🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today:
🔸 Anthropic’s bankers may raise the IPO price above the $70–$78 range after heavy investor demand, which could lift its valuation to $1.5T or more, FT reports.
🔹 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life, per the NYT.
🔸 Stripe has officially completed its acquisition of OpenRouter, the AI model gateway, to help businesses access new models and optimize token usage.
🔹 OpenAI hit $10B in quarterly revenue for the first time, up nearly 50% from the prior quarter and roughly triple a year earlier.
🔸 Elon Musk calls Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 a “masterpiece,” admitting Grok 4.8 won’t match it but predicting Grok 5 could surpass it within 2–3 months.
🔹 The CFTC is reportedly preparing charges against prediction market platform Kalshi over alleged failures to notify regulators about new contracts, according to POLITICO.
🔸 Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier warned that “everybody will be hacked at some point” following Binance’s $6.3 billion hack.
🔹 Nasdaq has raised concerns over the SEC’s approach to implementing tokenized securities as regulators push to bring stocks onto blockchain infrastructure.
🔸 Visa has added Monad to its list of supported blockchains for stablecoin settlements.
🔹 Goldman Sachs, Citi, Santander and Deutsche Bank are among financial firms reportedly committing around $270 million to fund a joint US-based dollar stablecoin venture over five years, per Bloomberg.