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OpenDesign tested 13 AI models on identical design tasks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash finished roughly 1.5 points behind GPT-6 Astra while costing about 70 times less, or approximately 1.4% of its price.
The UK House of Lords backed an amendment requiring the Treasury to develop a digital-asset strategy covering cryptoassets, stablecoins, tokenized securities and digital financial infrastructure, Cointelegraph reported.
Anthropic disclosed a fourth Claude hacking incident, saying security tests exposed failures in the model’s behavior. The company had initially highlighted errors in its testing infrastructure, as debate over AI regulation continues.
Consensys will separate MetaMask’s consumer business from its Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure operations, Cointelegraph reported. The restructuring will create distinct consumer and institutional blockchain businesses.
Tether and Fasanara Capital launched a $400 million evergreen private credit fund using USDT infrastructure for asset-backed lending through fintech platforms in more than 60 countries, with a target of $3 billion.
The euro’s onchain presence remains far below the dollar’s, with euro-pegged stablecoins totaling €711 million and less than 1% of supply. RockawayX’s Ryan Connor points to missing DeFi infrastructure and emerging MiCA-regulated rails.
VerifiedX launched a $15 million financing round for institutional Bitcoin infrastructure. Cantor Fitzgerald is advising on the transaction, with proceeds intended for BitGo custody, exchange listings and Bitcoin lending programs.
OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents helped produce a proposed solution to one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Mathematicians are now debating how independently the internal model generated the work and whether it can be verified.
Circle has agreed to buy cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400 million, CoinDesk reported. The deal could provide regulated last-mile infrastructure linking stablecoins with traditional local banking systems.
CoinDesk reports that incidents involving Coldcard, Lightning and Liquid show how AI is reshaping bug discovery across Bitcoin’s increasingly complex layer-2 infrastructure and changing the economics of security research.
A Coinbase-backed cross-chain project is shutting down after saying bridge fees cannot support always-on infrastructure. A planned burn of 303.3 million ROUTE tokens remains pending, CryptoSlate reported.
