One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI’s recent round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more — making Anthropic’s current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain. Source: AI News…
Those seeking VIP treatment at the next Trump meme coin event didn’t need to spend nearly as much as last time. Here’s a breakdown of the numbers. Source: Decrypt
CoW Swap, a decentralized exchange used by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, paused its protocol after suffering a front-end attack. Source: Decrypt
Visa joins Stripe and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered as the first external validators for the Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain. Source: Decrypt
Derivatives funding rates have now remained negative for 46 days, a streak last seen following the FTX crash which marked the bottom of 2022’s crypto winter. Source: CoinDesk
Kevin Warsh’s financial disclosure reveals stakes in DeFi protocols, Ethereum scaling networks, a Bitcoin Lightning startup, and prediction markets — all of which he’s promised to sell. Source: CoinDesk
Rakuten Pay users will also be able to spot trade XRP via the Rakuten Pay app and exchange the Japanese e-commerce giant’s points to purchase Ripple’s token Source: CoinDesk
Jackrong, the developer behind Qwopus, has released Gemopus—a family of Claude Opus-style fine-tunes built on Google’s open-source Gemma 4, putting all-American AI in your pocket and on your potato PC. Source: Decrypt
The team that helps operate the platform, CoW Swap, said that it was working to resolve the issue for the DEX aggregator. Source: CoinDesk
In an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explained why the company was still engaged with the U.S. government while simultaneously suing them. Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence