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Anthropic is expanding access to its Claude Mythos model, and the timing is hard to ignore. Just one day after the nearly one trillion dollar AI giant filed for an IPO, the company is opening the powerful model to more firms — a move that looks as much like a market signal as a product decision.
Meanwhile, the AI investment ecosystem keeps reshaping itself in unexpected ways. Opal, best known for making a high-end webcam, has pivoted toward consumer electronics with backing from both OpenAI and Samsung. Its first project is an AI-powered audio gadget, and with that kind of capital behind it, the company is clearly swinging for something bigger than cameras.
On the crypto side, the story isn't Bitcoin right now — it's Hyperliquid. Institutional investors are pulling away from range-bound Bitcoin and Ethereum and rotating into the decentralized trading platform, which has been beating Ethereum on trading volume on some days. Hedge funds are drawn in by deep liquidity and early access to emerging markets, according to analysts at FalconX.
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