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On October 15, Anthropic announced that it has begun providing employee-like access to a team from the nonprofit organization METR for the purpose of evaluating its models and safety practices. The company stated that last month it committed to strengthening independent third-party evaluations and signed the White House "Superintelligence Agreement," which includes a commitment to collaborate with independent external auditors or evaluators. Over the past year, Anthropic has worked with METR to review several risk reports, and METR will publish its risk assessment results.Anthropic has equipped six METR employees with company hardware, office space, and access to internal tools and systems roughly equivalent to those of its own risk assessment team. With a few explicitly defined categories such as client data, attorney-client privileged information, and model architecture information, employees are encouraged to share information as they would with colleagues working on alignment risk. METR may publish analyses of risk levels, events, or practices, which Anthropic cannot veto, but can request the removal of pre-defined narrow category information; METR may publicly state the circumstances of redaction and indicate whether it believes the redaction is reasonable without disclosing the content that was redacted. This arrangement is limited to small teams working under enforceable agreements, and other METR employees are isolated from working with this team.Anthropic is also collaborating with SecureBio and Accenture on assessments and is in early discussions with other organizations, including Hugging Face. SecureBio is reviewing the chemical and biological weapons section of the August 2026 risk report, having previously completed and published a pilot review of the previous risk report.

Ramp, the corporate spending management platform, co-founder and CEO Eric Glyman posted on X that Ramp has completed a $1.85 billion financing round, reaching a valuation of $60 billion. Ramp provides companies with corporate cards, expense management, and financial process automation services.Eric Glyman stated that seven years ago he and co-founder Karim wrote the company's mission on a sticky note: "To save companies time and money." He mentioned that this mission has not changed, only the scale has become larger.

Some investors are considering valuing the upcoming IPO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic at $1.5 trillion, a 25% decrease from the earlier expectation of $2 trillion.Anthropic reported third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion, a 45% quarter-over-quarter increase, but the growth rate has sharply slowed after more than doubling revenue in the second quarter. The company also reported adjusted profitability for the quarter.

The liquid staking token bOSMO issued by Backbone Labs nearly exhausted its contract support after a large redemption in the Osmosis community pool. A disclosure on the Osmosis forum on October 15 revealed that approximately 40,508 OSMO were designated for compensation to 1,037 accounts. The disclosure author Johnny Wyles stated that the staking contract has overpaid for each redemption since at least April 2026, settling at approximately 1.676 OSMO per bOSMO, while the declared exchange rate of the contract was about 1.117 OSMO.The vulnerability repeatedly counted the OSMO staked on Backbone's own validators, allowing redeemers to receive about 50% more assets, at the cost of diluting the support for remaining holders. The defect was exposed when preparing to liquidate the community pool position, and the passed governance proposal 1049 authorized the withdrawal of the Margined managed treasury position and the destruction of the reclaimed OSMO when it ceased managing liquidity operations. The pool's bOSMO treasury holds approximately 1.137 million bOSMO, accounting for about 97% of the total supply of the token; the redemption transaction executed on October 9 at 21:59 ET destroyed 776,000 bOSMO and began unbinding approximately 1.3 million OSMO.Compensation is based on the qualified balance at block 72,237,940, calculated at 1.1174 OSMO per bOSMO. bOSMO purchased after the snapshot is not included in the compensation, and underlying holders in the liquidity pool and other contracts are also included;

Solana ecosystem R&D company Anza announced that the Alpenglow mainnet test version will be activated on October 21, 2026, at 14:50 (UTC). After the upgrade is completed, transaction finality is expected to shorten from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.Alpenglow will replace the existing TowerBFT voting mechanism with Votor, allowing validators to not write every vote to the chain but instead confirm consensus through direct communication and summarizing into smaller records. The network is expected to maintain the existing system for about 18 minutes, switching to Votor after staking SOL reaches 82% of the validator set. Another component of Alpenglow, Rotor, will adjust the distribution method of new blocks among validators, but the activation date has not yet been announced. This upgrade only includes Votor, and Solana will temporarily focus on the replacement of the consensus mechanism.

Elon Musk stated that the Star Mind computer, jointly developed by SpaceX and Nvidia, has performed far beyond almost everyone's expectations and plans to achieve mass production next year.

Market news reports that the European Union is preparing to accelerate the advancement of satellite projects to compete with SpaceX.

Meta Platforms (META.O) announced that Muse Spark Open officially launched today, bringing leading intelligent agent capabilities to the Mac Studio desktop computer powered by the Apple M5 Ultra chip for the first time.

Adobe and NVIDIA expand cooperation to accelerate intelligent creation.

The Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) issued Resolution No. 249, launching a tokenized securities experimental project to test simulated stock trading and securities issuance, operation, and management on a blockchain network. The project will take place in a controlled environment, using stocks and funds that are specially created simulated assets, without involving real financial risks.The project will compare the advantages and disadvantages of public chains versus private chains for securities business and assess risks such as network security, smart contracts, interoperability, and network resilience. The blockchain networks participating in the pilot must encode market rules into smart contracts, maintain privacy in securities operations, and be subject to audits by regulatory agencies. Brazil's largest stock exchange, B3, is building a tokenization platform, which is scheduled to launch in 2027 and will use a self-developed stablecoin. Initially, it will not provide round-the-clock trading and will integrate liquidity pools of digital assets and traditional markets.

According to Variety, CNN has reached a multi-year partnership agreement with Google (GOOG.O) aimed at promoting the application of generative artificial intelligence.

According to The Block, the developer of the tokenized asset settlement platform Multiliquid, Uniform Labs, has raised a total of $8 million in seed and pre-seed funding rounds, with the latest seed round led by Polychain, and participation from Strobe Ventures, CMT Digital, Metalayer Ventures, Generative Ventures, and Circle Ventures.Multiliquid supports institutions in converting between tokenized assets and stablecoins through single atomic transactions, and is currently deployed on Ethereum and Solana.

Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, stated that since Privy joined Stripe more than a year ago, the asset scale in its wallet has increased to about 25 times, the number of monthly active developers has grown to about 3 times, and revenue has increased to about 9 times, currently facilitating nearly $25 billion in transactions each month.Companies like Ramp, Deel, Klarna, and Hyperliquid are building embedded banking features based on Privy. Stripe is deeply integrating Privy into Treasury, Link, and Connect to accelerate global expansion and feature development, and plans to launch the Link balance feature. Privy's wallet infrastructure also supports AI agents to conduct transactions and earn revenue, with related applications including Merit Systems and Nevermined. Collison expects the agent economy to continue to grow rapidly. The two parties are building a unified API to support holding stablecoin balances and earning yields, fiat fund transfers in and out, and arranging expenditures via bank cards. Collison also mentioned that there is still a lot of work to be done on the integration between Privy, Bridge, and other Stripe businesses.

The Nasdaq is currently experiencing network issues, and customers may intermittently encounter data loss problems.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that Jonathan Gould, the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), stated that the final rules for implementing the GENIUS Act are expected to be released soon, by the end of October.Gould made this statement at the "Building the New Digital Economy" event hosted by the Milken Institute, which coincided with DC Fintech Week.

Market news reports that Nvidia has released the Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and launched the edge model Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (24GB).

According to CoinGlass data, the total liquidation amount in the cryptocurrency market in the past 24 hours reached 924 million USD, with long positions liquidating 802 million USD and short positions liquidating 122 million USD, affecting a total of 175,806 people.The largest single liquidation in the past 24 hours occurred on Binance's BTCUSDT, valued at 12.0347 million USD, in the direction of long positions, with a transaction price of 80,208.96 USD.

According to The Defiant, OKX announced the launch of the Onchain Spot and Perps public beta within its app. Qualified users can use free points (XP) to simulate trading in stock, index, and commodity markets, preparing for subsequent real fund trading. This simulated trading competition shares a prize pool of 250,000 USDT with Outcomes Season 3, running from October 14, 22:00 EST to November 14, 11:00. XP points have no cash value and cannot be withdrawn, transferred between accounts, or exchanged for financial instruments.The first simulated markets include gold, S&P 500 ETF, SpaceX, and Nvidia themes, with separate trading pairs for spot and perpetual contracts. Participants are testing trading strategies rather than purchasing shares of the aforementioned companies. OKX's product announcement indicates that qualified customers come from Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the Middle East and North Africa; users must complete identity verification and use a passkey to open a dedicated on-chain account through their existing OKX account.The trading venue operates on Exchange OS built on X Layer, and OKX refers to this account as self-custodial, supporting a unified balance between spot, perpetual contracts, and Outcomes. The spot and perpetual markets share margin, eliminating the need for internal transfers between product accounts.OKX stated that after the competition ends, real fund trading will be opened, allowing users to fund their on-chain accounts from their OKX exchange accounts, with spot and perpetual contracts settled on-chain in USDS. The activity XP and positions will not convert to real fund positions.