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According to Apnews, a young cryptocurrency scam gang stole over 4,100 BTC in August 2024 through "social engineering" attacks, which was worth over $240 million at the time.After the theft, gang members quickly began extravagant spending, including purchasing sports cars, renting luxury homes, flying on private jets, and hiring security personnel. Among them, the alleged mastermind, a 22-year-old Singaporean named Malone Lam, reportedly spent over $569,000 in one night at a nightclub in Los Angeles.Investigations revealed that the suspects impersonated employees from Google and the cryptocurrency trading platform Gemini to trick victims into giving up their Google Drive access and security codes, allowing them to transfer the victims' bitcoins. They then moved the funds through multiple trading platforms and money laundering intermediaries. Their lavish lifestyle eventually drew the attention of law enforcement.One suspect was exposed when their IP address was revealed while hiding nearly $30 million in stolen cryptocurrency assets, leading police to trace it back to the luxury home they rented in California. Another suspect was found with $37 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency assets. Lam was accused of using the stolen funds to purchase a $2 million watch and over 30 vehicles including Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Ferraris.Currently, 18 defendants have been charged, and Lam is expected to attend a plea agreement hearing this Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Justice has already issued rulings against several accomplices, and related cases are still ongoing.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Google (GOOG.O) is restructuring its AI organization by moving the AI responsibility team out of the DeepMind lab.

According to PR Newswire, digital asset investment firm Hivemind Digital Group has completed a $17 million strategic financing round, led by UK asset management company M&G Investments, with participation from CPIC Investment Management (Hong Kong), ZA Bank, FalconX, Sonic Boom Ventures, and others.This round of financing will be used to advance the construction of asset tokenization infrastructure and explore the application of blockchain technology in traditional financial asset management, issuance, and trading.

On August 24, Binance co-founder He Yi posted that CZ does not use WeChat, and the currently very active WeChat group "Binance Mall" and CZ are both fake Binance and fake CZ conducting promotional activities. Please remind each other to be cautious of scams.

According to The Block, Ethereum ecosystem core contributor Nethermind announced that after a "comprehensive review," it will exit the LayerZero decentralized validation network (DVN) business and migrate its cross-chain infrastructure to the Chainlink network. Nethermind stated that it has ceased operations of LayerZero's DVN and joined the Chainlink network as a node operator and strategic technology provider.In the future, Nethermind will provide engineering tools, infrastructure services, and integration support for blockchain application developers. It is reported that this shift occurred after the LayerZero ecosystem experienced a security incident. In April of this year, the rsETH cross-chain bridge of Kelp DAO was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 116,500 rsETH, valued at about $292 million at the time. Following this incident, several companies have begun to shift their cross-chain operations from LayerZero to Chainlink. However, Nethermind did not explicitly state whether this migration is directly related to the Kelp DAO incident, nor did it disclose any specific technical issues with LayerZero or changes in commercial terms between the two parties.

According to Cointelegraph, Edward Zimbardi, the mastermind suspected of orchestrating a $165 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, was recently deported back to the United States by Fijian authorities after hiding in Fiji for over a year, coordinated by the FBI and the U.S. State Department. He will appear in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia.Prosecutors allege that from June 2022 to August 2023, he promised investors a fixed return of 25% per month under the name "The Crypto Program," illegally raising over $165 million in cryptocurrency assets. The funds raised were not used for the promised advertising package business but were instead diverted to over $34 million in high-risk foreign exchange trading, repaying early investors with new funds, and at least $10 million in personal expenses, including the purchase of real estate, luxury vehicles, and alimony payments. Zimbardi currently faces 12 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of money laundering, and 1 count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, totaling 25 federal charges.

AI security startup Mindgard announced the completion of a $30 million Series A funding round, led by Album VC, with participation from Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar.Mindgard was founded by Dr. Peter Garraghan in 2022 and incubated at Lancaster University in the UK, with headquarters in Boston and London. The company's platform offers Shadow AI discovery, AI red team testing, and runtime AI protection capabilities, having helped disclose over 150 high-impact AI security vulnerabilities, including issues such as the Cursor IDE zero-day code execution vulnerability, Google Antigravity trusted workspace defects, and ChatGPT image generation protection failures.

Citrini analyst Jukan shared content on platform X stating that industry insiders reported that Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis had previously planned to leave simultaneously with another co-founder, David Silver. However, Google management was concerned that this news could trigger a significant drop in stock prices, so they hoped to delay his departure. Reports indicate that after Google announced related adjustments, the company's stock did indeed decline. Ultimately, Hassabis was persuaded to take on the role of chairman of DeepMind to help facilitate a smooth transition and create space for a more appropriate departure from Google in the future.It is reported that as David Silver shifts to founding Ineffable Intelligence and John Jumper joins Anthropic, the core AI research and development force at DeepMind is undergoing changes. Some insiders believe that the center of gravity for AI model development at Google has now shifted more towards the Bay Area, leading to a decline in the importance of DeepMind. Internally, Google is focusing on the large language model Gemini to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Hassabis's adjustment reflects a long-standing strategic contradiction within Google: researchers are more focused on long-term scientific breakthroughs, while the commercial team is more concerned with AI products that can be quickly commercialized to drive revenue and stock price growth. Market predictions suggest that Hassabis may leave Google within a year and could potentially start a new venture.

Bitget recently signed a cooperation agreement with the Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority (GMCA) of Bhutan. According to the framework of the agreement, Bitget will establish a legal entity in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) and prepare relevant financial service license applications under the regulatory framework of the Gelephu Financial Services Office (GFSO), while collaborating with GMCA on workflows related to operations, regulation, and ecosystem development. According to the plan, Bitget will also gradually establish offices locally and conduct local recruitment to support local talent development and long-term construction.As a special administrative region in southern Bhutan, GMC is being developed as the next-generation international financial and innovation center, with its virtual asset system governed by the Financial Services Act of 2025. Jigdrel Singay, a board member of the Gelephu Mindfulness City Board, pointed out that introducing partners like Bitget helps bring global expertise while promoting local capabilities and the broader financial ecosystem development.

According to Jinshi reports, Musk stated that the Starmind AI satellite will be optimized for the Vera Rubin computer.

According to Jinshi reports, Musk expects the first batch of Starmind AI satellites to begin launching next year.

According to Jinshi reports, SpaceX is collaborating with NVIDIA to design the Starmind AI1 satellite computing payload.Each Starmind satellite will be equipped with NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs to provide data center-level computing capabilities in space.

According to Jinshi reports, Google's Deepmind has launched the Gemini Robotics ER 2 model.

The "China Business Journal" issued a statement saying: "Recently, our company discovered that illegal individuals are impersonating 'China Business Journal' and sending emails to some companies through non-official company email accounts, falsely claiming to have obtained significant negative information about the companies through so-called 'undercover investigations,' and threatening that if financial compensation (in Bitcoin) is not paid, the related 'undercover articles' will be published."The "China Business Journal" stated that all its news reports strictly comply with national laws and regulations, and interviews and communications are conducted through official channels. Such behavior is suspected of fraud and has been closely monitored, with evidence collected, and all rights to pursue legal responsibility are reserved. The statement reminds relevant companies to remain vigilant; if they receive such impersonated emails, they should not pay any financial compensation, and should immediately preserve all evidence and report to the local public security authorities.

According to Jinshi reports, ING analyst Francesco Pesole pointed out in a report that the resumption of military strikes in the Middle East conflict reminds investors to remain cautious regarding the euro to US dollar exchange rate. He stated that for the euro to ensure a sustained rise above 1.15 dollars, the market needs to lower expectations for US interest rate hikes through data or communication from the Federal Reserve, while risk sentiment also needs to stabilize.If the market's general optimistic expectation that the conflict situation will ease is correct, then the euro to US dollar exchange rate has likely already bottomed out.

Moonshot tweeted a reminder that some users received a phishing email with the subject "View Recent Activities." This email did not come from Moonshot, and no signs of account compromise have been found so far. The official team is investigating this matter.Moonshot advises users to delete the email and not to click on any links. If you have clicked on a link or entered a verification code, please contact the official support through the in-app support.

According to reports, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis recently predicted that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be achieved in just a few years, with its transformative impact reaching ten times that of the Industrial Revolution, and its development speed accelerating tenfold. He pointed out that as the potential risks of cutting-edge models in areas such as cybersecurity, nuclear energy, and biology become increasingly prominent, the industry urgently needs to establish robust security protections for future AI systems that possess autonomy and self-improvement capabilities.To balance technological innovation and security risks, Hassabis called for the United States to take the lead in establishing a "Frontier AI Standards Agency" similar to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). This agency is proposed to operate under a public-private partnership or self-regulatory organization model, managed by independent technical experts and representatives from the open-source community, primarily funded through industry contributions. Its core function is to develop dynamic scientific assessment protocols, initially requiring frontier laboratories to voluntarily submit for review 30 days prior to the release of models, with plans to eventually transition to mandatory market entry testing, while non-frontier models from startups or academic institutions would be exempt. This framework aims to address unknown crises through a technology-driven review mechanism and to promote a global consensus on AI risk management within the international community.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reminds victims of the OneCoin international cryptocurrency investment scam that they can apply for compensation through a special program by the Department of Justice (DOJ) before the deadline.This process allows individuals who purchased OneCoin and suffered direct financial losses due to the OneCoin scheme between 2014 and 2019 to submit applications. Victims can submit applications via mail, email, or an online form. However, submitting an application does not guarantee financial compensation.The DOJ stated that global investors in OneCoin have collectively lost over $4 billion.

Stablecoin native payment company Daya has completed a $2.4 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Hivemind Capital, with participation from Lattice, Alliance, Globelink, and the Aptos Foundation. Daya was co-founded by Nigerian entrepreneurs Aleph L and Paul Joe, who previously co-founded Helicarrier (an early African crypto exchange and stablecoin remittance platform) and have worked at Circle, Microsoft, and Lyrik Ventures. It is reported that Daya aims to build a financial operating layer for cross-border businesses in Africa, integrating local banks, foreign exchange, crypto withdrawals and deposits, and payment processors through a single dashboard to achieve automated routing of optimal payment paths.

In two proof-of-concept projects completed by the Ethereum infrastructure team Nethermind and UBS, both parties demonstrated that regulated banks and asset management institutions can achieve strong compliance control on public, permissionless networks without modifying the Ethereum protocol itself.In this project on the Ethereum Sepolia testnet, the team built and validated a node that can impose custom compliance rules on external transactions, as well as a component that routes approved transaction bundles to specific block builders, without involving real fund transactions throughout the process.