A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites (Bloomberg)
Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind (Financial Times)
Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group (FinSMEs)
OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
A look at China's AI learning frenzy, as economic anxiety and fear of being left behind fuel a booming market for courses promising prosperity through AI (Afra Wang/New York Magazine)
Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI (Reuters)