open discussions are a driving force for continuous iteration and hopes that peers will pay attention to their users just as they do with Binance. She invited users to submit product suggestions in the comments section, with the activity lasting one week. The product team will select the 10 best suggestions, and each selected participant will receive 1 BNB.

Anthropic launched the personal finance feature Personal Finance for Claude on Thursday, available in beta form for paid subscribers of Claude Pro, Max, and Ultra in the United States. Users can link their bank and credit card accounts through Plaid, which handles the login process, allowing Claude to access financial data without account passwords. This feature can summarize expenses, identify duplicate charges or unusual fees, explain interest expenditures, and generate charts or billing calendars. Anthropic stated that access is read-only, and Claude cannot transfer, manage, or invest user funds; Personal Finance does not include ads or sponsored recommendations.Cryptocurrency investor Anthony Pompliano raised allegations after the feature's release. His product Silvia is positioned as a personal AI Chief Financial Officer, and he claimed that Anthropic employees have been in contact with Silvia engineers since April, ostensibly to understand the company's growth and computing power needs, but in reality to probe into the product's construction and reasons for its popularity. He also described a steak dinner allegedly attended by representatives of Anthropic, claiming someone informed the Silvia team that the meal was paid for by CEO Dario Amodei. Pompliano stated that his engineers refused to disclose sensitive information and claimed that someone at Anthropic warned his team several days in advance about the upcoming product release, noting that Silvia's use of its own models and hardware incurs computing costs approximately 97% lower than cutting-edge AI models.Anthropic is not the first general chatbot company to enter the personal finance space. OpenAI launched a similar bank account linking feature for ChatGPT in May, also providing read-only access through Plaid. Anthropic stated that Personal Finance is just the first step and is exploring collaborations with licensed professionals and regulated financial institutions; currently, this beta version is limited to users of the three paid Claude subscription plans in the United States.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate released typical cases of legally protecting citizens' personal information, two of which are related to the cryptocurrency industry. In Case One, Wang and 11 others established a chain of "finding downstream buyers domestically --- obtaining personal information from abroad --- reselling at a markup domestically," paying for purchases to foreign upstream sources with virtual currency, and reselling information such as citizens' household registration, property status, and tracking trajectories, with an amount involved exceeding 1.98 million yuan. The court sentenced each defendant to imprisonment ranging from three years and six months to eight months, and imposed fines.In Case Seven, Lin and 21 others illegally obtained over 870,000 pieces of personal information of job applicants under the guise of recruitment, through online recruitment platforms and by bribing corporate human resources personnel, selling it to foreign entities for profit. The illegal gains were settled in virtual currency and then exchanged for RMB, with an amount involved exceeding 7.46 million yuan. The court sentenced each defendant to imprisonment ranging from five years and three months to six months, and ordered them to bear civil liabilities such as public welfare damage compensation.

Binance co-founder He Yi responded to rumors stating that she does indeed know Wan Hui, co-founder of the crypto venture capital firm Primitive Ventures, but there is no so-called situation of a close friend accompanying childbirth. She stated that even her own mother could not push a project to go live on Binance solely based on personal relationships; if a project succeeds solely due to personal connections, it indicates that Binance's own review capabilities are insufficient.He Yi also mentioned that there have been very few good projects in the cryptocurrency industry in recent years, with BNB being one of them, deserving of the trust of those who believe in Binance, but investment trading does not guarantee profits without losses. The era of 2017, where everything bought would rise, was a time of dividends, and very few remain now. The 2019 IEO was an exception because DEX had not developed at that time, and Binance had bargaining power; after DEX developed, Western VCs raised the prices of VC tokens.She further stated that Binance has never actively adopted unscrupulous methods to compete for market share in the past few years, and has always taken a straightforward defensive strategy in the face of competition. If anyone thinks they have not done well, they are welcome to criticize directly. Regarding IEOs, she said that at that time, market liquidity was concentrated on Binance, and the platform had a strong market dominance, which is why the issuance prices of new projects were generally low, giving participants the opportunity to gain profits.

IT Home reported on October 30 that developers discovered application entry points and interface logic related to the Cyber cybersecurity model in the front-end code of the DeepSeek official website. The application page route points to /usage/model-application and has a feature gate switch set; accounts without permission will be redirected back to the usage page when accessed. The code also includes interfaces related to Cyber Key creation and quota management.The models in the code are identified as cyber-personal-v3 and cyber-enterprise-v4. The personal version is aimed at individual security practitioners, requiring the submission of ID information and completion of facial verification; the enterprise version is aimed at corporate entities, requiring not only real-name materials but also a business license and authorization letter. Common thresholds for both channels include that the account has completed real-name verification and is in normal status, registered in mainland China and bound to a mainland mobile number, and has no violation records in the past 90 days.The application process involves filling out an application form and submitting it for review. After passing the review, a Cyber Key is created. Currently, this entry point does not appear in the public menu of DeepSeek and is in a gray testing state. Some users have reported that only accounts covered by the gray test can see the relevant sections on the usage page, and when permissions are granted, the "DeepSeek Flash Cyber Cybersecurity Dedicated API" area will be displayed. As of the time of reporting, DeepSeek has not yet released an official announcement regarding this model; the information comes from observations of the official website's JavaScript code and feedback from gray test users.

In September, the actual personal consumption expenditure month-on-month rate in the United States was 0%, with the previous value revised from 0.6% to 0.5%.

Bithumb stated that its internal mobile collaboration system DaouOffice was accessed without authorization by external parties, resulting in the theft of some personal information of customers and employees. This incident involves 6,444 customers, of which the data of 5,600 people is in an encrypted state and cannot be read, while 844 customers have confirmed that their personal information has been leaked. Additionally, the information of 715 employees and partners has also been affected.

Recently, in response to user information leaks and supply chain security risks in the hardware wallet industry, KeyPal, a hardware wallet brand under TokenPocket, announced further enhancements to user privacy protection and data security management mechanisms.KeyPal stated that it has not found any security breaches in its system or customer data leaks; this adjustment is a proactive preventive measure based on changes in industry risks.According to the latest plan, KeyPal aims to delete or anonymize unnecessary customer personal information within 15 days after order completion for orders that have confirmed receipt, completed fulfillment, and have no after-sales disputes or other legitimate retention requirements. The security of hardware wallets not only involves private key protection and transaction signing but also includes the protection of personal information generated during the purchase, delivery, and after-sales service processes.

The hardware wallet OneKey co-founder Yishi stated that in light of recent data breaches and supply chain attacks in the hardware wallet industry, OneKey will further strengthen user privacy protection.OneKey has confirmed through the Shopify API that relevant historical order records and personal information such as names, emails, and shipping addresses have been deleted, and is further investigating other systems and third-party integration services. In the future, it will ensure that personal information related to orders within its control is permanently deleted within 30 days, and plans to gradually migrate its e-commerce business to self-controlled infrastructure to reduce reliance on third-party platforms like Shopify.Yishi also stated that the data retention policies of logistics service providers such as FedEx and UPS are not controlled by OneKey, and it cannot guarantee that all third parties adhere to the same 30-day timeframe.

According to the official announcement from Foundation, regarding the recent phishing email incident, the team’s investigation found that their email system recorded over 23,000 phishing email sending attempts, of which 19,057 were sent via Mailgun, and another 1,503 were sent via Google Workspace.Due to some email accounts receiving multiple emails, and some sending attempts being unsuccessful or intercepted, it is currently not possible to confirm the actual number of affected individuals.

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit announced that it has recently discovered that criminals are impersonating the GIWA blockchain project, spreading false information about the mainnet launch and digital asset issuance, and inducing users to transfer assets.Upbit stated that GIWA is an Ethereum Layer 2 network being developed by its parent company Dunamu, which is currently only running a testnet, and the mainnet is still in the development and preparation stage, with no official launch time announced yet. Upbit reminds users to be cautious of unverified information regarding the mainnet launch, token issuance, and investment, and not to trust unofficial channels that request the purchase of digital assets, transfers, or wallet connections. Project progress should be based on information released by the official GIWA website and official social media.

According to the Ant Group's WeChat official account, the company Today AI has announced the completion of over 200 million dollars in financing. The investors in this round include Ant Group, IDG Capital, Tencent, Wuyuan Capital, Sequoia China, Transsion Holdings, Tongge Venture Capital, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hanyuan Asset.Today AI is developing a personalized proactive AI system that provides each user with an AI assistant. Its functions include schedule management, life services, work assistance, travel planning, note-taking, data research, health management, information push, and learning practice. The product has completed internal testing and has been launched for the first time in the domestic market.

Eight TLS certificates issued by eMudhra in India were found to have extremely weak private keys, allowing attackers to impersonate almost any website. Major browsers have blocked the affected certificates, but millions of servers, Linux systems, and connected devices may still need updates.A cryptography expert warned that the scale of this cleanup may exceed that of the Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014, and there is currently no confirmation of any malicious exploitation.

According to a report by Bloomberg, when Founders Fund was considering investing in Polymarket in 2025, it was discovered that at that time the company had no revenue, and CEO Coplan had used company funds to pay for personal expenses such as private jets and apartment rent. Founders Fund required the company to improve its financial controls and repay the related amounts before making the investment.

Fortune Protocol officially announces a collaboration with the AI Agent platform X-Agent. The two parties will jointly explore the combination of prediction markets and proactive Personal Agents, promoting the extension of prediction markets from information inquiry tools to personalized, proactive information service scenarios.In this collaboration, Fortune Protocol will provide prediction market scenarios and related market data capabilities, while X-Agent will leverage its advantages in Personal Agent technology and application design to jointly explore how AI Agents can continuously track events of interest to users, identify changes in market probabilities, provide contextual interpretations, and take further actions with user authorization.The two parties will first advance the design of application scenarios and the development of conceptual prototypes, exploring the application potential of prediction markets in the next generation of personal AI Agents and the Agent Economy.