Claude helps Anthropic develop its next-generation Claude, with its market share skyrocketing from less than 1% to 26% in half a year.

According to HTX market data, HYPE has surged past $90 to set a new all-time high, with a 24-hour gain of 5.76%. Its market capitalization stands at $19.88 billion, ranking 8th on the cryptocurrency market cap leaderboard (excluding stablecoins).

With the official launch of Circle’s Arc mainnet, Kite announced it is collaborating with Circle to explore agent-to-agent service transactions built on Arc, covering service discovery, quoting, transaction agreement, delivery acceptance, and USDC payment settlement. According to the introduction, Kite is building a transaction process for buyers and sellers via its Kite Seller Console and Kite Agent Passport, enabling sellers to set service prices, delivery timelines, and acceptance criteria, while buyers can authorize payments within a preset spending cap, with an escrow mechanism linking delivery and settlement. In this setup, Kite handles service agreements and delivery workflows, while Arc provides the payment settlement network. To date, the relevant transaction process has been verified on the Arc testnet, and subsequent integration work is still underway.

Beating AI Express: Anthropic has leveraged Claude to optimize the performance of 36 open-source biological models. In under four weeks, these models achieved an average speedup of around 4x, covering tasks including protein structure prediction, protein design, and genomic analysis. All related optimization code has been open-sourced. Claude did more than just modify Python code; it also wrote custom GPU kernels like FlashPairformer, directly boosting GPU computing efficiency at the low level. In official tests, some previously time-consuming calculations sped up by up to 3.2x. For different models, Claude individually identified bottlenecks, eliminating redundant computations or pre-caching frequently used data. The entire process was overseen by two Anthropic biological modeling researchers, neither of whom had prior experience in inference optimization or kernel engineering. Even when requiring identical results before and after optimization, the models still delivered an average speedup of roughly 1.6x; when allowing minor, normal-range differences in model outputs, the average speedup reached about 4x. Previously, a single protein design experiment at Anthropic required up to ~2,500 H100 GPU hours per target. After optimization, one H200 can achieve comparable results in 24 hours, with total costs of around $150 for the GPU plus Claude. Experiments that once needed thousands of GPU hours can now be completed in roughly one day.

According to Bitget market data, the RMB exchange rate saw a major breakthrough today: both onshore and offshore RMB spot rates against the US dollar broke through the 6.70 threshold during intraday trading. The offshore RMB hit an intraday high of 6.6933, while the onshore RMB peaked at 6.6964, both reaching their highest levels since February 2023. Regarding the RMB’s trend for the rest of this year, Wang Qing, chief macro analyst at Oriental Jincheng, noted that the RMB exchange rate is expected to maintain a stable and slightly strong trajectory in the short term. Going forward, attention will focus on factors such as changes in China’s export growth rate and monetary policy adjustments by major overseas economies, which will impact the US dollar index. On the operating rhythm, Wang Qing expects the RMB will generally maintain a pattern of fluctuating inversely with the US dollar, with relatively small volatility. “The core fluctuation range of the RMB exchange rate before the end of the year is projected to be between 6.7 and 6.9. The full-year RMB exchange rate trend may be ‘rise first, then stabilize’.”

US-listed XRP treasury firm Evernorth Holdings has filed an 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company signed a subscription agreement with a trust under South Korea’s NH Investment & Securities, planning to issue $30 million in convertible senior PIK (payment-in-kind) notes carrying a 4% annual interest rate and maturing in 2031. The notes will only take effect upon the completion of Evernorth’s merger with SPAC Armada Acquisition Corp. II, a transaction expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. Proceeds from the offering will be used to purchase XRP and engage in XRP ecosystem-related operations.

Insight Beating AI Flash News: According to Reuters, sources said Anthropic has established a biology lab to conduct physical experiments to advance its drug research and development goals. Anthropic aims to have its Claude AI system control physical robots and run lab tests with only limited human involvement.