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The Italian scale-up has appointed Turnbow to lead its technical expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, with an energy-to-compute approach that aims to harness renewable energy sources and reuse existing assets to develop more sustainable compute infrastructure. TRENTO, Italy, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ALPS announces the appointment of Brian Turnbow as Technical Director for AI. Founded in Trentino in 2018 and operating across four continents, the company is applying its expertise in designing, building, and operating data centers integrated with energy systems to AI and HPC. Access to power is one of the main constraints on AI infrastructure…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 14th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit Kazakhstan announces the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation with AIFC Markets Ltd., the Programme Office of the Astana International Financial Centre’s Investment Tax Residency Programme (ITRP). Under the memorandum, qualified investments in digital assets made by Programme participants through Bybit Kazakhstan’s licensed platform will be verified and recognised by the Programme Office. The ITRP is an AIFC initiative that allows eligible foreign investors to obtain Kazakhstan tax residency and an investor visa in exchange for investing through the AIFC infrastructure. The Programme already recognises in-scope investments in digital assets made through AFSA-licensed…

Moscow, Russia, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire A7 International enables businesses and individuals to pay invoices with digital assets, while recipients receive a regular bank transfer, reflecting A7’s international positioning and expanding the geography of settlements available to foreign clients. In two years of operation, A7 has become one of the key players in the international settlements market. Founded in 2024 to serve the foreign economic activity of Russian businesses, it currently serves around 15,000 companies, processing 10+ trillion roubles in 2025 alone. The services A7 offered domestically sparked interest among businesses from other countries, prompting the company to come up…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit Co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou has outlined the latest stage of the company’s expansion from a crypto exchange into The New Financial Platform, highlighting new products and collaborations across traditional and digital markets.  The updates were presented during Bybit’s latest biannual “Keynote with Ben” session titled “Make Your Move”, where Ben discussed the convergence of financial markets and the company’s approach to building for that shift. Held outside the usual studio format, in a gathering with a live audience, the keynote brought Ben together with selected guests to discuss changes in…

AI could soon go from predicting what you buy to guessing what you think. That is the warning from Palantir CEO Alex Karp. With AI stocks soaring, Karp’s comments raise a troubling question: Could the technology eventually be used to predict people’s private thoughts? Could AI Soon Know What You’re Thinking? Companies already use AI to predict what customers might buy or whether someone will repay a loan. These systems study people’s past behavior to guess what they might do next. Karp warns that the technology could go much further, potentially predicting what people are thinking before they even act.…

In brief AnyPS5 is an open-source, AI-powered project on GitHub that converts PS5 game executables into programs that run natively on PC. Speculators believe that the tool will allow users to get higher performance out of PS5 games by using high-powered PCs. Some gamers hope that the project will be able to run GTA VI on PC at launch, although Discord members warn there’s likely to be roadblocks. Vibe coders are porting PlayStation 5 applications to Windows and Linux, leaving some users optimistic that the project will unlock better performance for PS5 games, and could even work for GTA 6…

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic warned that self-replicating autonomous AI systems may start spreading across user devices without human intervention, akin to computer viruses. Rogue “AI worms” may start autonomously targeting everyday devices, including Android TVs, smart appliances, cameras and other internet-connected devices with basic computing power and weak security, according to a Monday report by researchers William Zhou and Daniel Freeman for Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team.Small AI models may be “months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices,” which would be a challenging threat as it would have “no centralized point to shut off,” the…

Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is officially underway, bringing together 10,000+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders under one roof at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Big ideas are colliding, connections are forming at every turn, and the startup ecosystem’s most influential voices are driving the conversation. From Startup Battlefield to six new industry stages focused on scaling, AI, fintech, climate tech, and more, Disrupt is packed with game-changing perspectives and opportunities. The next partnership, investment, or breakout company could emerge from any meeting, session, or coffee line conversation. Meet the 250+ speakers shaping the discussion. Grab your ticket now…

Tokenized money market funds and U.S. Treasuries have spearheaded Wall Street’s tokenization efforts, allowing companies and institutional investors to earn yield on cash reserves while moving assets around the clock. The tokens can also serve as collateral for loans or trades, helping firms put their cash to work without selling their holdings.”You can have instantaneous movement of those funds,” Barr said. “You can have programmability of those funds in a way that is perhaps more difficult or operationally inefficient with traditional infrastructure.”Brokerage accounts accessA key part of the Prometheum partnership is making those products available through familiar investment channels.Prometheum’s SEC-registered…

“User assets remain safe and secure, and we will communicate any further updates through our official channels.”BitMart, Phemex and MEXC did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for comment.South Korea’s proposed Digital Asset Basic Law, yet to come into force, would set the groundwork for a legal framework for digital assets, including issuance, trading, custody and supervision. The country’s Financial Services Commission and Financial Supervisory service announced new rules in April, removing the discretion exchanges had to let users bypass holding periods.The FIU said it has referred 44 unregistered operators to investigators and will seek further blocks against websites…