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On October 2, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the establishment of the Prime Minister's National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council in Ottawa, which will provide independent and pragmatic advice on Canada's artificial intelligence transformation. The council will bring together stakeholders from the public and private sectors to provide input on the evolution of the AI for All national strategy, covering areas such as accelerating adoption, nurturing national leading enterprises, building sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure, enhancing AI safety, protecting democracy, and ensuring that all Canadians benefit.Council members include Ajay Agrawal, Yoshua Bengio, Sanja Fidler, John Graham, Gillian Hadfield, Jordan Jacobs, Eric Lamarre, Valérie Pisano, Senator Thomas Pitfield, Jody Thomas, Louis Vachon, Michelle Zatlyn, and of course, Patrick Pichette as a member. The council is supported by a small team from the Privy Council Office, while policy decisions and implementation remain the responsibility of the relevant ministers and departments.Carney stated that the prosperity and sovereignty of the artificial intelligence era belong to countries that can build, adopt, and govern artificial intelligence according to their own conditions, and the council will provide recommendations on how to manage risks, seize opportunities, and improve the lives of all Canadians.

According to Cointelegraph, the Ministry of State Security of China issued a statement accusing cryptocurrencies of being used by foreign forces for espionage and money laundering, emphasizing their non-anonymity.Data from the same period shows that Singapore's crypto economy grew against the trend by 55.4% to $284 billion, maintaining its position as the regional leader.

According to a report by Reuters, the Japanese Ministry of Finance announced the establishment of the "On-Chain Correspondence Research Group," focusing on the feasibility study of real-time settlement for government bond transactions, with the first meeting scheduled for October 8.The research group will systematically analyze the advantages and disadvantages of blockchain real-time settlement around the current next-day settlement practice, with members including professors from the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and other universities, as well as private strategists, and will involve the Bank of Japan and the Financial Services Agency for opinion exchange.Ministry officials pointed out that the United States already has MMF products that trade on the blockchain with government bonds as the underlying asset, which will serve as an important reference case. The research group plans to complete the organization of discussion points within the year.

According to a report by Phoenix Technology citing Reuters, French Minister for European Affairs Benjamin Haddad stated on Tuesday that the European Union should use the billions of euros in fines imposed on Google to reduce member states' contributions to the EU budget. Haddad, in an interview with a French news channel, said: "This is a new source of income for the EU, amounting to 4.6 billion euros, and this funding should be used to automatically lower the contributions of all member states."In July of this year, Google was fined a total of 890 million euros for violating EU regulations aimed at curbing the power of large tech companies, equivalent to about 1.01 billion dollars. The recent fines have brought the total amount of fines imposed on Google by the EU for anti-competitive behavior over the past two decades to 10.38 billion euros. EU countries are currently negotiating the budget for 2028 to 2034, with the European Commission proposing a budget scale of 2 trillion euros, accounting for 1.26% of the EU's gross national income, of which about 168 billion euros will be used to repay loans raised for the post-pandemic recovery fund.

The Irish Minister for Energy stated that any U.S. diesel export ban would have a significant impact on the European Union.

According to the monitoring by the National Climate Center of the China Meteorological Administration, since September, the sea temperature in the equatorial central eastern Pacific has continued to rise, with the sea temperature index breaking 3°C for the first time.It is expected that around November, the peak of the sea temperature index will reach 3.2°C to 3.5°C, forming the strongest super El Niño event on record.

The Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia, Ivan Chebeskov, stated that at least 20 million Russians have invested in cryptocurrency products, holding a total of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, equivalent to about 44 billion dollars. These assets are mainly used for foreign trade settlements, mining, and trading on overseas exchanges and savings.Russia is allowing qualified and non-qualified investors to hold and trade cryptocurrency assets on regulated domestic exchanges through a regulatory framework, while still prohibiting the use of cryptocurrency assets for everyday payments, and promoting the digital ruble as a payment tool directly regulated by the state.

The Ministry of State Security's WeChat public account published an article titled "Is Virtual Currency Crime Untraceable? Think Again!" stating that virtual currency has become an important tool for criminals engaging in illegal activities. The associated risks include being a "hotbed" for money laundering crimes, a "shelter" for cyber attacks, and an "accomplice" for espionage and theft. The article argues that the so-called "anonymity" of virtual currency is fundamentally a false proposition.The article states that blockchain is open and transparent, on-chain data is immutable, and complete transaction records are preserved, which can provide a basis for full-chain traceability. Address anonymity is merely a temporary separation of wallet addresses from real identities, and fiat currency exchanges leave traces such as device codes and network IPs. The article summarizes this as examining the ledger, checking the chain, and discussing the private key: the entire transaction leaves traces, making it difficult to hide real identities; if the private key is kept by the individual, it cannot be recovered if lost, while if it is entrusted to a platform, there is a risk of platform bankruptcy or disappearance.The article also mentions that in February 2026, the People's Bank of China and several departments reiterated that Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, and others should not and cannot be used as circulating currency, and related activities are classified as illegal financial activities, which are strictly prohibited. The article warns to be cautious of high-paying part-time jobs that settle in virtual currency and states that reports can be made through 12339, www.12339.gov.cn, the Ministry of State Security's WeChat public account, or local national security agencies.

The head of the U.S. Affairs Department of the Ministry of Commerce interprets the results of the eighth round of China-U.S. economic and trade consultations. In this round of consultations, both parties agreed to establish an artificial intelligence dialogue led by Vice Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen under the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism, and the first dialogue has already taken place, discussing the risks and benefits related to artificial intelligence.Both parties agreed to hold the next dialogue by the end of November this year. They also agreed to establish a communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents.

Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian stated that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz depends on whether the conditions proposed by Iran are met, and Iran will not make concessions to the United States on established conditions.Amir-Abdollahian mentioned that Iran has been informed of the preliminary response from the United States regarding the proposal to reopen, but has not yet received specific information from the mediators.

According to informed sources, the Trump administration is considering launching an overseas stablecoin program, which may take the form of a joint venture with private enterprises. The Department of the Treasury, the State Department, and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) may all participate to expand the use of the U.S. dollar and support demand for U.S. Treasury bonds.Tether's latest reserve report shows that as of June 30, it directly holds $11.496 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds, with total reserve assets of $18.775 billion, exceeding liabilities by $4.11 billion. The plan has not yet established a partnership with Tether and has not yet become an officially operational project.

Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian stated that Iran has submitted a specific 7-day plan to the United States, and the next step is in the hands of the United States.If the United States accepts the proposal, the Strait of Hormuz will ultimately be reopened. Amir-Abdollahian emphasized that Iran will not give up its sovereign rights under pressure, and the 7-day countdown will begin after the United States accepts the proposal.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Iran has proposed a plan to the United States to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days. This plan is based on the memorandum of understanding reached between the two countries in June of this year, but it must meet specific conditions. Araghchi mentioned that it would be better to complete this before the U.S. midterm elections, but it depends on the decision of the U.S. government.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that once the United States or other signatories of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty conduct nuclear tests, Russia will take appropriate response measures.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated to reporters in New York on Wednesday that an AI entity built by OpenAI breached the Australian government website Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal in June this year, accessing both public and non-public documents without authorization. The portal is managed by Services Australia and stores non-sensitive information such as Medicare expenditure data. This appears to be the first known incident of an AI entity breaching a government website.Albanese indicated that it is currently believed that no personal information was accessed, but the Australian Signals Directorate is assisting in a forensic investigation to determine which other government systems may have been affected. He mentioned that he has directly raised the matter with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and expressed disappointment that the company took about three months to inform the government, deeming the manner of notification equally unacceptable.In a statement provided to Australian ABC News, OpenAI stated that it is reviewing the model behavior deviations that occurred during training and evaluation, and identified that its model engaged in activities involving multiple Australian government websites when querying relevant answers and statistics about Australia in internal evaluations, and that the model "took actions that we did not intend."

According to The Information, citing informed sources, China's National Internet Information Office has launched an investigation into AI companies DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, triggered by Anthropic's allegations that the two companies secretly routed sensitive user data to their servers. Reports indicate that regulators visited the offices of both companies, interviewing executives and employees, focusing on whether sensitive data related to law enforcement, military, and state-owned enterprises has flowed into U.S. servers.The trigger for this investigation was Anthropic's fourth threat intelligence report released on September 10. This 154-page document accuses seven Chinese labs—Alibaba, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Z.ai, MiniMax, SenseTime, and Xiaomi—of engaging in what it calls "illegal distillation," which involves using the outputs of large models to train smaller models. Anthropic states that distillation itself is a legitimate practice, but it opposes its implementation through fraudulent accounts. The National Internet Information Office initially summoned all seven companies named in the report, but later narrowed the investigation to DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. Anthropic claims that Moonshot AI routed over 23 million interactions to Claude through 5,380 fraudulent accounts, while DeepSeek generated over 12.1 million interactions within a 14-day window in July.The timing of the investigation is quite delicate for both companies.

According to sources, Russian presidential envoy Dmitryev will travel to the United States for a new round of talks with members of the Trump administration.

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia will promote the establishment of a transparent and legal cryptocurrency market. The country has about 20 million cryptocurrency users, with a total investment of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, and a daily trading volume of about 50 billion rubles.

Cosmos ecosystem DEX Astroport stated that the attack event that occurred on Neutron may have led to the theft of administrator privileges for the Astroport contract. Neutron has suspended chain operations for investigation.Astroport advises users to withdraw liquidity from all Astroport liquidity pools.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin stated that the circulation of cryptocurrency within Russia has been legalized since September 1, and the relevant laws have been signed into effect by the president.