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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>
Musk warns new cloud providers face consolidation as AI compute rental stocks slide.
According to CoinWorld news, Musk stated on social media that more than 200 new cloud providers will face "guppy-level death and consolidation," and said that companies without substantial independent revenue outside of data centers will struggle to raise financing from debt markets. He also made clear that SpaceX will not acquire any new cloud companies. This statement directly hit market confidence in AI compute leasing companies such as CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN, which rely heavily on debt financing for expansion, causing Nebius to fall 5%, CoreWeave to fall 4.1%, and IREN to fall 3.3%.
Saudi Aramco is close to signing a $10 billion loan agreement with global banks.
Saudi Aramco is close to agreeing a $10 billion loan with a group of international banks. With Middle East conflicts threatening crude oil exports, the loan will strengthen the company's financial position. People familiar with the matter said the revolving credit facility is expected to be signed within the coming weeks and will be provided jointly by banks including Citigroup, HSBC Holdings, JPMorgan Chase, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Pricing on the new credit facility is expected to be 60 basis points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). Saudi Aramco last signed a revolving credit facility in 2024, with the financing split into two parts: $7 billion arranged by international lenders and $3 billion provided by regional banks under a Murabaha financing structure.
Anthropic's second-quarter revenue reached $11.6 billion, with an adjusted operating margin of 19%.
According to a report from Bijie, Anthropic disclosed in its latest S-1 filing that its quarterly revenue for the second quarter of 2026 reached $11.6 billion, achieving quarter-over-quarter growth compared with $376 million in the first quarter of 2025. At the same time, its adjusted operating margin also turned from negative 13% in the first quarter to 19% in the second quarter.
Anthropic plans to issue up to $42 billion in convertible notes.
BiJie Network News: Anthropic plans to issue convertible promissory notes with a total value of up to $42 billion. The company expects to pay Google up to approximately $114.5 billion by 2033, and under its leasing arrangement with Broadcom, to pay approximately $161.2 billion in rent over the lease term. Anthropic's computing and infrastructure costs are expected to continue increasing, and its existing cash and cash equivalents are sufficient to meet working capital needs for at least the next 12 months.
Anthropic: We have significantly underestimated compute demand in the past.
CoinWorld news: Anthropic said it had significantly underestimated computing power demand in the past.
Anthropic releases its long-awaited IPO prospectus.
CoinWorld news: Anthropic today released its long-awaited IPO prospectus.
Anthropic提交335页IPO计划
CoinWorld news: Anthropic has recently submitted a 335-page IPO plan, detailing its listing strategy and future development direction.
An unknown wallet transferred in 109 million USDT.
CoinWorld data: According to Whale Alert monitoring, 109,000,000 USDT (approximately $109 million) has just been transferred in from an unknown wallet.