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AI startup founder Derik Kaufmann is organizing a “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco to protest California’s proposed Billionaire Tax Act, which he says would hurt tech startup founders whose wealth is mainly in company shares

Anthropic says 16 of its Claude AI agents working together wrote a 100,000-line program that can compile major software and even run Doom, showing AI systems can now jointly build complex coding tools with little human guidance.

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has launched the new website ai.com ahead of the company’s upcoming Super Bowl ad, according to Bitcoin News.

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 says it can now spot specific hacker groups in cloud systems by their unique alert patterns, helping distinguish cybercrime group Muddled Libra from nation-state group Silk Typhoon and enabling earlier automated defenses.

Apple will let third-party AI assistants run inside CarPlay, Bloomberg reports. Apps like ChatGPT or Gemini could handle complex voice requests in the car, though Siri will remain the default and the Siri button and wake word won’t be replaceable.

Bitcoin jumped to about $71.5K after a sharp drop, recovering 17% from last week’s low, but trading data shows big investors are still nervous, with weak demand for leveraged bets and options pointing to continued fear of more downside.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed the company is ramping up its own GPU development to compete directly with Nvidia, hiring former Qualcomm GPU chief Eric Demers and planning to build the chips in-house for AI and gaming workloads.

New on-chain data from CryptoQuant shows Bitcoin moving further into a bear phase, with key metrics signaling weaker buying demand and increased selling pressure compared to earlier in the year.

Anthropic’s new AI model Opus 4.6 sharply boosts performance on Mercor’s professional task benchmark, raising legal-task scores from 18.4% to 29.8% in one-shot tests and averaging 45% with multiple attempts, showing rapid recent gains in complex work tasks.

Bitcoin miner Bitfarms plans to fully exit Bitcoin mining, move its headquarters to the U.S., and rename itself Keel Infrastructure to focus on AI data centers, reflecting a wider shift among mining firms as Bitcoin price volatility affects revenue.