Tokens
Anthropic has made Fable 5, the first commercial model from its advanced Mythos class, available to the public — while reserving the unrestricted Claude Mythos 5 for vetted cybersecurity partners.
China has made ‘ciyuan’ the official translation for AI ‘token’, a move widely read as the seed of a token-based currency for the AI age, and a long-term challenge to the US dollar.
America’s biggest banks, led by JPMorgan and Bank of America, are building a tokenised deposit network to settle payments on a blockchain around the clock, their answer to the rise of stablecoins.
With AI bills running far ahead of budgets, companies are turning to model routing, sending easy tasks to cheap models, in a shift that could squeeze the economics of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Polsia, an AI startup run by a single founder with no employees, has raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation by promising ‘AI that runs your company while you sleep’ — though sceptics question its revenue claims.
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture tied to Donald Trump, is expanding into debit cards, tokenised commodities and its USD1 stablecoin as it pushes to extend dollar influence on-chain.
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