#NEWS Travala Launches AI Assistant for Travel Booking Travel platform Travala has introduced an AI assistant that enables users to find and book hotels, car rentals, tours, and other travel services. The new tool was developed with the support of BNB Chain and Binance Pay. Payments can be made simply by using a wallet on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) network; no additional configuration is required. …

#NEWS Samsung to Add USDC Transfers to Wallet for 82 Million Galaxy Devices Samsung Electronics is preparing to integrate $USDC stablecoin transfers into the Samsung Wallet app. The service is scheduled to launch in the final week of October 2026, targeting a potential audience of approximately 82 million Galaxy device users in the US. Smartphone owners will not need to install additional cryptocu…

#NEWS Florida Woman Arrested After Using AI to Threaten Shooting at Sheriff’s Office Carly Michelle Geller of Bonita Springs, Florida, has been arrested and charged with making a written threat of violence against the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators allege that she used the Anthropic platform on two occasions to send messages threatening to open fire at the law enforcement agency's head…

#NEWS BitGo CEO Compares Failure of CLARITY Act to Lehman Brothers Collapse BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has warned of risks facing the US crypto market following the failure to advance the CLARITY Act. In an interview with The Block, he stated that the lack of new regulation perpetuates a model where a single company can simultaneously act as an exchange, a broker, and a digital asset custodian. Accordi…

#NEWS Miners Write Off $1.5 Billion in Equipment to Pivot to AI Major US Bitcoin mining companies have begun abandoning a portion of their mining hardware en masse, repurposing their infrastructure for artificial intelligence computing. According to estimates by TheEnergyMag, the value of equipment written off or rendered obsolete could have reached $1.5 billion in the first half of 2026 alone. 💰 …