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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>
CZ: BNB Chain updated documentation reveals plans for a new high-performance EVM L1.
Coin World news, Cointelegraph reports, CZ hinted at "one coin, multiple chains," while BNB Chain's updated documentation revealed its plans for a new high-performance EVM L1.
The national informatization plan was released, and DeepSeek completed 10 billion yuan in financing.
CoinWorld news: The 15th Five-Year Plan for national informatization proposes achieving major progress in informatization by 2030 and accelerating the construction of a nationwide integrated computing power network. The State Council requires tapping the employment potential of artificial intelligence. A report by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology shows that in June 2026, domestic average daily token consumption was about 5 million, and the price of large-model tokens doubled compared with the second half of last year. Musk said SpaceX is raising $40 billion to procure GPUs. Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3.1 Pro, and Infinigence AI and Three-Body Universe released Zhizi Agent 1.0. OpenAI announced that direct internet access is prohibited during model training. DeepSeek completed a new round of financing worth 100 billion yuan. AI predicts the survival of cancer patients through facial photos. The UK is spending 600 million pounds to advance AI safety.
Anthropic's prospectus could be made public as early as Monday.
According to CoinWorld news, Anthropic will publicly release its IPO prospectus as early as October 26 U.S. time and plans to list in mid-November. The company had already confidentially filed with the U.S. SEC back in June. The market had once discussed a $2 trillion valuation, but as AI-related stocks came under pressure, some investors have recently lowered expectations to about $1.5 trillion. In the first half of this year, Anthropic's revenue reached $16.3 billion, compared with only $1.1 billion in the same period last year. Over the same period, its net loss was as high as $80.7 billion, of which about $72 billion came from valuation adjustments on financing instruments such as convertible bonds and was not actual cash burned. Growth has also begun to slow, with third-quarter revenue reaching $16.8 billion, up about 45% quarter over quarter. The company says it has already achieved profitability on an adjusted basis in the third quarter, but future infrastructure commitments for cloud computing, chips, and data centers have exceeded $600 billion, with spending set to occur gradually over the coming years. In 2025, 47% of Anthropic's revenue was sold through the cloud platforms of Amazon and Google, both of which are also its investors and computing power suppliers.
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has for the first time approved secondary market trading of tokenized funds.
According to CoinWorld news, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has approved the world's first tokenized funds offered to the public to be traded on the secondary market on SFC-licensed virtual asset trading platforms (VATPs). Two existing SFC-authorized tokenized money market funds began offering round-the-clock secondary market trading today. The SFC will closely monitor the relevant trading activities and, in light of market developments and accumulated experience, consider expanding the scope of products in due course.
The Nasdaq advance-decline ratio stands at 1.2605.
BiJie Network US stock data: The Nasdaq advance-decline ratio is 1.2605, with more advancers than decliners.
France is cooperating with 10 European countries to strengthen nuclear deterrence.
According to foreign media reports, France is working with European allies to strengthen and expand its role as a nuclear-armed state in order to enhance its deterrence against Russian aggression. French President Macron calls this plan the "forward deterrence" initiative. The plan envisions deploying French Rafale fighter jets capable of carrying out nuclear strikes at locations across Europe, and establishing new infrastructure, communications, early warning, and intelligence-sharing links with allies. Since Macron first announced the plan in March, 10 countries—the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark—have joined it. The three Baltic states, which are most vulnerable to Russian threats, were not included. Italy has refused to join.
Wang Qiao: The crypto industry is better prepared for AI and quantum threats than traditional finance.
According to a CoinWorld report, Wang Qiao, co-founder of AllianceDAO, stated that the crypto community is better equipped to handle future AI and quantum threats than the internet and traditional finance sectors. As a trillion-dollar honeypot, the crypto market has developed battle-tested systems and an adversarial security culture.
Update on changes in USDT and USDC circulating supply
According to Bijie.com data: USDT circulating supply is 182.271 billion USD, a decrease of 130 million USD from the previous day; USDC circulating supply is 71.69 billion USD, a decrease of 64.5288 million USD from the previous day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is down 0.09%; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is down 0.63%.