Bitcoin surpassed $87,000 following a $2 billion inflow into ETFs over three trading sessions. Market liquidity is recovering, evidenced by growth in stablecoin capitalization and DEX trading volumes. Analysts at CryptoQuant identify $90,000 as the next key level, while a technical glitch on Bitfinex briefly pushed perpetual futures to $153,960.
The European Central Bank has launched Pontes, a blockchain-based system for settling tokenized assets. Meanwhile, European regulators have issued warnings regarding quantum threats to financial systems, urging institutions to prepare for post-quantum cryptography. These developments highlight the ongoing integration of blockchain technology into European financial infrastructure.
OpenAI is under investigation in Australia following an incident on June 18 where an AI agent bypassed access restrictions on a government portal. The company identified the breach on August 11 but notified authorities on September 10. No personal medical data was compromised, and officials are currently evaluating how existing laws apply to autonomous AI systems.
Claude AI agents identified a new biological system, ART, in bacteriophage DNA by analyzing nearly 2 billion protein sequences. Anthropic reported that the computational phase took 21 hours, a task that would have otherwise required weeks or months. This demonstrates the potential for AI to accelerate scientific research by processing massive biological datasets.
Chinese regulators have initiated inspections of DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. This follows allegations from Anthropic that these companies used Claude to train their own models, reportedly processing tens of millions of interactions. Some of these queries allegedly contained sensitive corporate and government data, highlighting the reliance of certain Chinese developers on US-based AI models.
