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Florida Asks Judge to Stop OpenAI Model Development Over Safety Risks

Florida Asks Judge to Stop OpenAI Model Development Over Safety Risks
Florida Asks Judge to Stop OpenAI Model Development Over Safety Risks
September 28, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a court Monday (Sept. 28) to stop OpenAI from developing new models until independent safety guardrails are in place....

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Shopify Opens Store Checkouts to AI Agents
Shopify Opens Store Checkouts to AI Agents
September 28, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Shopify now enables browser agents to check out on the websites of all its eligible merchants, Gil Greenberg, staff product manager, checkout at Shopify, wrote...

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Nano Banc Failure Tests Banking Beyond the Branch
Nano Banc Failure Tests Banking Beyond the Branch
September 28, 2026  |  Banking

When regulators closed Nano Banc on Friday (Sept. 25), among the details in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s announcement that stood out: Nano had a...

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Blockchain.com Seeks $6 Billion Valuation in IPO as Crypto Rallies
Blockchain.com Seeks $6 Billion Valuation in IPO as Crypto Rallies
September 28, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Crypto services company Blockchain.com aims to go public this year, raise about $500 million in the initial public offering and secure a valuation of between...

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SEC’s Crypto Push Could Shift Who Raises Capital and Who Controls Trading
SEC’s Crypto Push Could Shift Who Raises Capital and Who Controls Trading
September 28, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Nature abhors a vacuum, and marketplaces do, too. After all, no industry exists in a vacuum. The digital asset space is finding that out in...

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Crypto Lost Its Clarity. Here’s How Industry and Government Are Rebuilding.
Crypto Lost Its Clarity. Here’s How Industry and Government Are Rebuilding.
September 28, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

There’s a changing of the guard taking place across crypto. The Sept. 15 failure of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to advance in the...

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IRS Expands Digital Access With New Mobile App
IRS Expands Digital Access With New Mobile App
September 28, 2026  |  Mobile

The Internal Revenue Service has released a new IRS app, saying in a Friday (Sept. 25) press release that the app gives taxpayers more ways...

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SEC Calls for Greater Rigor in Valuing Private Credit Assets
SEC Calls for Greater Rigor in Valuing Private Credit Assets
September 28, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

The Securities and Exchange Commission is calling on the financial industry to take care in valuing private assets, including private credit, according to a Monday...

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