OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of incidents involving their frontier models, Axios reports

The loan carried a fixed 6.15% rate and was due in April 2027. Riot finished repaying it on Monday, according to a Friday SEC filing cited by Cointelegraph.

Riot held 11,380 BTC on June 30 and sold 3,778 BTC for $289.5 million in the first quarter, according to Yahoo Finance. The miner signed a 20-year deal to supply Anthropic with 191 megawatts from its Rockdale, Texas campus, valued at about $9 billion according to Bloomberg, as cited by Cointelegraph.

On September 25, a U.S. federal appeals court approved the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic technology. The judges found that the U.S. had the authority to do so because Anthropic withheld certain AI features, even if the company had no malicious intent, according to Ars Technica.

China's government signaled it could allow some domestic companies to buy the chip, released this month for high-end professional computers, as the country's AI companies look for enough computing power to run their chatbots and agents, according to The Information.

Goldman projects about $800 billion for 2026, nearly double the year before, growth of 54% in 2027 and 12% in 2028. Strategist Ryan Hammond's estimate covers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle and Meta, according to The Decoder.

The rise in U.S. Treasury yields makes that buildout more expensive for AI companies that borrow to fund it, according to CNBC.

A third of the tasks would not have been attempted without AI. The authors warn that more agent activity does not mean more autonomy, according to The Decoder.

Buterin said Hegota, the upgrade planned for next year, is likely the network's last "normal" fork. It will bring FOCIL, a mechanism that lets multiple validators, rather than a single block builder, force valid transactions into blocks, according to The Block.

For 2030 he sets out 4 to 8 second slots and finality in 8 to 32 seconds. Nodes would stop re-executing every block: they would sample data through PeerDAS and verify a SNARK proof. After Hegota the work turns to recursive STARKs, automated formal verification and resistance to quantum computers, according to The Block and CoinDesk.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong withdrew his support for the Senate Banking Committee's version in January over the treatment of stablecoin yield. The House had passed its version in July 2025 by 294 votes to 134, but the Senate drafted its own bill, according to CoinDesk.

A last negotiation led by Senator Thom Tillis proposed a full Senate vote on the Tillis and Ruben Gallego ethics clause. It was ended by a staffer for Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott. A new Congress takes office in January and the process would have to start again, according to CoinDesk.

Visa now excludes labeled exchanges, contracts, bots, bridges and other infrastructure, plus token minting and burning. It did not publish comparable adjusted volume totals from before and after the change, so the size of the drop cannot be calculated, according to CryptoSlate.

Coinbase followed with about 6,700 BTC and Kraken with about 2,816 BTC. CryptoQuant flagged the Binance withdrawals as a sign of accumulation, according to Crypto Briefing.