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Bankruptcy court filings show Disney had offered jobs to 66 Character.AI employees, expecting to spend about $180 million over three years including $30 million in retention bonuses, while bidding only $20 million for perpetual non-exclusive rights to some technology and patents; Character.AI had only 18 full-time staff when it filed; 40 state attorneys general intervened to protect user chat records; other bidders must submit offers by November 20 or the platform may shut down.

Disney agreed to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce and acquire some of its assets for $20 million after the chatbot startup filed for bankruptcy.

Added: the company expects to complete the sale between late November and early December; the platform has not yet shut down and will stop if no buyer willing to keep operating it is found; former CEO Karandeep Anand joined Disney as CTO on October 2, with some technical staff moving with him and temporarily helping keep the platform running during the sale.

The $60B chip financing plan is called "Project North Star"; Anthropic is offering Blackstone a yield above 10%; Blackstone funds commit $9B to purchase debt backed by Anthropic's future five-year chip lease payments, half of the ~$18B subordinated tranche; proceeds to acquire ~1.5 GW of Google TPUs.

Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have begun syndicating the $60 billion financing package to other banks; the ~$42 billion Broadcom-backed senior secured loans have launched syndication, while the $18 billion subordinated debt will be introduced later.

Broadcom is arranging a $60 billion AI chip financing package, including $42B in senior secured debt and $18B in subordinated debt led by Blackstone, with Anthropic among the beneficiaries.

The MSCI rule takes effect at the close of Nov. 30, and its temporary reprieve for companies with 50%+ digital-asset holdings is scrapped; Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC and bought back 11,000 to demonstrate active treasury management, while Strategy kept accumulating; Saylor called the rule discriminatory.

Strategy (MSTR) shares fell further, with losses widening to 9.08% at $137.5.

Strategy (MSTR) shares fell further on Oct 16, with losses widening to 6.46% at $141.5, extending the previously reported 4% after-hours decline.

Bloomberg reported that CoreWeave's financing troubles are spilling into the broader AI high-yield/junk-debt market: average high-yield yields rose to 8.41%, an 18-month high, and risk premiums widened to the highest since March; AI cloud startup Volta Infrastructure's $5 billion leveraged loan terms were revised to a yield above 11%; new AI infrastructure borrowers may face stricter terms or prohibitive unsecured funding costs. CoreWeave's co-founder said the company is exploring investment-grade debt and insurance funding, while CoreWeave said its finances are sufficient to service obligations and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly defended its financial health.

CoreWeave bonds fell below 80 cents on the dollar with yields near 15%, reaching levels typically viewed as distressed; the company's stock dropped 17% this week; Nvidia lost about $270 billion in market value over the past week. Investors are dumping datacenter debt amid doubts that AI revenues can service the sector's massive debt load, with Allianz's CIO calling it a 'Darwin moment' for datacenter bonds.

CoreWeave's expanded borrowing plans drove its five-year credit default swap cost to a record 1194.5 bps — implying over 60% default probability — and made its bonds among the biggest decliners in the US high-yield market.

Ledger confirmed that one affected device sold through authorized reseller CryptoBilis contained an unauthorized implant; the malicious implants captured users’ recovery phrases and transmitted them over cellular networks. Trezor also announced it would reduce resellers as a preventive step.

Ledger reported that cryptocurrency hardware wallets were drained in an attack estimated at $70 million, raising concerns about the security guarantees of self-custody devices.

Upbit specified that it will delist BLAST spot trading on October 26 at 12:00 local time.

Upbit announced it will delist Blast (BLAST) from its platform and halt withdrawals during the associated network conversion.

Coinbase posted a status update on Oct 7 confirming the Blast network is being shut down by the project team and requiring users to move BLAST off Coinbase before Oct 26, 2026, or lose access after shutdown; media reports say Coinbase will suspend BLAST trading on Oct 20.