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Crypto markets are finding their footing today after a significant geopolitical shift. A pause in U.S.-Iran hostilities near the Strait of Hormuz sent Brent crude tumbling seven percent, lifting risk assets broadly. Bitcoin held steady near sixty-five thousand dollars as traders now watch Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision closely.
On the subject of crypto's identity, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against a trend he finds troubling. He called out blockchain startups quietly rebranding themselves as AI companies, arguing that's the wrong move. Armstrong's view is that blockchain isn't a competitor to artificial intelligence but rather the infrastructure layer that future automation will run on.
And in the United Kingdom, a quiet fault line is opening up in the banking sector. Anthropic's Claude Mythos model, designed to identify and patch software vulnerabilities, has been deployed to roughly two hundred partner organizations under something called Project Glasswing. But UK banks have stayed on the sidelines, and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has voiced serious concerns about what that absence might mean for financial security.
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