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Markets

OpenAI trails Anthropic as losses deepen and Altman pauses frontier AI training

Widening losses and intensifying competition coincide with a pause in frontier reinforcement-learning training as openai strengthens its safety controls.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Getty Images)

Markets

Live updates: Bitcoin and gold jump but rejected at key level as Treasury move pushes yields lower

Led by Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury announced at least a doubling in the size of its long-dated bond buybacks.

CoinDesk

Markets

Robot maker Unitree’s IPO surges 600% , outpacing crypto traders’ premarket bets

A Hyperliquid perp priced Unitree far above its IPO valuation before Shanghai trading began, but the robot maker’s first public trade still opened roughly 75% above crypto traders’ implied price.

Unitree robot at the company's store during its opening at the JD.com Inc. Shuangjing shopping center. (Fred Lee/Getty Images)

Markets

Why the Trump-backed crypto venture is distancing itself from Hong Kong AI aggregator WorldClaw

WLFI says the AI platform is independent and uses USD1 as a payment rail, but would not say whether it has equity, financing, revenue-sharing or other economic interests in the company.

Eric Trump sits holding a microphone at a panel discussion. (Keith Tanner/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin miners’ AI pivot pays off, but mining could revive with one twist

Miners with AI and high-performance computing contracts have commanded higher valuations as declining bitcoin prices and hashprice squeeze pure-play operators.

Bitcoin mining USB devices on a large USB hub.

Tech

Kraken parent Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing for AI security push

Payward will use Anthropic’s cybersecurity model to hunt vulnerabilities and share open-source findings.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi.

Markets

CoreWeave surges 16% on $2.58 billion revenue quarter as AI infrastructure demand eclipses crypto

Booming AI demand sends CRWV up 16% and lifts IREN and CIFR as investors favor computing infrastructure over crypto.

CRWV Share Price (TradingView)

Finance

Riot Platforms surges 20% in pre-market trading on $9.1 billion Anthropic deal

The bitcoin miner’s 20-year agreement highlights an industry-wide shift toward AI infrastructure revenue.

Racks of servers and wires.

Finance

Robinhood brings crypto trading to UK in AI-powered all-in-one app

The trading firm is also introducing “Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto,” a generative AI-powered widget that analyses breaking news and other data.

London, UK (jhoanfull/Pixabay)

Markets

Why Sandisk and Western Digital crashed 10% and what it means for bitcoin

Strong earnings from SanDisk and Western Digital were not enough to satisfy investors, raising questions about whether capital is beginning to rotate from AI winners into crypto.

Sandisk (TradingView)