Bitcoin jumped above $80,000 despite a Fed rate hike and the CLARITY Act setback in the U.S. Senate, Ethereum and Base developers failed to reach agreement, and other highlights of the week. Bitcoin shows signs of strength The first cryptocurrency started the week around $77,000 as market participants awaited the Fed’s rate decision. The U.S. […]
CEO of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, has urged Anthropic to proceed with an IPO, despite concerns surrounding artificial intelligence safety. He believes that becoming a public company would compel Anthropic to enhance transparency and accountability. Take the Leap, @Anthropic There’s been a lot of debate about whether now is the right moment for Anthropic to complete […]
Anthropic has announced a partnership with consulting firm Accenture, with both parties planning to invest at least $2 billion over five years in the independent evaluation of advanced AI models. We’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators at Anthropic. Both we and Accenture expect to […]
The combined annual recurring revenue (ARR) of the seven largest Chinese AI developers reached $10.7 billion. However, this is only about 10% of the figures reported by OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a report by Rhodium Group. Some Chinese companies’ valuations are already comparable to or exceed those of American firms in terms of revenue, […]
In the spring of 2026, the US military prepared to intercept a Chinese ship in the Middle East based on a false intelligence report generated by AI, according to a CNN report on September 18. The document claimed the ship was carrying components related to a nuclear weapons program. According to four CNN sources, armed […]
On September 18, a Hong Kong court sentenced former China Construction Bank (Asia) manager Lam Chun-yin to four years in prison. He received over $470,000 in USDT for verifying fake bank documents, according to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). The 32-year-old Lam worked with retail clients at the bank’s Causeway Bay branch. Corporate loans […]
Bloomberg’s Carter Leffen reported that using GPT-6 Astra, he reconstructed the text of a German military radio message from July 10, 1941. The message had remained undeciphered in the CryptoCellar archive since 2005. Two days ago, GPT-6 Astra broke a yet unsolved German Army Enigma message from 1941. Amazingly Astra was able to autonomously: — […]
This week, “Deconstruction” focuses on U.S. crypto regulation, the AI race slowdown, Bitcoin’s reaction to the Fed rate, a Revolut data breach, and external access to ChatGPT conversations. U.S. Crypto Regulation On September 15, the CLARITY Act failed a procedural vote in the Senate: 49 senators voted in favor, while 50 opposed. The market may […]
Overnight from September 18 to 19, bitcoin rose 5%. At the time of writing, it is trading around $81,000. Hourly chart of BTC/USDT on Binance. Source: TradingView. At one point, the price reached $81,600. The rally lifted the broader crypto market. Ethereum gained 5.8% to $2,600. Solana added more than 7% to $112, and Hyperliquid’s […]
Japanese police, the FBI, and other partners issued a warning about the North Korean group WaterPlum, linked to hacking approximately 30,000 devices and compromising over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets. According to the investigation, the group transferred about 1.7 billion yen ($10.71 million) in stolen digital assets to North Korea. Hackers from WaterPlum have been associated with […]
