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11 May 2026, 23:14
Circle Raises $222M Arc Token Presale at $3B Valuation, Unveils Agent Stack for AI-Driven USDC Payments
USDC News Circle has rolled out Agent Stack, a developer suite engineered to let autonomous AI agents hold balances, route payments, and contract other software services using USDC. The launch bund...
11 May 2026, 21:20
Brussels opens separate AI safety talks with OpenAI and Anthropic
On Monday, the European Commission said it is talking to OpenAI and Anthropic about their AI models, but the two conversations look nothing alike. Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the Commission in Brussels, told reporters that OpenAI was the first to offer access to its newest model. The Commission called the move proactive. Anthropic, on the other hand, has met with officials four or five times, but model access hasn’t come up yet. “With one (OpenAI), you have a company proactively offering to give access to the company. With the other one (Anthropic), we have good exchanges though we’re not at a stage where we can speculate on potential access or not,” Regnier said during the briefing. Governments are tightening the circle around frontier AI The timing isn’t random. Governments everywhere are paying attention to advanced AI systems. This year, the EU’s AI Act began to take effect. It’s rolling out in stages. The regulation provides risk-based rules for AI providers working in Europe. Companies are not required to give the government models to look over before putting them on the market, but it’s clear that the Commission wants to know more about what’s coming. OpenAI and Anthropic are the two biggest American companies working on cutting-edge AI. Their AI systems keep getting more capable, and regulators are scrambling to figure out what that actually means. The Commission’s audiovisual service listed the OpenAI and Anthropic discussion under “Cybersecurity” on the May 11 midday briefing agenda. It’s listed alongside defense policy and migration. Washington is moving toward mandatory pre-release checks While Brussels talks , Washington might mandate. The White House is considering a plan to review the most powerful AI models before they go public. That idea gained steam after Anthropic held back broader access to its latest model, Mythos, when internal tests showed it could find exploitable software bugs at scale. The UK AI Safety Institute ran into similar stuff in April when it evaluated OpenAI’s GPT-5.5. The model reverse-engineered a custom virtual machine and solved a complex challenge faster than a human expert, according to findings Cryptopolitan previously reported . The smartest crypto minds already read our newsletter. Want in? Join them .
11 May 2026, 21:15
Anthropic is being priced at a $1.4 trillion implied pre-IPO value in on-chain markets
Anthropic is now being priced at a $1.4 trillion implied pre-IPO value in on-chain markets, the highest level yet for the Claude maker before any stock market listing. The latest number is up 40% in 24 days, based on pre-IPO trading data tied to instruments listed on Jupiter. The same data puts Anthropic’s implied value up 1,067% since October 2025. The pre-IPO instruments on Jupiter are backed 1:1 by SPV exposure, so the trades are being used as a live read on where investors think Anthropic could land when it finally goes public. Since the company is still private, that leaves tokenized and on-chain private-market products doing the price discovery before Wall Street gets its clean IPO roadshow moment. Onchain traders price Anthropic like a trillion-dollar AI stock before its IPO The latest estimate comes in the wake of reports that Anthropic’s annual revenues have exploded from $100 million in 2023 to $45 billion now. It is a massive increase for the firm in a single calendar year. Over the past twelve months, Anthropic’s annualized revenue increased by 1,400%. It is one of the reasons pre-IPO investors compare Anthropic to major publicly listed tech companies before common stock offerings are available to ordinary folks. Investors also keep an eye on how Anthropic turns its AI assistant Claude into commercial applications. According to FIS, Claude powers the Financial Crimes AI Agent for compliance teams involved in anti-money-laundering investigations. The application is designed to allow compliance specialists to complete their work in minutes rather than hours. The system extracts evidence from banking platforms and analyses customer account activities against the database of known money laundering schemes and prioritizes suspicious cases for investigation. It places the AI into a highly sensitive financial environment, where speed, transparency, and traceability come first. There is no room for messing around with customers’ personal information. “According to FIS, BMO and Amalgamated Bank will be among the first institutions to deploy the agent, with broader availability planned for H2 2026,” FIS noted. FIS also emphasized that Anthropic’s Applied AI team, as well as forward-deployed engineers, are participating in the project. They assist FIS in designing the platform and building other agents using Claude technology. The product combines the FIS banking platform, transaction data, compliance systems with Claude AI models. “Client data will always stay inside FIS-controlled systems,” said FIS. “In addition to meeting the high regulatory requirements for compliance, FIS selected Claude as the right choice for our Financial Crime AI Agent because it was able to reason through complex investigations accurately, explain its findings, and operate safely within a regulatory workflow,” Jonathan Pelosi, Head of Financial Services at Anthropic, said. OpenAI opens its cyber model to Europe as Anthropic keeps Mythos under review While Anthropic is dealing with its own battle of cyber AI access in Europe, OpenAI has announced on Monday that it will be giving access to GPT-5.5-Cyber, which is a cyber version of its latest AI model, to the EU countries. Unlike GPT-5.5, OpenAI hasn’t given a similar preview access to Anthropic’s latest Mythos model yet. OpenAI said that European companies, governments, cybersecurity agencies, and EU institutions such as the EU AI Office will have access to the model. It will first start with preview access for cybersecurity teams vetted by OpenAI. The update comes one month after Anthropic launched Mythos, creating fears about the cyber attacks on crucial software systems. Thomas Regnier from the European Commission said, “We are pleased with OpenAI’s transparency in their intention to allow access to their new model to the Commission.” Thomas Regnier confirmed that OpenAI and the EU Commission had discussed the matter in previous meetings. Moreover, they will continue the discussion this week. “That way, we can monitor the roll-out of the model and address any security concerns,” he said. However, according to Thomas Regnier, the EU is also in contact with Anthropic; however, the discussions are at a different stage than those with OpenAI. “Four or five” meetings with Anthropic have been held; however, discussions are still at a different stage than the solution presented by OpenAI. George Osborne, OpenAI’s Head of Country, said that, “An AI lab such as our own cannot unilaterally judge whether a system is secure because it is reliant on trusted partners operating together in concert.” George Osborne added that “it’s time for the latest cyber AI technology to be made available to the many defenders of Europe, not just to the select few.” According to him, the EU Cyber Action Plan will partner with European policy makers, institutions, and business organizations for access to tools for defense and public security purposes. Don’t just read crypto news. Understand it. Subscribe to our newsletter. It's free .
11 May 2026, 20:55
Ripple's Schwartz Joins XRP Ledger Foundation
The XRP Ledger Foundation (XRPLF) has appointed Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz as an Honorary Board Member.
11 May 2026, 20:16
Anthropic’s Pre-IPO Valuation Hits $1.4 Trillion After 40% Jump in 24 Days: Details
Anthropic’s market-implied pre-IPO valuation has reportedly climbed to a record $1.4 trillion, rising about 40% in 24 days as private-market interest in the artificial intelligence company accelerates ahead of a possible public listing. The valuation estimate comes from on-chain pre-IPO trading data cited by market commentators. These instruments are described as being backed one-to-one by special-purpose vehicle exposure and are being used by traders as a real-time proxy for Anthropic’s potential IPO value. The latest move places Anthropic among the most closely watched private technology companies in the world. It also increases attention on whether the Claude developer could overtake OpenAI in private-market value before either company completes a public listing. Reports in recent weeks have placed Anthropic’s possible IPO timeline as early as October 2026 or the fourth quarter of the year. Anthropic Valuation Surges in Private Markets Anthropic’s implied valuation has risen sharply since late 2025. According to market data cited by The Kobeissi Letter, the company’s implied value is now up more than 1,000% since October 2025. The jump follows earlier funding rounds that already placed Anthropic among the highest-valued AI companies. Reports said the company was valued at about $61.5 billion in March 2025, $183 billion in September 2025, and $380 billion in February 2026. Anthropic is now reportedly weighing a new private funding round that could raise up to $50 billion. That round has been linked to major investment firms including Dragoneer, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. If the company raises capital near the reported valuation range, it could move above OpenAI’s reported $852 billion valuation from March 2026. Subsequently, Polymarket has recently placed the chance of an Anthropic IPO this year at 62%, reflecting trader expectations around a possible 2026 debut. Revenue Growth Drives OpenAI Comparison Anthropic’s valuation rise has been linked to rapid revenue growth from enterprise AI products. Reports cited by market commentators estimate that Anthropic’s annualized revenue has moved from about $100 million in 2023 to nearly $45 billion in 2026. Other private-market estimates place the company’s annualized revenue run rate in a range between $30 billion and $45 billion. These figures remain based on reports and have not been confirmed in public filings. Source: X Anthropic’s growth has been tied largely to enterprise adoption of Claude and Claude Code. Claude Code reportedly reached a $2.5 billion revenue run rate within a year, supported by demand from software development teams and security-focused customers. The company’s revenue mix is said to be heavily enterprise-based, with more than 80% of revenue coming from corporate users. Reports also suggest the number of customers spending more than $1 million annually has increased quickly in recent months. Consequently, OpenAI has responded by increasing its focus on enterprise services through new deployment strategies. The competition between the two companies now covers model performance, cloud access, enterprise sales, regulatory engagement and IPO timing. Compute Deals Support Anthropic Expansion Anthropic has signed several large infrastructure agreements to support its AI products. The company reportedly signed a $1.8 billion cloud infrastructure contract with Akamai, adding capacity for Claude-related workloads. The company also reached a major compute agreement with SpaceX-linked xAI infrastructure to use capacity at the Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. That facility reportedly includes more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and provides additional capacity for Claude Pro, Claude Max and enterprise customers. Anthropic also has cloud and capacity relationships with Amazon Web Services, Google and CoreWeave. These partnerships are central to its ability to train and run advanced AI models at scale. Anthropic’s latest model development has also drawn attention. Its unreleased Mythos model has reportedly raised interest from regulators and financial institutions because of its ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities. However, the company’s valuation growth also brings legal and governance questions. The company recently published support guidance stating that any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, that has not been approved by its board of directors is void and will not be recognized. The statement matters because some secondary-market platforms and on-chain pre-IPO instruments claim to offer exposure to Anthropic shares through special-purpose vehicles or derivative structures. If Anthropic refuses to recognize unauthorized transfers, investors holding those instruments could face legal uncertainty over whether their exposure represents enforceable ownership rights. Legal commentators have noted that the issue depends on the exact transfer restrictions in Anthropic’s corporate documents. If unauthorized transfers are treated as void, buyers may have fewer protections than if the transfers are only voidable. That could lead to disputes between original sellers, intermediaries, and downstream buyers if Anthropic proceeds with an IPO or another liquidity event.
11 May 2026, 18:45
Major Solana Upgrade Alpenglow Begins Testing Ahead of Full Rollout
Solana's Alpenglow consensus protocol upgrade is one step closer to being rolled out on the layer-1 network's mainnet.
