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The Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands joint venture previously targeted retail access as early as the end of 2026, but its CEO declined to reaffirm that timeline. Standard Chartered-backed stablecoin venture Anchorpoint says it will take a cautious approach to opening its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin to retail users, declining to confirm a launch date after rival HSBC rolled out RedCoin, <a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3372060/standard-chartered-led-anchorpoint-plans-retail-stablecoin-hsbc-redcoin-launches" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>according</a> to the South China Morning Post. The <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-animoca-brands-hong-kong-stablecoin-license" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">venture</a> released its institutional stablecoin product in August and previously <a href="https://anchorpoint.hk/faqs/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>indicated</a> a retail offering could arrive as early as the end of 2026. Anchorpoint CEO Dominic Maffei declined to confirm that timeline at a Friday press conference, saying the company would take a prudent approach. “We believe it’s important to build the market out in a long-term, sustainable manner,” Maffei said, adding that rushing a launch “does not make sense.” The update comes after <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/hsbc-launches-redcoin-hong-kong-dollar-stablecoin-payme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HSBC launched its Hong Kong dollar-backed RedCoin</a> on Friday for the 3.3 million users of its PayMe app. <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-animoca-brands-hong-kong-stablecoin-license" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anchorpoint grew out of a partnership</a> between Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands and telecommunications provider HKT, which was announced in February 2025, following their joint participation in Hong Kong’s stablecoin issuer sandbox in July 2024. Animoca’s role is to bring its blockchain expertise and industry network to the venture and help develop uses for the stablecoin across the Web3 ecosystem. <em><strong>Related: </strong></em><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/hashkey-begins-beta-distribution-of-hong-kong-regulated-hkdap-stablecoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em><strong>HashKey begins beta distribution of Hong Kong-regulated HKDAP stablecoin</strong></em></a>
Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
Google has carved out an exception to its long-standing promise not to use Gmail, Drive, and Google Photos content for advertising, quietly revising its <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US&client_theme=dark" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>privacy policy</a> so that data from those apps can help personalize ads when users connect it to the company’s AI features. The change, which took effect Oct. 16 and was first spotted by <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-3727111/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow external" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>Android Authority</a>, adds a conditional clause to a pledge Google has made for years. The updated policy now reads that Google doesn’t show personalized ads based on content from Drive, Gmail, or Google Photos “unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.” The catch hinges on Personal Intelligence, Google’s push to make its AI tools more useful by letting features like AI Mode in Search and Gemini draw on a user’s own data. Connecting Gmail, Drive or Photos to those tools delivers more tailored answers, such as surfacing a hotel reservation buried in an inbox. But under the revised wording, that same connected data can now also inform which ads a person sees. Google stressed the limits. Content from the three services still isn’t used for ad targeting by default, advertisers don’t get access to the contents of anyone’s Gmail, Drive or Photos, and the company says it won’t share personally identifying details without permission. In practice, that means Google isn’t scanning private emails and photos wholesale to sell ads, but users who opt into its AI conveniences may be trading some ad privacy for them. Users can opt out by disconnecting the apps under Connected Content apps in their Google Account’s Data & privacy settings, or by turning off personalized recommendations, though Android Authority noted that previously collected data may linger in a user’s Search history even after disconnecting. The quiet rollout echoes recent Google privacy posturing around its AI ambitions. As <i>Decrypt</i> reported in May, Google’s Chrome browser began <a href="https://decrypt.co/367060/chrome-quietly-installing-4gb-ai-model-computer" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>silently installing</a> a multi-gigabyte on-device AI model on users’ computers, and separately removed a privacy claim tied to its <a href="https://decrypt.co/367193/chrome-removes-privacy-claim-gemini-nano-google" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>Gemini Nano model</a>, both moves that drew scrutiny over how the company handles user data as it races to embed AI across its products. <span class="md:block">Start every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features, a podcast, videos and more. </span>
Strive increases its Bitcoin holdings to 43,000 BTC, up more than 470% year to date.
BiJie Network data: Strive recently purchased an additional 6,182 bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 43,000. According to the data, Strive's bitcoin holdings have grown by more than 470% year-to-date. In the Bitcoin 100 ranking, Strive ranks 4th.
Strive acquired 6,182 bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 43,000.
CoinWorld news, according to Cointelegraph, Strive recently acquired 6,182 bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 43,000 bitcoins.
The Ukrainian parliament has approved an extension of the national martial law.
CoinWorld news, [Ukrainian parliament approves extension of national martial law] Financial Associated Press, October 26 — The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on October 26 local time approved the extension of the martial law and general mobilization order in effect in Ukraine until January 29, 2027. Earlier that day, Ukrainian President Zelensky submitted the relevant bill to the Verkhovna Rada to extend martial law and general mobilization for another 90 days. (CCTV News).
Listed company Strive purchased 6,182 bitcoins for $511.4 million.
Bitcoin Magazine reports: Public company Strive recently purchased 6,182 bitcoins for $511.4 million.
An unknown wallet transferred 999 BTC, worth approximately $80.33 million.
CoinWorld data: According to Whale Alert monitoring, 999 BTC (approximately $80.33 million) has just been transferred from an unknown wallet.
Potential massive depreciation bills under the AI boom could reach $1 trillion.
Benzinga reports that analysts expect hyperscale cloud companies could face annual depreciation bills of $500 billion to $1 trillion by the end of the decade as current data center and GPU spending begins to affect earnings.
SEC filing shows SpaceX entered into a financing lease commitment with Apollo.
According to a CoinWorld report, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings show that SpaceX (SPCX.O) has entered into a binding master financing lease commitment with Apollo Global Management. Apollo will purchase GPU clusters and related equipment and lease them to SpaceX. The total principal payments under the lease arrangement are expected to reach $40 billion.
Anthropic IPO预计于11月19-20日进行
According to BiJie Network, Anthropic is preparing to file its S-1 registration statement at 9 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, with the IPO expected to take place on November 19-20. Following this news, semiconductor stocks rose, reflecting improved market sentiment toward AI-related equities. The key point is that a successful Anthropic IPO could serve as an important test of investor demand for AI valuations, especially amid growing attention to infrastructure spending and financing costs.