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the U.S. government's export controls and access restrictions on Anthropic's models, Fable 5 / Mythos 5, were partly driven by Amazon's cybersecurity research and AWS CEO Andy Jassy's communications with the White House.It is understood that research submitted by Amazon indicated that through a series of prompt tests, researchers could induce Fable 5 to output sensitive information potentially usable for cyberattacks, raising security concerns. Subsequently, Andy Jassy reported these findings to the U.S. government level, prompting the White House to implement further restrictions, including banning foreign users from accessing the model.Meanwhile, former U.S. Commerce Department official Kate Koren revealed that the White House's existing policy stance towards Anthropic may have also influenced this decision. This is because Anthropic has disagreements with the White House over the boundaries of AI safety, including refusing to use its models for mass surveillance or lethal autonomous weapons systems. Although the two sides had eased tensions and expanded cooperation earlier this year, this incident could reignite strained relations between them. (The Wall Street Journal)
: Coinbase Developer Platform has released an update on payment ecosystem development progress. With the official launch of Coinbase for Agents, users can now create independent accounts for AI Agents, enabling automated operations such as trading and asset management under configured permission and risk control rules; a new Coinbase CLI and MCP have been demonstrated to simplify the login process, allowing identity and operation integration demonstrations via Claude; Developer wallets are now available through the Swift SDK, supporting the integration of self-custody wallet functionality within native iOS applications.In the coming weeks, the x402 protocol will support users within Coinbase for Agents to make direct payments using their USDC balance, allowing Agents not only to operate accounts but also to complete real-world payments directly through the stablecoins held by users. Additionally, Coinbase will release a system update on June 16 to further enhance payment and Agent-related capabilities.
David Sacks, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, responded to the regulatory implications of the Anthropic “security controversy,” stating that he has communicated with multiple parties regarding the current situation at Anthropic. He concluded that the core of the event lies in the security controversy sparked by its newly released model “Fable” (the commercial version of the Mythos-class models). Although Anthropic publicly stated the vulnerability was “not severe,” the U.S. government and testers disagreed with this assessment, believing it was significant enough to impact the model's security, even involving “cyber weapons operability” risks.David Sacks further criticized that Anthropic has long emphasized “safety first,” yet in this instance, it was more inclined to keep the consumer version continuously online rather than prioritizing the repair of the security issue. He stated this matter should not be conflated with previous defense or regulatory controversies and noted that the U.S. government still recognizes Anthropic's technical capabilities. The current problem “could have been resolved quickly, the ball is in Anthropic's court.”
Odaily News The prediction market platform Polymarket issued a "resolution clarification" that overturned a market result that had already appeared to be settled. This led to a 20-year-old student's $35,000 bet being declared invalid, while a total of approximately $3.8 million in positions across 1,838 accounts on the platform were liquidated.This clarification clause was written into the platform's rulebook, allowing for retroactive interpretative corrections to market settlement results, thereby altering the final payout. The incident has sparked strong dissatisfaction among traders, who argue that this "post-hoc ruling" mechanism undermines the certainty of market rules, and has ignited widespread controversy within the Polymarket and Kalshi communities.According to user disclosures, the incident originates from a case made public on June 13, where a market result that had ostensibly been settled was later reversed due to a change in rule interpretation.Industry analysts believe that this type of mechanism introduces "settlement clarification risk" into prediction markets, which is a type of tail risk event that cannot be hedged. If such operations occur frequently, they could drive high-risk liquidity away from the current platform towards trading venues regulated by the CFTC or those with formal arbitration mechanisms.Furthermore, this event is seen as one in a recent series of controversies, including settlement disputes surrounding the UMA oracle and Strategy's Bitcoin-related markets, which continue to test market participants' trust in the "finality" of prediction markets. (Cryptobriefing)
“White-Haired Stock Guru” Serenity posted a summary of the regional market style differences observed on X:1. USA: Bullish on all “futuristic” narratives, such as targets like $SPCX. Less sensitive to valuations, more focused on potential and imagination.2. Europe: From SIVE to SOI, attention to AI infrastructure construction is relatively weak. The time frame leans toward performance over the past 12 months (specifically noting that Belgium has performed decently, while observing France and Sweden).3. South Korea: High-leverage “Degen” style with extremely volatile markets, similar to the intense fluctuation structure of “50x Hyperliquid traders entering the stock market.”4. Japan: Generally mild and supportive, with fewer aggressive short-selling or bearish expressions.Serenity added that data on other regions such as Latin America is still insufficient, but observations will continue in the future.
According to PrimeMinister.kz, during his visit to Hong Kong, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev met with Chief Executive John Lee to discuss expanding trade and economic cooperation as well as collaboration in financial technology innovation. The centerpiece of the visit was the “Alatau City China Roadshow” investment roundtable, which attracted participation from numerous leading Hong Kong-based investment funds, financial institutions, and technology enterprises. During the meeting, the Alatau City Administration signed six cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with multiple international enterprises, primarily covering the following areas: • ANT Digital Technologies, a subsidiary of Ant Group: exploring participation in Alatau City’s digital infrastructure development and deployment of advanced fintech solutions; • Solana Foundation: reaching agreement on collaboration in Web3 ecosystem development, blockchain talent cultivation, and support for tech startups; • Dasco Capital and Templewater: signing an MOU to jointly establish a private equity fund focused on investments in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, with Alatau City designated as a priority investment target. Additionally, the Kazakh delegation held meetings with senior executives from major Hong Kong investment and development firms, including Henderson Land Development, Far East Consortium, Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Boshi Fund. Alatau City is a new economic growth hub launched under the directive of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. It operates under a special legal framework, drawing upon Hong Kong’s successful experience in investor protection and alignment with international regulatory standards.
Odaily Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox posted on X stating that a security audit conducted by Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI model did not find any "more severe vulnerabilities" in the Zcash protocol. The audit was commissioned by Shielded Labs, a Swiss non-profit organization supporting Zcash development. On June 3, Zcash developers temporarily paused Orchard transactions after discovering a vulnerability in the shielded pool, restoring functionality through an emergency upgrade the same day. The issue stemmed from a four-year-old forging vulnerability in the Orchard shielded pool, identified by security researcher Taylor Hornby with the assistance of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model. The Zcash Foundation stated there is no evidence that the vulnerability was exploited, nor was any unauthorized value creation detected, and user privacy remained unaffected.Anthropic released the first public version of the Claude Mythos model, Fable 5, on Tuesday, and stated on Friday that it has suspended access to the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to export control directives issued by the U.S. government citing national security concerns. (Cointelegraph)
Within 24 hours of SpaceX’s Nasdaq listing, the $SPCX token—issued by Backpack Securities—surpassed $35 million in trading volume, leading all tokenized stock trading volumes on Solana and exceeding the next $SPCX competitor’s volume by over five times. Its liquidity ranked second among all tokenized stocks. Armani Ferrante, CEO of Backpack, stated that liquidity is concentrated on Backpack’s tokenized stocks because it is the only solution enabling round-trip trading between Solana and Nasdaq, allowing purchases and sales via brokerage accounts and redemption of underlying securities. Backpack Securities, launched by Backpack, aims to integrate traditional and tokenized stock trading, fostering coexistence of real equities across brokerage and on-chain environments and supporting 7×24 real-time U.S. equity trading. The $SPCX token is pegged to actual SpaceX shares; users can deposit and withdraw on-chain shares into Backpack Securities and transfer them to U.S.-based brokerages such as IBKR.
According to CoinDesk, Ripple is attempting to introduce XRP and its stablecoin, Ripple USD, into the AI agent payment market—currently dominated by the dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin—in order to penetrate the on-chain micropayment ecosystem. It has launched the “XRPL AI Starter Kit,” a toolkit for developers to build AI agent payment capabilities, enabling agents to perform payments, check balances, and conduct wallet operations on the XRP Ledger, and supporting automated payment workflows based on the x402 protocol. However, Ripple has not yet disclosed any large-scale, production-ready customers or real-world AI agent payment transaction data; the initiative remains in the early infrastructure and developer ecosystem exploration phase.
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer has released its latest Bitcoin holdings data on platform X. For the week ending June 12, the company mined 194.4 BTC but also sold 194.4 BTC during the same period, resulting in a net increase of 0 BTC. It continues to maintain zero Bitcoin holdings.
a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen published a highly satirical long-form post on platform X, centered around the topic of "AI regulation." Through two extreme narratives, he presented the conflicting positions on this issue.In the narrative "against AI regulation," Marc Andreessen portrays regulation as a force that stifles innovation, potentially killing garage startups, weakening the Silicon Valley ecosystem, increasing compliance burdens, and limiting the development of AI and computing infrastructure. He sarcastically notes, "If US AI regulators had policed our grandfathers, they would have banned the use of horse-drawn carriages."In the narrative "supporting AI regulation," Marc Andreessen uses irony to describe the order, safety, and expansion of the industrialized compliance system that regulation could bring. This includes a massive compliance industry, strengthened government regulatory frameworks, and social redistribution mechanisms.However, Andreessen does not offer a single conclusion in the article. Instead, through highly exaggerated language, he highlights the long-term structural conflict and rift within AI regulation between "innovation freedom" and "safety governance."In previous news, Anthropic issued a statement saying that the US government issued an export control directive under the guise of national security authority, requiring the suspension of all foreign entities' access to AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, regardless of whether the personnel are within the United States, including Anthropic employees who are foreign nationals.
Claude announced that, due to U.S. government-related restrictions, access to the Fable 5 model will be suspended for all users. New sessions will default to the user’s configured default model or Opus 4.8; existing Fable 5 sessions will terminate immediately with an error. Additionally, API requests to Fable 5 on the Claude Platform will also return errors. Developers must promptly migrate their applications and integrations to other Claude models.
According to HackQuest (@HackQuest_), the 0G APAC Hackathon has officially announced its winners. The event attracted 1,145 participants globally and received 293 final project submissions, generating over 1.04 million social media impressions. Winners are as follows: First Place: Ghast AI (@Ghast_AI) — A crypto-native AI agent client built on 0G, supporting decentralized inference, user-controlled long-term memory, censorship-resistant access, and portable agent IDs. Second Place: NeoSoul (@NeoSoulAI) — A trust layer designed specifically for the emerging agent economy, providing infrastructure such as verifiable agent permissions, accountability mechanisms, and recovery systems. Third Place: Anima (@anima_0g) — A CLI-native agent framework where agent identity, memory, inference, wallet, and economic activities all run atop 0G’s decentralized infrastructure, enabling cross-device, independent, and persistent operation. Excellence Awards: - @Alsphere0G — Collective intelligence memory layer for AI agents - @Hash_PayLink — Payment-gated AI infrastructure for the agent economy - @railbeam_ai — Payment rails and financial operations workspace for humans and agents - @stealth_pay — Privacy-preserving payment-related project
According to Backpack’s official tweet, Backpack Securities announced on June 11 that the $SPCX token officially launched on Solana via SunriseDeFi following SpaceX’s Nasdaq listing. Users can trade stocks on the Backpack platform and freely transfer assets between traditional brokerages and Solana-based DeFi wallets through deposit and withdrawal operations.
A cryptography expert advisory committee led by Coinbase released a report stating that Bitcoin should immediately begin preparing for potential quantum computing attacks. However, the committee did not take a clear stance on whether to freeze the millions of bitcoins potentially vulnerable to quantum-computing theft in the future. The committee includes several leading experts, such as Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They argue that the current debate is not about *how* to introduce quantum-resistant signature schemes, but rather *how to handle* bitcoins held in long-dormant addresses that fail to migrate. One camp advocates setting a final deadline after which Bitcoin’s existing ECDSA and Schnorr signature schemes would no longer be supported, and unmigrated funds would be frozen—thereby preventing future quantum attackers from seizing large amounts of BTC and destabilizing markets. The other camp contends that freezing funds would effectively amount to asset confiscation, violating Bitcoin’s core principles of immutability and full user control over assets—and could set a precedent for future regulatory-driven freezes. The Coinbase advisory committee notes that these approaches are not mutually exclusive and could be combined. Yet it declines to state a position on whether “legacy BTC” should be frozen, asserting that the ultimate decision rests with Bitcoin’s community governance. It emphasizes two key points: first, technical development of quantum-resistant signature migration must begin immediately—not wait for governance debates to conclude; second, users must receive clear, timely risk communication to prevent prolonged uncertainty from harming the Bitcoin ecosystem.
: Pudgy Party officially announced on the X platform that the team has decided to shut down the mobile game Pudgy Party and cease further development. Pudgy Party launched as the top-ranked app on the App Store, with total downloads exceeding 1 million.The team stated that their Web-based game, Pudgy World, has greater advantages in scalability, narrative potential, and user acquisition capabilities, and is experiencing rapid growth. As the core flagship game product of the Pudgy Penguins universe, the team will fully dedicate its efforts to its future development.
UK Reform Party leader Nigel Farage has scaled back his public media appearances in recent weeks, as he faces a parliamentary investigation into his failure to declare a £5 million (approximately $6.4 million) donation from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne before the 2024 general election.Data shows that Nigel Farage held 20 press conferences in the first four months of this year, but only one in May after the undeclared donation was exposed on April 29. Critics point out that the Reform Party announced several crypto-friendly policies after the election, including plans to cut the capital gains tax rate on crypto assets from 24% to 10% and to establish a national Bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England. After the UK Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards announced an investigation into the matter, the Reform Party removed the digital finance draft document from its website at the end of May. (FT)
According to an announcement on the official website of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited announced on June 11, 2026, that it had successfully priced its first public digital bond issuance—valued at approximately HK$12 billion—under its USD 3 billion Medium-Term Note Programme. This marks the largest digital bond issuance globally to date, and the Mortgage Corporation has become Hong Kong’s first public-sector institution to issue digital bonds.
According to the official announcement, HTX (formerly Huobi) has launched its World Cup prediction campaign. From now until July 20 at 3:00 AM (UTC+8), eligible users who register and complete designated tasks will receive prediction tickets. Users can participate in two types of predictions—champion prediction and single-match prediction—and share a prize pool worth $500,000 in $HTX.
the U.S. government has issued an export control directive citing national security authority, requiring the suspension of all access for foreign nationals to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, including Anthropic’s foreign national employees. To ensure compliance, Anthropic must close all customer access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, while all other Anthropic models remain unaffected.The U.S. government provided oral evidence indicating a potential narrow-scope, non-general jailbreak method for the model. Anthropic is complying with the government's legal directive and removing all user access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, but disagrees with the decision to withdraw deployed commercial models based on the discovery of a narrow-scope potential jailbreak, and is working diligently to restore access as soon as possible.