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According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to adjust its data retention policy for its advanced artificial intelligence models, giving enterprise customers greater control over their data. The company expects to launch a new security system later this year, where enterprise customers will still need to retain data for 30 days but can choose to do so on their own cloud computing infrastructure instead of storing it on Anthropic's servers. Sources say that the system has been in preparation for several months and has been developed in coordination with over 100 clients from strictly regulated industries.In June, Anthropic announced that it would retain all customer data for 30 days for its more powerful Mythos, Fable models, and future cutting-edge products to identify and prevent new types of cyberattacks using its technology, while stating that it would not use the data for training. The company recently acknowledged in a report that this policy may not be welcomed by customers accustomed to zero retention and could impact business. Anthropic declined to comment on this. Competitor OpenAI has also recently begun testing a solution called "Private Secure Processing" to avoid retaining customer data and plans to roll it out more broadly in September.

According to Forbes, Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs have jointly established an AI-native enterprise service company called "Ode," with an investment of $1.5 billion.Ode is positioned as an AI implementation consulting firm, with core services including identifying business processes suitable for AI transformation, deploying AI engineers, developing customized applications and agents, automating task processes, and assisting companies with regulatory compliance issues. The company will focus on helping client enterprises implement the Claude model under Anthropic.

The open automated research challenge better.codes, created by the Ethereum Foundation's formal verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. This platform formalizes the self-contained problems from the Proximity Prize in Lean and places the machine-checked reliability bounds of koalaIRS12 on a public leaderboard, allowing anyone to contribute to improvements, advancing hash-based SNARK and post-quantum Ethereum-related security benchmarks.Solvers can bring their own AI agents to prove higher lower bounds of reliability for this Reed-Solomon proximity problem, moving towards a fixed target of 128 bits. The Lean kernel verifies each submission, and the promoted proofs will enhance the public bounds, with new lemmas, proof techniques, and impossibility results being synchronized upstream for reuse by all participants. Most hash SNARKs in production environments rely on related proximity gaps and related conclusion agreements, while the currently provable results remain below the benchmarks trusted by researchers; this challenge aims to narrow this gap in an open, incremental, and verifiable manner.koalaIRS12 originates from related papers and is end-to-end formalized in ArkLib. Participants can log in via GitHub and clone the challenge repository, submitting under fixed theorem statements and verification frameworks; results confirmed by the comparator and Lean kernel are recorded in a public repository, noting the solver and the model used. Today's launch features the reliability challenge that raises the proven lower bound of koalaIRS12 to 128 bits, with more problems potentially added later, subject to project terms.

XCAD Network officially announced the cessation of operations. The project stated that there have been no updates since April, and there are currently no remaining funds. Continuing to stay on the exchange is a losing battle, and related products and services will no longer be maintained.The official statement mentioned that the company has been operating for five years, making it one of the few projects that have persisted for a long time without being listed on a tier-one exchange. The fan tokens failed to gain traction after retail investors exited, and the team attempted to pivot towards AI influencers but was unsuccessful and is now unable to continue. The team is considering making the code public for those in need to run it themselves, emphasizing that this is not a continuation of the company, nor a restart.

Glassnode stated that high-conviction buyers have been continuously accumulating BTC since January of this year, a similar accumulation behavior was observed in 2022. It is worth noting that in this cycle, the proportion of BTC purchased by these buyers has already surpassed that of the previous cycle.

Google (GOOG.O) announced that the downloads of its Gemma model have surpassed 1 billion.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that the IRS has reminded cryptocurrency holders that they may recently receive fake official letters mailed by scammers, directing recipients to visit a fraudulent "Digital Asset Compliance Portal."The letter contains a QR code, which, when scanned, redirects to a fake IRS website that may request personal information, wallet information, exchange account credentials, or other sensitive data.The IRS stated that it does not operate a platform called "Digital Asset Compliance Portal" and has not sent out these letters. Reports indicate that Coinbase and DarkTower have traced the infrastructure behind this activity to a recently registered domain hosted in Romania. If you receive such letters, do not scan the QR code or provide any information.

According to X user MaxForAI, Tencent has begun gray testing its brand new flagship model, Hunyuan Hy4. Some users have discovered that the model selection list in the Tencent Yuanbao App now includes Hy4, labeled as an expert-level model, ranking above Hy3 and DeepSeek. The official account @TencentHunyuan also shows this model option at the relevant entry.Last week, Tencent confirmed in its Q2 financial report that the larger parameter-scale Hy4 will be launched soon, further enhancing model performance and multimodal capabilities. Currently, Tencent has not officially released Hy4, and the outside world cannot confirm whether this is a small-scale gray test or an early opening of the entry, but based on the progress, the model's launch seems imminent.

Glassnode stated that the last time Bitcoin saw such a significant daily closing price increase was in February of this year, primarily as a rebound from the previous day's 14% drop.This increase is not due to a technical rebound after a crash; relative to its 30-day volatility, this increase reached 5.8 standard deviations, marking the largest upward volatility since October 2023.

According to Gate market data, Moderna (MRNA.O) fell over 13% in pre-market trading.

According to Axios, payment giant Stripe stated in a letter to investors that January 1 marks "the beginning of a singularity," viewing it as a significant turning point in a long-term trend, and believes that maintaining a private structure is best suited for this critical moment, with the IPO likely to remain on hold. The company reported a 41% year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of the year and a 43% increase in free cash flow; 88% of the companies in Forbes AI 50 (including OpenAI and Anthropic) are building on its platform, with revenue from AI and crypto companies more than doubling year-on-year.Stripe also confirmed the acquisition of the AI routing platform OpenRouter, with the transaction amount not publicly disclosed; Axios learned that the amount exceeds $8 billion and is primarily paid in stock. Stripe stated that remaining private helps advance mergers and acquisitions and long-term investments without diluting shareholders, with its equity count now lower than three years ago, and a compound annual return of about 31% since the D round. The company stated that the total payment volume on its platform is expected to reach $1.9 trillion by 2025, a year-on-year growth of 34%; in February this year, the employee stock purchase valuation was approximately $159 billion. There are also reports that Stripe is in discussions with Advent International to acquire PayPal for about $53 billion.

According to Gate market data, Moderna (MRNA.O) stock price soared a record 177%, with a market value increase of 44 billion dollars.

According to Volcano Engine, Tesla has launched the Doubao large model. It is reported that Tesla's in-car system is now being gradually pushed out.

According to LatePost, ByteDance is discussing a large model with training parameters exceeding 50 trillion, surpassing Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max (24 trillion) and Moonlight K3 (28 trillion), making it the largest known plan in the country so far. This plan is still in its early stages and does not guarantee a final release. The new model is intended to be led by Xiang Liang, head of Seed Foundation, in collaboration with Shen Ke, who is responsible for the pre-training data of large language models. Seed is reorganizing, dividing responsibilities, and allocating resources based on this.Two weeks ago, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming held a company-wide meeting with Seed head Wu Yonghui. Zhang reassured the team that training large models is inherently difficult and that it is acceptable to lag behind for a period of time, hoping to aim for the upper limits of intelligence and join the world's top tier. He acknowledged that programming is a key direction at present, advocating for the integration of Volcano Engine, Feishu, and Doubao resources to build computational power and data advantages, while reminding not to be led by a single hot topic. He praised Seedance's differentiated leadership and clearly opposed distillation, believing it is difficult to truly surpass and that AGI barriers should be built from a more fundamental level, stating that the company will continue to increase investment in AI.In the past six months, Seed's multimodal performance has been outstanding, with Seedance 2.0, Seedream, and others driving Volcano Engine MaaS, but the market response to the language model Seed 2.0 has been limited, and its lagging coding capabilities have affected the revenue structure. ByteDance has hired Guo Daye at a high salary to specialize in coding and has consolidated related resources. In the face of the industry's general trend of increasing model sizes, ByteDance hopes to achieve a leapfrog advantage with a larger scale while promoting the elimination of horse racing and breaking down departmental walls to concentrate efforts on tackling challenges.

Glassnode stated that the spot price of Bitcoin has fallen below the comprehensive cost basis of publicly disclosed Bitcoin reserve companies, with the proportion of companies in a loss state rising to about 80%.

According to Gate market data, Moderna's pre-market increase has expanded to 30%.

According to GoPlus monitoring, the VSCode extension Solidity Pro has been poisoned, and historical versions have malicious capabilities such as data theft and remote execution.It is recommended that developers immediately check the relevant extensions they have installed and increase their vigilance towards third-party plugins.

According to Bloomberg, AI company Anthropic PBC plans to grant shares with extra voting rights to CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders before preparing for an IPO. This move aims to ensure that the founding team retains dominant control over the company's strategic direction after it goes public. This dual-class share structure is already quite common in the tech industry, with Meta founder Zuckerberg and Snap founder Spiegel holding similar super-voting shares.