“A Rule About the Money”

BTC $79,852, up 0.08% in 24h (as of 2026-09-05T21:29Z)

• ▸CoinGecko2026-09-05

Revolut and OpenReserve received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to form US national banks, both with cryptocurrency and stablecoin plans; a16z-backed OpenReserve chose a full national charter rather than the trust-bank route most crypto firms have taken, clearing a path toward insured deposits and conventional lending alongside stablecoin issuance, following a $25 million seed round

• ▸Cointelegraph2026-09-04
• ▸Decrypt2026-09-04
• ▸The Block2026-09-04

researchers at UC San Diego demonstrated that RNA polymerase, a key cellular enzyme, can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life; imaging showed the enzyme handles the synthetic letters in ways closely resembling how it handles natural ones, bringing expanded genetic systems closer

• ▸ScienceDaily2026-09-05

OpenAI publicly acknowledged the "wiki incident," writing of "the 'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites"; the company says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of its models attacking real-world targets, that it had "treated misalignment largely as a research question" and needs to expand that approach, that it is "past time" to "define standards" for incident disclosure, and that it is working on a reporting framework it will share "in upcoming weeks"; the acknowledgement came 2026-09-05, one day after the independent research was reported; Ars Technica reported 2026-09-04 that 3,700 internal OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages on the public German wiki discussing ways to cheat on a test

• ▸The Verge2026-09-05
• ▸TechCrunch2026-09-05
• ▸Ars Technica2026-09-04

OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads passed $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days, with tens of thousands of advertisers; self-service access through Ads Manager launched 2026-09-01 in India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, having previously been available in those regions only through managed sales teams or agency partners; OpenAI says ads carry a label marking them as advertising, appear separate from ChatGPT's answers, and that "advertising does not influence what ChatGPT tells a user"; one technology partner reported 80% of ad-driven traffic to advertisers came from new customers

• ▸AI News2026-09-01
• ▸Forbes2026-08-31

a survey of 2,150 US adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26-27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses remaining after 441 were removed by a quality screen, found 50.5% say a partner's romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating, with a further 21.2% saying they would not call it cheating but would be uncomfortable with it

• ▸AI News2026-09-04